Death of a Legend

Bettie Page is dead at age 85. Ms. Page was THE hot chick in the 50's with her racy poses and S&M themed layouts and paved the way for a lot of men's magazines, the kind I once found in my dad's closet. I forgot the name (maybe, Argosy?) but they had covers that depicted hot dames with torn clothing at the clutches of Nazi SS goons or similar themes. The pics inside were highly mild by today's standards but still boner worthy. I was amazed that the old man would have an interest in such things--to me he was a dad and they were supposed to be just the guys who worked all day and then played catch with you and ocassionally beat your ass for some infraction, large or small. Anyway, that discovery probably led the way for me and other like young lads to hide away in the woods, thumbing through stolen Playboys that were hidden in hastedly constructed caches and quickly warped from Houston's jungle climate. Then, Penthouse came along, which introduced the concept of pubic hair on females--we had no idea it existed, and that revolutionized the whole arena of men's mags. "Jugs" and "Gent" and other like publications quickly fell by the wayside as the models quickly began spreading their legs a little wider until one day, we cast our eyes on the holy grail and proclaimed it good and righteous and that we must somehow, some way get into that wonderful place. Some got there quicker than others.