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The BFI’s recent DVD release of Peter de Rome’s gay porn films<\/a> has been mentioned here a couple of times already but I only bought a copy this week. It’s a remarkable release for a number of reasons, not least for showing how much attitudes towards pornography in Britain have changed in recent years. De Rome’s films are explicit enough to ensure that in the 1970s and 1980s anyone caught selling them in the UK might have been imprisoned. That you can now buy them uncut from a high street shop on a disc packaged with the usual care by the British Film Institute means another small part of our iniquitous past has gone for good. Among the extras there’s a documentary with the 88-year-old director discussing his work. This week he talked to BUTT<\/em> magazine<\/a> who also have one of his shorter films from the DVD, Hot Pants<\/em>, on their site.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Reading this book, it is hard not to feel that the largest mental health problem \u2013 the really crazy thing \u2013 is society’s attitude to drugs in general and LSD in particular…” Phil Baker reviews Albion Dreaming:\u00a0A Popular History of LSD in Britain<\/em><\/a> by Andy Roberts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Loved by aristocrats and immortalized in literature, Denham Fouts remains virtually unknown in his own hometown.” Richard Wall on The World\u2019s Most Expensive Male Prostitute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The very etiology of rabies is mythic: once the bite heals and the virus has traveled to the brain, \u201cthe wound will usually return, as if by magic, with some odd sensation occurring at the site.\u201d Then there\u2019s the fact that no definitive diagnosis can be made without taking a biopsy of the sick animal<\/em>\u2019s brain, leaving only one gory solution: decapitation.<\/p>\n

Rabies is horror\u2019s muse. In almost all iterations of the genre, those we most trust suddenly turn strange: a boyfriend morphs into a wolf at midnight, a fianc\u00e9 turns out to be harboring a mad first wife in the attic, a friend is bit by a zombie and goes berserk.<\/p>\n

Alice Gregory reviews Rabid: A Cultural History of the World\u2019s Most Diabolical Virus<\/a> by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 The Horror of Philosophy: Erik Davis talks to Eugene Thacker<\/a> about Lovecraft, medieval mysticism, and thinking the world-without-us.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eagle Scouts Returning Our Badges<\/a>: A Tumblr for those protesting the current anti-gay stance of the Boy Scouts of America.<\/p>\n

\u2022 His Father’s Best Translator: Lila Azam Zanganeh<\/a> on the late Dmitri Nabokov.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Les Liaisons dangereuses<\/em>: illustrations by Alastair<\/a> (Hans Henning Voigt).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andrea Scrima looks at Robert Walser’s Der Spaziergang<\/em><\/a> (The Walk<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\u2022 10 Great Places to Meet Lesbians If You Have a Time Machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jesse Bering in Scientific American<\/em> asks “Is Your Child Gay?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u2022 As Above, So Below<\/a><\/em> (1981) by Tom Tom Club | Genius Of Love<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Tom Tom Club | Mea Culpa<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Brian Eno & David Byrne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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