Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art

[coldturkey]

A lithograph from a Dutch novel... Found on Yandex...

 

[coldturkey]

No I don't sadly...and trust me it's not for want of trying. What with that and Up Pompeii, Carry On Cleo and I Claudius the 70s were a great time for us classicists.
I'm only putting up the stuff that's not a mess...I'll add some of the randoms in due course.

Talking about lost movies, does anyone know what movie this scene is from ? Captured Slavic girls are being sold by Tatars... I took these four screen shots back in the day...

 

[Loxuru]

‘masəkist. Unknown

Her pain and her pleasure in one pic!

 

[mysterybadger]

Talking about lost movies, does anyone know what movie this scene is from ? Captured Slavic girls are being sold by Tatars... I took these four screen shots back in the day...

Anastasia Slutskaya (2003) princess who fought the Tatars in 16th century Slutsk, then in Lithuania now in Belarus.
Here she is.



But you probably only need this bit :

CMNF video - Khan inspects captured women

CMNF clip from an unknown Russian movie. A Crimean khan is inspecting freshly captured women to decide which ones to sell off and which to keep for himself.

enf-cmnf.com

 

[mysterybadger]

Just a normal working day for a fireman.
First one is by Eugenio Alvarez Dumont

 

[malins]

Just a normal working day for a fireman.
First one is by Eugenio Alvarez Dumont

so that's what the recruitment posters for the fire brigade used to look like...

 

[vadim69]

"Arrest" is the work of two Chinese artist brothers, Gao Qiang and Gao Shen.

 

[gerembeau]

Just a normal working day for a fireman.
First one is by Eugenio Alvarez Dumont

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Very interesting topic !

 

[gerembeau]

 

[mysterybadger]

Pirate queen Grace O'Malley. By Walter Martin Baumhofer.
She looks in command of the situation until you realise she can't move her hands without everyone seeing her nipples.

 

[Jollyrei]

She looks in command of the situation until you realise she can't move her hands without everyone seeing her nipples.

And you think that will be a drawback, do you? She didn't get to be the Pirate Queen because she was particularly squeamish.

 

[mysterybadger]

And you think that will be a drawback, do you? She didn't get to be the Pirate Queen because she was particularly squeamish.

It's a matter of some debate in the pirate queen community.

 

[gerembeau]

Pirate queen Grace O'Malley. By Walter Martin Baumhofer.
She looks in command of the situation until you realise she can't move her hands without everyone seeing her nipples.

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Bare breasted female fighters take advantage of their boucing titties to distract their male opponents. Not fair.
What do they deserve ?

 

[gerembeau]

 

[mysterybadger]

Bare breasted female fighters take advantage of their boucing titties to distract their male opponents. Not fair.
What do they deserve ?

 

[vadim69]

Circus act

 

[coldturkey]

The hunter carrying home his prey. From Myslivecká Latina. Jaroslav Štika, 1937.

 

[gerembeau]

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They should be punished where they have sinned

 

[mysterybadger]

They should be punished where they have sinned

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Is that where the expression "bee's knees" comes from?

 

[coldturkey]

The horrors of a slave rebellion...