For your Friday enjoyment, a sexy flapper of the 1920s shows that some things never go out of style.
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Marilyn Monroe, The Last Session
In 1962, Vogue magazine commissioned photographer Bert Stern to shoot Marilyn Monroe.
They worked together for three days, creating some 2,500 images. Many would become some of the greatest of Marilyn, and some of the very last. She died only six weeks later.
The Xs were made by an editor at Vogue, directly onto the original pictures.
Farm Girl Reads Porn
This brought back a lot of memories of growing up on my Great-grandmother's ranch. I discovered my first "adult" magazine hidden in a drawer in the tractor barn. I couldn't wait to sneak it out and read it in private. It was old and slightly mildewed, the paper smelled musty, but the images were a world of beautiful people with beautiful bodies, doing things together I had never seen, but had always known happened.
On a farm, you figure out the basics of the "birds and bees" really quickly. But just because you see where baby cows come from, doesn't mean you get an education into human sexuality. It was farm more tender, and romantic, and something I wanted to experience someday for myself.
Sexy Marilyn, the Nude Pin-up
In 1949 photographer Tom Kelley took some nude photos of a 22-year-old aspiring actress who would become Marilyn Monroe.
Here's the story in Marilyn's own words:
What had happened was I was behind in my rent at the Hollywood Studio Club, where girls stay who hope to crash the movies. You’re only supposed to get one week behind in your rent at the club, but they must have felt sorry for me because they’d given me three warnings. A lot of photographers had asked me to pose in the nude, but I’d always said, ‘No.’ I was getting five dollars an hour for plain modeling, but the price for nude modeling was fifty for an hour. So I called Tom Kelley, a photographer I knew, and said, ‘They’re kicking me out of here. How soon can we do it?’ He said, ‘We can do it tomorrow.’
Here's the story in Marilyn's own words:
What had happened was I was behind in my rent at the Hollywood Studio Club, where girls stay who hope to crash the movies. You’re only supposed to get one week behind in your rent at the club, but they must have felt sorry for me because they’d given me three warnings. A lot of photographers had asked me to pose in the nude, but I’d always said, ‘No.’ I was getting five dollars an hour for plain modeling, but the price for nude modeling was fifty for an hour. So I called Tom Kelley, a photographer I knew, and said, ‘They’re kicking me out of here. How soon can we do it?’ He said, ‘We can do it tomorrow.’
The calendar was reprinted in 1954 and 1956 with lace overprint as the ‘Golden Dreams’ calendar and the session is now known as the legendary ‘red velvet’ session. Hugh Hefner used one of the images on the cover of his new magazine, Playboy. He paid a whopping $25,000 for the rights, which was a huge sum then, and allowed Marilyn to purchase a house with a pool in Hollywood. The images were a good investment for Hef, however, helping propel Playboy magazine to success.
Even Squares
Even squares can have secrets.
Sex Ed, 1920s Style
Before sex books and the internet, you had to learn somehow...
Sexy 20s Flapper
If this were my college girlfriend in the 20s... oh boy. You know we'd have fun. O to have seen the youth rebellion of the 20s. The parties... the sex, drugs, jazz...
Orgy in the Woods
With friends, it's bound to happen.
Fun in the Sun
Sun feels so good, doesn't it?
Beautiful Bettie
She's so dreamy.
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