Earl Moran Photos

Earl Moran creates an original pastel; his wife Gloria models. 1950



Double Vision, by Earl Moran.



Ellisa Winston, 1939 Miss Empire State, also by Earl Moran.



Zoe Mozert photographed herself, using triple mirrors to get the right angle.

What I Learned About Sex From Laugh-In

I learned a lot about sex from Laugh In. Politics too, but those messages were much clearer, more direct; the sexual messages weren't clear until I was an adult. This perhaps being that while politics can be discussed frankly, sex must often thrive in the land of innuendo.

My biggest & simplest Laugh In lessons in sex came from Goldie Hawn and Jo Anne Worley. I adored Jo Anne, but knew she wasn't the sex pot; Goldie was. A skinny blonde with no more than a bikini and finger paint on her body, Goldie was 'the objectified one'. True, she ruled in the land of beauty, but the price of her queendom was that she was just the body, the face. She was cute, dumb, non-threatening Goldie.

Make no mistake, I adore Goldie especially as she is now (Banger Sisters is one of my favorite films), but the Goldie on Laugh In was someone I sort of disliked. I was a young girl, so you can chalk a percentage of my dislike of her up to my childish discomfort with nudity. OK, and even a small percentage of jealousy that she represented the skinny in my personal world of women who had real soft forms of curves (some heavy, some a simple size 10, but still large by Goldie's Twiggy-esque look). I knew what people thought of skinny vs non-skinny even then. But my biggest reason for not liking Goldie was that she was as equally adored for her stupidity.

Examples are Goldie's giggling dumb blonde reply, "I forgot the question" and Goldie's classic line, "My IQ has never been questioned. Come to think of it, it's never been mentioned."

Jo Anne Worley on the other hand didn't rule in the land of beauty. She was attractive with a body that would likely have seemed thin in my world, but next to other TV folk she wasn't the thin-is-in form of the day.

I loved her figure which seemed, by comparison at least, real. She was curvy and sexy in a way that was earthy, which today is rather like saying she had a great personality -- but I still think she had a sexy shape. (I would so love to collect nude photos of Jo Anne Worley would they be available.) But on Laugh In Jo Anne wasn't the queen of beauty. Instead she lived in the fringes of the country, in the land of innuendo.

Smart as a whip, quick with her mind, Worley was my favorite. If I didn't know for certain that I would have a more ample body like hers, I did know that I would have her mind. She could be down-right silly, but also wicked in a way that made you read between her spoken lines.

As I grow older, I also see that Goldie was youth to Jo Anne's maturity. Jo Anne was only 30 (vs Goldie's 22) when she started on the show, but 30 is older than dirt in a youth obsessed culture. Older can be sexy, but not sexier than youth. The fleetingness of youth is something to be desired -- in a sense just for it's temporary nature. But if Hawn was sexy for her youth, Worley's mature body & mind was it's counterpoint.

In some ways, Jo Anne ruled sex with her wit and ability to use sex jokes. While Goldie was partially clothed, she to wore innocence to shield herself.

This was not just for the censors, but the audience as well. The more mature Worley could be suggestive, even portrayed as aggressive sexually.

Jo Anne could say, "Boris and I have the most violent political arguments. He thinks the Democrats can do no wrong, and, of course, I'm for Johnson",and "I'm all for school busing. I've learned so much more in a school bus than I'll ever learn in a school!" but Goldie couldn't.

Many times, during the Cocktail Parties, Jo Anne talked about her boyfriend Boris -- who was a married man. She could be the 'dirty old lady'.

In my mind it seemed that the message was "Well, obviously someone this age doesn't have sex; so it's a joke." It was safe to have ample, older Joanne tell the sex joke while the pretty, young one was too naive to get it. This was, and still often is, TV sex safety. We allow sex on TV if it fits safe stereotypes. As ground breaking as Laugh In was for the morals of the time, it still had to practice safe sex humor.

And that's what I learned about sex from Laugh In, the early years at least.

Pybrac

I do not like to see the indolent Charlotte
Who appears wearing drag at a regular dance,
Saying she’s split open the arse of her culottes
To enable bumming without dropping her pants.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I don’t like that Esther whose so gluttonous lips
Have sucked off a tenor seven times in a row
Informs him angrily though she’s emptied his pips,
That he can still piss since she is thirsty for more.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I don’t like the wanton who believed her life glum,
Who fled at fifteen to gain some experience,
And had taken one day three photos for her mum:
Prick in quim, prick in mouth and prick in the caboose.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I do not like to see the stark-naked dancer
Who up to her navel has shaved off her quim-bush
To disclose her gaping and fleshy-red vulva
Whose moistening piss-flaps give Joe Public a rush.

From Pybrac by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), translated by Neil Crawford.

Crawford's made Pybrac available (in the original French and his English renditions, along with supplementary material) For more information on the book and a PDF file of 10 pages from the book, go here.

Future of Collectibles

In pondering the collectibles of tomorrow...

What will folks say about Hip Hip? Perhaps they will say what Shemia Miller says in The Hip Hop Brand Is On The Auction Block.

Will there be such a thing as digital ephemera? I would have to imagine there will. There are certainly already many who collect digital images of risque postcards and vintage nude photographs -- some because the price of originals is quite high; others because digital allows for ease of storage.

Single Finger Vintage Vibe

Reading over at Slip of a Girl, I found this post about a Wilco Fashions booklet. A trip to the listing and I discovered that it contains an ad for the "Vibra Finger".

The listing says: We are told this is to stimulate tired aching gums, tendons, muscles and joints of the face and head. It reads further "The probing finger creates tingling sensastions any beauty conscious woman will appreciate. Use it on the face, scalp, anywhere."

Well, believe it or not, I have that page for you, right out of the Wilco book. (Click to enlarge the image -- it is readable!)

I don't know about you, but a single finger vibrator doesn't scream 'oral health' to me. I doubt it did to anyone then either.

Vintage vibes are one of my passions. Finding one of these would be most cool.

Because I have quite the digital & paper library of things I have not managed to find or acquire, here's another ad for the same product.

Kennedy Quickie

Looking for a quick photo timeline of the women of the Kennedy scandals?

Fatboy.cc (the anti-Ted Kennedy site) brings you The Kennedy Girls (the R rated version).

(Shown here is Jayne Mansfield.)

The Queen's Closet: What Marie Antoinette really wore

As Queen of France, Marie Antoinette attracted enough public loathing to ensure the French monarchy's downfall. That loathing, as Caroline Weber points out in Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, was largely focused on the queen's clothes.

From Slate via sexypopculture.com.

Makes the new Marie Antoinette film sound all the more intriguing...

Teri Martine

The exclusive Teri Martine Interview has now been published in her yahoo group. The interview, entitled "Just a Babe", can be found in the Files section.

The group alsp has exclusive photos & copyrighted materials from Nostalgia Publications and GHME.

Teri was born in Southend, Essex and became one of the best known glamour models who worked with the legendary George Harrison Marks.

Many of her photos were taken by Russell Gay, Ken Williams, Irv Carsten, and Ron Vogel -- and with June Palmer, Penny Winters, Julie Collins, Samantha Seager, Annette Johnson, Nicky Stevens, etc. She has also modeled, with wigs on, under the alias of Julie Nash and Cleo Kane.

Teri is still in the business and has her own website, terimartine.com, with fetish & glamour photos. Her latest website is terimartinevintage.com, which has her official fan club. Both sites have lots of photos and streaming video.