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Venice is a city of masks, canals, and secrets. But beneath the tourist postcards lies another Venice – the forbidden city of courtesans, secret lovers, erotic […]

You know how people now are obsessed with selfies and posting every little thing online? Well, Virginia Oldoïni was basically doing that, like, 150 years before […]

In 1952, a modest Japanese pulp magazine changed the history of erotic art – not with a scandal, but with a knot. Kitan Club, first published […]

Paris, 1930s. Somewhere between Montmartre’s ateliers and the city’s dimly lit studios, a brand emerged that had little to do with comfort and everything to do […]

Some photographers searched for beauty. Henri Oltramare searched for contradiction. Active in France during the 1890s, Oltramare belongs to the silent prehistory of fetish photography. Before […]

You stare at those photographs — grainy, faded, dead-eyed women frozen in time – and you think: How beautiful. How timeless.Shut up. That ain’t art. That’s […]

There’s something far more dangerous than nudity: being almost naked – and knowing it. A sheer slip that clings just a little too closely. A strap […]

“Voyeurism” sounds dirty, even though it’s technically neutral. It means getting sexual pleasure from watching, often secretly, often without touching. But the truth is, as psychoanalysis […]