#301374 - Fantasy 6 2 1975 Eros Goldstripe

Fantasy, Volume 6, Number 2
Eros Publishing Co., Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1975

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A fetish magazine of 56 pages, Fantasy, Volume 6, Number 2, presents five pictorials of sexy women in corsets, gloves, nylons, boots and high heels. All of these are of single models photographed in studios set to look like apartment living rooms.

Models appear holding whips or cats. Most pictures show nudity.

Six excellent Bill Ward illustrations illuminate a short story titled The Leather Trap. The text carefully describes the corsets, gloves, shoes and boots worn by a coterie of submissive fetishists and their glamorous Mistress.

Illustrated with photographs, a lengthy essay works to connect high heel fetishism and masochism with references to ideas in Havelock Ellis' Psychology of Sex.

. . . our original question, the relationship of the heel fetish and the masochistic urge. Ellis likes to view all of the so-called perversions as distortions of the basically healthy heterosexual instincts. In the case of the heel fetishist, he interprets the male's love of the object, his psychic substitution of the shoe or foot for the genitals and body of the female as the pathway through which all Libido energy is channeled in the short-circuited sexual psychology of the commited foot-freak.

This seems logical at first glance, and a very reasonable explanation for the drives of the fetishist, but it ignores the typical masochism of the foot fetishist — his lust for degradation and abuse at the hands and feet of his heeled, and oft times leather clad Mistress.

Ellis nicely continues to explain that normal men, men with proven records of heterosexual potency, virility and stability, can also enjoy the erotic arousal of a pair of high-heels quite legitimately within the framework of our society's fashion codes. The male can buy clothing and shoes for his wife or mistress that help her to conform to his image of an enticing, and alluring hunk of femininity. Even the fellow with a real "thing" for heels, or hose or garters, or any particular substance or texture can get by in the society without accumulating even the slightest amount of guilt or shame by requesting his girlfriend or wife to dress as he desires—the women's magazines implore their readers to do just this, to assure marital harmony.

This last point supports Ellis's theory that fetishism is misdirected, or severely channeled heterosexual energy, not a phenomenon intrinsically related with the masochistic urge in the male. Ellis uses the Freudian explanation of the shoe as a vagina symbol as the source of it's attraction to
the male's subconscious, and he is thorough enough in his explanation when eh advises that some fetishists are bound to be latent homosexuals, and are attracted to women's heels for their value as phallic symbols — they suction upon the heel of a woman, rather than the phallus of another man as a more comfortable and excusable, and heterosexually oriented release of sexual tension and energy. . . .

Much more typical and widespread is the combination of shoe-fetishism with a strong masochistic streak, and this is the area that eludes the psychologist's explanation of heel-shoe fetishism.

The ebook contains all content of the 56-page original, including ads. Page sequence was revised to obtain continuity of the prose piece. Some borders, empty margins, walls and floors were cropped out. A few page layouts were revised slightly.

Brightness, contrast and levels were adjusted, and shadows reduced. Pictures transposed to ebook format with clarity.

All new scans. Female nudity.

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Although some parts of pictures are obscured on this page, the ebook shows everything that's in the original.

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