Public Indecency
Follies of the Madmen #289
Erotic embrace of gasoline pump by 1920s woman indicates America's love affair with cars dates to earliest era.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 30, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Motor Vehicles, Public Indecency, 1920s
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls
"Sex trafficking 2016," meet "white slavery 1910."Original text here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 16, 2016 -
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Category: Crime, Sexuality, Public Indecency, The More Things Change, 1910s
Happy New Year’s 2016!
I hope every WU-vie was a good boy or girl last nite!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 01, 2016 -
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Category: Holidays, Public Indecency
Midwest Furfest 2015
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 12, 2015 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Pets, Public Indecency, Fetishes, Foreign Customs
Rosita Royce: Dance of the Doves
The YouTube host of this video complains that Rosita does not use doves in her dance, but other birds, thus misrepresenting herself. But as we can see from this article, that is a mere technicality, since Rosita was quite intimate with doves also.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 29, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Public Indecency, Sex Symbols, 1930s, Dance
Gaytime Raspberry Roughs
Alas, in this less-innocent year of 2015, anyone soliciting a "gaytime raspberry rough" and expecting an ice cream treat is likely to get something different than they anticipated.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 17, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, Public Indecency, 1960s, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
Dolphina at Bimbo’s 365 Club
Bimbo's 365 Club is still an active music venue in San Francisco. But, according to news on their own website, they seem to have abandoned a long proud tradition: Dolphina, the miniature live nude woman who swims in a fishbowl with goldfish.
How was this illusion achieved? When Dolphina was profiled in the NY TIMES in 2011, we learned:
IT’S AN ILLUSION A catacomb of tunnels in the bowels of the club leads to a small room containing a rotating platform on which the live “mermaid” reclines, naked. A periscope with angled mirrors projects her image up into the fishbowl where it appears that a tiny mermaid, about six inches long, is floating in an underwater grotto.
One at least hopes that the statue to an ideal Dolphina, erected in 1952 inside the club, still has a place of honor.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 02, 2015 -
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Category: Entertainment, Public Indecency, Fish, 1950s
The Strange Ones
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 01, 2015 -
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Category: Scary Criminals, Public Indecency, Children, 1960s
Jack van Impe
Wikipedia entry on the man.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 04, 2014 -
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Category: Drugs, Music, Rants, Warnings, Jeremiads, Prophecies and Cassandra-like Figures, Sexuality, Public Indecency, Teenagers, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, 1960s, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #229
Upskirt photography: one of advertising's less-utilized tools.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 06, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Shoes, Public Indecency, 1960s
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