(MADAME DOMINIQUE, v. 5, #3, 1974, featuring Rene Bond)

There's a line in my novel, Permanent Obscurity, where Dolores, in talking about her best friend (and partner in crime) Serena, says this: “She was less into corporal punishment and that whole cheesy vamp with-a-whip thing, more into the psychological aspect of power-exchange and boundary play.”

Well, here they are ... the vamps with whips!

My first little artifact of this kind was BIZARRE LIFE #9 (pictured below), which I found on eBay in my crazed pursuit of lost Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew art, knowing that the publisher was Leonard Burtman, who also put out Exotique, the ground-breaking fetish digest from the 1950s. Anyway I dropped a bid on BIZARRE LIFE #9 (which went unchallenged, mysteriously), and when the mag arrived, I was pretty much knocked out.

Not only was there artwork from Bilbrew & Stanton inside, but all kinds of gorgeous layouts, featuring models rockin' a kind of mod-femdom-vamp aesthetic that I thought was totally bad-ass, theatrical, and fun.

Winning price of that first killer mag: $9.99

From then on, I was hooked.

This is my little collection of TOP FUCKING 10 (actually, 11!) retro-vamp/mod-femdom mags, which are pretty rare.

For the discerning kinkster ... with a taste for the classics....

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Corporal #53, 1972 High Heels #12, 1969 Kinky #13, 1976 Kinky #6, 1975 Bizarre Life #5, Spring, 1968 High Heels #15, 1970 Bizarre Life #9, Spring, 1969 High Heels #16, 1970 Madame Dominique v.5, #1, 1973 Mistress Of Domination v.1, #1, 1988   Share | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you enjoy this blog? Support this author by purchasing his work: here. “Richard Perez has the ears of the angels—lend him yours.” —Barry Gifford, author: WILD AT HEART, PERDITA DURANGO “Perez's is an exciting talent and his work goes far beyond most of what is published today.” —Henry Flesh, author: MICHAEL and the Lambda Literary Award-winner, MASSAGE   “Ready-made for Russ Meyer— assuming, that is, if Meyer was around and still at his peak.” —Josh Alan Friedman, author: TALES OF TIMES SQUARE, WHEN SEX WAS DIRTY Dolores & Serena: “They were young and immoral!...”       Share | Also of interest: Serena Moon and The Fine Art of Face-sitting Artwork by Eric Stanton