This photo is my favorite of my little collection. Perhaps by being more aggressive, or because there is no certainty about its origin: No date and no photographer, I read that it is also possible that this is not an orgy of several members, but a very old montage and well made in which 3 models are displayed in a menage a trois in different positions. I love the fact that the hair of the boys program to refer to female hairstyles of the same era, and also their effeminate clothes. Regardless, my interest in images of the kind doesn’t happen only because of the sexual character of the pictures: Although considered vulgar at the time, there is an undeniable beauty in porn old building, they were more aggressive poses portrayed. Many of the poses remind me of classical Greek antiquity, nothing to compare with pornography wide open and still most common today. It is also interesting to see what hid the puritanism of the past, know this secret side of our great-grandparents. Ceases to be sexy if we stop to think that, whether or not there only three people in the photo, all may be old, ugly, or even dead, isn’t it?
Allumeuse de Narghilé (The Teaser of the Narghile) ~ Jean Leon Gerome 1898
Theda Bara as Cleopatra (July 29, 1885 – April 13, 1955)