Carnival Strippers – Revised Edition

A
very bizarre and eerily erotic set of photos from the kind of carnival
strip shows which traveled around to smaller towns and county fairs in
the 50s and 60s, offering many men in those sedate and innocent times
the
only glimpse of beaver they were likely to get outside of their marital
vows.

Not to mention the first live non-maternal female flesh glimpsed by
a generation weaned on the graphic images of bare breasts on display
in the pages of National Geographics in school libraries. Ah, I can
smell the stale grease in the fried dough carts even now….

from
Magnum photos via BoingBoing