BDSM History
Before I begin, I preface this with the fact that this is not the complete history of Bdsm that would take hours. Instead, I try to gather as many interesting moments in Bdsm history as I could get together and hopefully one or two videos. There’s so much more history and so much more new wants to talk about when it comes to Bdsm
310BCE the cult of Inanna which would use whipping as a form of sexual pleasure and arousal
Festival of Lupercalia
Now know as V day use whips on women to encourage fetillte and cleansing
The Tomb of the Whipping is an Etruscan tomb in the Necropolis of Monterozzi near Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy. It is dated to approximately 490 BC and named after a fresco of two men who flog a woman in an erotic context. The tomb was discovered and excavated in 1960 by Carlo Maurilio Lerici
1700 marquee desade
1841 tentacle kink is born with the book fisherman wife
1828 teresa Berkeley invents chevalet to flog gentlemen
The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (German: Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK) was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin in May 1897, to campaign for social recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and against their legal persecution.[
Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title: The Lonely House on Adachi Moor
Date: 1885
Yoshitoshi’s most shocking design. The hag of Adachi Moor is a theme Yoshitoshi returned to many times, as did his teacher Kuniyoshi. The total helplessness of the pregnant woman, combined with the pure evil of the wrinkled crone is brilliantly executed and technically genius. In 1921 seiu ito would create this image with his then pregnant wife, and model Sahara Kise. seiu ito is known as the modern father of Kinabaku Sahara was pregnant at the time
Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study, also known as Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathetic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-forensic Study) is an 1886 book by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing and one of the first texts about sexual pathology. The book details a wide range of paraphilias and focuses on male homosexuality/bisexuality (the “antipathetic instinct” of the subtitle). The book coined the terms “sadism and masochism” as well as borrowing the term bisexual from botanical language
In 1893 Nikola Tesla would create a kinky toy for us to play with known as the violet wand though, it’s not clear when this was first used as a kink toy, the intention was not kink, but thank you Tesla anyway
The 1920s with C after the end of both disease and war, a sexual revolution of sorts in America and across the Globe wild America was not as most would’ve hoped it did have ultimate lifestyle, parties, and events for the first time in recorded history.
In 1920
Artist man, ray, would you pick Bdsm in photography under the direction of William Seabrook, a rigger sadist and writer depicting sadomasochism
In 1924 henry Gerber created the society of human rights in Chicago based upon the work of Magnus Hirschfeld from Germany who is we learned ,
Created scientific, d humanitarian committee which was created to protect humans in the LGBT community, and Henry Gerbers work would inspire Henry hey to create the Californian Mattchine society in Los Angeles in 1957 rights organization
In Oct of 1941 Wonder Woman’s make her first appearance, followed by her getting her own series in 1942. Wonder woman is an icon for the Bdsm culture that included themes that were decades ahead of their time being for public consumption.. the character herself, and lose her powers if her hands were bound together, and she became helpless to her female or male captor and dealt with empowerment of females and the idea of bondage is repeatedly used as well as punishment
In 1946 the first Bdsm related magazine is publish called Bizzarre
Sweet Gwendoline first appears in 1947 from bondage artist John Willie in the magazine wink
By the end of 1940s, the leather community a community of gay men and kink would begin to take form
The rise of Kinkbau in Japan, first picks women bound and naked it in the 1950s
Betty Paige first shows up in 1952 forever changing the landscape of fetish photography in America including being in the first Bdsm
Home movie we are aware of
Alfred Kinsey acknowledges kink in 1953
Vito study conducted, showing the interest of both female and male’s with erotic stories first acknowledging a percentage of the population into kink
In 1953 Marlon Brando via movie inspires the leather community. The movie was named. The wild one.
Founded in 1954, the Satyrs Motorcycle Club is the oldest, continuously running gay organization in the world. The men in this motorcycle club were profoundly affected by the two world wars and Stanley Kramer’s film, The Wild Ones, which featured a leather-clad icon Marlon Brando.
Story of O (French: Histoire d’O, IPA: [istwaʁ do]) is an erotic novel written by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage, with the original French text published in 1954 by Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Desclos did not reveal herself as the author for 40 years after the initial publication. Desclos stated she wrote the novel as a series of love letters to her lover Jean Paulhan,[1] who had admired the work of the Marquis de Sade. The novel shares with the latter themes such as love, dominance, and submission.
This story would be considered a definitive text for the early BDSM community
Also in 1954 the seduction of innocence is released and forever changes the comic book industry by creating what would be a Comics code during the McCarthy era. One of the things brought up was the depiction of women being tied up in Comicbooks and being tortured. It turned out this entire book which was supposed to be a clinical study was all a lie created to attack things considered taboo.
Also lead ironically to the McCarthy era attack on pornography and Bdsm to depiction in photography that would affect Ivan klaw and Betty phone
In 1956 the modern chastity belt design was invented by hal Higginbottom
The late Osada Eikichi is widely regarded as the godfather of modern Japanese Rope Bondage and is credited with pioneering live SM performances in Japan from the 1960s onwards. On January 20, 2001, he
he Velvet Underground is a paperback by journalist Michael Leigh, published in September 1963, that reports on paraphilia in the USA.
First edition
Leigh investigates “aberrant” sexual behavior between consenting adults; that is, everything other than simple intercourse conducted in privacy by a heterosexual couple, e.g., husband and wife swapping, group sex, sex orgy parties, homosexual activities, sado-masochism. The author reports on the various ways in which such practices are solicited (newspaper advertisements, clubs, etcetera), and by following these leads, manages to get into touch with many of its participants, usually through written correspondence. The book liberally includes quotations from this material. This is complemented with quotes from various magazines.
Born to raise, Hell was released in 1970 being the first gay BDSM film released created by Roger Earl and starred Val Martin
In 1971 the first hellfire club is open
In 1972 the first leather men’s handbook is published and references safe words
In 1973 the hanky code is created and used in the gay men’s community to depict kinks and fetishes
Passive arts dungeon opens in 1974 in Los Angeles
In 1975 the drummer magazine, his first published I would become the most successful leather magazine in history
1976 penthouse features fetish for the first time
In 1977 the first publication that makes Bdsm not as a sick thing but as members of a sexual minority published in Germany manifest sadomasochism of males
In 1979, the first manufacture of Bdsm gear mr. S leather begins production.
Call Shauna, 1979 the first Mr. leather is crowned one by David Kloss
1980s to 1990s the meatpacking district in New York City was home to Bdsm events Efrain John Gonzalez is a New York City sex historian who’s been photographing the city since the ’70s. As the founder of Hellfire Tours, he offers guided tours through the city’s Meatpacking District, highlighting the underground sex and kink scene of the ’80s and ’90s that is no more
In 1983 safe, same consensual SSC, his first coined at a Fourth of July picnic
1984 for the first Folsom street fair happens
In 1989 the first leather pride flag is flown
1991 the first Bdsm related URL is launched changing the kinky world forever, and leading to the Modern community
Soon after the first use of the acronym, Bdsm is seen online. Before this sadism sadomasochism was used to describe the lifestyle. Term itself with evolve in the following decades, to become an umbrella term for Fetish and kink.
What we know is the BDSM community stems from the subculture that existed for decades before that, and finally met online and would create the modern day Bdsm community
In 1992 in California the first munch that is on going is created
1995 our Bdsm emblem is created
stockroom.com is launched in 1996 making affordable bondage gear for the first time
In 1997 kink.com is launched
In 1998 wreck his first seen on the Internet, becoming the new acronym followed by rack in 1999 credit to Gary switch on April 18, 1999. The weather community would release that statement about abuse in the leather community.
In 2002 the movie secretary is released
In 2004 and for the first time, Con takes place
In 2005, we got our first Bdsm flag by Thanos
In 2008 Fetlife has launched
In 2011 sadly Fifty Shades of Grey is released
Not to mention so much fictional works that inspired kink sometimes a century later plus the rich history of local and regional communities. The truth is the launch of the World Wide Web brings the community and the Bdsm culture out of the shadows, and becomes more accessible than ever before. There’s also so much more history to Bdsm communitie and culture. These are highlights of moments, but there’s so many more stories to shared
Subculture verse community
