This book is just what I've been
looking for all my life and will
accompany me to my desert island."
- Fetish Times, United Kingdom
Since the beginning of
civilization, women have worn
underwear. Justified as
protection, or a hygienic
necessity, this "second skin"
was devised to satisfy perverse
erotic instincts. A "trap laid
by Venus" to entertain and
stimulate the fantasies of both
the woman who wears them and the
man who discovers them. Corsets,
bras and panties are not
utilitarian items - they are
elements in a mystic ritual
linking man and woman. They act
as an obsessive focus for
fantasy, for the sex they
conceal is powerless without the
decorations and seductions which
separate us from it. Pleasure
would perish without censorship.
Women have always known how to
stimulate the latent fetishism
of the men around them. Under
her dress,
a Greek girl of the classical
period would wear a belt around
her hips which was of no
practical use except to draw
attention to her feminity.
Likewise, the women of Rome
already wore garters round their
thighs, though the stocking had
not yet been invented. In our
own century, vamps, starlets,
pin-ups and models have filled
our cínema screens, our
advertising hoardings, our
office calendars and our
imaginations with the erotic
engineering of the garter belt
and the surreptitious rustle of
nylon stockings.
Dessous traces the evolution of
this living mythology from its
first steps in the dawn of
civilization to its apotheosis
in the films and advertising
campaigns of the modern world.
Lavishly illustrated, it
demonstrates how the conflict
between the need to conceal and
the will to reveal has provided
women with the means to explore
their own sexuality and exercise
an erotic ascendancy over men.
The result is a richly
aphrodisiacal meditation, an
intimate exploration of the
props of our theatre of desire.
03.11.2008
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