The name comes from two Italian words. Nero means black; Venere is Venus. A magazine about love, desire and hosiery, in the colour that suits all three.
What we do
NeroVenere has been publishing since 2009. The idea then was to write about romance, love and sexuality from a frank point of view — describing the pleasures of love and sex without shyness — and that has not changed.
What changed is where our attention settled. Article by article, the site drifted towards one subject: hosiery. Stockings, tights, pantyhose, and everything people attach to them. Alongside the write-ups of lingerie and toys we ended up producing a long run of essays on why stockings persist, where a preference begins, what nylon has meant in different decades, and why something so ordinary still carries so much. Those pieces are the part of this archive we would defend first.
Today the site runs on three tracks:
- Essays on hosiery and its culture — the reason most readers stay.
- A brand series, profiling hosiery and lingerie houses one at a time, in alphabetical order.
- Product write-ups — plain and descriptive — on lingerie, toys, and things made for unhurried evenings.
About our early years, which we would rather explain ourselves
The first articles published here, between 2009 and 2012, were not written by us. They came from public article directories and were republished with their original authors’ bylines attached, as those directories required. It was common practice at the time and a poor idea: much of that material had already been spread across the web, and search engines took a dim view of it — rightly.
We stopped in December 2012. Everything published since has been written here. The old articles remain online, still credited to whoever wrote them: removing them would tidy the archive at the price of pretending it had always been something it was not.
Who this is for
NeroVenere writes about lingerie, hosiery, sexuality and intimate products for adult readers. There is no pornography here, but the subjects are not suitable for minors, and the site is labelled for parental filters accordingly.
Getting in touch
Readers can write to us from the contact page. Brands and press offices are welcome at press@nerovenere.com.