Your Cocoon

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 27, 2019 - Comments (2)
Category: Aliens, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Surrealism, Science Fiction, Psychedelic

Circumcision training school

The Brith Milah School, established at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital in 1968, was the world’s first-ever (and only?) school for circumcision training. It was a two-year program followed by a one-year internship. (Seems like a lot of training for a relatively simple operation. Though I guess it's important not to mess it up.)

The first class graduated in 1970, but by the 1980s the school evidently no longer existed. According to a 1989 story on JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) it “ran into problems when it could not get malpractice insurance for trainees who were not physicians.”

Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle - Mar 22, 1968

Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle - Dec 25, 1970

Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 21, 2018 - Comments (5)
Category: Body Modifications, Surgery, 1960s

Follies of the Madmen #381

If you're going to make an outrageous claim for your product, why not go big!

Alice Pearce.

Joey Heatherton.

One source I have seen credits this ad to the famous George Lois.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 06, 2018 - Comments (2)
Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Cosmetics, 1960s

Follies of the Madmen #338

Original ad here.

I find this ad too creepy for me even to register the product, as if it were something out of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

But perhaps that's because I was seriously creeped out by this comic book cover when I was a kid!

Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 02, 2017 - Comments (2)
Category: Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Products, Puppets and Automatons, Comics, 1950s, 1960s

The Life and Death of 9413

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 22, 2017 - Comments (4)
Category: Body Modifications, Culture and Civilization, Money, Movies, Surrealism, 1920s

Fallout Filly

"Nobody likes my baby, cuz she shoots out gamma rays."

Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 06, 2017 - Comments (4)
Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Body Modifications, Music, 1960s, Parody

Devolution Through Beer

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 19, 2017 - Comments (5)
Category: Body Modifications, History, Advertising, Anthropology, Dinosaurs and Other Antediluvian Creatures, Fish, Alcohol

Hypnotic Boob Enhancement

Michael Stivers had an interesting career. He was a professional wrestler, who used the stage name "Pretty Boy Behning." He was also a police officer for 13 years, but around 1990 he quit that profession to become a hypnotist.

At first, he ran a pretty ordinary hypotism business — using hypnotism to help people lose weight or quit smoking. But around 1991 he discovered a unique way to specialize and differentiate his practice. He became a "breast enlargement hypnotist."

His pr material explained: "The larger-breast style of self-hypnosis relaxes the subject, then allows her to will an increased blood flow into the fatty tissues of the breast, much like that during menstruation or pregnancy. Daily conditioning through self-hypnosis allows what amounts to a permanent enhancement."

But according to a 1991 AP story, some patients had mixed results:


As far as I can tell, Stivers stayed in business until at least 1995.

Arizona Republic - Feb 1, 1995

Des Moines Register - July 22, 1991

Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 24, 2016 - Comments (5)
Category: Body Modifications, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, 1990s

Miss Stardust of 1948

A couple of points about this beauty queen.

1) Mother was also a beauty queen, "Miss Brooklyn of 1928." Alas, I can find no pix of the elder Bayes.

2) Should a beauty queen who represents the "falsie" industry be considered for her natural endowments, or her falsie-assisted curves?

3) Note the loving care and extra attention that WU brings to all its posts, as we present the previous year's winner below, as a supplement.



Original pic here.





Original article here.



Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 01, 2016 - Comments (3)
Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Children, Parents, 1920s, 1940s

Tom Leppard, RIP

Obituary here.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 16, 2016 - Comments (2)
Category: Body Modifications, Eccentrics, Europe