Welcome To The Harem

It’s tempting to dismiss all of these Orientalist visions of harem induction as essentially the same: lurid Western artistic veneers on what is essentially rape porn. Perhaps true as far as the dismissal goes, but this one (from the cover of Italian horror comic Terror #169) hints at an actual story to go with the lurid artwork. There’s a lot of jewelry on the fingers of those loosely bound hands, but the expression on her face suggests that her wealth may not save her:

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Madonna In The Harem

Unscathed Corpse has posted all 32 of the 1977 Madonna nudes acquired by Bob Guccione and recently up for auction. Perhaps the least explicit — but to my eye, the most intriguing — is this harem-girl getup:

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To Make A Harem Girl

Long before Photoshop, magazine art directors were doing fun things with scissors. Want to put Bettie Page on the cover of your magazine as a harem girl, but don’t have that photo? No worries! Take another photo of her, plus a photo of a different girl in a harem outfit, get the art guys to draw a cartoon sultan, a hookah, and some fruit, then get out your scissors and Kraft paste and go to town!

This 1957 magazine cover courtesy of the Drake’s Way tumblr.

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Censored Toon Mermaids And Harem Girls, 1939

From scans of an article discussing cartoon censorship in 1939, we learn that mermaid nipples and harem girl thighs-under-silk were verboten:

Thanks to Silent Porn Star for the link.

A Treasure Trove Hareem

Thanks to the ever-watchful Daze, we are blessed with the link to this pasha’s ransom of belly dancers, slavegirls, and harem beauties: Bellydancers and Harem Girls — A Historical/Cheesecake Gallery. An astounding collection of lovelies like this:

Opa!