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Whores of Yore
@WhoresofYore
Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
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    Feb 4, 2017
    The history of the word "whore" and how I use it here. "Tis Pity She's a Whore: the 'Whore' in Whores of Yore" thewhoresofyore.com/kates-journal/…
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    Oct 24, 2022
    Tallulah Bankhead (1902–68) claimed to have had over 5,000 lovers. At a society wedding, while the bride and groom were walking down the aisle, Tallulah remarked loudly: ‘I’ve had both of them, dahling, and neither of them is any good.’
    A black and white photograph of Tallulah Bankhead. She is smoking a cigarette and is staring, nay smouldering, slightly off to the right of the camera. Talulah is a white, very pale, slim woman & is had one of those ageless faces. She could be 25 or 42 here, it’s hard to say. The shot is only of her head, upper torso, and the right hand holding a cigarette up. She’s wearing a very sparkly diamond bracelet. She has dark, bobbed hair. Deep set eyes & has nailed the “Smokey eye” look. Her eyebrows are plucked thinly and arched in 1920s style. The most immediate thing about this image is how little of a fuck Miss Bankhead gives that you, or anyone else, is looking at her. She is the epitome of glamorous indifference and is utterly fabulous, daaaaaarling.
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    Oct 31, 2022
    Witches going to their Sabbath (1878), by Luis Ricardo Falero
    An absolutely amazing painting showing at least 15 witches flying through the air to their hellish Sabbat. There are men and women, old and young. They are all white and look so fleshy you want to poke your finger into their skin to see if it leaves an indentation - like silly putty. They are almost all nude. Some of riding brooms, others are riding goats, there are also lizards and skeletons in the mix. It’s a truly wild image. They look like they’re floating in water, only it’s against the night sky. The witches swirl and writhe in the scene, as if in sexual frenzy. The witch at centre of the painting stares out while riding a goat. She looks evil, horny, and mad all at once. The goat looks pretty calm all things considered. A really incredible work of art.
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    Oct 21, 2022
    In 1922, neighbours heard screams coming from a house in the affluent LA area of Layfette Park. When the police arrived, they found Fred Oesterreich dead & his wife Dolly locked inside in a closet. They were certain Dolly had done it, but they had no idea how. Thread
    A black and white photograph of Dolly around the time of the trial. She is middle aged, sat on a chair, and looks every bit your 1930s glamour puss. She is wearing a fox fur around her neck, a long dress with laced sleeve details, and a bucket hat. Her hair is curled & she has her handbag on her knees. This is not someone you'd think would have a gimp stashed in the attic.
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    Aug 27, 2023
    The expression “call a spade a spade” comes from the work of Plutarch, who originally wrote “call a fig a fig & a trough a trough.” Figs & troughs were crude slang for the Vulva, so what Plutarch meant was “call a c*nt a c*nt”. When Erasmus (1466-1536) translated Plutarch’s work
    A postcard depicting a fig slit vertically to show its rosy flesh. Hanging from a branch, it is supposed to show erotic symbolism. It definitely looks like a cunt. The writing in Italian reads: 'The fig was that friend which frequently betrayed me.'
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    Oct 28, 2022
    “The Witch”, (1882), by Luis Ricardo Falero
    An oil painting of a witch riding a broomstick, inside a circle, set on a black, square background. Like the James Bond gun-barrel sequence viewpoint that features in the opening of almost every JB movie - but with a witch in it. The broomstick runs diagonally down the centre of the circle. The witch riding it is a young, white woman with flowing red hair. She’s nude with her legs pulled up around the broom. As the kids say today, she is thic. This is a thic witch. She’s turned away from the viewer. We can only see her back. Above her is a full moon, covered with black clouds . Bats fly above her. It’s a very vibrant, sexy image with lots of movement in it. This is the witch your parents warned you about.
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    Mar 28, 2019
    On the walls of Cologne City Hall, hidden under a larger statue of Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, is a carving showing a man giving oral sex to himself. It dates to around 1410 and no one really knows why it’s there.
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    Jun 11, 2020
    All these people who are worried we’re “erasing history” by taking down Victorian statues are going to lose their damn minds when they hear about the lack of funding for historical research & cuts to university History departments.
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    Jan 19, 2023
    Today, my all time hero Janis Joplin (1943-70) would have been 80 years old. Here is a thread of Janis quotes to remind you what a goddamn legend she was.
    Black and white photograph of Janis Joplin aged around 26. She’s is full hippie regalia, beads, bangles, rings, feathers in her hair, and large round sunglasses. She’s pointing down the camera and is laughing. She looks like the iconic 1960s flower child, which she would have hated me saying because she always said she was a beatnik. Oh, and it must be cold because her nipples are at full salute.
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    Jun 17, 2020
    “Timoclea Killing Her Rapist”, by Elisabetta Sirani, (1659). Sirani was an Italian Baroque artist who championed both female painters and female subjects in her art.
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    Dec 23, 2019
    I’m sharing these images because I’ve seen several tweets claiming that the interracial marriage depicted in the BBC’s #ChristmasCarol (set in 19th century) is PC nonsense & historically inaccurate #thread
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    Dec 24, 2022
    If anyone is unsure of what to do for a Christmas starter, how about a Candle Salad? It was once a popular American dish in the 1920s. You stand a banana, with a maraschino cherry in end (the flame) in a pineapple ring, & dribble mayonnaise / cream down the sides to look like wax
    Coloured recipe photo of a candle salad. It’s exactly as described, a banana standing in a pineapple ring, with a cherry at the end, and cream dribbled down the side to look like wax. The very brief recipe is written below the image. It looks like a cock. There’s no way around it. The cream looks like jizz. If someone served you this for Christmas, you’d call the police.
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    Oct 21, 2022
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    I don’t know if there is a moral to any of this… except maybe that you should always pay extra for the full loft survey when buying a new house… especially if you plan on hiding your lover in there for the next ten years.
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    Jan 12, 2018
    1837: Thomas Saverland brought an action against Caroline Newton, who had bitten his nose when he tried to kiss her at a party. The judge ruled against him, stating that "When a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite his nose off, if she so pleases."