Gustav Kilmt
Adam und Eva (1918)
I love this picture! Klimt died before it was finished but even with one hand this Eve is the most sweetly erotic human creation this side of Maureen O'Sullivan's skinny-dipping scenes in TARZAN AND HIS MATE. | This is an anachronistic crazy-guy-on-the-internet site disguised as a DVD store. I am trying to do some good here, promoting an aesthetic and some favorite ideas, griping about pet peeves and tossing out amusing scraps of information where available. I'm a great fan of those quirky hardware stores (every town has one of these) that stay in business forever out of sheer cussedness, seemingly oblivious to giant Home Depot style operations right down the street. I cannot possibly compete with any internet mega-store on its own terms but I can be different.
I think the modern erotica industry is horrid. It does not, however, follow that erotica is intrinsically horrid or that a person who likes erotic material has to be an unimaginative, woman-fearing clod. Older adult films suffer the limitations of the genre but they are better than modern stuff. Sincere modern amateur material suffers the limitations of the genre but is better than modern professional material. My basic philosophy here is to carry classic (pre-1990) XXX movies aesthetically interesting erotica from any era sex movies from any era with natural, believable, feminine women
I have tried to correct some of the defects of the modern erotic internet store. You do not need to provide any personal information to browse here. You will not get emails from here except for the confirmation for your order. (I don't know about you, but I get emails every damn day from businesses I shopped with once, years ago and it's ridiculous!) Everything here is as described. There are people on eb*y and certain adult dvd sites offering seemingly excellent prices on DVDs, but actually selling unauthorized copies or a disc in a white paper sleeve. All the DVDs here are real, new factory product from the real studios. (The very few titles here on DVD-R are plainly described as such.) I treat these things as MOVIES. Yes, most adult film is not great art but that's no reason not to treat it with some respect. Just because people use porn as a sex aid doesn't mean that an adult DVD is not also a movie and pat of our cultural history. I list the year the movie was made and try to correct cast listings and generally approach an adult film listing the same as if it was any other movie. (Pet peeve alert: I also alphabetize actresses by their LAST name. The universal porn-store practice of arranging actresses by first name is just weird... would you look for John Wayne under "J"?) There is no reason to lie about any movie. Ever. Why? There are 5,000 movies here and I do not care which particular ones you buy. I reprint the manufacturers descriptions, of course, but I don't mind telling you that they are usually not informative. (Seriously... what are the odds that every film is "the hottest movie you will ever see"?) I do not describe the actresses as sluts and whores. Why on Earth would I? The factory descriptions are what they are but I see no reason to try to try to excite the customer with gratuitous vulgarity. You are a grown up, not a school boy. You already know that people have sex in sex films so the question is, "Why buy this particular movie versus any of a thousand others?" I actively reject fake breasts and total-shaving. Women in the real world are at least as beautiful today as they ever were but women (and men) in sex films today are, for the most part, sort of inhuman. Even if they were once lovely they are hammered into a grotesque body style and pantomime sex in the least erotic way.
Female individuality is erotic. In a flood of cookie-cutter smut specialness is the most valuable commodity. Almost all fit youngish women are truly beautiful in their own way. The inhuman Barbie doll trend seeks to make women something less than what they are. Some guys are into that and that's fine, but it interests me not at all and I run this place.
The reviews and comments here are often contradictory. 90% of the time I write whatever crosses my mind the day the title comes in and if I'm in a bad mood I might say something snarky that will then stay in place for years. C'est la vie.
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