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Loading... The Complete Reprint of Exotique: The First 36 Issues, 1951-1957 (Special Series)by Kini Christy
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This magazine appeared in the late 1950s, and is here presented as a reprint of the whole series, in the style used for the reprint of John Willie's 'Bizarre', which was published just before 'Exotique'. It is a superb series of short stories, photographs and drawings directed at women who enjoy subjugating men and their male (and female) partners who enjoy being made to submit to being dressed in 'extreme' clothing. Unlike 'Bizarre', corporal punishment of the submissives is completely absent, their 'punishment' being solely via the humiliation of wearing tight corsets, tight thigh-length boots, wickedly high-heeled shoes and boots, and glamorous stockings. The dominant women portrayed in the images included wear malevolent and determined expressions. The magazine (and its omnibus) is focussed securely on devotees of this tightly specified fetish. Unusually for Taschen, the print quality is not of the highest quality, a result of the process of using book-stall quality originals, but this is unavoidable. There is no doubt that the book is a necessity for the bookshelf of this variety of submissive and their dominants. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Leonard Burtman, the hand and lens behind this classic American ""digest of the unusual and bizarre"", was Forced to make a drastic career switch after witnessing the desert A-Bomb tests of the Fifties while working as a government scientist. Turning his back on the horrors of the twentieth century, he devoted the rest of his life to images of sexual Fantasy, which in their own way have shaped the male collective consciousness just as powerfully as the nuclear missile. His conversion coincided in with the growing liberation of US cities as they rebelled against Eisenhower to embrace a night-life of decadence, sensuality, and physical abandon. ""Exotique"" presented the pin-up as a Femme Fatale, publishing shot after shot of the dominatrix adorned with tight corset, razor heels, complex underwear and an expression on her Face that demanded obedience. Enthusiastically casting from a roster of willing models (including the legendary Betty Page) as well as call-girls and dancers, Burtman experimented with bondage scenarios and group poses, and as a bonus hired in the maestros of the illustrative arts like Eric Stanton to bring his pneumatic ideal to life even more extravagantly. This colossal collection contains all this and more. No library descriptions found. |
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