Do you remember the time when, if you wanted to prevent pregnancy, your best hopes were abstinence, prayer, or douching with Lysol? (Hell, yes, it burned.) When your doctor was forbidden by law to give you information on how to prevent pregnancy (even if you were a married woman, and begging for it)? When countless…
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Anaïs Nin: Great Sluts of History
Anaïs Nin, born in France on February 21, 1903, was as female as a cat in heat – and, judging by her writing, she frequently felt like one (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Her full name was Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell. “We don’t see things how they are,…
Peggy Lee: Great Sluts of History
Nobody could sing a song like Miss Peggy Lee, though many have tried. Born Norma Delores Egstrom in North Dakota in 1920, Peggy Lee endured something that makes-or-breaks many women, the loss of her mother at an early age, and an absent/uncaring father. According to Wikipedia: Her mother died when Lee was just four years…
Catherine the Great: Great Sluts of History
Ask most people what they know about Catherine the Great of Russia, and somebody is gonna trot out the horse story. Yes, Catherine loved to ride horses. Yes, she liked riding horses enough to contrive split skirts and a trick sidesaddle, so that she could ride out “like a lady,” and once away from the…
Saartje (Sara) Baartman: Great Sluts of History
Orphan. Widow. Slave. “Hottentot Venus.” The tragic mythology is that Saartje Baartman was a young African woman, ripped from her land and her people, exhibited to staring, pointing and laughing crowds as a freak with a huge derriere, who ended her life as a penniless prostitute, dying alone in Paris, far from home. After her…