• CATFIGHT The Fetish With No Name

    Vintage Sleaze the Blog on Women Fights. I don't understand it, but others do, as women wrestling is seemingly one of the more prevalent fetishes and it goes WAY back. Progenitor to strip joint mudfight nights, it presumably started with the missing link and seems to appeal still to those close to cro-magnum. Catfight is in the Oxford English Dictionary and it doesn't refer to felines. I don't know. Back in junior high, whenever someone yelled “CATFIGHT” we all came running, but then we did the same when someone yelled just plain “FIGHT” which meant a bully and lesser bully. Not my thing and I'm certainly not an expert, so my only guess is that some fellows like to see women stick their butts out and wiggle around. Well, I guess I have to admit to liking that. But would I ever answer an ad like these? Nope, but certainly plenty of fellows did, as there are no shortage of suppliers then (these all date to the early 1950s) and now. Irving Klaw was a millionaire before he had to dump his negatives in the Hudson River and skulk away in shame. Maybe guys like to imagine the fight is over THEM, and the fascination is rooted deep in our savage past. If so, I have obviously evolved out of it. I'm missing out on the action! I think I'd rather see my fake porn depict folks pretending to get along rather than fight. Seems to me if it were a real fetish, it would have a scientific name, and I can't find one. I'm no fan of reality television either, which has a couple of dames going at it every time I pass by the TV…I reckon those fights are fake too. You can trust most of the participants here drew no blood…they barely drew paychecks. Jim Linderman More images at Vintage Sleaze the Blog

    CATFIGHT The Fetish With No Name

    Link: vintagesleaze.blogspot.com

  • Secret Agent of Smut Brandy French

    The story of thigh-high super spy Brandy French and her pornographic exploits from the Sixties Smut Shop of Reuben Sturman. Follow Vintage Sleaze on Facebook for more.

    Secret Agent of Smut Brandy French

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  • Big Breasts and Color Covers of Russ Meyer

    Research for yet another forthcoming book forces me to pour over magazine covers taken by Russ Meyer, master of all things in pairs. Meyer WAS a master photographer and director, though to call him a director is inadequate, I'd call him auteur, but more than anything, a film EDITOR. He did have an eye for the casting too, though his eyes dropped about a foot from the faces when appraising talent. All these covers were selected by sleazy magazine editors who were lucky enough to have their choice of Meyer's work to sell product. You may click to enlarge, but stand back. An earlier tribute to Meyer's early still work is HERE.

    Big Breasts and Color Covers of Russ Meyer

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  • Vintage Sleaze Nears 2 Million Hits and 2,000 Facebook Followers

    Vintage Sleaze approaches 2,000 Facebook Followers and 2 Million Hits As we grow to 2000 Facebook followers (and 2 million hits) I thought to restate the purpose and scope of Vintage Sleaze with the new year. I wrote the following when starting the site. Thanks all! Share with friends! Vintage Sleaze the daily blog discovers forgotten artists of the past who worked in the somewhat dicey but hilarious early smut market. Colorful, funny and often touching, writer, collector (and Grammy™ nominee) Jim Linderman writes the text using the vintage cartoon gag, limp-core smut and risque novelty collection of Victor Minx as a starting point for examinations into the sexy and sexist days of girlie magazines, gag digests, back page scams and sideshow midnight rambles. Early strippers, models, illustrators, artists, photographers, mob-connected publishers hire amphetamine driven writers (many posing under pseudonyms) and all mingle together in an amazing orgy of the funny and often fetishistic follies of the fifties. Linderman is able to balance the line between the profane and the profound easily, as the backyard erotica of the time was tame compared to today. Tease and trash your ancestors refused to admit existed (but bought in huge piles anyway.) From Tijuana Bibles and inept snapshot salesmen to party toys and risque postcards, the site shows it all with delicate and affectionate respect and humor. A entire generation of artistic smut was rightly eliminated by the women’s movement but there was a glimmer of merit in the dark corners. Linderman aims to find it and makes no apologies, and in fact many of the followers of his site are women. Like a reporter, he digs it up and shares without judging. He frequently receives mail from relatives of those he profiles and most seem happy to have had the work of their ancestors found again and appreciated. Vintage Sleaze runs daily until he runs out! There is a Saturday night, Sunday morning logic to Linderman’s madness…his first project was the Grammy™ nominated Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography, a collection of antique photographs and gospel recordings of the religious ceremony (with Dust to Digital and the original photographs donated to a major museum) and Camera Club Girls which published over 100 never before seen hand-painted photographs of Bettie Page and her friends taken by previously unknown New York amateur photographer Rudolph Rossi. With a talent for finding the obscure and bringing it back, Vintage Sleaze shows the possibility of the blog as an art form while bringing attention to an entire generation of lost and neglected artists who worked in the underbelly of culture. FOLLOW VINTAGE SLEAZE THE BLOG and FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK AS WELL

    Vintage Sleaze Nears 2 Million Hits and 2,000 Facebook Followers

    Link: vintagesleaze.blogspot.com

  • Big Boob Artist Bill Ward Draws for the First Black Pin Up Magazine

    Bill Ward goes Black for Duke Magazine, the first African-American Men's Magazine in 1957 (under a pseudonym) A Post from Vinage Sleaze the Daily Blog.

    Big Boob Artist Bill Ward Draws for the First Black Pin Up Magazine

    Link: vintagesleaze.blogspot.com

  • First Time I Met the Blues Jim Linderman Finds the Earliest Photograph of the Blues?

    A significant early photograph located by collector Jim Linderman appears to be one of the first original photographs showing a blues dance African-American music group performing. See full post on Dull Tool Dim Bulb the blog

    First Time I Met the Blues Jim Linderman Finds the Earliest Photograph of the Blues?

    Link: dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com

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