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My favorie photo of Mora Corday -- even though she was a Playboy Magazine centerfold -- this picture is far more revealing. She was one of the great underrated Hollywood beauties.

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Rosemary Bowe -- Mrs. Robert Stack for most of her life in an alluring modeling pose. As an actress, she was a great model

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Alina Habba - Trumps attorney who bragged that she would rather be pretty than smart because she can fake being smart. I suppose Trump has the satisfaction of banging one of the worst lawyers in America. She graduated from Weidner Commonwealth in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is ranked in the fortieth worst law schools in America -- even so she is such a bad attorney her abysmal school wants nothing to do with her!

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Fay Wray in King Kong (1933) -- note that Fay is not wearing a bra. Brassieres first became popular in the 1920s but really didn't become ubuiquitous until the mid thirties. As the depression progressed fashions became increasingly conservative. Skirts got longer, Boobs became constricted, colors became darker. By the way, in the tie-in novel released just before the movie was released and based on an earlier script, Ann Darrow ends up A LOT more naked than she does in the movie. The novel is well worth seeling out.

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Another shot of Debra Paget to give a better view of her assets, In her youth she was paied with Elvis and caught the tail end of the Old Time Radio era.

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Dale Arden was the original sexy comic strip hottie. She and Flash were not a couple until being thrown together by Zarkov. As a result their relationship is often strained as it was never built on anything solid. In the Alex Raymond strip, Dale engaged in a weeks long fling with Prince Barin while Flash was launching a Guerilla campaign against Ming. I wrote a bit of fan fiction to take advantage of this dicotomy. Shrink fiction fan fiction.

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A panel from "Flash Gordon" by lexander Raymond. Here we see Dale Arden for the first time since being captured by Ming the Merciless. Notice how provocatively he has dressed her. There is much more going on, however. Dale's position of surrender and her inability to look her abductor in the eye, combined with Ming's shit eating grin demonstrate to astute readers, that Ming knows EXACTLY what is under Dales dress. The shame is palpable. He, no doubt, had her strip off and dress in his presence. As they say, "It is good to be king!"

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It is nice to know that there are burlesque performers on Mongo! Seriously, this is Prince Barin's official royal welcome banquet? How much of that costume will she be left wearing after her routine ends? Imagine. THIS strip ran in millions of newspapers and nobody raised a stink. If this appeared in the Comics page today, the list of offended and outraged would be a mile long. This just shows what a talented artist or writer can accomplish when they couch their sensuality in a SF or fantasy context.

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宮川春汀 Miyagawa Shuntei ( 1873 - 1914) 生け花 Ikebana, 1898

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Willard Downes

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"I'm Taking Over the Boat" Male, April 1959 Story illustration by Mort Künstler

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"Annunciation".Sketch for the painting of the Marfo-Mariyinskiy monastery (1908-1911)

Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)

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Joseph Benoit Guichard (detail)

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Delivery mode! #eilean (at Mahón, Islas Baleares, Spain)

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Rupert Bunny (Australian, 1864-1947) 

Endormies, ca. 1904

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Oleksandr Murashko (Ukrainian, 1875-1919)

Carousel, 1906