Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Someday Funnies




Source: Venus
Wearing Venus

An unknown femulator (right) posing in as a French maid on the cover of Cynthia Payne's Entertaining At Home, which was published in 1987. When I encountered the above image, I knew nothing about Miss Payne, so I looked her up and according to Wikipedia, she was “an English brothel keeper and party hostess who made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was convicted of running a brothel... in Streatham, a southwestern suburb of London.” After reading the Wikipedia entry, I recall seeing the film Personal Services, which was loosely based on Miss Payne’s life. The film is peppered with French maids and other assorted crossdressers.

7 comments:

  1. Personal Services amongst all the straight men with school uniform and maid kinks has a trans character - Danny Schiller (a cis man) as Dolly, a character who is at first supposed to be cis, but is clearly a slightly more realistic version of one of Terry Jones' Pepperpots in Python (reminder that Jones directed the film) and then is revealed to be trans. A rare at the time depiction of an older trans woman, though.

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    1. AnonymousMay 31, 2022

      Best line in that movie----"Dolly-You have a Willie"---Danny Schiller had me fooled up to that point.

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  2. AnonymousMay 31, 2022

    s How far does the husband go into character, as a woman, when dressed?
    Does he stay as a man dressed as a woman or does he mentally become one?
    That could make "her" a lesbian

    There was quite a lot about Cynthia Payne in the British press in the late 1970s /early 1980s
    Lucy

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  3. AnonymousMay 31, 2022

    The film is on YouTube plus the clip where the "Cynthia Payne " character finds out Dolly is trans in the Ladies at a wedding "Dolly, you've got a willy". The book An English Madam by Paul Bailey has a very sympathetic chapter about how Cynthia supported Anthea, a femulator. The femulator on the cover could be the Squadron Leader who was associated with Cynthia, known as Mitch

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  4. Dear Stana,

    I appreciate the Someday Funny feature. The reason so few people comment on them is that we have a good chuckle, then move on to contemplate whatever else demands our immediate attention. (Or our navels.)

    Don't stop them!

    Sincerely, a Devoted Follower

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  5. You can watch Personal Services online at Amazon.com for $1.99
    https://smile.amazon.com/Personal-Services-Julie-Walters/dp/B002J8YB9C/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LQPM3PUVNVAO&keywords=Personal+Services&qid=1654006107&s=movies-tv&sprefix=personal+services%2Cmovies-tv%2C53&sr=1-1

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  6. AnonymousJune 01, 2022

    I love being a lesbian with my partner.

    XO
    Julie Noh

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