Betty Bettie Page

Betty Page in Bondage, Volume 5
Nutrix [Irving Klaw] Company,
Jersey City, New Jersey
1961

second printing by Mutrix [Ed Mishkin] Corp./Candor
probably after 1975

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.

In Volume 5, pretty Bettie Page is seen restrained in more than half the photos but appears in control in others. A skillful poser who understood how to position her instrument for alluring results, several pictures do a nice job of showing off those wonderful legs and ankles.

The models appear in stockings, held in place by either garter belt or garters, pumps, bras and panties. To avoid conflicts with postal authorities, Mr. Klaw had someone use opaque photography paint to extend panties on bodies of models. This was intended to ensure modesty and circumvent accusations of obscenity.

Miss Bettie and her shapely cohorts are attached to overhead pulleys, wood beams, bed, lawn furniture, and steel pipes. They are held in place by ropes, cuffs, chain, and leather straps, and stifled by scarves and ball gags. Spankings are administered by hair brush and bare hand. According to the text, Miss Betty is accompanied by Sima Cairo, Arlene Maver, Georgia Whitfield, June King, Peggy Purdy, Nora, Sally and Sylvia.

About half of the original 60 pages are text, the others monochrome photographs. The prose describes photo shoots, paraphernalia and physiology, but not necessarily of the nearest picture.

The ebook includes all booklet pages except ads in the order of the original. The tonality of photographs has been adjusted, specks and streaks retouched, and shadows reduced. The ebook iteration provides a visual experience that is superior to the old paper.

All new scans.

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 appropriately in the ebook.

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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