Posts Tagged ‘burlesque’

While following a lead on burlesque spanking I found this chance reference to Lili St Cyr (pictured above). Lili was burlesque star who worked with the legendary Gypsy Rose Lee and was briefly a film star in the 1950s. She was briefly a protégé of Howard Hughes and landed a role in the movie Son […]


Recently, a convoluted journey through interwar years in search of spanking history in cultures as diverse as flappers, college girls and the theatre, has thrown up several random snippets. For instance, following up a chance spanking reference on a recent TV documentary about the theatre in England and the sometimes rather rugged accommodation performers had […]