Bawdy Bathers by Jeff Dunas

A year after Sandy Robertson's Pet pictorial had featured a man and twenty months since the last Penthouse boy/girl pictorial Pair Play by Jeff Dunas, Dunas returned  for Penthouse's very first girl/boy/boy pictorial, Bawdy Bathers.

This pictorial appeared in December 1974's issue.  The first picture in the feature set the tone for the whole pictorial as one man fondles one of the girl's breasts and the other kisses the other one.   It is a very tactile shoot with lots of sensuous touching. 

The text itself makes no attempt to tell a story, contrary to the usual practice, it just rambles on about the superiority of a bath over a shower as a sensual experience; something Triple P has to agree with.

S and Triple P enjoyed our traditional, deep bath  in Hanoi last week although we didn't have a long handled brush to scrub each other as shown above.

This is the first boy(s)/girl pictorial where the protaganists are naked for all the pictures.  There are no undressing photographs here.

It's a shame they didn't invent one of their bizarre stories for this as the pictures very much suggest one.  The lady seems very much in control with the men paying court to her in a most adoring way.

 

She doesn't seem to be their plaything as she just stands there much of the time being worshipped (we know one or two girls like that!).

Given the faintly Victorian backdrop, with its potted plants and stained glass windows, perhaps she is the lady of the house and the gentlemen are her gardener and footman.

 

Perhaps she is a widow or maybe  her husband is away in the Far East scouting out rubber plantations in Malaya and she is feeling in need of a little male company.  Given the sterling service she receives from both her retainers she doesn't want to disappoint either of them so invites them into her bath together!

Given the squeeze S and Triple P had last week they must have had to look around for quite a time to find a bathtub which would easily accommodate three people.

 

The young lady really does have the most appealingly squashable pair of breasts that Triple P has seen in a long time!  Anyway they are being much appreciated by her two gentlemen friends, not surprisingly!

For only the second time Penthouse shows a man with his hand on the girl's pussy.

They soon go one better, however, and in this shot they both have a hand between her legs.  It does look to be quite a tight squeeze in there!

In the final shot we see Penthouse pushing the envelope again by including this photograph which includes a very visible cock.  Although they had shown the occasional penis in reportage pieces this was the first time one had been included in a couples pictorial.  When this pictorial appeared in the UK edition, three months later, this picture and the pussy touching ones were all omitted.

The outrageously busty young lady in this set is model Joyce Mandel  who, as is often the case with these models, went under a number of different names including Joyce Gibson, Joyce Patterson, Rinah and Alexis Love.

As Rinah in Oui photographed by Ken Marcus for June 1979

Very few models have had such long careers as Joyce Mandel who started out as a teenager in the sixties and was still appearing over three decades later.

An unusually frank picture from Naked Era number 1 (1971)

From Jackpot magazine 1972

Her dark and sultry looks are due to Romanian and Russian ancestry although in the early seventies she often wore wigs.

As is often the case with very busty women she is quite small at 5'2" and in the sixties, when working with Russ Meyer meausured, 40DD-22-36.

As Alexis Love in the nineties

In the nineteen nineties, having left nude modelling for fourteen years, she returned  as Alexis Love as a mature model in her forties, her measurements now being a staggering 48DDD-23-34!  How she only managed to put one inch on her waist but eight on her bust is interesting given that she remained all natural.

She modelled for mainstream mens's magazines as well as the specialist big bust productions.

In November 1978 she appeared on the cover of Hustler from which session this rather striking picture comes.

An impressive demonstration of gravity

She had small parts in a number of films and TV shows.  Her first uncredited role as a seventeen year old was as a go-go dancer in the Jack Nicholson scripted, Roger Corman directed film The Trip (1967).  Her other film titles give a very good idea of the sort of roles she played: Street of a Thousand Pleasures (1971), Wam Bam thank you Spaceman (1975), Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheikhs (1976), Chesty Anderson US Navy (1976) etc. 

In Mork and Mindy (1979)

More conventionally she appeared in an episodes of Taxi (1978), Mork and Mindy (1979) and The Fall Guy (1982).

Still natural in the nineties and displaying herself in a way that she didn't (on the whole) when she was younger

Her most recent film was Return of the Ultra Vixens (2000) at the age of fifty and her last photoshoot was in 1999.

We like to remember her as she was as a lovely, fresh, curvy twenty-five year old in Bawdy Bathers.

With a future Governor of California

With Hugh Hefner

Dominating a shot for a "comedy" pictorial in Playboy July 1980 featuring Dudley Moore.  "Who is that girl?" wrote a reader afterwards

Although she was never a Playmate she appeared extensively in Playboy in the seventies in various features and pictorials.

A rare girl/girl picture

Given the previous interval betwen boy/girl sets before it would be a surprisingly short  two months before the next one appeared, this time by Stan Malinowski.  We will feature that very shortly

Time of her Time: Sandy Robertson by Tim Perior

As it's Valentines Day today B has suggested that I post another couples pictorial from Penthouse in the early seventies.  Eight months after the previous example,  Pair Play, Penthouse's next couples pictorial wasn't really a "love set" at all but a Pet pictorial which included a man, as the title page for Sandy Robertson's December 1973 pictorial showed.

First off, however, we are presented with some photgraphs of the Pet herself.  At least we can appreciate her, as we had yet to experience the Penthouse soft-focus effect in all its washed out diffuseness.

There are several noteworthy things about the splendid Miss Robertson.  Firstly, she has extreme tan lines.  this is something that would become more common as Penthouse increasingly used American rather than British models. 

Secondly, she has amazing, waist-length hair as demonstrated in this prototypical Penthouse mirror shot.

According to the text, Sandy was 36-23-36, as convincingly demonstrated by this series of photographs. 

In 1973 Bob Guccione had shot seven out of the twelve centrefolds, the others being covered by Jeff Dunas and Ken Marcus.  Tim Perior also contributed this unusual set.  This was Tim's first shoot for Penthouse and he included these two more abstracted studies of Sandy's splendid body which, again, were unusual for the time.

Perior was born in Detroit in 1940 and studied commercial and fine art at the Cass Technical High School in Detroit. By 1968 he had set up his first photographic studio in Southern California.  He carried on doing glamour and fashion photography for 11 years. 

Jennifer Welch

He shot another four pictorials for Penthouse, such as Jennifer Welch (above) from January 1975, but never another Pet of the Month.   He also did some work for Guccione's womens' magazine Viva, including this cover shot of a couple from August 1974.

In the slightly more soft-focus photograph, below, Sandy shows a hint of a split beaver, which was very unusual indeed for the period.

Unexpectedly, a man (called Chuck in the text) suddenly appears for most of the rest of the pictorial.  This really was a new departure for Penthouse.  They had occasionally shown their Pets interacting with clothed men before but until this point the only other one to be photographed with a naked man was Billie Rainbird in several photographs of her on the beach with a real seventies beardy-weirdy back in May 1971.

Billie Rainbird on the beach with a very short ugly man in 1971

Sandy seems to have faired much better as her man seems to be a mixture of Wolverine and seventies British Olympic swimmer David Wilkie.

At least Chuck is taller than Sandy!  Some Penthouse readers had been asking for men in the pictorials for some time. Oui magazine, the Playboy-owned supposed challenger to Penthouse for the slighly naughtier European-influenced market, had posed their centrefolds with male models several times.  So now it was a case of of the imitated being the imitator.

However, none of the Oui pictorials were as passionate as this one, as the couple get friendly in the pool.

Sandy, here, shows that she has a very strong nose, which is quite unusual for a glamour model, but Triple P likes a girl with a strong nose and thinks she looks great.  In the text of her pictorial it said that Sandy was an actress and had appeared in several films, including The Terminal Man (which hadn't been released at that point) and The Mad Bomber (1973) but there is no sign of her on IMDB.

Triple P thinks that this is a nice sequence of photographs capturing something of the tactile feel of contact with another naked body in water which, for some reason, feels more intense than it does in the air.

Chuck enjoys a good nuzzle whilst Sandy is the first Pet to be shown with her legs wrapped around a man;  the previous two couples sets didn't go that far.

Photographer Tim Perior moved on to more mainstream work; a lot more coming his way after he photographed Salvador Dali in Spain.  Today he is involved in TV and film production, graphics, stage productions and books.  He also produces religious themed art.  He is certainly a busy man!  

Nicole Carole

Notably,  he is now an evangelical Christian running his own evangelistic ministry since 1982.  Bizzarely, too, he was the first producer of Evel Knievel's stunt shows.  Although he mentions his glamour work briefly on his website he doesn't mention, of course, his previous work with Penthouse, especially as he was doing quite risque stuff by the time he finished at the magazine, as can be seen from this March 1977 shot of Nicole Carole.

Meanwhile, he gives us the first picture in Penthouse of a man touching a woman's pubic hair, making this one of the magazine's barrier breaking pictorials and notably more racy than his rivals at Playboy or Oui had done.

This picture of Sandy straddling Chuck is also much stronger than anything seen in the previous couples pictorials.

Finally, we get this implied post-coital shot which is the first example of something that we will certainly see again.

Unlike Oui, Penthouse had Sandy appearing solo in her centrefold, Chuck having been...chucked.  It is a particularly nice centrefold too with Sandy looking gloriously fluffy down below.

Penthouse never repeated this experiment of having a man interact with the Pet of the Month.  In the future couples pictorials would be completely seperate although, of course, some Pets would later appear in couples pictorials themselves.  It would be another twelve months before another couples pictorial and that would have an unusual aspect as well.