Some observations on femdom in print by colleague and erotica writer Irv O’Neil…
One of the things that particularly interests me is the evolution of art forms, such as how stories are told, throughout the years.
I particularly recall the fantastic paintings for the macho “sweat mags” of the 50s and 60s–periodicals like FOR MEN ONLY or MEN’S WORLD or ALL MAN, that often sadistically portrayed GIs and Nazis and gorgeous women in a pulp phantasmagoria derived from World War 2. The great site Men’s Pulp Mags is the resource for these images and info, and here is an example of a femdom cover image from 1959 that they also sell as a note card:
Doesn’t look like “pity” is her middle name…
In an interview I read at Men’s Pulp Mags, artist Mort Küntsler explained why those publications declined in popularity as “More and more advertising money was going to television rather than print, and a lot of people were getting their fiction over television rather than reading…
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Thanks for the re-blog, my friend! I love finding our own current-day obsessions embedded so richly in the entertainment of bygone days!
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