Dita Von Teese. Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet[1] on September 28, 1972) is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, entrepreneur and occasional actress.[2] She is thought to have helped re-popularize burlesque performance[3] and was once married to Marilyn Manson.[4] Early life[edit] Von Teese was born in Rochester, Michigan, the middle of three daughters in a middle-class family.[5] Her father was a machinist and her mother a manicurist.[5][6] She is of English, Scottish, Armenian and German heritage.[7] Dita later clarified that one of her grandmothers was half-Armenian and adopted into an Anglo-Saxon American family.[8] Von Teese is known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic vintage style.
This began at a young age and was fostered by her mother, who would buy clothes for her daughter to dress up in. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction.
Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English. Biography[edit] Galician storyteller[edit] Von Sacher-Masoch was born in the city then known as Lemberg as well as Lwów, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, at the time a province of the Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine), into the Roman Catholic family of an Austrian police director of Spanish descent[citation needed] and Charlotte von Masoch, a Ukrainian noblewoman.[2] He began learning German at age 12. Gayle Rubin. Gayle S.
Rubin (born 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics. She has written on a range of subjects including feminism, sadomasochism, prostitution, pedophilia, pornography and lesbian literature, as well as anthropological studies and histories of sexual subcultures, especially focused in urban contexts. Bettie Page. Page was "Miss January 1955", one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine.
"I think that she was a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society,"[5] Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told the Associated Press. In 1959, Page converted to evangelical Christianity and went on to work for Billy Graham.[6] The latter part of her life was marked by depression, violent mood swings, and several years in a state psychiatric hospital.[7][8] After years of obscurity, she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s. Irving Klaw. Teaserama film poster Irving Klaw (November 9, 1910 - September 3, 1966) was an American photographer and filmmaker.
Movie Star News[edit] Maîtresse Françoise. Maîtresse Françoise (pen name Annick Foucault) is a publicly known dominatrix in Paris, France.
In 1994, she introduced sadomasochism to general literature with her autobiographical account titled "Francoise Maîtresse". Her book was published in France by publisher Éditions Gallimard. It is the autobiographical account of the life of a woman revealing what damage can bring one to choose sexual practices that which others see as perversions, which she calls “freedom”. Bob Flanagan. Bob Flanagan (December 26, 1952 – January 4, 1996)[1] was an American performance artist, comic, writer, poet, and musician.
Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Vanessa Duriès. Cléo Dubois. Cléo Dubois was an early member of the San Francisco Leather community and is now a BDSM educator, writer, documentarian, ritualist, and personal trainer in the kinky arts.
Known for her fiery style and body-spirit-heart connection, she's become one of the most respected of the early practitioners. Dubois is a guest lecturer or teacher at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, Society of Janus, The Exiles - San francisco, an invited speaker at San Francisco State University, and University of California, Berkeley. Early life[edit] Gloria Brame. Gloria Brame (born August 20, 1955) is an American board certified sexologist, writer[1] and sex therapist[2] based in Athens, Georgia.[3] A member of the American College of Sexologists,[4] and clinical sexologist.
Brame earned Ph.D. degree in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in 2000 [5] and an M.A. in English literature from Columbia University in 1978.[6] Career[edit] Brame wrote several books including: Different Loving: the World of Sexual Dominance and SubmissionCome Hither: A Commonsense Guide To Kinky Sex.
Robert Bishop (artist) Most of Bishop's art appeared in magazines and catalogues from 1971 to the 1980s.
By the mid-1990s, Bishop's art had long been out of print. The originals had largely been lost or destroyed. Theresa Berkley. Theresa Berkley or Berkeley (died September 1836) was a 19th-century English dominatrix who ran a brothel in Hallam Street, just to the east of Portland Place, Marylebone, London, specialising in flagellation. She is notable as the inventor of the "chevalet" or "Berkley Horse", a BDSM apparatus. Career as a dominatrix[edit] The Berkley Horse Theresa Berkley ran a high-class flagellation brothel at 28 Charlotte Street[1] (which is today's 84-94 Hallam Street).[2] She was a "governess", i.e. she specialized in chastisement, whipping, flagellation, and the like.[3] She invented the "Berkley Horse", an apparatus that reportedly earned her a fortune in flogging wealthy men and women of the time.[4] There are no artworks depicting what Theresa Berkley looked like, and occasional descriptions usually report that she was attractive, with a strong disposition.
An expert with all instruments of torture, her talents became highly sought after by the aristocracy of the day. Maria Beatty. Maria Beatty is a New York filmmaker who directs, acts, and produces. Her films are often made in black and white and cover various aspects of female sexuality, including BDSM and fetishism. She was inspired by expressionist German cinema, French surrealism and American film noir. She sometimes stars in her own films, such as The Elegant Spanking (1995) and The Black Glove (1997). Laura Antoniou.
Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson.[1] Antoniou is also known for her work as an editor and pioneer on the field of contemporary erotic fiction[2] and in particular as editor of lesbian erotica antologies including the three volume Leather Women series,[3][4] Some Women,[5] By Her Subdued, No Other Tribute, and a collection of her own short stories and essays titled The Catalyst and Other Works. In 2011, she won the John Preston Short Fiction award from the National Leather Association for her short story "That's Harsh," published in the e-book edition of The Slave. (She also won the NLA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.)
John Norman. John Frederick Lange, Jr. (born June 3, 1931), better known under his pen name John Norman, is a professor of philosophy and an author. He is best known for his Gor novel series. Background[edit] John Lange was born in Chicago, Illinois to John Frederick Lange and Almyra D.