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Hey, Hey, It’s KY

Your wise grandad (probably) used KY, no matter what he was masturbating to.

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Wilson On Gibson

From Earl Wilson‘s It Happened Last Night column, December 1, 1961:

I phoned the Latin Quarter and asked when nude dancer Julie Gibson would be on stage.

“She works different times,” replied telephonist Helen McDermott, “but you can see the best part of Miss Gibson at 9:50.”

I went at 9:50 — and she wasn’t kidding.

We needn’t imagine what Wilson would think of my post title.

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That Star Won’t Be Lone For Long, Ms. Barr

Candy Barr (who can be seen in A History of the Blue Movie) featured in the September 1956 issue of Modern Man magazine. Via BURLESK: As You Like It! Tumblr.

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I Love It When You Help!

One day after I posted this photo and my concerns about the nude model being Sharon Tate, Harold G. emailed me some great information:

This is a Sam Haskins photograph and was used on the cover of the catalog for the “Four Masters of Erotic Photography” exhibition in Europe back in 1970. It seems to be called “Apple Dance”.

Harold included this link, which shows that the photograph was used as the cover of the catalog for a 1970 an exhibition which began in Munich (hence the German), and later traveled around Europe. (Translated, the show was entitled Four Masters of Erotic Photography.)

Upon confirming with Harold that I could share his comment, he agreed and said:

… I would have made it a comment myself if I had actually found more definitive information about the model (and I do think it is one of Haskins’ models, not a celebrity.)

I concur.

Especially with regards to Tate herself.

Sharon Tate passed on August 9, 1969; I’m pretty sure any nude photographs of her, especially those being so exhibited, would have been heavily publicized.

But (hint-hint, nudge-nudge) we still don’t know who the model was… Anyone else?

UPDATE: Several hours later…

Once I published this post I contacted Ludwig Haskins, the son of photographer Sam Haskins (who also runs the photographer’s official blog and website), and asked him if he knew anything about the model. I am grateful for his reply:

The image was taken in 1969 in Sam’s Chelsea studio in London, shortly after he moved from Johannesburg. The model’s name was Kate but I cannot remember her surname.

The image was first exhibited at Photokina in 1970 and then went on tour in Europe as part of The Four Master of Erotic Photography exhibition. The other three photographers were David Hamilton, Francis Giacobetti and Kishin Shinoyama.

Here’s a photo of Ludwig’s father and mother, Alida and Sam, at the Chelsea studio in London. This photo by Petr Tausk was taken in 1976, and the image is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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In The 1950s, Women Bent-Over-Backwards For Their Men

Whether it was sexy lingerie and stockings, or putting dinner on the table, women bent-over-backwards for their menfolk. Of course, they received gifts, like pearl necklaces, for their troubles.

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Topless Barbi Benton

A vintage photo of a topless Boobie, err, Barbi Benton. Taken at the infamous Playboy Mansion grotto, perhaps?

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Sharon Tate’s Little Green Apples?

This image of a nude woman beneath a “header” of green apples has been floating around Tumblr and various other sites, usually stated as being a photo of Sharon Tate.

According to fans of the late, great, Tate, this is not her. Mr Bond at the Vintage Erotica Forum says:

Sorry, guys, but I don’t think it’s her…
Nipples ( the nipples of Sharon are more puffy), belly button (the one of Sharon was very round).
And the scar below this belly button on your pic ? ( Perhaps a fault of the picture ? )

While the so-called scar could also be linea nigra (a dark vertical line skin pigmentation which can happen during pregnancy), I would say that the nose and space between the front teeth also looks different from most photos of Tate I’ve seen. Anyone else with more information about this photograph or who can help identify the model, please share!

Updates here!

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Moreno, Kissing & Telling

Rita Moreno’s memoir has been released, and it might just be the dirtiest Hollywood biography yet. I’m not saying it’s full of erotic passages — but it’s so honest, dishing the dirt about the misogyny of the place and times, it sure doesn’t spare anyone’s feelings.

The Daily Mail shares details of Moreno’s memoir in an article entitled I only dated Elvis to make Brando jealous: West Side Story star Rita Moreno reveals how the King was a flop in the bedroom. In case that’s not enough of a taste of what’s inside, check out this passage:

And while Presley left her cold, Brando almost forced her suicide, when a botched abortion and his serial infidelity during a turbulent eight-year affair drove her to overdose on sleeping pills.

‘We were locked in the ultimate folie a deux, a crazy love that lasted for years, until one day I quite literally was forced out of a coma and had to choose life over him,’ she says of Brando in a revealing new autobiography, Rita Moreno — A Memoir.

Now 81, she lays bare Hollywood’s ‘golden age’ as a tawdry and misogynistic era, while her description of her relationship with Brando is something he would hardly want on his epitaph.

Her lovers not only included two of the biggest sex symbols of their age but also actors Anthony Quinn and Dennis Hopper, and the celebrated British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan.

The latter, she reveals, frightened her off with his fetish for sado-masochism, sitting her on his lap and making her look through a photo album of men smacking women’s bottoms.

Yes, this book is now on my wishlist.

Also, there’s this:

Her experience of the ‘casting couch’ was unpleasant, losing her virginity to a repulsive agent who forced himself on her with the ‘speed and intimacy of a vaccination’.

And this:

When Brando died aged 80 in 2004, only one piece of film memorabilia was reportedly found in his home – a photo of him from their film The Night Of The Following Day, passionately kissing a naked Moreno.

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The Sex History I’ve Been Reading

In 2005, a group of Vancouver-area sex workers came together in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Continuing Studies community education program in the hope of discovering the history of sex work in the city of Vancouver. The result was The History of Sex Work: Vancouver, a multimedia art installation and book, which you can order — or download for free.

Gracie’s been Exploring Erotic Objectification In Art.

Jamie’s sharing Sex Tips From History: Have Ritualistic Sex To Ensure A Fertile Harvest.

Lori on Lingerie, Women and Eroticism: A Brief Study of the 21st Century Agent Provocateur Woman (Part 1 of 2.)

In Men, Women, and Inequality in the Neolithic, Rosemary asks, “will we always simply confirm that ‘the rich dude gets the hot chick even in prehistory’?”

You may not be able to meet the Fokkens, but you can get caught up with them.

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The Silly Smut Caption Is Already There

Once More With Feeling

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