I Bet Desi Wanted To Do This To Lucy
A photograph of a chained Lucille Ball in Roman Scandals (1933).
View ArticlePinups Pose With WWII Airplanes
You can still order the Secrets In Lace Collector’s 2012 Calendar and have it arrive in time for Christmas, if you live in the continental US. This calender features pinups wearing Secrets In Lace...
View ArticleVintage Art Nudes Catalog
I wasn’t going to post this; I was just going to bid on it. But now that it’s soared past my budget… Alta Art Studies, Volume Two, 1923: [A]n original circa 1923 fine art photograph sampler catalog of...
View ArticleVintage Rack Lighting
Taken in the 1960s by Bunny Yeager for The Seymour Lighting Company, this photo features a near-nude model, draped in a sheer peignoir. While “rack lighting” may not have been a possible euphemism...
View ArticleGypsy Rose Lee Had A Sister
A Bruno of Hollywood portrait photograph, circa 1940s, of June Havoc, aka Baby June and Dainty June, the sister of Gypsy Rose Lee. This is a wonderful art deco portrait photograph that measures 7 3/4″...
View ArticleThe Old Pussy-Scalping Joke
In what can only be a case of insanity, a clearly white male child dressed as an “Indian” (for certainly something so racist in humor didn’t intend dignity with a Native American credit — even if this...
View ArticleArt Mimics Still Nude Life
A vintage nude photo of Ann Coolidge, taken by Joseph Jasgur: 1942 verso ink-stamped full nude pin-up photograph of Ann Coolidge taken along the California Coast, a leggy full body nude portrait...
View ArticleSilent Porn Star Link Round-Up, Leg & Lingerie Edition
At The Selvedge Yard, a look at Language of Legs article in a retro Playboy issue: Reading this, it’s no wonder guys are so messed up. Just look at the sexually-charged propaganda we’ve been feeding...
View ArticleNecking With Swans
At What About Bobbed, photos commemorating Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova‘s birthday (today). Pavlova’s posing with the swan is not to evoke the mythology of Leda and the swan, but are photos of the...
View ArticleHold The Phone – Just Don’t Lick It
I know more than a few phone sex operators, some who are even gracious enough to buy ads here at this site, so I thought I’d show them this “Oral Sex” ad for an erotic telephone. If found it at...
View ArticleCarol Channing Bombshells
Comedienne Carol Channing as a la bombshell Marilyn Monroe in this vintage photograph by Wallace Seawell. According to the seller of this * x 10 photograph: Along with being one of the all time great...
View ArticleThose Retro Gold-Marbled Mirrors
This photo, by Peter Gowland, is the first time I’ve ever appreciated those mirrors and mirror tiled walls.
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Something vintage and retro nudes offer that contemporary ones do not. This vintage nude by Sam Haskins; via.
View ArticleExceptional Antique Erotica
Friend of the blog and fellow smut collector, Rob, who runs Delta Of Venus, alerted me that he’s in the process of paring down his personal collection of vintage erotica. For starters, he has two sets...
View ArticleSex Toy Product Placement
This post by Gracie about the sex toys seen on the Oprah show reminded me that one day (if not already), people will be clamoring to collect the sex toys they’ve seen on television. Like The Rabbit...
View ArticleVintage Double Exposure #2
I couldn’t resist another one, another pun, when I saw this vintage photo of a a naked Surrey Marshe (Miss January, Playboy, 1967) posing beneath a nude artwork.
View Article“Chaste Makes Waste”
I have a number of vintage ceramic nudie mugs, some with swinging bottoms, others with bobbing boobies, but none with the saying this vintage one does. I’m also quite smitten with her little sailor’s...
View ArticleThe Silent Porn Star Link Round Up (You Know You Want It)
Meet the Campus Cuties, vintage Louis Marx pinup dolls for girls which really put the “camp” in “campus.” While you’re there, find out why lingerie is too sexy for art. Speaking of art… Deanna finds an...
View ArticleMedieval Monks Living in the Margins, Drawing Sexual Demons
I saved this link to Living in the Margins by Colin Dickey just to highlight on its own; how often do you get to discuss, let alone see, “a demon of some sort firing an arrow into the ass of a merman”?...
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