various artists - Cyborgasm - XXX Erotica In 3-D Sound

I have a vague remembrance of audio porn being a thing in the early/mid-90s. Not ASMR, but sex-positive folks reading dirty stories backed by ambient tracks.

Was it hot? I have no recollection.

Where did 15-year-old me learn about this? Probably some zine, or maybe Raygun or Option or one of the edgier American music rags.

Anyway...

I think I bought this last year because Susie Bright and Annie Sprinkle were on it, and they both rule. I'm 99% certain this came out of San Francisco, which, if you remember S.F. in the 90s, makes a fuck ton of sense. Discogs says the original long box release came with a condom inside.

Feel free to fap. Just don't listen to this at, I dunno, work. Or church.

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V-Day Weekend at Vinegar Syndrome

From "SexWorld" (Anthony Spinelli, 1977)

Regular readers of this here semi-regular blog know it's a regular confluence of music and moving pictures, occasionally crossing over into people humping for pleasure and amusement. It's not everyone's cuppa steeped leaves, but I'm of the firm belief that bad taste doesn't necessarily equal bad art, and art deserves to be preserved. Which is why I rep Vinegar Syndrome as often as I do. It's not a giant leap to say, "let's make sure the early work of David Cronenberg gets restored," to "Gerald Damiano's filmography is worthy of being preserved". These are auteurs with clear aesthetics that have influenced those directors who have follwed them for the past 50 years. The difference is that Cronenberg didn't show the dick going in.

That being said, Vinegar Syndrome is holding their second annual V-Day Weekend sale through the end of the day on Sunday, February 14. As they're wont to do, they're highlighting this sale with a few special releases. They've announced what they're billing as the first ever hardcore feature ever released in Ultra HD. It's an expanded release of Anthony Spinelli's 1977 "Westworld" homage, "SexWorld". I copped their original Blu-ray release a few years back, but I'm leaning towards snagging this, a result of the care they've put into this reissue. VS has performed an all-new 4K restoration from the original 35mm negative. They've also added a softcore cut of "SexWorld", something I had no idea actually existed. They've fleshed out this new release with interviews with hardcore legends Kay Parker and Joey Silvera, as well as photographer Joel Sussman. The release includes an UHD, a Blu-ray, AND the soundtrack on CD, as fine a collection of library tracks as one will find. It's limited to 5,000 pieces, which isn't some tight edition size, but at a sale price of $29.99, it's a bargain for one of the best Golden Age releases.

Also part of the celebration: a "SexWorld" t-shirt, available in an open edition and limited "Robot Valentine" print. There was a really rad holographic screen print available on Friday; this quickly sold out, but is definitely worth checking out. The entire VS back catalog of classic erotica, including all the Peekarama titles still in print, is 50% off through the end of the sale. If you're a film dork, a closet perv, or just want something fun to watch with your partner, it's a good time to pick up some pretty incredible titles. I'll be grabbing a few of the Lisa de Leeuw movies I don't already own. I'd suggest checking out a few of these if these interest you:

• "The Lost Films Of Herschell Gordon Lewis" was the very first Vinegar Syndrome release, collecting three of the Godfather of Gore's sexploitation movies from the late 60s and early 70s
• The "Boys In The Sand" and "Bijou" collect a number of Wakefield Poole's earliest films, as well as two of the earliest still extant example of American gay pornography
• "Taboo", starring Kay Parker, is undoubtably one of the most controversial and important hardcore titles of all-time; VS has restored and reissued the first five films in the series on Blu-ray, but this is the one worth snagging
• "Confessions Of A Teenage Peanut Butter Freak" is just weird as hell, but in a good and sexy way, and features Constance Money
• It was a legendary title when I was younger, so I hopped all over getting a copy of "Let My Puppets Come" when it came out a few years back. All you need to know are these four words: "musical puppet sex comedy"

From "Let My Puppets Come" (Gerald Damiano, 1976)

Cinema Sewer Vol. 7 is here!

I am a huge fan of Canadian film historian, artist, scribe, and all-around good-natured pervert Robin Bougie. His long-running zine, Cinema Sewer, is the Cashiers du Cinema of exploitation. It's evident, within minutes of cracking your first issue, that this is not just a labor of love. It's street-level scholarship of the corners of film that don't get a lot of proper attention. When the ol' Ape writes about movies here, he's doing a really cruddy imitation of Msr. Bougie, sans the wonderful artwork.

As I'm not Twitter, I missed the announcement in September that Robin had recently released the seventh collection of Cinema Sewer via his StoreEnvy site. His six previous releases have compiled the first 29 issues of the zine, but Vol. 7 is a real special release. The softcover compiles issues 30 and 31 of Cinema Sewer, along with an additional 90 new pages of never-before-seen interviews, rants, comics, hard-to-find classic movie advertising, and graphic illustrations by Bougie and a bevvy of his talented illustrative contemporaries. It's also the first time Robin's released a hardcover edition of a Cinema Sewer collection. In addition to the above, collectors get a limited edition autograph plate signed by Robin, as well as the mysterious 64-page sequential art monstrosity BUTTLORDS, created by Bougie and illustrator Maxine Frank, who have previously collaborated on Maximum Superexcitment. The hardcover is a limited edition, and you can snag both in a specially-priced combo pack to save a few bucks.

Click here to pick up a copy, as well as back issues and previous Cinema Sewer collections. If you're outside of North America, visit the good folks at FAB Press.