#303366 - Nite Out 4 4 Classic Publications 1968

Nite Out, Volume 4, Number 4
Classic Publications
Los Angeles, California
1968

digital replica

The 72-page pin-up magazine shows us at least 40 different models, sometimes four to a page. A few are Black.

Some pages show two women frolicking together with juxtapositions that suggest lesbianism. One line substitutes “Rebels” for the L-word.

Pretty posers show off their curves in bras, garter belts and sheer RHT nylons. As was the practice in the 1960s, a nice assortment of panties frame and obscure.

The volume includes one short story and two articles.

Our Man in Havana — short story

A woman in disguise makes connections to get her out of Cuba. Conscientious writing.

Nothing Beats A Bed — essay

In the waning 18th century, Dr. James Graham, he of the famous Celestial Bed, mounted the podium and gave forth a great, gaseous blast of indignation directed at the tenants of the despised double bed. Cried the aroused sawbones: "Gentlemen, there is not, in my opinion, anything in nature which is more immediately calculated totally to subvert health, strength, love, esteem, and indeed every thing that is desirable in the married state, than that odium, most indelicate, and most hurtful custom of man and wife continually pigging together, in one and the same bed. Nothing is more unwise —nothing more indecent, nothing more unnatural, than for a man and woman to sleep, and snore, and steam, and do everything else that's indelicate together, three hundred and sixty-five times — every year."

There are, despite the prevalence of certain bed sizes, certain bed arrangements, a positive promise of a brighter tomorrow — at least, after night has fallen. We have, happily, enough varied shapes and sizes in beds to satisfy virtually every sleeper in America . . . .

Hot Hardware Chastity Belt — essay

Articles on this subject appeared in many magazines aimed at men. This piece offers some history, vocabulary and a few illustrations.

Man, since the world began, has had his hands full trying to hold woman in check. It has been, for the most part, a losing battle. But here and there, in the pages of history, is a chapter that attests to man's doggedness, his singleness of purpose, his ingenuity.
The male animal has enjoyed some of his finest hours when he has accomplished the seemingly impossible — when he has, even temporarily, prevented his spouse from dispensing her sexual charms at random. There have been strange and dramatic methods originated for this purpose of guaranteeing female fidelity. One of the most widely known—and effective — methods employed in the past was infibulation, a practice that was the forerunner of later mechanical contrivances such as the chastity belt.

The act of infibulation consists of passing a ring, clasp or buckle through a portion of female anatomy, the labia majora, in order to prevent a lady from enjoying illicit intercourse. Another equally forthright form of infibulation involved sewing up the vulva. This was guaranteed to keep the young lady in stitches. An example of this effective embroidery was described in the Indian Medical Gazette; silk ligatures were employed to secure the labia majora and an additional loop was inserted into the skin of the abdomen below the navel. "Please. Sam," she said, "you're needling me."

Despite the incongruous aspects of infibulation, many instances of that needful needlework have been authenticated by members of the medical profession. The practice, for all its efficiency, never enjoyed the popularity — or the publicity — of that masterpiece of the metalworker's art, the chastity belt.

The chastity belt — or more accurately, the girdle of chastity — has proved a prime source of ribald conjecture by satirists, poets and minstrels for several centuries. While current demand for the "iron breeches" is apparently less than brisk, the actual hardware that once adorned unhappy maidens is far from obsolete. Many examples of this ardor-stifling apparatus survive in both private and public collections. There have been crusty old historians who maintain that the clever contraptions were largely a well-publicized myth, but those who know will have none of it.

A prominent British expert, who obviously knows his subject inside and out, strongly disagreed with those who would question the very existence of that fine iron institution. "Not only did the chastity girdle exist," stated Eric John Dingwall bluntly, "but it was in usage by a certain strata of society since its inception. No one who is acquainted with the established history and purpose of this device or with the prevailing morals of those times, would seriously question the authenticity of the girdle of chastity."

At the turn of the 20th Century, a French firm issued a prospectus extolling the virtues of their chastity girdles — making a plug for the product that would have been hard to improve upon. "The husband will leave his wife without fear that his honor will be outraged and his affections estranged," the brochure bragged, "many discussions and shameful actions will cease. Fathers will be sure of their parenthood and will not harbor the terrible thought that their children may be the offspring of another, and it will be possible for them to keep under lock and key things more precious than gold."

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