Comments on: GothicSluts: Smoking Mary Jane Classic Fifties Pinup

By: Leila

Leila — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:03:39 +0000

From my understanding the term “pin-up” came from the fact that teenage boys would pin-up pictures of attractive women in their rooms, lockers, etc. Pin-up art came after the idea of pin-up girls and reached it’s height during WWII. I’ve seen some nose air of topless pin-up girls but for the most part “pin-up” didn’t refer to nude photography. But my understanding of this subject mostly comes from stories my grandfather told me and old pulp magazines I have from him.

By: Domo

Domo — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:05:19 +0000

Um Classic Pin-Up did involve nuidty, Leila. Look at the greatest Pin-Up painters: Vargas and Gil Evergreen. They both did Pin-Up nudes. Google it for yourself.

Playboy magazine was at the end of the Pin-Up era (1960s) but they were consider a Pin-Up NUDE magazine (to some degree they are still consider Pin-Up now). Vargas also drew nude pin-ups in Playboy, in my opinion they were some of the greatest.

Even Bettie Page did nudes!

Like seriously… where did you get the Classic Pin-Up doesn’t involve nudity thing??

By: AltPorn

AltPorn — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:36:29 +0000

I think it does and it doesn’t. If you are talking about pulp magazine pages, then yes they were generally non-nude, but if you are talking about what some of those girls did at private parties, then no, it was just as porny as we are today.

By: Leila

Leila — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:25:39 +0000

AHHHHH!!! Classic pin-up didn’t involve nudity! Why does everyone get that wrong?