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Overworked Stripper

Friday, June 21st, 2024 -- by Bacchus

I don’t have any context for this strip show but I can say it appeared without caption in the October 1964 issue of Modern Man magazine:

a whole bunch of military men, perhaps Navy from the white uniforms, watch a woman whose nipples are showing above her demi-bra as she dances for them

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Bebe In Her Bubble Bath

Friday, September 22nd, 2023 -- by Bacchus

According to a 1962 issue of Wench magazine, the blonde lady in her bath here is a French stripper who calls herself Bebe:

bebe in her bathtub

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Panther Girl, Stripper

Sunday, February 5th, 2023 -- by Bacchus

Is it too much, if we have two posts in a row about Parisian cabaret dancers? No, don’t be silly, of course not!

leashed cat girl burlesque dancer in a cute collar and leopard spotted bikini

I don’t know much about this cutie-pie panther girl, but the August 1967 issue of Cancans de Paris magazine identified her as Susan Sampson.

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“They’re Lethal Weapons, Mac!”

Thursday, February 11th, 2021 -- by Bacchus

Say, did you hear the one about the Chicago vice cop who climbed up on stage to try and stop an ecdysiast during a striptease in progress? Yeah, he got bumped off.

stripper knocks a censor / prude off the stage with her amazing tits

From the October 1966 issue of Adam magazine.

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No More Wicked Witch

Saturday, November 7th, 2020 -- by Bacchus

At last, 1974 has come again, to everyone’s great relief. Our long national nightmare is over:

Now, let’s have a carefully-curated bit of singing, dancing, and striptease, by some of the people who have the most to celebrate:

That’s it. It’s over. Wootsies, y’all.

our long national nightmare is over - trump loses bigly, is a huge loser

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Edward Hopper’s Burlesque Stripper

Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 -- by Bacchus

Edward Hopper famously used only his wife as a model for his nude paintings, as in this one called Girlie Show:

edward hopper girlie show burlesque stripper dancer painting

Here’s the study for the painting:

girly show study nude naked stripper exotic dancer art

(In both cases, click the displayed detail for the uncropped artwork.)

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That Burlesque Halloween Flapper Chick

Sunday, October 29th, 2017 -- by Bacchus

cute flapper skeleton dancer with a pumpkin and a black cat

A little while ago when @whoresofyore tweeted the above photo out under the hashtag #VintageHalloween I knew I was finally going to have to get off my ass and get this shit in order. I thought I might get something special for my patrons out of it (which didn’t happen, in the event) but mostly I just couldn’t take it any more.

Here is (was) my problem.

I’ve been seeing that photo (and several more from the same series) every Halloween for many years. And why not? The flapper-esque blonde is cute as a button, her tits are perky, and the burlesque Halloween thing is too fun and cute and Betty Boop not to love.

cute flapper nude dancer mugging with a jack-o-lantern pumpkin

So, my first-stage reaction was “I need to track down that whole series of photos. It would make an awesome Halloween gallery. And if it’s really as old as the some of the clues would indicate, it’s bloody amazing; I want to know more about where these photos come from!”

Sadly, my second-thoughts reaction was “There’s something wrong here. The Halloween iconography is too modern; this is 1950s cheesecake pinup staged as late 1930s burlesque produced with 1920 flappers published by 1900s postcard publishers. Just a whole mishmash of subtle anachronisms.”

My particular problem was with the ghosts and bats and jack-o-lanterns and black cat and happy-skeleton stuff all brought together in one display. You see all of these elements in Halloween imagery going back at least to the Victorians, but a comic erotic burlesque of them? My first mental/visual reference for a thing like that would be the painted cheesecake pinups of the late 1940s and early 1950s. I would be really excited to find them all in a real-photo pinup postcard series from then, but from decades earlier as these photos superficially appear to be? That would be…astonishing.

bare breasted nudie flapper burlesque dancer poses with one foot on a halloween pumpkin

But hey, a cynical skepticism, no matter how well-informed, is no substitute for doing the work, which for a project like this is quite considerable. Basically, my method is recursive image searching; I start with the first image, and while searching for the largest, best, most-original scan of it, I also look for any pages that offer any provenance, and I also look at all of the “similar images” that the image search engines throw up, saving anything else from the series that turns up. And then I proceed through each of those in stepwise fashion, doing the same for them. It’s a slow, often-tedious, and painstaking process.

There were early indications that something was hinky about this image set.

comical burlesque stripper pinup Halloween shadow play with ghost bat pumpkin skeleton black cat and nude naked topless flapper retro blonde cutie

One thing that bothered me was that diamond “MG” logo. It’s very much like the logos used by photo postcard publishers going back to the turn of the twentieth century and before. Only, a logo like that is typically the initials of the publisher, it’s a handy reference, and it’s usually easy to Google. Those two letters in quotes, “postcard”, and Bob’s your uncle. Collectors and auctioneers are all over that shit. Here? Nothing.

Another thing that bothered me was that as an iron rule, the best-quality scans I was turning up were always 805 pixels wide. That indicated a common digital place of entry onto the internet. Theoretically possible if these photos were from, say, a set of postcards in the hands of a collector, with no other exemplars known; but in practice, usually genuine vintage photos exist in a wide variety of (usually small and terrible) scans of different sizes.

valentines day at halloween as burlesque cutie hides behind heart shaped cardboard skeleton head

More subtly but also damning, no provenance for any of the photos from the set was turning up. They were widely distributed in copy-and-paste collections of vintage photos, usually mixed with genuine vintage photographs from the “French postcard” and burlesque eras. But nobody had ever taken the time to curate these together into a common gallery. This could just an artifact of digital decay (there’s an awful lot of the adult internet gone missing from the 1997-2007 era) but sometimes it means that the source was known and that the folks doing the copy-and-paste felt constrained from acknowledging that source. But why, if the photos were truly vintage?

bump and grind cartoon halloween burlesque faux vintage stripper routine

bare tits stripper vintage nudie postcard halloween bats ghosts skeleton burlesque

As is usually the case, there was just one clue, a single fragile provenance, one person who took the time to drop a credit, that broke the entire mysterious case wide open. One of these images, on a Tumblr that has not yet gotten autoflagged and force-vanished behind the Verizon #pornocalypse Tumblr-porn event horizon, had a link credit to a Deviant Art source, where the photo had been posted more than a dozen years ago by a photographer from the Ukraine who has not been back to DeviantArt since 2005. The photographer went by “MGstudio” (note those “MG” initials) and gave their URL as marthasgirls.com in their DeviantArt profile. Martha’s Girls is a website I vaguely remember; it’s defunct now, but for many years and until sometime in 2016, it ran an old-fashioned subscription paysite selling “The finest emulations of vintage erotica and pin-up, spanning the period from the Victorian times to the 50s pin-up era.” Ding ding ding ding DING! The mystery is solved.

Ukrainian faux fake retro erotica postcards nude flapper posing for Halloween

MG Martha's Girls topless flapper fake faux retro postcard erotica nude posing with halloween jack-o-lantern pumpkin

So these are modern, not vintage; they are a formerly-available commercial porn product by an unknown photographer from Dnipropetrovsk whose artistry I quite admire. My hope is that by assembling them here, it will be less likely for future enthusiasts to make the all-too-easy mistake of believing them to be vintage. If you know of more photos from this series, please let me know!

kneeling burlesque cutie hides her tits behind a jackolantern pumpkin

halloween pumpkin kisses goodbye

Happy Halloween, and enjoy!

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Dirty Faxing

Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 -- by Bacchus

Personal computers leap-frogged the facsimile machine, which at some point became “good enough” for what they did and stopped being improved. You wanted better, you did it on a computer.

But what if that had never happened? By now, maybe this is what fax machine spam would be looking like:

color fax spam of a masturbating stripper

From the cover of Fax-Similé, an Elvifrance pulp publication.

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The Stripper Jar-Jar Binks

Thursday, April 7th, 2016 -- by Bacchus

Long ago in a galaxy far far away, Jar Jar Binks tried to pick up some extra cash by dancing in burlesque shows:

stripping wearing a Jar Jar Binks mask or possibly a terrifying horse head

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Meet “Miss Sputnik”

Monday, March 14th, 2016 -- by Bacchus

Supposedly “Miss Sputnik” here invited President Eisenhower to come see her show while he was in Paris:

miss-sputnik

According to Kronstadt 21, we’re looking at Miss Dyna Sputnick (also known as Anne Marie Dupont) as seen in the July 1958 issue of Pep magazine.

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Strip Club Memories

Monday, July 22nd, 2013 -- by Bacchus

I’m sharing this portfolio of pictures (said to be of a “long forgotten illegal strip club in the mountains in a small 1970s Japanese resort town”) for all the old strippers and stripper fans who read ErosBlog:

vintage Japanese strip club

Although if you ask me, it looks like they stole that painted backdrop from the halls of a Soviet elementary school.

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Richard Feyman’s Stripper Drawings

Monday, May 13th, 2013 -- by Bacchus

My father, who briefly attended Cal Tech and took Richard Feynman’s freshman physics class, used to marvel at the man’s skill on the bongo drums. But I never knew before today that he was also a fairly talented artist of the female form, and used that skill to illustrate some of the strippers of his acquaintance:

a stripper\'s ass as drawn by Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman

We’re looking at Dancer at Gianonni’s Bar, 1968. From here, with this to accompany it:

He started drawing at the age of 44 in 1962, shortly after developing the visual language for his famous Feynman diagrams, after a series of amicable arguments about art vs. science with his artist-friend Jirayr “Jerry” Zorthian – the same friend to whom Feynman’s timeless ode to a flower was in response. Eventually, the two agreed that they’d exchange lessons in art and science on alternate Sundays. Feynman went on to draw – everything from portraits of other prominent physicists and his children to sketches of strippers and very, very many female nudes – until the end of his life.

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Thirty Dollar Fine

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 -- by Bacchus

There’s something fine in this old Dan DeCarlo cartoon all right:

The fine is thirty dollars -- pay the clerk please!

 
 

Dirty Dancing, 1300 BC

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 -- by Bacchus

It’s refreshing to know that dirty dancing really hasn’t changed in 3300 years. I’m pretty sure I saw this girl in a club a few months ago. Same hair, same earrings, same decorated scarf around her waist, same back bend…yup, it hadda be her:

dirty dancer

Found here.

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Ich Will Für Dich Tanzen

Sunday, December 20th, 2009 -- by Dr. Faustus

I have long had an item on my Internet searching to-do list, perhaps too long delayed by the fact that I’ve spent as much of my leisure hours as I have thinking about sexbots and gill men and so on. That item was to track down a famous performance by the soprano Maria Ewing done at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden sometime in the early 1990s. Oh, don’t groan. She very much deserves a place of honor here, because of her performances in Richard Strauss’s Salome.

Now, it’s well known that the burning erotic core of this overheated-to-begin-with opera (based on a play by Oscar Wilde is a performance by Salome of the famous Dance of the Seven Veils, performed for her stepfather (and great-uncle) Herodes, the Tetrach of Judea (busy man). Herodes is clearly trembling with lust for Salome, and Salome is in turn nursing a less-that-healthy obsession with the prophet Jochanaan, who is imprisoned in a pit in Herodes’s court.

Performance convention for this high-art striptease since its first performance in 1905 has been for the singer-actress depicting Salome to end in a body stocking.

Maria Ewing’s performance starts conventionally enough:

salome dancing the dance of the seven veils

And there’s a conventional amount of taunting of Jochanaan in his pit:

salome during the dance of the seven veils

But in the end Ewing, shall we say, defies the traditional performance convention:

salome fully nude at the end of her dance of the seven veils

And it is just glorious. Pictures I can present here do it little justice. You can readily find video of this on YouTube: one example is here:

In the end, Salome insists on being brought the head of Jochanaan on a silver platter. Herodes, having given his word, has no choice but to comply. Salome’s triumph was the subject of a famous illustration by Aubrey Beardsley.

salome taunting Jochanaan

Bonus! Searching for Maria Ewing turned up an arguably even steamier performance by Francesca Patanè in a Rome production of Salome.

bare breasted salome

dynamic nude salome

All for Art!

 

Topless Dancer

Monday, August 10th, 2009 -- by Bacchus

Seriously, now. Can a blog ever have too many topless dancing girls?

bare-breasted dancer

I didn’t think so either.

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From The Archives Of Richard Kern

Friday, July 17th, 2009 -- by Bacchus

I’ve long been a fan of the photography of Richard Kern, who does edgy erotic photography. Some of it’s explicit, or explicitly fetish, material; but a lot more is what I’d call “plain” art nudes, done in an indescribable way that makes them seem deeply kinky. Back in the pre-blog era, I sometimes used to make extra beer money buying books of his art postcards, separating them carefully, and then selling them individually on eBay (that was before eBay hired a Disney executive and went all “mid-twentieth-century prude” on everybody).

From time to time I get a low-key marketing email from Vice. [2018 explanation: Back in 2009, Vice was a website, not yet a television network.] The latest one alerted me to a Richard Kern feature called Archival Girls. It’s very simple: photos from Kern’s archives, with short captions by Kern about the models. This one is a nameless (as in, Kern forgot her name) stripper from San Francisco:

girl on toilet

“This was another stripper from San Francisco. I don’t remember anything about her… Oh, wait. I do! My doctor at the time told me his marriage was breaking up. It turned out it was because he was having an affair with this girl I photographed. Total coincidence.”

 

“She Grew Up. She Filled Out.”

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 -- by Bacchus

When one speaks of the movie Sin City, it’s not unheard of (he said with studied understatement) for fans of the graphic novel source material to wax lyrical about how the movie weren’t fit to be a patch on a boil on the ass of the comics. More polite than most, yet still a member of that fellowship, Faustus saw fit instead to tempt me with delicious drawings of the Nancy Callahan character that Jessica Alba, er, “fleshed out” in the movie. “Skinny little Nancy Callahan. She grew up. She filled out.”

Oh, my, yes:

Nancy Callahan in Sin City

Nancy Callahan rope dance

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Jessica Alba, Cowgirl Stripper

Friday, April 24th, 2009 -- by Bacchus

Somewhere I found this photo of Jessica Alba doing her cowgirl-stripper routine in the movie Sin City:

Jessica Alba stripping in Sin City

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The Blonde Under Your Christmas Tree

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 -- by Bacchus

With her under your tree, your Christmas ought to be merry indeed:

Natalie Blond on Christmas morning

a blonde Christmas nude

I can’t arrange that, but for a few bucks, you can arrange to have her stripping on your Windows desktop in HD. If you can settle for (very high resolution) still pictures, they are free here.

 

Do You Need A Warm Glow?

Saturday, December 6th, 2003 -- by Bacchus

Of course you do. It’s December. You need a warm glow:

red light stripper

Mucho thanks to the friend who sent me the link.

 
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