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===Variety=== In the early 20th century, bondage imagery was available through "[[Bondage cover|detective magazines]]", and [[comic book]]s often featured characters being tied up or tying others up, particularly in "[[damsel in distress]]" plots. There were also a number of dedicated [[fetish magazine]]s which featured images of fetishism and bondage. The first of such magazines in the United States was ''Bizarre'', first published in 1946 by [[fetish photographer]] [[John Willie]] (the phallic pseudonym of John Coutts), who developed the concept in the 1920s. Willie was able to avoid controversy in censorship through careful attention to guidelines and the use of humor. Publication of ''Bizarre'' was suspended completely from 1947 to 1951 because of post-War paper shortages. By 1956 Willie was ready to give up the magazine, and in that year he sold it to someone described only as R.E.B., who published six more issues before ''Bizarre'' finally folded in 1959. Willie is better remembered for his ''[[Sweet Gwendoline]]'' comic strips, in which Gwendoline is drawn as a rather naΓ―ve blonde "damsel in distress", with ample curves, who is unfortunate enough to find herself tied up in scene after scene by the raven-haired [[dominatrix]] and the mustachioed villain "Sir Dystic D'Arcy". She is rescued and also repeatedly tied up (though for benevolent reasons) by secret agent U-69 (censored to U89 in some editions). The comic strips were published largely in the 1950s and 60s. The story was published as a piecemeal serial, appearing usually two pages at a time in several different magazines over the years.<ref>The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, 2nd Edition, by [[John Willie]]. {{ISBN|978-0-914646-48-8}}</ref> Though ''Bizarre'' was a small format magazine, it had a huge impact on later [[Kink (sexual)|kink]] publications, such as [[ENEG]]'s fetish magazine, ''[[Exotique]]'', published 1956β1959. ''Exotique'' was entirely devoted to fetish fashions and female-dominant bondage fantasies. The 36 issues featured photos and illustrations of dominatrix-inspired vamps (including Burtman's wife [[Tana Louise]] and iconic model [[Bettie Page]]) wearing exotic leather and rubber ensembles, [[corsets]], stockings/garters, boots, and [[high heels]]. [[Gene Bilbrew]] contributed illustrations to the magazine. The articles, many written by Leonard Burtman, using an alias, covered various aspects of [[sadomasochism]] and [[transvestism]], with men depicted as slaves to imperious, all-powerful women. ''Exotique'' had no nudity, pornographic content, or even sexually suggestive situations. Nevertheless, much like fellow publisher [[Irving Klaw]], in 1957, Burtman would be targeted as a pornographer. He was relentlessly pursued by the [[U.S. Postal Inspection Service]] (acting as a censorship agency under the [[Comstock laws]]) and local law enforcement (which functioned in coordination with Postal Inspectors and the Catholic Church). Eventually, he was arrested, his magazines and materials confiscated, and brought to trial. This led to the demise of the magazine in 1959. However, starting in 1960, Burtman (under a different imprint) would go on to publish many more fetish magazines that were nearly identical to ''Exotique'' such as ''New Exotique'', ''Masque'', ''Connoisseur'', ''Bizarre Life'', ''High Heels'', ''Unique World'', ''Corporal'' (a pioneering spanking-fetish magazine) and others well into the 1970s. New York photographer Irving Klaw also published illustrated adventure/bondage serials by fetish artists [[Eric Stanton]], Gene Bilbrew, Adolfo Ruiz and others. Klaw is best known for operating an international mail-order business selling photographs and film of attractive women (sometimes in [[Bondage (BDSM)|bondage]]) from the 1940s to the 1960s. His most famous [[bondage model]] was Bettie Page, who became the first celebrity of bondage film and photography. These publications disappeared for a time with a crackdown on pornography in the late 1950s.
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