Le monde d'une mandarine

Strong Addiction to human behavior

(Source: 66lanvin, via black-leather)

6 months ago

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drunkcle:

Scene from Berlin in the 1920s. Two Tauentzien Girls. Don’t know what a Tauentzien Girl is? Check out the handy guide below to Berlin prostitutes in the 1920s:

“Compiled by Mel Gordon, in the Winter issue of Cabinet. Because prostitution was illegal, prostitutes had to signal their vocation indirectly. Gordon is the author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin.

BOOT GIRLS: Dominatrices whose sexual services were signaled by the color of their boots, laces, and ribbons, sometimes worn in combination.

BLACK BOOTS: Buttocks cropping (lying on bed).

BROWN BOOTS: Asphyxiation by boot or stockinged foot.

COBALT-BLUE BOOTS: Penetration by female.

SCARLET BOOTS: Cross-dressing humiliation.

BLACK LACES: Punishment with a short whip.

GOLD LACES: Defecation on chest.

WHITE LACES: Collared like a dog.

WHITE RIBBONS ON TOP OF BOOTS: Male customer begins as the dominant figure and ends as the submissive party.

DOMINAS: Leather-clad women who specialized in whipping, humiliation, and other forms of punishment, and worked in lesbian night-clubs that admitted heterosexual couples and male clients.

FOHSES: Independent prostitutes who advertised in newspapers and magazines as manicurists or masseuses.

GRASSHOPPERS: Streetwalkers who performed oral sex in the Tiergarten.

GRAVELSTONES: Physically deformed women who worked in north Berlin.

MEDICINE GIRLS: Child prostitutes who were “prescribed” by pimps posing as physicians in phony pharmacies in west Berlin.

MUNZIS: Pregnant women who waited under lampposts on Münzstrasse.

RACEHORSES: Masochistic prostitutes who worked in Institutes for Foreign Language Instruction, where the schoolrooms were equipped with bondage equipment.

TAUENTZIEN GIRLS:Women wearing the latest fashions and hairstyles, often working in mother-daughter teams near the Kaiser Memorial Church.

TELEPHONE GIRLS: Child prostitutes, aged twelve to seventeen, who were made to resemble junior versions of theater or film starlets and were ordered by telephone.”