Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s erotic valentine
Rocky Horror photos by Mick Rock; Aubrey Beardsley’s The Mirror of Love, 1895, detail
I recently rediscovered The Rocky Horror Picture Show after watching Glee’s Jayma Mays sing “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me.” Trust Dr. Frank-N-Furter to end my blogging dry spell, and make me realize I have something to celebrate on Valentine’s Day—polymorphous perversity! Truly, I have been a devotee of Decadence for years. In that spirit, I present this erotic iconography. Freaks, geeks and genderbenders, will you be my valentine?
Give yourself over to absolute pleasure
Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh
It's so ten years ago—Marcelo Krasilcic photo printed from nerve.com
Gustav Klimt, Fishblood, 1898
Irving Penn, U.S. Camera Annual 1951, p. 160
Gustav Klimt, Judith and Holopherne, 1901
Mick Rock's Rocky Horror coffee table book
Self-expression: Egon Schiele's Nude Self-Portrait, 1910
Lori Petty as Tank Girl, David LaChapelle, The Face, June '95, suicideblonde
Vaslav Nijinsky
Zaria Kinbaku yaoi doujinshi, p. 9 detail
The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, Katsushika Hokusai, woodblock shunga c. 1814, akatniek.nl
Pierre Bonnard, Nude in the Bath, 1936
Pre-Raphaelite repressed sensuality: Edward Burne-Jones, The Sleeping Beauty, 1870-1873
Magenta's Gothic Lolita look
Choreography by Kaslan Goleizovsky, video still
Norman Lindsay etching, Afternoon of a Faun, 1920
Luscious smears of pigment are clearly sexy: Willem de Kooning, Two Women, 1964
More turn-ons
- George Platt Lynes’ luminous male nudes (Elisa Rolle)
- Assertion and retreat in Sargent’s Madame X (Lynette Abel)
- Beth Ditto goes nude for Love magazine (The Modern Age)
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