Bettie Page died last night. The raven headed beauty was single handedly responsible for more titty-fucking masturbation fantasies than anyone in the history of the world. The internet be damned. In fact, none of us would be getting blow jobs or tying chicks up for kicks if it weren’t for Bettie Page. Her body type might be frowned upon in the fashionable haunts of NYC and LA today but those curvaceous gams were a thing of wonderment to the dirty mag set. Thinking about her gagged and bound makes me sad(der) for Joanna Angel but pleasantly reminded of the fun loving innocence of the Slut Machine.

Owen Gleiberman’s review of the 2006 biopic, “The Notorious Bettie Page” sums up the allure better than I and besides I go gotta work something out. Sweet dreams Bettie.

“It has often been said that Bettie Page, the legendary ’50s pinup with the pert features framed by those famously severe black bangs, was the rare American sex goddess who was equally at home projecting the image of a good girl or a bad girl. Frolicking, naked, in the ocean foam, her leg extended with playful pleasure, she was all dazzle and sunshine: the girl next door who said yes yes yes. In her scandalous underground bondage photos, where she posed as a dominatrix with a whip held high, or as a masochist with a ball in her mouth, she vamped like a pussycat from hell, her eyes narrowing with mean delight — or widening in mock terror. Yet the mysterious alchemy of Bettie Page isn’t just that she could turn on a dime from light to dark, saint to sinner, virgin to vixen. It’s that she was somehow able to project both qualities at once. In the bondage photos, so shocking for their time, her warm, spirited, peekaboo vibrancy doesn’t disappear; it’s there just beneath the surface aggression of her poses. As for her all-American cheesecake shots, they have a quality of delirious, laughing abandon, as though she were winking at the she-devil inside. What Bettie Page conjured — always — was the promise of pleasure without limits. She was a one-woman orgy in centerfold form.”

UPDATE: Last known picture

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