a bodily rhetoric of honour

de montgommery, la milice française, edition 1639:

"the signs of those most suited to this profession are a lively, alert manner, an erect head, a taut stomach, broad shoulders, long arms, strong fingers, a small belly, thick thighs, slender legs and dry feet, because a man of such a figure could not fail to be agile and strong"

[cf. foucault, discipline and punish]

dimes

à la recherche du temps perdu

class vi necrophiliacs: people having necromutilomania — necromutilomaniacs

these individuals do not engage in sexual intercourse with the dead. However their erotic pleasure comes from mutilating the dead body and masturbating simultaneously.

winterfresh

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boys in bondage and bow ties, pt. mcmxxiiivii

"[we are required] to acknowledge and examine the multiple ways in which our social constructions guide our visions of material reality"

balmain hommes aw10. perfection.