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Dutch auteur Willem van Batenburg has been directing blue movies since porn's awkward adolescence in the 1970's. With dozens of films to his credit, including 1982's legendary Pruneblossoms (1982), Holland's first big budget porn blockbuster, van Batenburg has unrivaled insight into the development of erotic entertainment during the last three decades.

He's just the man to be delivering tonight's lecture, "Twenty-two Elements for the Making of a Pornorotic Lovescene." In addition, he'll read from his recent blue movie memoir It will all come up again, before dimming the house lights and screening a select few of his short but saucy films.

Sexy graff and stencil art spotted in May Lane, St Peters, Sydney Australia.

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Known for his 1994 book Fetish Girls, LA photographer Eric Kroll shoots and collects fetishistic erotica with a sense of humor.

Eric Kroll, Naomi on my Face

He was recently exhibiting at the Anna Kustera Gallery a selection of photographs by Elmer Batters, Weegee and himself. Batters, a foot-fetish pioneer starting in the 1950s, helped make the formerly closeted field of sexual interest more acceptable, almost hip. Weegee, on the other hand, who is known primarily for his tabloid photographs of New York crime scenes and urban grit, found his natural habitat in the lower depths.

Eric Kroll, Penis on the Wall

Batters | Kroll | Weegee - photographs from the collection of Eric Kroll were recently on view at Anna Kustera Gallery in New York. Photo gallery.

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Rich in history, this hotel was first documented as a tavern in the 17th century. A river at the foot of the Maria am Gestade church had connected to the Danube, allowing the dinghies of large ships to unload goods fresh from the Orient. As such, the tavern was quickly coined "The Orient", a name it retained when it became a hostel in 1896.

According to time's aesthetic, the hotel was furnished in purest fin de siècle, the Viennese opulent Makart style. These elements are still evident in its interior today, attracting art and film bon vivants alike. The 1949 film The Third Man was in part shot here; Orson Welles was reputedly often a guest and enjoyed spending post-filming hours here as well.

These days, it's Arthur Schnitzler adaptations and the crime series Tatort shot here, but the Hotel Orient still reigns as a pearl from the past in the middle of a bustling city.