Betty Bettie Page

Betty Page in Bondage, Volume Three
Nutrix Co.
Jersey City, New Jersey
1960

digital replica

After the death of Mr. Klaw in 1966, his sister Pauline sold about 70 sets of flats to Ed Mishkin, who had been a prolific publisher of controversial adult materials since the early 1950s. Flats contained the films with which offset plates were burned. Mr. Mishkin was publishing Mutrix booklets in Jersey City, at the time the flats were delivered, and 70 of his Mutrix titles were second printings of Nutrix booklets. This item shows Nutrix on the title page and Mutrix on the front cover.

The Mutrix printings advertised Mr. Mishkin's Wholesale Books products at his New York City address. But front and back inside covers of this edition show advertising for Candor, Inc. products. Candor was the corporate successor to Mr. Mishkin's publishing enterprise, making its iteration a third printing.

Pretty Miss Bettie appears in bras and panties, a black dress and a one piece foundation garment. In most photographs, she wears full-fashioned stockings, held in place by either garter belt or rolled around garters. In about half the photographs, she wears pumps with high heels.

Mr. Klaw was careful to avoid any appearance of impropriety in his original photography to avoid attention from postal authorities. In pursuit of this deniability, he often had models wear multiple pairs of panties and had paint applied to certain anatomical regions.

Booklets in this series consist of 64 pages, about half of them photographs. Volume Three has 30 photos. Most show her nibs in bondage, but she assumes the role of aggressor in about six tableaux.

Bondage implements include rope, chain, cloth gag, leather mask with donkey ears, ball gag, leather sheath, steel pipes, and collar. She gets affixed to an easy chair, outdoor hammock, bed, and a small table.

The text describes the difficult circumstances of photo shoots. Demanding photographers required prolonged posing in uncomfortable positions, often standing in high heels.

This text describes one unpleasant sequence.

In this new bondage pose, Betty had to put on a leather harness with numerous straps attached to it which buckled tightly at the waist to form a sort of leather waist nipper. A set of wide leather straps served to bind Betty's ankles and hid the red sore spots from view.

Over Betty's mouth was placed a wide band of leather to act as a gag in keeping with the leather outfit and the gag left a bitter unpleasant taste in the model's mouth. Another leather strap kept Betty's gloved hands securely bound behind her back and out of the way so that she could not reach the mouth gag and dislodge it when it became uncomfortable.

Betty's feet were sheathed with sheer black nylon stockings and a fancy set of garters held them up in place of a garter belt. A pair of high heeled patent leather shoes made it a trifle difficult to stand up in during the bondage pose. While the leather harness outfit was a lot easier to pose in, it still was most trying to her because of the vexing way the hard leather bit into her waist. The harness leather was hard and stiff, being untreated, and it did not give like kid leather, which was more pliable.

It was quite awkward to maintain one's balance standing on the spike heeled shoes, which made her feel as if she was standing on the tips of her toes. By the time the pose was over and she once more had a chance to rest her weary body, her feet had swollen up and it felt as if the patent leather shoes had grown onto her tired and aching feet.

Not many readers realize or are aware of the arduous working conditions that a bondage model has to surmount. The utmost in intelligence and steel nerves are very essential qualities for success in the bondage modeling field and Betty Page proved by her conscientious diligence in undertaking any pose requested, no matter how tough, that she was the best in this field.

Betty Page was always ready to try any sort of arduous pose and this was one of the many things that made Betty stand out as the best model. A quick look at some of the poses illustrated in this book will show the reader how starkly realistic Betty makes each pose seem. Outdoor posing for bondage photos is usually done in warm weather as a change of pace from the stifling heat of the studio.

The ebook includes all booklet pages in the original sequence, including two pages of Candor advertising. Most of the pictures with a vertical orientation fill the screen from top to bottom. Photographs with a horizontal orientation have been rotated to appear conveniently in the ebook.

Brightness, contrast, and levels were adjusted, and shadows reduced. Many specks and streaks were retouched. The ebook iteration provides a visual experience that is superior to the old paper.

For fans of 1950s bondage or the sublime Bettie Page, this volume offers a quick peak at her loveliness in captivity and administering discipline. Her facial expressions charm with looks of confounded captive and serious enforcer while her luscious curves and feminine tapers present a fascinating pinup ideal.

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