Blasphemous Sex Stories

There is surprisingly little research or serious investigation into the nature of  certain fantasies, and this is interesting considering their cultural value. For example, it is instantly recognisable that certain cultures favour certain kinds of sexuality...

Japanese - Bondage

German - Domination and Submission

Indian - Incest

... there are others of course, but one of the key fascinations of white Anglo cultures, is the idea of sex with taboo religious figures, such as priests, nuns, monks, cardinals, rabbi, imam etc. At the surface, it is clear these are the untouchables in our culture, those who have vowed to devote themselves to a different sort of lifestyle. However, there are reasons I suspect this is only part of the story.

Freud talked about a thing called sublimation, which is the drive of the sexual into a "higher" or superior calling. That is, we are all driven by an animistic style of sexual drive, however the mature individual with aspirations for themselves and humanity will sublimate this desire in order to shift the drive toward a goal that pushes elevates humanity. This, only partially, explains why religious superiors will take on the challenge of abstinence, but it is also why many artists, scientists and philosophers devote themselves to monogamy or abstain from sex all together.

Jung took this a little further, to be emblematic of the "plasticity" of sexual drive. Not that it was being suppressed, rather transformed into something else.

Given the above, it makes sense that our own sexual desire would be attracted to the idea of subverting or redirecting the goals of these people. The excitement comes from our defeat of their goal.

However, if this were the case, wouldn't we be equally as desirous to fantasise about the thick-rimmed-glasses geek, or the chain-smoking writer? They may be attractive archetypes in real life (if my partner is intelligent and they love me, then I must be extraordinary) but they don't even begin to consume our desire like the idea of a Priest insisting on sexual play during confession, or taking a nun by force.

I explored some of this in my sexploitation series All for Nun. Admittedly that is a parody / funny / pornographic look at the desire within us to exploit these people as symbols of religion.

In part two of this post (tomorrow) I will talk a little about what I noticed when I did some research into our obsession with religious leaders.

Emma Peel

Emma Peel

White Flesh Black Market: Spies in the House of Lust is about three super-duper mega-over-achieving spy chicks who thwart a villain so evil, no counties espionage outfit could stop them. The three women, Porsche Worthington Marlow, Mercedes Merlin and Aston Knight are modelled after three of my favourite super women:  Modesty Blaise, The Baroness and Emma Peel. Here is a little bit of wiki detail on the fantastic Emma Peel, easily the most famous of my three homages.

This image comes from Fan Pop - click on the image to be sent to the original site. 

(The below is taken directly from Wikipedia and is not my writing. I have left all the source numbers and links in to be directed back to the original source. Please read the full article at those links.)

Emma Peel was a fictional spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers. She was born Emma Knight, the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight.

The partner of John Steed, Mrs Peel was introduced as a replacement for the popular Cathy Gale, played by actress Honor Blackman, who left the series at the end of the programme's third season to co-star in the James Bond film Goldfinger.

Elizabeth Shepherd was cast as Emma Peel and production on the fourth season began. After filming all of one episode and part of a second, however, the producers decided that Shepherd was not right for the part, and she was dismissed. No footage of Shepherd as Peel is known to have survived.^[2]

The producers scrambled to replace her and gave the job to Diana Rigg: the Shepherd episodes were subsequently re-filmed.

The character was notable for a number of characteristics. She is a feminist heroine, eschewing traditional "damsel-in-distress" portrayals of women (she is rarely bested in any fight and rescues Steed as often as he rescues her). She is a master of martial arts and a formidable fencer. A certified genius, she specializes in chemistry and other sciences. She is often seen in episodes engaging in artistic hobbies and had success in industry at the helm of the company of her late father, Sir John Knight. Her husband, Peter Peel, was a pilot whose plane disappeared over the Amazonian forest. He was presumed dead for many years, and Peel went on to work with Steed. She drove a convertible Lotus Elan at high speeds, and convincingly portrayed any series of undercover roles, from nurse to nanny. Her favourite guise was that of a women's magazine reporter, trying to interview big business tycoons and rich playboys. The name "Emma Peel" is a play on the phrase "Man Appeal" or "M. Appeal", which the production team stated was one of the required elements of the character.^[3] However, an alternative explanation derives Mrs Emma Peel from Miss SM appeal.^[4]

Peel's verbal interactions with Steed range from witty banter to thinly disguised innuendo. Regarding the question of whether they had a sexual relationship at any time, Patrick Macnee thought they went to bed on a very regular basis (just not in view of the camera), Rigg thought they were engaged in a very enjoyable extended flirtation that ultimately went nowhere, and Brian Clemens said he wrote them with the idea they had an affair before Emma's first appearance in the series.^[5]

Her style of dress typified the period, and the character is still a fashion icon. John Bates was brought in as the costume designer for Emma Peel in the second half of the fourth series. He created a wardrobe of black and white op-art mod clothing and mini skirts. Before this, people had believed that lines, circles and other bold patterns would not work on the television cameras of the day. It was also filmed before the mini skirt had become mainstream. Bates even had to stop leaving hems on the mini skirts because the production team kept lowering them again. He also licensed his designs to several manufacturers under the Avengerswear label and these pieces were sold in various shops throughout the country. Diana Rigg is often remembered for the leather catsuit she wore early on in her first season. She in fact disliked wearing leather, so Bates designed softer stretch jersey and PVC catsuits for her instead.

For the colour season, the designer was Alun Hughes, who used bold colours and lurid, psychedelic patterns. Hughes also created the Emmapeeler catsuit, which was made of stretch jersey in bright block colours. The Emmapeelers and several other pieces from this season's wardrobe were also licensed and sold in the shops.

The character was revived and reworked for the 1998 film version of the show, with Uma Thurman playing Peel and Ralph Fiennes playing Steed. In the movie Mrs. Peel is a scientist working as part of the Prospero project - an attempt to influence the weather. When the project is sabotaged by someone who appears to be Mrs. Peel, she is investigated by Ministry agent, John Steed. They work together to investigate the sabotage, first questioning Sir August De Wynter, and then Wonderland Weather - a business that artificially creates weather. At Wonderland Weather Emma is attacked by an evil duplicate of herself, which is witnessed by Steed, verifying her innocence. Further investigation leads to Sir August who is now trying to blackmail the world's leaders with his control of the weather, but Steed and Mrs. Peel defeat him on his secret island.

Modesty Blaise

White Flesh Black Market: Spies in the House of Lust is about three super-duper mega-over-achieving spy chicks who thwart a villain so evil, no counties espionage outfit could stop them. The three women, Porsche Worthington Marlow, Mercedes Merlin and Aston Knight are modelled after three of my favourite super women:  Modesty Blaise, The Baroness and Emma Peel. Here is a little bit of wiki detail on the great Modesty Blaise.

(Taken directly from Wikipedia.  I've left the source numbers in to relate to the original article, which has far more information. Please visit the original site.)

Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by Peter O'Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (art) in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films made in 1966, 1982, and 2003 and a series of 13 novels and short story collections, beginning in 1965.

Having conceived the idea after a chance meeting with a girl during his wartime service in the Middle East,^[3] O'Donnell elected to work with Jim Holdaway, with whom he had worked on the strip Romeo Brown, after a trial period of collaboration with Frank Hampson, creator of Dan Dare, left O'Donnell dissatisfied. Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on 13 May 1963.^[2] The strip was syndicated among a large number of newspapers ranging from the Johannesburg Star to the Detroit Free Press, the Bombay Samachar, The Telegraph, (Calcutta, India), The Star (Malaysia), The West Australian (Perth, Australia) and The Evening Citizen (Glasgow, Scotland).

The strip's circulation in the United States was erratic, in part because of the occasional nude scenes, which were much less acceptable in the U.S. than elsewhere, resulting in a censored version of the strip being circulated. (Modesty occasionally used a tactic that she called the "Nailer," in which she would appear topless, distracting the bad guys long enough to give Willie or herself a chance to incapacitate them.) An example of this censorship appears in the introduction to the 2007 Titan Books reprint volume Death Trap, which illustrated two segments of the story arc, "The Junk Men" that were censored by the Detroit Free Press when it published the strip in 1977; in both cases a screen was drawn over scantily-clad images of Willie and Modesty. Reportedly, O'Donnell did not approve of the changes, although they were made by the artist, Romero.^[9]

Quentin Tarantino has been interested in directing a Modesty Blaise film for many years, and at one point Neil Gaiman even wrote a script treatment based upon O'Donnell's novel, I, Lucifer. So far, nothing has come of these plans. Tarantino "sponsored" the release of My Name Is Modesty by allowing it to be released under the label "Quentin Tarantino presents ..." In the Tarantino film Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega is seen reading a copy of Modesty Blaise.^[13]Nicole Kidman has also gone on record as being interested in making a Modesty Blaise film, and Jennifer Lopez was reported to be pitching for the part in 2003.^[14]

Kent Cigarettes

Inspired by the post below about White Flesh Black Market: Spies in the House of Lust, I thought I would share the fantastic images that are within the pages of the book Operation Doomsday by Paul Kenyon.

Get a load of this:

These advertisements are sitting in the book as pages.
Needless to say, Sonny and Biddy - WBYK (cover designers extrordinaire) and I were thrilled when we saw these.

So I thought I would gather up some other amazing Kent Ads from the past.

Check these out:

All-together!

Scientists AND Educators?

What is going on with this "white/black" dude?

Just so we can show that Kent is "authentic" black - we'll  get down with the lingo.