May 8, 2012

Girls on Honeymoons

American Imags of Happy Honeymoons

I’ve never known anyone who actually went on a honeymoon. To me honeymoons are the subject of old romantic comedies.

My other image of American honeymoons derives from the Aks Prudie column on Slate. People write in with horror stories of how friends and relatives have become creatures of monstrous greed known as Bridezillas.

Enjoy the pretty 1930s romantic magazine covers:

Honeymoon-Art

Honeymoon-Christmas

Honeymoon-on-the-Moon

Honeymoon-Romantic

Honeymoon-Stories

Those Wild&Crazy College Girls

I don’t think this kind of image of a college boy being chased by a college girl would be published nowadays.

Sexist Magazine Cover College-Boy-Chased-by Fat Girl

Originally posted 2011-03-19 21:24:34.

Innocent Sinners

The Innocent Sinners, G. C. Bleeck

Torrid Australian romance novel.

Innocent Sinners

The Girl Who Broke My Heart

Sheet music to an old song with Al Dubin lyrics.

The-Girl-Who-Broke-My-Heart-Sheet-Music

Originally posted 2011-02-13 14:30:54.

Can You Make Strong Men Weak?

Blue Passion

Do you dream of thrilling moments of love and ecstacy? Tese can be yours, if you only learn how to induce the man you love to love only you.

Quite a promise to be making about a bottle of cheap perfume. Or maybe Blue Passion was only colored water.

Blue Passion Make Strong Men

Originally posted 2010-10-26 18:41:00.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Ilsa the She-Wolf

Valentine’s Day greeting from Ilsa

Ilsa She-Wolf Valentine

The style is faintly familiar. I think this is from an old underground comic.

Sex in the Hayloft

Daring Love #1

Maybe they went into the barn to just cuddle. What do you think?

Sex Barn Hayloft

Professional Women Need Love Too

Career Girl Romances

Office worker unhappy that celebrity males have girlfriends.

Professional Woman Sex Love

Elvis, Herman’s Hermits and Johnny Rivers fill her erotic imagination.

Lonely … ?

My Secret Affair #2

Now this was a sleazy comic book. 1950s American comic books were full of heterosexual torment.

Man Picks Up Women

Sweet Kisses Led to Bitter Love

Cinderalla Love #11

If this situation has the most common resolution her glasses will come off, her hair down. She’ll be revealed as a ravishingly beautiful woman.

Homely Girl Handsome Man

Going Steady

Going Steady seems an acceptable term for transitory periods of adolescent monogamy but it seems to have vanished. Probably seemed corny.

The first teen idol is Fabian Forte. I can’t place the other two or the actress.

Going Steady Teen Idol Comic Book

Originally posted 2010-10-01 13:28:06.

Love Among the Flying Saucers

Illustration by Virgil Finlay. Probably the painting for a cover of a science fiction pulp magazine.

Romantic science fiction art by Virgil Finlay.

Halloween Kiss

Romanic Halloween art is uncommon.

Halloween Romantic Kiss

Originally posted 2010-10-16 14:48:29.

Sex, the Monthly Magazine

Sex

How pretty and innocent looking compared to the productions of the 21st century.

Sex Monthly Magazine

Love Laughs at Mankind

An androgynous goddess or godling of love manipulate men and women like puppets.

God of Love Laughs At Human Sexual Passion Jean For

Artist: Jean Fort

Lonely Men Wanted

Friendships Unlimited

I’m sure lonely men were wanted. Those who could be seduced into parting with money with promises of finding the love of a beautiful woman.

The business lives on today on the web. But if you have the knack for expressing yourself you can actually meet people.

Vintage Dating Service Lonely Men Wanted

Erotic Amusements 1,000th post.

Sexy Hispanic Girls

Are there Chicana chasers – men obsessed with beautiful Latina women?

These entrepreneurs were surely ahead of the curve for the time.

Spanish Friendship

This image is woefully dated. She looks like someone out of the old Disney Zorror TV show.

Spanish American Latina Chicana Girls

Spanish Girl Photos

Presumably they were. Wonder if they sold many pictures.

Spanish Girl Photographs

Love in the Library

More romance and passion among the books.

Sex in the Library louis primo

Love Mad

Love Mad is the title of the book that this Manhattan girl has been reading. Illustration by George Quintana.

Love Mad George Quintana

Wanting Love & Romance

Pretty pin-up painting of a girl whose studies are directed more by her surging hormones than scholarship. By Knute Munson.

Pretty-Girl-Reading-Book-KnuteOMunson