Damsels of Duality, Judy O'Day (L) and Dorian Dennis (R). It’s generally safe to say that most children do not aspire in their adulthood to become strippers. To earn a living in by disrobing to the lustful wails of both band and audience, titillating the basest desires of the basest of men, is widely believed to bring great shame upon both the stripper and their immediate family. However, against the cultural backdrop of 1950s America, a fresh faced, ambitious young lady might discover her professional options were limited to a socially-accepted handful: nurse, teacher, librarian, secretary, waitress, or perhaps most likely, housewife. But should that gal be willing, attractive, and daring enough, a way around this glass ceiling could be obtained through the ancient art of the striptease. A career on the burlesque circuit offered an exciting career alternative, as well as an unexpected perk to those who excelled: personal and professional freedom. Two ...
Get comfortable with this bleak reality: we probably already know everything that we ever will about Rosina Revelle, and as it stands today we barely know anything. All the information we possess about this literally legendary beauty has been taken from erotic magazines, pulled the filler accompanying her photos. The reliability of this data is suspect at best; it is less concerned with factuality and more focused upon setting up saucy double entendres. Who was she? What was she like? What became of her? In exploring these basic questions we find many possibilities, few certainties, and only four precious facts. Fabulous indeed! Publication date unknown. Rosina lived in the United Kingdom (this is fact #1.) Her year of birth is estimated in the neighborhood of 1940, the reported location being somewhere in the rural ceremonial county of Warwickshire. Unverified claims assert she was the offspring of a Catholic shopkeeper from Malta. ...