Welcome to the Grand Opening of X-muse!
In celebration of this momentous event, we are offering special pricing on our memberships! Get 25% off the Charter monthly subscription of $12.95; available for a limited time at only $9.95!
We are also offering a very special 6-month Charter Membership for those who wish to watch us grow: 6 months for only $25.00! This special membership will only be available until August 15th, so act now to take advantage of us! Err… um… we mean “it”.
Many thanks to all our brave beta testers who helped us along to this … ah … this happy consummation!
Enjoy the ride! 
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We just finished adding the Amuse Me feature today. It is a fun way to explore X-muse (at least we think so). And who knows — maybe you’ll find an Easter Egg!
Check it out!
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Craig Morey is having his first show in three years! It opened last week at Madame S in San Francisco.
This show is special. He is showing large (24×36) color prints of recent rope work for the first time. For more info and a link to Craig’s online gallery, see his blog page.
For those interested, Craig also new auction items plus discounted prints from the show available on eBay.
Craig is a fantastic artist and richly deserves your support. Check out his show if you are in town and his work on-line if you are not.
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You might recall that we recently spent two extraordinary days of shooting nudes with Sarah Ellis at Devil’s Slide Beach (one of Northern California’s best nude beaches) with Tehanu jumping into the action as well. What we didn’t tell you then, but we can tell you now, is that we shot some video also!
Sarah very rarely does video and only for very special people (like you) so this is an X-muse exclusive! And Tehanu is with her, so this is a double exclusive!
So if your idea of Heaven is Sarah Ellis and Tehanu romping naked on the beach — and we know it’s ours! — this upcoming video is going to transport you!
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We’ve added a new slideshow option to all X-muse photo galleries. When you open an image, look for the new control bar overlaying the image at top-center. You can use this control bar to navigate forward and back — BTW: your keyboard arrow keys do this too! — and to view all the photos as a slideshow: just click the play button.
This slideshow option does not replace the existing slideshows — they are different animals and we’ll be changing that button to (we hope!) make this clear. Our existing slideshows are of images we select to display in a more fun cinematic format, sometimes with soundtracks or other enhancements. So watch them both!
Notes:
We’ve enabled this option only on the smaller-size images. The full 3,000- and 4,000-pixel images are too large to play well as a slideshow. So you won’t see the control bar on those images, but you can still go forward and back using your arrow keys.
Also, the slideshow option will play the Archive images as well as the Feature images, even if you don’t have the Archive open. We thought people would like this better. If you’d like the Feature images and the Archive images to play as separate slideshow, leave us a comment here.
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Our first video of the incomparible Angela Ryan debuted today on X-muse! Go check it out. We had fun with this video and we hope it shows!
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Fans of Sarah Ellis naked in the Great Outdoors should take rejoice in this most recent set. Sarah does most definitely render any field she is present in a true Field of Dreams!
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Chapter 1: The Royal Concubines and Maitresses-en-titre: Stratospheric Careers and Slow Fades
From a Striptease on an Ancient Witness Stand to Drinking Pearls: The Courtesan’s Many Graces and Faces
Wherein we explore the lives and inspirational qualities of some of the most powerful women who ever lived: the Conquering Beauties from the 5th through the 17th century: The Royal Concubines, Maitresses-en-titre. Edo-era Geisha, Korean kisaeng, and Italian Renaissance Courtesans.
La Pompadour’s Opposite: The Ostentations of Madame du Barry and Her final Penance
After La Pompadour’s untimely death, Louis XV, who was desperately lonely, met the far less self-effacing, but nevertheless bewitching nymphet Jeanne du Barry. With her golden curls, of which she was extremely proud, dancing blue – some say violet — eyes, a highly agreeable smile (even her enemies accorded her that), and endless ambition, she stole the king’s heart, and some would say his senses, and remained his primary mistress until his death, even though she was, in the view of many, just a cheap whore.
Continue reading . . .
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Do you have a blog or your own website? If so, you can get X-muse for free!
Here’s the deal: send us 500 clicks from your site — unique clicks, as registered by our third-party tracker Extreme Tracking — and we’ll give you a free month’s membership!
Send us 1000 unique clicks and we’ll give you 3 months free!
If you want a banner from us, just ask, but to be honest, banners may be pretty ( at least we think ours are! ) but they don’t incite people to click much. A nice juicy text link often does better — we’ll be happy to provide some pre-juiced examples! — and if you actually write up a post about us, that does the best!
That’s all there is to it! Just email us your site name and URL and let us know you’re linking to us and we’ll enroll you in our “Clicks4 …” well, you can guess program.
So link with abandon and get some wild and abandoned X-muses in return!
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We know you’ve all been waiting for another video and we have one almost ready: the lovely Angela Ryan getting all naked and sexy for you! Angela does not do a lot of video, so this is an extra-special treat!
And yes, it does take us awhile to create our videos, but we hope they are worth the wait.
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Chapter 1: The Royal Concubines and Maitresses-en-titre: Stratospheric Careers and Slow Fades
From a Striptease on an Ancient Witness Stand to Drinking Pearls: The Courtesan’s Many Graces and Faces
Wherein we explore the lives and inspirational qualities of some of the most powerful women who ever lived: the Conquering Beauties from the 5th through the 17th century: The Royal Concubines, Maitresses-en-titre. Edo-era Geisha, Korean kisaeng, and Italian Renaissance Courtesans.
La Pompadour, the Most Cultured Woman in France: The “Scandal of Convenience”
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson caught the eye of King Louis XV in 1745. A group of courtiers, including her father-in-law, promoted her acquaintance with the monarch, who was still mourning the death of his second official mistress, the Duchesse de Châteauroux. However, the position of maitresse en titre was considered a very significant one, and although she had been very well polished and educated growing up, with the best tutors instructing her and cultivating her talents in singing and playing instruments, witty Jeanne-Antoinette could not claim the noble lineage that belonged to some of the aristocratic young women who were being put forth as candidates for the job opening. Royal mistresses had been a seemingly indispensable staple of the French court since the appearance of Agnes Sorel, official mistress to King Charles VII in the mid 15th century, and it was they, and not the queens, on whom the kings were expected to bestow the most gratuitously lavish gifts, and to whom poets and painters paid tribute as their muses (often to ingratiate themselves with the king).
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Today we bring you a lush and very naughty erotic set of Kymberly Jane! As those who know Kym are aware, she is very naughty and delightfully erotic pretty much all the time — even in those rare instances when she can be enticed to wear clothes. Much more of Kymberly Jane to (ahem!) come soon…
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This is obviously a question that has a significant amount of interest to us. But first, I’d like to clarify what I mean by “art”. I don’t mean just what is often called “fine art nude photography”, which is typically conceived of as sculptural nudes devoid of erotic connotation and usually presented in black and white. As those familiar with X-muse and our work will know, we see nothing at all inconsistent and incompatible in coupling the notions of art, the erotic, or the sexual — even the explicitly sexual. All of these are a just manifestation of eros, as the terms is originally and properly understood.
Nor do I mean to go into what constitutes art and what does not (I already recorded my thoughts on what art is — and isn’t — in this post). So I’m going to assume (dangerous I know) that we have a general agreement on what art is, the details of which may be safely left to subjective appraisal, and just muse on whether it is an economically viable product or not.
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