One thing I want to do this year at Pursed Lips is present some occasional pieces of erotic curiosa.
It might be a risque postcard or illustration, online sites where you can freely secure older works of bawdiness or naughtiness, maybe even offer a free ebook of 19th-century raciness myself.
For starters, let me present two late 19th-century celluloid mirrors. When you first look at them, they seem tame but clearly intimate. Intimate? Well, each woman is wearing her hair down. You only did that when preparing for bed back then and many a word’s been written about a husband seeing his wife let down her hair on their wedding night. And, no, it wasn’t always a euphemism for available sex. It was as much as comment on the sexual privilege that came with marriage.
Anyway.
See that locket on each woman? Turn the image upside down and you’ll see it becomes something else all together. A lovely little quim, as they use to say. (No, they didn’t shave back then.)
Wanna see? Click here for an animated gif. Enjoy!
