I always enjoy this kind of pulpy cover art from the 50’s and 60’s. It was an era where mainstream media was incredibly straight and conservative, at least compared to the media of today. And yet, the pulp magazine publishers apparently discovered the cheat code for using kinky sex to sell magazines in mainstream stores.
I also like the fact that femdom scenes were featured so frequently. I’m sure there’s a bunch of theories about why that was. They probably focus on their violation of cultural norms, given the patriarchal and conformist nature of the society at the time. I like to think it was because publishers like money and lots of men like femdom content.
I sourced this via Femdom Days Twitter feed.
Yes, when you are torturing a prisoner of war, it is vitally important to make sure he can see your bra.
Pretty certain that’s part of the Geneva convention. No prisoners to be tortured, except if attractive ladies with loose blouses are involved.
I also like the fact they’ve got matching outfits, but one has long pants and the other super tight shorts. Presumably there was a tickbox on the uniform request form for those.
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There is a blog called mens pulp mags which has dozens of similar covers illustrated although most are not of interest to this blog as they tend to show male torturers abusing innocent American women. These magazines presumably sold to those who weren’t brave enough to by under the counter erotic magazines. I’m not quite old enough to know for sure but I’m pretty certain there were no mainstream UK equivalents.
The history is kind of interesting. Having just looked it up, my naming here is probably a little off. There were definitely UK pulp novels and comics, but they didn’t really fall into this category of outright exploitation. I think this is technically known as a ‘Men’s Adventure’ magazine and that was, as you suggest, very much a US phenomena. Odd that with so much cultural exchange between the countries, there was never a UK version of them.
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