#300375 - Leg Show 1 2 Selbee Associates 1962
Leg Show, Volume 1, Number 2
Selbee Associates, Inc.
New York, New York
1962
digital replica
When it comes to a girlie magazine, you can't tell what's inside by what appears on its cover or even by its name. In the case of the Selbee Leg Show
Number Two cover, the well-appointed salon in which three lovely women model hosiery and corsets while discussing the high-heeled ankle boot on the floor appears nowhere within. That picture was part of a photo set that filled a standalone Selbee booklet, C-10 in the Connoisseur Series, titled Submission in Satin. Featuring Anita Ventura, Jackie Miller and a cute blond in a dress-up progression lensed by Sam Menning, the ebook is part of product #608.
Selbee Leg Show Number Two does contain photographs of Anita and Jackie and a dozen other long-stemmed American beauties. Pictorials spotlight —
- Norma Gordon
- Gigi Krafton
- Brenda DeNaut
- “Sam” Sweeten
- Mimi Fontana
- Kay Fitzimmons
In these photo sets, models flirt with the camera in and out of nylons and garter belts. Some wear pumps with three-inch heels.
The Game of Gams photo quiz pretends to test the knowledge of leg lovers. Seeing only a model's legs, readers are challenged to guess her name and occupation. Here, some heels are high.
Eric Stanton works some surrealistic elements into a two-page episode of The Case of the Lost Legs comic serial.
A superb Gene Bilbrew illustration introduces a Yancey Cravat short story titled Do-Gooders Doll. While the plot tests credulity, it does so no more than contemporaneous feature films. The masculine language of the first-person narrator entertains with 1950s sidewalk slang about alluring women and the pursuit thereof.
For reasons we can only speculate about, this Leg Show issue includes an article about Men Who Wear Female Attire by L. J. Chieco. The writer refers to the thoughts of many experts, including these two:
The famed British psychologist, Havelock Ellis, preferred to call these persons, "Eonists," and their condition, "Eonism." He coined these names after Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont — an 18th century diplomat and spy who served his country for years, attired as a beautiful woman.
In his Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Ellis says: "On the psychic side, as I view it, the Eonist is embodying, in an extreme degree, the esthetic attribute of imitation of, and identification with, the admired object. It is normal for a man to identify himself with the woman he loves. The Eonist carries the identification too far — stimulated by a sensitive and feminine element in himself which is associated with a rather defective virile sexuality, on what may be a neurotic basis."
Confirming this viewpoint, the late Dr. Kinsey stated that "psychologically, transvestism depends upon an individual's erotic attraction for the opposite sex. A male, for instance, may be so attracted to females that he wishes to be permanently identified with them, as another female might live with them."
The digital replica includes all content of the original 64-page magazine, including advertising and letters with snapshots. The sequence of pages was revised to obtain continuity of prose pieces.
Some page layouts were revised. Some margins, borders, walls and floors were cropped out.
Brightness, contrast and levels were adjusted and shadows reduced. Good photography transposed well to ebook format.
All new scans.
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