Rachel Hope Cleves

Best middle-aged typo ever: just accidentally mistyped the title of the famous radical feminist magazine "Off Our Backs" as "Oof Our Backs"

evidence of AI consciousness (is it trying to kill us?) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My step-grandfather’s tombstone is engraved “workers of the world, unite”

Great idea!

“All that is solid melts into air” would be a pretty good tattoo for a historian

I love @susanstryker.bsky.social's big brain. Amused at her description of wielding the whip in an intense dungeon scene and her sense *in the moment* is to object to Freud's oedipal reading of flagellation fantasies in "A Child is Being Beaten."

#kinkhistory reading note #17

I know we're all complaining about CBS news *now* but did you know that in the 1980 documentary "Gay Power, Gay Politics" CBS claimed that 10% of all deaths in San Francisco were BDSM related? #bdsm #kinkhistory #media

There is so much cray cray drama in the story of Samois's conflict with Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM). I love every drip of gossip. Sorry, not sorry.

In honour of Patrick Califia, I have painted my toenails St. Patty's Day green

#kinkhistory reading note #17 Patrick Califia's landmark 1981 essay "A Personal View of the History of the Lesbian S/M Community and Movement in San Francisco" with its clarion cry: "I have always wanted freedom to be as queer, as perverted, on the street and on the job as I am in my dungeon."
#BDSM

Such a beautiful conclusion. Thank you, Gayle Rubin.

Gayle Rubin is so great. Finally made it to her classic essay "The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole." She manages such a great balance of down-to-earth and depth #BDSM #kink

Did not realize the story was written by Ian Fleming. Bang bang indeed!

Did *not* know that Ian Fleming and his wife Ann were SM practitioners. My childhood makes so much more sense now. #kinkhistory #bdsm

Pro-dommes could make $500 a session in 1965 (equivalent of $5K today). No deep thoughts about this. Just impressed.

#kinkhistory reading note # 16 🗃️

that would be really early!

1975

Guess the year for this leather man's complaint that the scene had become too popular and was full of tourists: #histsex #kinkhistory #queerhistory #bdsm

Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex [Cleves, Rachel Hope] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex

Looking for a last minute Valentine's Day gift? Just noticed that the hardcover of Lustful Appetites is on sale for $17 at the bad place. Get in the mood for love with some tales of food and sex from the ages 🗃️ #foodhistory #histsex www.amazon.com/Lustful-Appe...

Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex [Cleves, Rachel Hope] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex

Looking for a last minute Valentine's Day gift? Just noticed that the hardcover of Lustful Appetites is on sale for $17 at the bad place. Get in the mood for love with some tales of food and sex from the ages 🗃️ #foodhistory #histsex www.amazon.com/Lustful-Appe...

The prequel to Dora the Explorer:

Noooooo! I noticed this last night but thought it was something funky happening with my browser.

Reading Roger Kimball's excoriating review of "The Passion of Michel Foucault from 1993 and for a man who is disgusted by BDSM he sure spends a lot of time revelling in every detail. Bemused by his assertion (pulled from his ass, I presume) that BDSM destroys all pleasure

#kinkhistory note #15 🗃️

While I think Havelock Ellis knew bubkes about women, this passage on the role of pain in sexuality as a lever for amplifying emotional dynamics, is far more interesting and persuasive to me #kinkhistory #BDSM

Ellis gets lyrical on pain at the end of his essay. Written from experience?

While I think Havelock Ellis knew bubkes about women, this passage on the role of pain in sexuality as a lever for amplifying emotional dynamics, is far more interesting and persuasive to me #kinkhistory #BDSM

#kinkhistory reading note # 14

Freud's 1919 essay "A child is being beaten," argues that masochism emerges from the guilty repression of childhood incest fantasies. This essay is the subject of so much scholarship. His daughter, Anna, was one of his case studies and wrote her own essay on the topic

I did not expect Havelock Ellis's explanation of masochism to be that women have no feeling between their legs and need to be hurt to feel anything

#kinkhistory reading note #13 🗃️

I did not expect Havelock Ellis's explanation of masochism to be that women have no feeling between their legs and need to be hurt to feel anything

#kinkhistory reading note #13 🗃️

Subjection is so physiologically determined for women that Krafft-Ebing questions whether women can be masochists. He becomes lyrical in this passage, describing subjection as the
"harmonics which determine the tone-quality of feminine
feeling" #histsex

#kinkhistory reading note # 12 🗃️

Krafft-Ebing's case studies of masochism are far more psychological than his case studies of sadism. Here he argues that Rousseau's masochism is what led to the formulation of his theories of the self. Was the problem of masochism at the root of modern interiority?