Vintage Chinese Magazine Nudes

From Ling Lung Women's Magazine, via a tip from LJ VintagePhoto group.

Whore House Photos

From whore houses, cross-dressing, WWI post at LJ.

Chastity Belts

Chastity Belt Information.

Tana Louise

Tana Louise was a burlesque striptease artist & fetish model in the 50s, who is most known for her appearances in Exotique. She was both a columnist and model, eventually marrying the mag's publisher, Lennie Burtman.

Tana also worked with Irving Klaw. Betty Page stole some of her thunder, but while Page was the "kinky" pin-up queen, Tana was the dark fetish diva.

Not only was Tana more exotic looking, but she was constantly clothed in high boots with high heels, leather outfits, corsets and long or opera gloves.

In the 1960's Tana and a fellow burlesque striptease artist, Mara Gaye, started an "exotic bizarre costumes mail order catalog" called Tana and Mara. I've never seen one, but I'd like to. (hint hint)

1963 Focus on London After Dark Magazine

A fellow collector is looking for information on &/or a copy of Focus on London After Dark, Vol 1 No 2, 1963.

Shown here is the front cover and an image presumably from the inside -- all he has are these digital images.

Of most importance is the cover story in the lower right corner: The Sex Scandal That Rocked Britain. (Regarding Profumo scandal in England.)

This is the information he has provided to help folks trace this publication:

It's the cover of an American mag. I have a contact in GB who says these pictures are taken at a house called Ewhurst in Elstree, north London. As with Harrison Marks' house it was extensively used by fashion and porno photographers.

The guy painting (in the second image) is the owner of the car and the house, not Harrison Marks; he is also the guy in the pic on the lower right. Identity not known yet (can be checked, but will take months to access the archives).

It is believed that Stephen Ward took the pictures. Behind her, walking up to the car (it was THAT close!) ....is ME. I recall him being annoyed at me, he didn't see me coming back from opening the gate and I stepped into the frame as he pressed the button. It was the last frame on the reel. So if you find the original film-roll it will show the garden scene first, then some heavy sex, then the car picture. I, we, are not entirely sure of the year these pictures were taken, but we would guess around '62 as Terry began working for HM in '62, but she might have been on the scene before then. The car is a Bentley Continental S Park Ward Drophead, made from '54-'57.

The same girls in both pics, it is thought. So this is probably '62, the spring perhaps, or the previous autumn? My contact has good pics of a lot of HM's girls and thinks the brunette Terry Peters (she looks a bit like Palmer - my guess - but has much smaller nipples) the redhead in the big picture is not Pamela Green, definite, but probably Maxine Miller, and thus she's the girl in the car picture too (both
names are probably only model-names, not their real ones).

He's looking specifically for this issue, but any related materials may also be wanted. These include other photos, publications, films, documents, archives and articles pertaining to the individuals mentioned.

Since he's one of the men in the photo, he's provided other photos of himself taken about that time to help you identify other photos from that period or that very roll of film.

This collector also adds the following:

The press were heavily censored in Britain at the time, but seemingly you Yanks were able to dig deep. How deep? And what else did they have in their archives that didn't make the magazine?

If you do find a magazine and it's not for sale a Xerox copy would surfice. Forget the money, I'll pay for good stuff. But I would just love to get the negs, even copies of them.

Any information &/or leads are appreciated!


Send information to him at sverre_helgesen@hotmail.com.

You may also post in the comments section or email me as I am also researching this.

GBLT Pulps

The University of Saskatchewan Library celebrates GBLT pulp novels this month. Visit the site, if you can't make the trip, and see what their collection holds.

Nazis Ransacking the Institute for Sexual Science in 1933

And we all know what came next...

Why We Should Look at Photographs & Objects

Amanda Fortini of New York Magazine wrote this piece on photos of celebs in their homes:

If these images reveal much about the time in which they were taken—the white shag rug of the sixties, the pro-choice poster of the seventies -- they reveal more about the celebrities captured therein. In one photo, Gloria Steinem, miniskirted and bare-legged, stares wearily from her paper-strewn office, subverting the stereotype of the frumpy, single cat lady by holding her own cat in her lap. Or perhaps the cat provided a bit of comfort; Steinem, who would soon testify at the Senate ERA hearings, looks like the pressures of being a feminist icon might have been getting to her. Then there is Gypsy Rose Lee, her bare feet surrounded by countless crumpled drafts of The G-String Murders, her mystery novel-in-progress.

Viewing these photographs, saturated as many are with personal detail, feels slightly illicit, as though one has just rummaged through a stranger's medicine chest or taken a furtive peek in his refrigerator. But it also demystifies the subjects depicted.

You can see the photos and read more at the site, but I have to share the parting words:

"Only because history is fetishized in physical objects can one understand it," Susan Sontag wrote. In one sense, these images are themselves fetishized objects; they are fascinating curiosities. But the physical objects they capture are also historical artifacts, a way of making history concrete. In this sense, we might view them as mini-biographies, visual narratives that disclose not just the aesthetic choices made by the inhabitants, but much about their personalities as well. Some let it all hang out, while others give nothing away.

Libris Penis

Sent to me by a reader hoping to find out more about what this image is, I post it here for all as I have no idea. I myself would love to know more.

My guess is a bookplate, but I have no idea who Dr Lustig Istvan is...

Any ideas, please post them.

Help for Genitals

Humans are never happy with their appearance. Websites and searches for sex enchancement products tell us this, as do all the other adverting and marketing we are bombarded with on a daily basis.

But the human quest to modify or control genitalia has a history. It's not just items for pleasure or chastity, but there is a history for other problems as well...

Perhaps you want to rid yourself of your menstrual blood without having to wait for it's natural release... Try the Menstrual Blood Extractor.

(I warn you to consider seriously if you really want the look at the prolapsed uterus they suggest in the link!)

I actually remember books on menstrual extraction in the 70's -- along with mirror parties in which women gathered to look at their own (and each other's) labia and cervix. (I shall try to find those books for you!)

Men, you are not exempt from improvement inventions.

The Universal Penis Expander is for you.

Shocking to see this on a small child, I know. What parents think their son will need this? Don't babies and small children have large/exaggerated looking genitalia as it is?

For more on the penis extenders, click the 'history' link at the site.

Are these products practical? Freakish? I don't know, you tell me.

Certainly we have needs or desires which inspire such inventions.