Sex Republic I’ve visited Salon magazine virtuall…
Sex Republic
I’ve visited Salon magazine virtually everyday for the last 3 years - and usually always found something worth reading. Usually it’s Scott Rosenberg’s Technology column, which invariably provides a bunch of spot-on analysis and chinstroking which is useful for my day job, but every so often some great stuff leaps out of the Sex section too. The article about Mel Gordon’s “Voluptuous Panic” is a case in point. A lavish collage of surviving pictures, pornography and personal reminisciences from the decadence of Germany’s Weimar Republic, Gordon’s book is a landmark in uncovering the secret histories of our supposedly sexually repressed forebears.
The website of Feral House, the publishers of Voluptuous Panic, is packed with other similarly must-have titles - intelligent, well-researched and completely off the wall. Most of these books are secret histories, however minor, and all the more valuable for that.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- In Search Of George Orwell
- Non Fiction Title I Want
- Don’t Panic!
- Conjunctions Conjunctions magazine is really a …
- Wanking For Blank Cheques - A Catholic Critique
