Inside Gloria's Mind

Pull My Trigger!

Coming after Labor Day! Coming weekly!  Coming to you! And just plain coming! A whole month of give-away contests!  Ooooh.  That's four chances to win an autographed copy of my new book.  AHHHHHH.  And get a gorgeous free bookmark too! Oh, God, yes, yes, yesssssssss.

What's the catch?  Why, all you'll have to do is...oh, yeah, I can't tell you that yet. 

Can't wait to find out?  Must enter a contest NOW?  You have the power to TRIGGER the fun!   Help me reach my September goal of 500 "likes" for my My FaceBook bookpage and, like magic, the first contest will appear here within 12 hours!  Amazing.  Don't forget to poke around the page for photos, stories, news headlines and chat you won't see anyplace else. 

 

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When I get to 500 likes, or after Labor Day, whichever comes first...

The first contest's rules will be published here AND on my bookpage.  Early birds don't necessarily catch the bookworm, but at least they don't go hungry.  Truth FTW!

Think of Me Knocking You Out

with a sweet and kitschy tribute to vintage Burlesque stars tomorrow.  

 

 

(big thanks to Beth Plonsky)

The Women Inside: ripe and ready nudes

 

 

The Women Inside: busty pinups

 

 

 

Exciting Scenes from the Life of Etta Candy, Pt. 2

I love this character.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch Specials: Etta Candy and liked it!

Did you know that Wonder Woman had a special friend?  (you can spot her on the wall)

 

 

 Yes, it's Etta Candy (aka The Plumpetta)

 

(more in pt. 2)

Lunch Specials: the World's Worst Cookbook

 

There is no day of the year when I would've wanted to eat Sonny and Cher's turned on recipe.

And let's see how well the Rolling Stones' diet's turned out for them...

 

yep, definitely the products of healthy living.

Sexploitational! "sex ed" at the movies

 

Glorifying the American Voyeur: vintage magazines

 

 

 

 

Passionate Pulp: pervy covers

 

 

I'm not entirely sure I know what's going on here, but as a sex therapist, I'd love to know.

 

 

Apparently, drugging someone (or being drugged) into uncontrollable lust was such a popular fantasy it spawned its own little literary mini-genre.

 

 

 

The Women Inside: nude pinups

 

Great Girlies: vintage pinup magaznes

 

 

 

 

Tramp Lit: vintage pulp fiction

 

 

 

 

B Screen Kisses: 70s porn

 

 

 

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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

 

It'll be soft and cheesy here all day, with classic pulp fiction covers, girlie magazines from the 1950s-1960s, B movie memorabilia and 70s porn posters, along with vintage pinup girls and busty babes.  

Beefing Up for Tomorrow

 

A trailer park, a barbebue, and thou, now that's the American way!

Back manana with the pulp I promised yesterday.   Why?  Because time is a continuum, baby!  See you yesterday tomorrow and stick one on the grill for me.  I'll be there in another lifetime.

 

 

 

The Bloody Agony of Defeat: Gentleman Jack Washburn

From 1934, boxer Gentleman Jack Washburn takes a brutal beating.   Thank God he wasn't having gentle sex, or we'd never be allowed to see a photo.

Gentleman" Jack Washburn, one of the veterans of the grapple game, was born at Paris, Ill., on Oct. 14, 1899. He served as a soldier in the World War where he studied wrestling under the great Earl Caddock. Washburn was known in some parts as the "Bully from Boston." link

Warriors: 20th century fighters and lifters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warriors: 19th century fighters and physical culturists

These are ca. 1890 - 1920.

 

 

 

 

 

Strongwomen: vintage female athletes

 

 

 

 

Bitch-Slapping B-Movies: vintage action stills

scene from From Russia with Love

 

 

Multi-talented actress Ginger Rogers taking it square on the jaw in Roxie Hart.

 

 

Classic B (as in Bad), made in 1950

 

 

 

Hotdamn, Girl. That's no way to resolve conflicts.

But it looks like fun, doesn't it?

 

 

After all, what's a little bitch-slapping between sadomasochistic friends?

Calling all 97 pound weaklings (2)

 

 

 

 

Calling all 97 pound weaklings: Charles Atlas tribute (1 of 2)

The poet Yeats once wrote, "women must labor to be beautiful." Charles Atlas -- part athlete and all promoter -- encouraged men to believe that they had to labor to be truly masculine. Though physical culture and "manly sports" had been popular for decades by the time Atlas jumped on board, his unique ability to target the sexual fears of male youths (specifically, that they weren't manly enough to get a woman) made him the super-star in the biz of hawking big muscles to little guys.

 

 

 

Fetish Fighting: sweet wrestlers

Awww. That's better.

 

Fetish Fighting: vintage female wrestlers

Oh my goodness.  Is this necessary, ladies?

 

 

 Maybe they're product testers for a lingerie company?

 

I'm sold.  I'll take some of those nylons that won't pop a run during street-fights.

Perfect Form: vintage muscle hunks

 

 

 

 

Fatten Up, America!

We didn't always obsess over being thin.  Even weirder, people once used the word "piffle" without irony.

 

 

 

OMG, the Lone Ranger was skinny?

Welcome to the Healthatorium

We're getting very physical today, with a sweeping visual tour of vintage strong men and women, bodybuilders and physical fitness devotees, and the legion of self-help gurus and charlatans who catered to them.

Get Your Raincoat On: video

and watch how they do it in France

(special thanks to LB!)