I mentioned two new Goliath Books in my last SEX FILES. One, More Dirty Girls Having Fun, by Brooklyn-based photographer Ellen Stagg, is as much a female-empowering collection a feast for the eyes (at least in my hetero male viewpoint). I got lucky enough to catch up with Stagg and ask her a few questions…

Our friends at Goliath Books, that great German publisher of photographic naughtiness, present a new visual treat of specific porn with their new History of Sexual Punishment in Pictures. Certainly not everyone’s cup of tea, still what we have here is some 270 pictures (240 of those images monochrome, that’s how old some of them are) plus text in German, English about sexual pleasure derived from flagellation of one sort or another.

Love him, loathe him, follow his exploits by trying out your own brand of kinkiness on regular occasions, or simply looking at pictures and reading his work with a “Oh no, not me, ever!” one can’t deny the historical significance of the ol’ Marquis de Sade. With the term ‘sadism,’ born off his name, even those not-in-the-know of all the Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was about in his lifetime back in 18th century Paris, kind of get the hint of the man’s proclivities.

In their usual fashion this German publisher of fine and often erotic photographic collections presents two new books, PUSSY & BUTT & NATURAL & NAKED-Girls Uncensored

Time and again I like to bring you up to date on actual books (yes, those things with the pages, covers and sometimes pictures that you actually hold in your hand, turn your cell phone off to look at and…read!) of an erotic nature. Downloadable Clips4Sale snippets and weekly film update emailers from your favorite porn studio is all well and good. But have you a smidgen of time and want to fire up the old imagination (and maybe even come to learn a little something) might I recommend the latest: