#246 - Simulating Spanish Inquisition Cruelties Vol 1 Nutrix

Simulating Spanish Inquisition Cruelties, Volume One
Nutrix Co.
Jersey City, New Jersey
1963
reprinted as a Mutrix Corp. Publication

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 material 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.

Mr. Klaw sold print photographs (8 x 10 glossies) originally intended to advertise feature films. Hollywood studios would send a set of 12 pictures as part of a press kit to movie theaters that exhibited and publications that reviewed films. He acquired them from these sources after they used them for their intended purpose

At his Manhattan store, pictures were organized by movie and actor names. Legend says that he received continuous requests for movie stills that showed Hollywood actresses tied up. As each set of 12 contained no more than one of these, he never had enough to satisfy demand. The popularity of this scenario suggested the idea that he make his own photos of damsels in distress and sell them by mail. Persecution by local law enforcement and postal officials hastened his hegira to New Jersey, where he began publishing his Nutrix booklets on several themes, including bondage.

The prose tells us that a publisher hires a conscientious illustrator to create pictures that show women in bondage. Her technique begins with photographs of her subjects, which she uses for reference while drawing.

Her publisher grants her access to his Florida estate. There she poses shapely pinup models in their underwear, binds, gags and photographs them. Outdoor photography shows the back of a house and surrounding yard.

Slender beauties are tied to patio furniture, trees (by their ankles), a boat trailer, an archery target that looks like a ladder and in the trunk of a big Chrysler. Most bondage arrangements involve white rope but one includes buckled leather straps. Gags consist of ball, rod, and fabric.

Lovely models wear FF and RHT nylons, garter belts, panties, gloves, pumps and short, flat-heeled boots.

It's likely that the pictures were made before the story was written. The narrative, probably written by Mr. Klaw, works to connect circumstances shown in the pictures.

The digital replica presents each page of the booklet in the original sequence. Tonality was adjusted and many specks retouched. Photographs with a horizontal orientation were rotated to appear appropriately in the ebook. No ads.

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