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It wouldn’t be a chapter without a concluding pin-up, and for this one Lon has worked up what is surely his kinkiest one yet.

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Study Abroad: Chapter Four, Pin-up written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

And that marks the conclusion of another chapter of Study Abroad, Naturally it’s available in a number of formats for those among you who want it all in a one piece. There are direct downloads. The biggest and highest-resolution is the CBZ comic book archive format (about 178MB, click on the icon for download):

There is the handy PDF version (about 60MB, click on the icon):

And there’s also a .mobi e-book version, which is in color and looks really good on a Kindle Fire, and probably on other e-book readers (click on the icon, about 18MB):

Torrents are also available, for the CBZ, PDF, and MOBI versions respectively.

Coming really soon: Iris’s tale and the conclusion of Study Abroad. Stay tuned!

They had cameras.

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Study Abroad: Chapter Four, Page Twenty-Four written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

…and sex machines.

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Study Abroad: Chapter Four, Page Fifteen written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Dark Vanessa shows Jill Keeney undergoing a most unusual sort of training (and showing Gnosis College school spirit at the same time).

What on earth is Jill training so hard for? You’ll have to read the story to find out…

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Jill Keeney: In Training by Dark Vanessa and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Does anyone know the source — as in, what anime series it might have been part of — for this image?

It looks to me like a closer-in take of an image that I ran in a post back in November, though I might be mistaken.

Whatever it was, I think I really want to see it, so any guidance would be much appreciated.

3D artist ecostar has been creating some remarkable erotic fantasy art of late over at his site DarkCreatureZ, and at least some of it has a mad-science flavor.  The first in a series Ayla’s Nightmare.

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Dare I say it? That’s quite a sex machine they have going there!

The penalty for voluntary frolics is…forced copulation. In an elaborate dungeon sex machine, at that. Don’t ask me what insane troll logic got the nuns there. It’s not my religion.

I will note that the Mother Superior has a most unusual approach to manipulating the controls on the machine.

At least Willie will get out of this and head back to Gnosis. Rayna has a somewhat more complicated fate in store…

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Willie & Rayna Dungeon Sequence IV by KristinF and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Following on yesterday’s real machine, an animated one, rather more dramatic.

The hovering ‘bot with the syringe gives it a real mad science flavor.  Found here.

I took a little time out of last weekend to view Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick‘s Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm and it was 73 minutes well spent, believe me.  The first half of the movie covers material that will be familiar to readers of Rachel Maines‘s The Technology of Orgasm.  For those of you who haven’t read this fine book, Dr. Maines gives extensive interviews in which she provides a compact and lucid presentation of her historical thesis:  that there was an extensive medical practice in the nineteenth century of doctors providing “massage” as therapy for an ill-defined condition called “hysteria,” and that this “medical” practice was in fact a form of social camouflage for what was, not to put too fine a point on matters, a form of professional sex-work.  Doctors were in fact bringing their patients to orgasm, something that, in the face of Victorian sexual ignorance, they were incapable of doing themselves.  (Well, at least the patients did feel better.)  The vibrator first came into existence as a small electrical appliance because (1) doctors actually didn’t like this difficult manual work and (2) it was cheaper for patients to invest in a vibrator than to constantly see a doctor.

Even if you have read The Technology of Orgasm, you’ll see some eye-opening visuals in Passion and Power of machines and their turn-of-the-twentieth century advertisements.  There’s also a pretty funny re-enactment scene of a troubled Victorian woman paying a visit to her physician.

Through the diligent application of medical science, a “crisis paroxysm” is induced in the patient.

And she feels much better…

However the vibrator is driven underground in the 1920s when it began appearing in pornography.  Is there any depicted in the stunning visuals?  Sorry, Dr. Faustus can’t do everything for you…you’ll have to see the movie itself.

The second half of the movie is just as fascinating: it tells the story of the vibrator’s rediscovery and promotion by feminist activists and sex educators beginning in the 1960s.  There’s more priceless interview material here, with Betty Dodson and Dell Williams featured prominently.  And there’s a frame story of Texas schoolteacher Joanne Webb, whose life was wrecked when she was criminally prosecuted for selling vibrators to women in their own homes.  That’s something that’s hard to believe would happen in the 21st century, but I guess there are parts of Texas where the 21st century hasn’t yet arrived.

And is there a benefit here for thaumatophiles in this movie?  I mean, aside from fascinating history about what is the real world’s most important small sex machine?  You bet.  The filmmakers have marvelous taste in classic film clips:

Dr. Faustus sez, check it out.

At least, that’s what I think is going on in this illustration.

Perhaps she’s in need of a tune up?

Exact provenance unknown, but found at Janitor of Lunacy.