#516 - Probe 2 2 Eros Goldstripe 1972 Rene Bond
Probe, Volume 2, Number 2
Eros Publishing Co., Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1972,
in two parts:
the essays
and
pictures optimized for ebook viewing
A 100-page magazine, Probe, Volume 2, Number 2, aspires to explain alternative sexual modalities. The volume contains no fiction or photo-fiction. The 150+ photographs are to be understood as illustrations of people participating in the sex practices the articles expose. Actually, they are models pretending. Male and female nudity.
Sadism and the Sexual Libido
In stockings and garter belts, Renee Bond and another cutie fool around with a guy in a leather hood. Each takes a turn wielding a whip or paddle.
The Marquis of Sadism
The life, adventures, crimes, writings and relationships of the Marquis de Sade.
Flagellomania Cults Past and Present
Beginning with customs of ancient Greece, the essay recounts public applications of whipping in various times and cultures. The photo illustrations show a role-swapping foursome. One of the females looks lovely in her black patent waist-cincher, stockings, high-heeled pumps and thigh-high boots.
How Leather Fashions are Secret Sexual Symbols
Prose examines the fetishistic appeal of leather fashions. A sexy twosome in corsets take turns at each other's boots.
Trans-sexualism: Fad or Solution
A consideration of genetic influences on sexual identity and developmental factors that urge a man to express his feminine side. Photos show a young man making himself pretty.
The Rubber Rebellion
The allure of rubber clothing — pants, shirts, underwear — the sound and tightness. Illustrated by photographs we've seen in Exotique and Bizarre Life.
An Album of Erotic Art
Illustrations by an unnamed artist.
London: Kinky City of Night
The essay expresses outrage and dismay over the diversity of depravity offered for sale in some of London's neighborhoods. Bookstores, revues, personal services, prostitutes and night clubs accommodate a broad spectrum of perversions. Photographs of streets and storefronts capture styles of the time and a bit of history.
ebook Part 1 — Essays
Not a digital replica, which shows magazine pages on ebook pages that are vertical rectangles, the Part 1 ebook contains all the expository text of the magazine. It also includes photographs of adult entertainment emporia in London, which transposed well to ebook format.
ebook Part 2 — Pictures
Wide ebook pages present all the erotic photography of the magazine, sequenced for consistency. Most of the pictures on the original pages are large and appear clear in the optimized ebook, filling the screen from top to bottom. A few of the small images were filtered to remove moiré patterns and show soft edges.
On the day these digital iterations were first offered for sale (in 2010), a Seattle magazine dealer advertised a copy of Probe, Volume 2, Number 2, for $350 on his website. A rare 1970s artifact, Probe aspired to lucidity about complex human behavior while titillating its audience with sexy pictures staged in homes and apartments. The photography will appeal to those interested in stockings, corsets, long gloves, pumps, and boots. The optimized ebook offers the easiest means of enjoying these fine fetish images.
Two ebooks, one optimized, one all text, delivered by download link.