MARQUIS DE SADE TEA SALON

  PRESENTS

         MARQUIS DE SADE 

     TEA SALON 

 

      DECEMBER 4TH

      5PM   

  (SALON ENDS @7PM) 

      $25  PREPAID RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

    JOVIAL CHATS    

  HAND-BLENDED TEA 

   CAKES & DAINTIES

   EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MARQUIS DE SADE   

    HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO  

     TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE 

     1421 LAVETA TERRACE  ECHO PARK, CA 90026  

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   THE MARQUIS DE SADE 

(June 2nd, 1740~December 2nd, 1814)

 was a sadist. 

 The French aristocrat became so notorious for his deviant sexual practices, perversions, 

 and erotic writings which combined pornography with philosophy and violent sexual fantasies,

 that his name gave rise to the terms sadist and sadism.   

His sexual fantasies’ emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy – 

 and his real life partaking of criminally violent sexual practices – 

 kept him behind bars in prisons and insane asylums for most of his adult life. 

 He spent 32 years behind bars, including 10 in the Bastille.  

Most of his writings were penned while he was incarcerated. 

DEFINITION OF BONDAGE CIRCA 1972

SAMUEL STEWARD TEA SALON

WITH RICK CASTRO

 PRESENT   

 SAMUEL STEWARD

 TEA SALON    

     JANUARY 2ND, 2019

   5PM  

    SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM   

       $15 COVER  PREPAY RESERVATION  

   $20 CASH DAY OF THE SALON  

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 HAND-BLENDED TEA  

CAKES & DAINTIES 

     VIEW EROTIC ART 

     ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS

LEARN ABOUT THE LIFE OF SAMUEL STEWARD 

     RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA 

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          TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE   

   1421 LAVETA TERRACE   

   ECHO PARK, CA 90026    

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Samuel  Steward 

(July 23, 1909 – December 31, 1993)

AKA Phil Andros, Phil Sparrow, and many other pseudonyms, 

was a poet, novelist, and university professor who left the world of academia

 to become a tattoo artist and pornographer.

Throughout his life he kept extensive secret diaries, journals and statistics of his sex life. 

He lived most of his adult life in Chicago, where he tattooed sailor-trainees from the US Navy's Great Lakes Naval Training Station (as well as gang members and street people) out of a tattoo parlor on South State Street. He later moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where he spent the late 1960s as the official tattoo artist of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

Samuel  befriended Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas.

He claimed to have had sex with Thomas Mann, Andre Gide,  Lord Alfred Douglas, Rudolph Valentino 

& Tom of Finland.

He was a longtime contributor/collaborator with Alfred Kinsey for the Kinsey Institue of Sexual Research.

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RICK CASTRO-PORTRAIT DE PIERRE MOLINIER- 2014

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FETISH BOOK CLUB- MY GAY EYE- SEPTEMBER 30TH @ TOM HOUSE

  PRESENTS  

 FETISHBOOK CLUB  

 HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO 

    THIS MONTH'S SELECTION

MEIN SCHWULES AUGE

(MY GAY EYE)

                                                              (JOSH PAUL THOMAS)

BY

RINALDO HOPF & AXEL SCHOCK

  SEPTEMBER 30TH

 1PM 

  $10 COVER    

GIO BLACK PETER

  TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

   1421 LAVETA TERRACE 

   ECHO PARK CA 90026 

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PORTRAIT OF DURK DEHNER BY TOM OF FINLAND

Tom of Finland, 

(1920-1991), 

 This special edition of My Gay Eye presents the many sides of the artist 

Tom of Finlan and explores the Foundation he cofounded.

 An extensive collection of gay art, many shown here for the first time,

 contemporary authors and artists add to this unique homage to Tom with essays, interviews, short stories and images.   

Featuring artworks by over 100 artists including:

 Bastille, Hector Silva, Peter Berlin, Rick Castro, Ruben Esparza,

 Etienne, Florian Hetz,G.B. Jones, Michael Kirwan, Bob Mizer, 

George Quaintance, Rex, Stuart Sandford,Gengoroh Tagame, 

Jim French,The Hun, Arthur Tress and Tom of Finland. 

(REX)

Tom of Finland has not only cult status within the global gay community, 

but has become part of pop culture and art history.

 Tom‘s last partner, Durk Dehner, also his manager, estate administrator and cofounder 

of Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles, has made a decisive contribution

 to setting the legacy of Tom of Finland into motion. 

 Tom of Finland, his art and his influence on gay artists of subsequent generations, 

as well as the work purpose of Tom of Finland Foundation, are the focus of this special volume of My Gay Eye, which appears for the first time in both German and English. 

(RICK CASTRO)

Literary figures also pay homage to Tom of Finland. 

Many writers take inspiration from of his drawings including-

Durk Dehner

Sharp

Sam Balducci

Steven Reigns

Jan K

Gympel

Rolf Redlin

Ralf Konig

Marc Randstell-Bellenger

David Parke Epstein

Jim Baker

Kevin Clarke

Jamison Karon

Rainer Hofmann

Michael Bullock

Peter Rehberg

Mark Timmothy Hayward

Ralph J. Poole

( Etienne)

THE BEST QUOTE

RICK CASTRO- PINPPLZINE- 2018

FAKIR MUSAFAR- 8/10/1930- 8/1/2018

FAKIR MUSAFAR

 ( August 10, 1930- August 1, 2018) 

 My beloved Fakir Musafar passed away peacefully at home just a bit before noon today. 

Light a candle to guide his journey to the unseen world.

 He was loved, he is love . 

He will not be forgotten. His legacy will live on, his memory will be honored. 

What is remembered lives.

If you light a candle for him that is non electric please do not leave it burning if you are not home.

 We will have a celebration of his like around Samhain/Halloween time. 

I thank again all those who have sent handwritten letters, art cards, 

and told him that his lifework did and does matter.

 Namasté — with Fakir Musafar.

CLEO DUBOIS

Fakir Musafar 

(born Roland Loomis)

performance artist and early proponent of the modern primitive movement. 

He has experimented with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension. 

He is involved in the BDSM, kink and fetish communities.

At age four Musafar claimed to have experienced dreams of past lives.  He reports having given himself his first body piercing when he was twelve. Based on his viewing of anthropological works he first performed his idea of a flesh hook suspension in 1966 or 1967.

As an adult he gave himself the name "Fakir Musafar".

 Musafar has documented his experiences in writing about and teaching others "body play". 

In the early 1990s, Musafar appeared in mainstream media shows like NBC's Faith Daniels Show, 

CBS's People Are Talking, CNN's Earth Matters and Discovery Channel's (Beyond Bizarre). 

In 1998 He produced documentary segments for London Weekend Television's Southbank Show and Playboy Television's "Sexcetera". In 2000, 2001 and 2003 he has appeared in documentaries for The Learning Channel (Human Canvas Part I and Part II), TBS, FX Channel and Discovery Channel plus a major appearance in the 2001 documentary film "Modern Tribalism". 

In 2004 became a spokesperson for the National Geographic Channel's Taboo and has expressed "radical contemporary" views on body rituals on the Travel Channel's 

"Eye of the Beholder" series hosted by Serena Yang.

Musafar's writing and photography appears in Theater Journal, Bizarre magazine (fetish and SM exploration), Skin Two and PFIQ (Piercing Fan International Quarterly). He has lectured and performed at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (Rapture Series, 1995); Copenhagen's International Seminar on BODY:Ritual-Manipulation (1995). 

His photographic art was exhibited at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.

In 1999 his performance group performed "Metamorphosis" at the Los Angeles Fetish Ball as well as for close friend Annie Sprinkle's Benefit Show at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.

Musafar lectured at colleges and universities and to New Age and other special interest groups.

 Musafar is considered a Master piercer with over 40 years experience in the body arts. 

He is also the founder and director of the Fakir Intensives which hold training workshops on body piercing and branding in San Francisco, the first in America.

Musafar is featured in Modern Primitives, published by RE/Search, and in the full-length documentary Dances Sacred and Profane.

 He also appears in the movie Modify and Charles Gatewood's documentary, 

Dances Sacred and Profane.

In May 2018, Musafar announced on his website that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer. 

On 1 August 2018, his wife Cleo Dubois announced that he had passed away.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE-
 I HAD THE PLEASURE TO PRESENT FAKIR MUSAFAR'S PHOTOGRAPHY AT MY GALLERY- ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD IN 2007.
FAKIR IS A SHAMAN- 
AN ORGINAL CREATIVE SOUL.
 HE IS ONE-OF-A-KIND.
RIP MASTER.
RICK CASTRO