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Before Playboy, there was Flossie
Sixteen-year-old boys loved her. Parents of 16-year-old boys did not. Yes, long before Hugh Hefner donned his trademark smoking jacket, before Larry Flynt shocked a nation with Hustler, there was Miss Flossie Lee. In the 1890s, the Augusta, Maine, entrepreneur ran Art Photo Co., a corporation that promised to send photos of “the best female models” [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on October 20, 2010, under Uncategorized.
Tags: american history, before Playboy, censorship, electability of beards, elections with facial hair, facial hair and elected officials, flossy lee, history of pornography, mailers, miss flossie lee, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, obscenity history, odd history, Pieces of History, post office history, weird US history
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