ISSUE 5# THE BRUDOS ISSUE

Check out our new issue featuring wonderful photographical talent from Ed Fox, Alan Pedroso, Jiri Ruzek and Larry Bradby. Not forgetting interviews with Vincent Crowley of Acheron and Julz Ramos of Hatchet, also Mistress Hayden joins us in the first entry of her perverse utterly crackers memoirs. Cover - Belladonna by Ed Fox

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Dita Von Teese or Belladonna, both shot by the marvelous Ed Fox - www.edfox.com

The work of Alan Pedroso

Keep a look out for Issue 5 out March 1st for Alan's full interview and more of his awesome work!

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SKIN ~ ISSUE 4#

Ed Kemper ~ The Co-Ed Killer

A bigger enthusiast of serial killing you will not find. I don’t condone the actual acts of carnage, although I find them fascinating. Peter James’ Twilight depicts the tale of a respected anaesthetist obsessed with finding the precise moment in time when a soul leaves the body. That exact nanosecond when a person travels from the realm of the living to death. As a child he collected hundreds of execution photographs, studying them at length to see if it was possible to see the life leaving the body. My similar fascination is not so morbid, although barely so. Studying the backgrounds of serial killers, even as far back as the childhoods of their parents, I long to find that exact moment in time when the boundaries of morality are blurred so that they cease to understand right from wrong. Is there a cause for it? Is there a specific experience as a child that short circuited their brains so as to convince them that heinous acts are acceptable? Or further still, are these acts actually deplorable? Is there even a right or wrong or is it relative to time and culture? 

One individual I’ve been highly interested in is Edmund Kemper, otherwise known as the Co-Ed Killer. Serial killer and necrophile, he operated in California during the early 1970s killing 10 people. His perception of right and wrong was so off kilter that he killed his own grandparents when he was only 15. It would be the pinnacle of knowledge to know what made that young adolescent tick so as to know what despair drove him to murder his own family. It was known that he had a turbulent childhood. Born the notorious middle child he was highly intelligent but deranged. He loved to torture animals and repeatedly stabbed the family pet cat to death. He also had a peculiar sexual practice involving his sister’s dolls His sexuality became so much of a problem that his mother had to lock him in the basement to sleep in order to prevent him from raping his sister. After his parents’ divorce Kemper was raised by his mother whom he loathed, (Then his grandparents who he regarded as senile.) she humiliated and belittled him and it is said that she suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder. If that was the case his genetics could be partly responsible for his later behaviour. Could it be genetics and a difficult upbringing that made this young boy a killer? Or did he make the conscious choice to become evil?

On August 24, 1964 Kemper’s grandmother was working at the kitchen table when he shot her in the head, then stabbed her corpse. Once his grandfather returned home he confronted him in the driveway before executing him, because he would have been angry for what he had done to his grandmother. In a panic he called his mother who urged him to dial 911. Once questioned on why he committed murder he calmly stated, “Just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma”. Kemper was hospitalised at Atascadero State Hospital where his natural charm and I.Q. of 136 helped him befriend his psychiatrist, he even went on to become his assistant. Against the wishes of several doctors at the hospital he was released after serving less than 5 years. Now reaching 6ft 9 and weighing 280 pounds this charming psychopath was released into the care of his mother. A few years later after working several menial jobs, he went on to butcher 6 female students. He drove them to rural areas where he stabbed, shot and smothered them before taking them back to his apartment, where he had sex with their decapitated heads before dissecting them. His killing spree reached a climax when on Good Friday 1973 he battered his sleeping mother to death with a claw hammer before using her decapitated head for oral sex. He then tore out her vocal chords and tried to dispose of them down the sink but the incinerator failed to break down the tough body part and spat it back up. After arrest he said it “Seemed appropriate, she'd bitched and screamed and yelled at me over so many years.” Afterwards Kemper invited his mother’s best friend over, once she entered the house he immediately strangled her to death before leaving the scene.

Aged 63 Edmund Emil Kemper III is now incarcerated at California Medical Facility, sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. If you wish to correspond with Kemper you can write to him at:

Edmund Kemper
California Medical Facility
PO BOX 2000
Vacaville CA 95696 – 2000
USA

RICH MEETS SQUELCHY

In Issue three of SKIN magazine I wrote a piece about the sex doll industry. As promised in said piece, I am delighted to bring to the SKIN blog my interview with a man from Indiana who made it all possible. After asking for his identity to be concealed I hilariously christened him “Squelchy” and asked him all about his fascination with and relationship to one sex doll in particular. The interview was conducted by phone, and transcribed by me. All efforts to maintain colloquialisms have been made, and hopefully this interview will help round out an interesting character that added so much to my article.

You’ve asked for your name to be left out of the article, but can you tell me a little more about yourself?

Sure can... I’m 53 years old. I live just outside Frankfort Indiana and have been a cost engineer on constructions sites most of my working life. 

How would you describe yourself to someone like me, a foreigner with no preconception?

Well now I’d say I’m a pretty normal person. Work six days a week, got a dog, watch college ball a whole lot, and I like listening to Reba McEntire. Don’t know what else to say really...

As you know, I found your contact details from a message board system concerning the RealDoll company. We’re here to talk about sex dolls of course; may I ask how often you discuss this topic with others?

I don’t talk a lot about it really. I have messaged the boards once or twice, but I don’t know anyone personally that has an interest in Real Dolls. I’ve had a lot of conversations with the company through being a customer and making orders... But it’s not something I talk about in a chit-chat way with anyone.

Is it a subject that you’d like to talk about more, or maybe meet people with similar interests?

Not really. I keep it to myself mostly and it works just fine.

Okay, so RealDoll, can you tell me when you first became aware of the company and its service?

I first found out about the company through a TV show about sex dolls. We were watching it one night. RealDoll was the company being talked about as a manufacturer. It must have been six or so years ago...

You said “we,” may I ask who exactly?

Me and my wife at the time, Fran.

So did your wife know you were going to buy a RealDoll after you watched the show?

No way, that was just when I first heard about the company. I didn’t buy anything until years later. We had separated by that time.

Would you say your sex doll interest had an affect on your marriage at all, seeing as you split up soon after your initial introduction?

Nope. The RealDoll show was something I watched and was interested in, but it didn’t really give me any ideas right after watching it. The marriage stopped because of other things I won’t go into.

When was your first contact with RealDoll, and what was was it that made you get in touch with the company?

It was about five years ago, a few years after we split. I can’t remember if anything made me give them a call. I was online a lot of the time and must have just remembered the show I saw. My first contact was just interest really.

But you must have been interested enough to buy at some point?

Yes, I bought Kerry after talking to someone on the company message board and looking through the literature. I’m not that good at buying online things, but I got the hang of it and got Kerry in May 2007.

How did you feel paying so much money for such a new interest in your life?

Well I’ve been lucky in my life, and at the time it wasn’t too much of an expense. I paid $37,000 for a vehicle the same year I remember. Plus with Kerry I had requests that had to be met, so the expense was of my design.

Requests? What specific modifications did you order in that initial purchase?

You get to pick the colour of hair and eyes no charge. But they needed sizes for the holes, and I ordered a closed eye option for the face as well as open.

Was it strange choosing the dimensions for Kerry?

Not one bit. I wanted everything to work and fit right. I got seven inch recesses, which is on the larger size for the model.

 

What was it like waiting for delivery once you had placed the order and purchased your doll?

It didn’t take long enough to think about really. She showed up within a week.

Were you excited when Kerry arrived? What did you do when she showed up?

Well it’s not like getting a regular package through the mail; I had to be in the house and sign for her and learn about her workings. You don’t just take the plastic off and start going. You have to learn about what cleaning products to use and all that. After all that was done we had our first night together later the same day.

How did that first night go? Was it like a new experience?

It’s nothing different to having sex with a woman. It all goes in the same place. So it was nothing new. The smell of the plastics is different at first, but it’s similar to condom smell, so it’s not new.

May I ask what the sex is like with Kerry?

It’s darn good. 

Would you say you can do things with her that you hadn’t before?

I’ve never done anal before, and by all accounts it’s much better doing that with a sex doll. Otherwise we have a normal sex life. Nothing strange.

Is the much romance about the process for you? What about foreplay?

There’s no candles or anything, but I’ve bought her outfits to wear and things like that. Kerry is a woman after all, she’s not a tube sock. I don’t know about foreplay. She goes down on me, is that foreplay?

Not really... What about after, any tenderness between the two of you?

I’m not crazy enough to talk afterwards if that’s what you mean. I lie with Kerry after we have sex, but being spent has a lot to do with that. But there’s no time for falling asleep, it’s best to clean up quickly.

Would you every consider being with a different doll other than Kerry?

If someone wanted to buy me a new doll then I wouldn’t stop them. But I’m very happy with Kerry.

What would you say are the major positives and negatives to sex doll ownership?

A plus point is having a girl that doesn’t talk back. I enjoy that. The sex is great, the experience is like real... There aren’t any negatives.

What about a relationship, do you think you have that with Kerry?

Relationships aren’t the be all. I’ve had a seventeen year relationship and that didn’t last. Kerry is loyal to me and she makes me happy. Sounds like a pretty good relationship don’t it?

Do you think you’ll ever sleep with a real woman before?

Who knows... Kerry’s real enough for me.

You didn’t answer the questions though...

...

All in all, how much do you think you’ve spent on Kerry over the last four years?

... I’d say over twenty thousand dollars. It was nearly five thousand to begin with, and over the years there’s been this and that. The lingerie costs a hell of a lot too. I do save on dinners and movies though.

Where dose Kerry stay when you’re not together?

She sits in the bedroom.

In a cupboard, on the bed?

She’s got a chair and wears everyday clothes. I like having her out, she’s great to look at through the day.

Are you a man in love?

Nope. How can I be? Lust maybe, but love, no. I’m very pleased Kerry is in my life, we have lots of fun together and I can be myself with her. Other than that, I’m just a normal guy.

Have you got any plans for you and Kerry in the future? Any other alterations or purchases on the horizon?

I buy her lingerie every month, so that’s always a purchase. Other than that who knows... Upkeep and repairs, but I’m happy with Kerry how she is.

So there you have it folks. A transcription of the interview with Squelchy that informed and influenced my piece in SKIN issue three. It was a strange interview to conduct. While the phone isn’t perhaps the best medium to gage a person’s thoughts and feelings, I feel Squelchy represented himself how he wanted. His views aren’t echoed by SKIN, but we are very thankful for his input. I hope you enjoyed the article, and I hope you continue to support SKIN magazine.

by RICH SAUNDERS

 

Floriana B Didi Love

Firstly, looking over the demographic of SKIN readers I just realised that the US has been knocked off the top spot by Finland. So hello Finlanders!

Secondly, the wonderful Floriana will be joining us in issue 4. The stunning Playboy Playmate hails from southern Sicily and a more incredible redhead you could not find.

 

 

 

THE LIMINAL ISSUE

In this mini special edition we’ve decided to do away with words and let the imagery do the talking. First of all I’d like to welcome a new member of the team JGFoto. Talented photographer and designer he’s been an invaluable addition and we can’t wait to work with him more. The main focus of the Liminal Issue was to curate some wonderful dark and haunting photography and four fantastic photographers have come together in the making of this wonderfully macabre yet beautiful issue. I couldn’t possibly thank them enough! So please welcome Syda Ginger, David Chon, Moornebheym and Mukti Echwantono to the SKIN squad!! Many thanks to all the contributors and the awesome Maggot Meister!

Open publication - Free publishing - More macabre

BUKOWSKI FAMILY

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