An unusual tube-girl variant

Bacchus at ErosBlog found me this gem:

Here she is in context, a page from Japanese fetish magazine Kitan Club, from 1960.

One of my many deficiencies as an adult blogger is that I have no command whatsoever of Japanese, and there is just so much material with associated Japanese text that one really wants to be able to read. Online computer tools aren’t much help: extracting text from an image with OCR tools is hit-or-miss, and even when you have the text, something like Google Translate is just fucking awful with Japanese-English translations.

But one of the joys of life in this age is that it is very easy to arrange for a skillful human to do translations, at least if you’re willing to pay up. And this time I was. The text rendered into English:

My Model

The Inquiry Committee workers looked at each other, relief showing on their faces as if they had just set down heavy loads from their shoulders with the feeling of a job well done. I hurried out of the room, stopping by the hall window to catch my breath as the clouds overhead for the fourth day in a row were dyed red. When I closed my eyes, I could still see the figure of “Miki Koyama,” her four tight limbs slowly gyrating.

“That’s the one!”

“I’m going to make her mine!”

I can do it! I had zero doubts and trusted my hunch completely. I lit my cigarette, and waited for today’s results.

I timed it carefully and went to the room, when Mr. N raised his hand and called out to me out of the tobacco smoke.

“Oh hey, you’re still here…?”

“Yeah, actually I just…”

“Ah, I see. I gotcha, I gotcha,” he said with an expression like a kid who aced his test as he withdrew.

“Who was it? Which girl tickled your fancy?”

The name “Miki Koyama” finally came up.

“Ah, from that last group… Yeah. But you know these new models are lacking in growth. That said, that model was kind of an innocent melancholy girl. To be honest, I was thinking of hiring her at my place if she graduated from here…”

Mr. N and I met about three years ago and I was very into making dolls. He made me a real designer and was my teacher for a while. That’s why my desire for a “Specialized Model” was heeded. However, if my former teacher, Mr. N, took the lead, I wouldn’t think twice. However…

Finishing the story is left as an exercise for the reader’s imagination.

Teenage Zombies

“Young pawns thrust into pulsating cages of horror in a sadistic experiment!” The Wikipedia article on this 1958 or 1960 oddity (the article can’t agree with itself) suggests that it is one of those rare examples of a mad science movie with a female antagonist. This poster is reblogged from 15 November 2013 post at Infernal Wonders. I originally found it at the tumblr Monsters Forever.

The bad tube

The cover of Weird, Vol. 3, No. 1 (February 1966). I wasn’t able to find out too much about this production of Eerie Publications. The issue has an entry at the Comic Book Database, which gives the cover artist’s name as Chales Eber “Chic” Stone. As best I can tell, a lot of Weird’s stock-in-trade consisted of reprints of pre-Code horror comics.

A gorilla. How dull.

Big scary apes of some kind have a long history in tales of mad science, especially around pretty women, who are ever at risk of being menaced by them, carried off by them, or even transformed into them.

Someone tried getting that sort of mad science excitement into this image, but seems to have missed the mark. This is a publicity still from a 1942 B picture, The Strange Case of Dr. RX. Our rather unimpressed looking damsel is Anne Gwynne (1918-2003) and presumably the man in the gorilla suit is Ray “Crash” Corrigan (1902-1976). Don’t you wish you had a name as cool as “Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan?” Of course you do.

This image a reblog from a 3 January 2013 post at Infernal Wonders. Its original source is the tumblr Damsel Lover.

Teleportation experiment gone wrong?

This image feels very mad science to me, a teleportation experiment gone wrong. A little research shows that it’s part of a cover image for the album Beacon by the Irish indie band Two Door Cinema Club. This is a reblog of a post from 2 January 2013 at Internal Wonders, where there is some additional image history.

I guess Monday sucks even in space

This sleepy space girl is the work of Gabriele Pennacchioli, who has a blog here. I found this illustration in this tweet by BD-adultes.com and originally reblogged it in this post at Hedonix.

Shades of Pluto!

Wonder Woman as a tube girl! I cannot say whether she has been captured by a race of giants, or merely shrunk down to test-tube size by an ordinary mad scientist. I originally reblogged this image in this post at Hedonix, after having had it tweeted to me by my generous friend @Brewt.Blacklist.

Four fanciful cyborg girls by Katsuya Terada

Katsuya Terada (b. 1963) is a Japanese illustrator. He has an instagram account here and an official site here. These images originally appeared in my network in this post at Hedonix, where I screwed up (somehow) their attribution to a tweet in which I first spotted them. Mistakes happen.

The Humanoid

A VHS cover which first appeared in my blog network in this post at Hedonix and which traces back to the tumblr Horrorpedia which is still alive. The original text on the post was “VHS cover for The Humanoid aka L’Umanoide (1979) by Aldo Lado.”

Big Damn News!

Beginning with a announcement twitter announcement from Vinnie Tesla about the comic he has been writing here:

I'm very excited to announce that, thanks to @EroticMadSci's generosity, we are able to publish my graphic novel in both print and ebook.
— Vinnie🥃Tesla (@VinnieTesla) September 18, 2017

Yep, we’re actually going to see some publication out there in the wider world beyond this site. I’ve been reading Circlet material for years and I am thrilled to have a project of which I have been a humble part find a home with the world’s premier publisher dedicated to sci-fi and fantasy erotica.

In addition to our contribution — which will be Circlet’s first publication of a graphic novel — Circlet is currently running a Kickstarter for a “best-of” 25th anniversary anthology.

The Circlet people explain their enterprise as follows:

Circlet Press has been publishing erotic science fiction and fantasy since 1992. Our mission has always been to celebrate the sexual imagination as a way to change the world for the better. We would like to see a world where many different expressions of gender and sexuality are accepted and celebrated in ways that they may not be in the present day.

This year marks our 25th anniversary and to commemorate 25 years on the cutting edge of erotic literature, we would like to publish a “best of” anthology, as we did in 2012, 2007, and 2002. To produce a beautiful paperback edition is going to take money.

Even if you’re not a publishing expert, you’ve probably seen that the industry has gone through some huge upheavals. Borders went out of business. Amazon is cornering a once-thriving ebook market. We’ve weathered nearly every change to hit the book biz over the past 25 years but we’ve reached a point where crowdfunding is the only real viable path forward to continue publishing the quality of work and the diversity of work that has been our hallmark. We launched a Patreon this year to start covering our staff overhead, while Kickstarter is the best way to fund special projects like this one.

Dear readers, this is your chance to get to be part of erotica publishing history, so if you can please do head over to their Kickstarter and chip in. I have! Let’s all do our part to make sure that future generations have something great to read…

…with one hand.