Jun 16, 2010

John Wants a Shot of Celery

Keep this up and I'll need to activate the adult content nanny.

Art Frahm was another of the good pinup creators in the innocent age of romantic and sexy  images -- before universal porn in your face. He had a celery fetish, and Lileks wrote a funny piece  about it.


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4 comments:

Jinglebob said...

Keep them coming, that is art!

JohnW said...

Alas, this art form was outlawed by Estes Kefauver's Pin-Up Act of 1958, encouraged behind the scenes by a cabal of Land Grant colleges determined to prevent any investigation into the deleterious effect of celery fumes upon elastic. A small piece of our nation died that day.

Hilary said...

Before I begin, I'll ask if you are at all interested in having a discussion about how ideological images such as these lended themselves to many widely accepted beliefs which put (and continue to put) women at a great disadvantage to men - not the least belief being that the perfect woman buys groceries (cooks), is ready for sex at any time (even on a street corner) and must be young, thin and beautiful (culturally defined "beautiful"). Intelligent, educated, resourceful, creative and direct women need not apply. Is that a conversation worth pursuing or would I be just wasting my time? Also, I realize I have a run-on sentence, but just because I am rebellious and obstinate, I am not going to correct it.

Jim said...

Why not? I had the same discussion with Wilma Scott Hiede back in my New Haven days.

First question from my side: What government agencies should decide which images are lawful and which should result in prosecution?