“Gothic: Dark Glamour”&“Dressing for Pleasure”
Steele, Valerie and Jennifer Park. Gothic: Dark Glamour Yale University Press, 2008 Trunk, Jonny. Dressing for Pleasure: The Best of AtomAge 1972-1980 Murray & Sorrell FUEL, 2010. S/M as fashion...
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Before the proto-punk/goth band the Velvet Underground formed, there was the book, The Velvet Underground by Micheal Leigh, published 1963. According to Wikipedia: The Velvet Underground by Michael...
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Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s SEX shop, 1970s London
Paul Gormanis’ blog has complete (albeit low-res) scans of a feature from a 1976 Forum (a UK adult magazine) which profiled the proto-kink store SEX founded by punk leaders Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne...
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The Mask of the Cambridge Rapist
Peter Samuel Cook was a serial rapist who attacked women in their homes in Cambridge, England, between October 1974 and April 1975. He was known in the press as the “Cambridge Rapist”. Cook’s crimes...
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