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The Fascination Of The One-Legged Girl

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31 Aug 2017, 12:23

Without a doubt, that like in real life and the fantasies of the people who were so unfortunate as to lose their limbs, and become heroes and heroines, despite their misfortunes, aroused the sympathy and admiration of all .

Never in the annals of our island's glorious history of the character, so beloved as a one-armed, one-eyed Nelson; or in fiction a character who is so loved by the boys, old and young, as captain hook, one-armed pirate in Peter pan. Has anyone read Stevenson's "Treasure Island" or beheld his stage version, with the late Arthur Boucher to play long John silver? Who could not understand the strange fascination and fear, long John silver, the one legged man, with whom you can talk, murderous old pirate was owned by Jim Hawkins and captain flint's villainous team, the pirates?

Captain Cuttle is one of the most endearing characters of Dickens, and the craft of the novelist encouraged him to portray an old retired captain, how to deal with the deficit left hand, which was replaced with the proper iron hook fastened to the stump.

Today we have a one-armed batsman making centuries to the admiration and applause of all lovers of the game.

Sarah Bernhardt, the greatest actress of our generation, it will be remembered, had the misfortune to lose a leg after she had passed the allotted span. But she continued bravely acting beyond her loss and be even more admiration among the lovers of theatrical art through her wonderful impersonations and agility.


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Love Idyll, the armless girl.

Look at the sympathy that has been expressed recently for Mary Armstrong, a frail, but a Sunny-faced cripple girl, who recently gave to solve the Horncastle magistrates one of the queerest domestic problems, which has been put in a Bank. She was born with only one arm, but a 20-year-old farm worker, by the name of Percy Johnson, fell deeply in love with her and wants to marry her.

They placed the array of Horncastle, but Percy's father saw the vicar and forbade the marriage, because his son was not yet of full age, and a girl with one arm was not suitable for a working man-woman.

Percy then took advantage of the recently amended law, and asked to marry the examining magistrate for permission. He assured them that he was eager to have the girl of his wife, so that he could stand by in case something happened to her father, who is gravely ill.

Mary Armstrong was called, and said that, although she had only one arm, they all have something in of the house work at home, and she was sure she could Johnson be comfortable and a good wife to him.

The Chairman! Do you love him? - Yes, I loved him from the first to see him.

Enough to wait for him? - Yes.

The Chairman (Percy Johnson): Do you have enough for the girl to wait for you? - Yes, I know.

The Bank then decided to the boys and girls have to wait until may, when they could marry.

It would be easy to multiply romances, such as the above. Our correspondence columns contains a number of examples, which is even weirder than we've quoted above, but space forbids us to penetrate further, Mr. Wallace Stort for the impressive article.

One-legged heroines

There has recently appeared in these columns several stories and articles that pretty one-legged heroines, or dealing with "beauty Legless," and in connection with them, one thing struck the observant reader. It was the fact that, in spite of the extraordinary disadvantages, none of these ladies seemed to lack suitors, all apparently possessing some strange attraction of their own.

No doubt, many readers questioned this aspect of the case, being fully convinced that no sane person could find an inanimate girl attractive. Yes, oddly enough, is undoubted and well attested fact that beautiful girls are missing one or more limbs, doing the exercise, strange, inexplicable fascination for certain types of men.

Unexplained mysteries of nature

Human nature today remains as mysterious and unknown z, as always, and not all of the knowledge and skill of philosophers and scientists were able to completely plumb its depths. Even his normal work contain many mysteries for the common man. Why a man chooses for his friend so-and-woman - and Vice versa? The viewer simply cannot take into account certain preferences of this kind. He (or she) selected seem to be absolutely devoid of attraction and charm.

Some men love big, burly women, others prefer tiny, fabulous creatures. Some gentlemen prefer blondes; quite a large number of brunettes.

Then some minor defects were considered supplements for beauty from the beginning of time. Absolutely perfect profile is not always attractive. The tip-tilted nose may be more exciting than the beautifully outlined the novel appendage. A slight cast in the eyes of a beautiful girl lends a certain attractive piquancy to her glance; a little lisp also its special charm.

The cause of the strange preferences

Coming to more abnormal preferences, enter the field of what is technically known to psychologists as "Fetishism". Simple and non-technical language, "Fetishism" can be defined as a kind of all-consuming obsession, the role of the lover, for some particular quality, or of objects belonging to the beloved. This condition, which has long been recognized by psychologists and psychotherapists, and a lot of space was given in the work of Havelock Ellis, Kraft-Ebbeing and other well-known bodies of this kind.

There are many known forms of "Fetishism", which is well known to readers of "London life", though they can't still recognize them as such. A man obsessed with the fashion in order to see women in an abnormally high-heeled Slippers not a fetishist; so the person who draws incredibly thin waist, or very long hair of a certain color, or who longs to see a woman of celestial expensive jewelry.

The real work, this strange form of "Fetishism" countless examples could be cited. One case that came out of my own experience interesting. My close friend and I was a few years ago was invited to a dinner party at which the guests were mostly young people. We were quite late and dinner had already started when we arrived. There are a number of pretty girls at the table; but one, in particular, extremely cute and cheerful girl of about 22, attracted my friend immediately and they just laughed and talked to each other across the table.

By the end of the meal, the young people got pretty noisy and out of hand, and one of them quite wanton, began to tease the girl I mentioned, throwing pellets of bread at her, and the like. The girl, laughing, threatened crackers with all sorts of terrible punishments, but he still leads her on fire.


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The Fascination Of The One-Legged Girl

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Love at First Sight.

I turned with a laugh to my friend, and was astonished at the sudden change in him. He had gone quite white, and was watching the girl with a queer, excited look in his eyes.

I said nothing at the time, but it was significant that he was with the girl all the evening, and eventually escorted her home. They were married within a year - the local papers, by the way, making rather a splash of the wedding of a "Pretty One-Legged Bride" - and it was from his own lips that I learned later that from a youth he had been strongly attracted by one-legged girls, but until that evening had never actually made the acquaintance of one.

One curious little sequel may be worth recording. My friend always retained a most vivid and, to him, highly pleasurable memory of seeing the girl, who was to be his wife, hopping round the table after the flapper, and to this day he likes to see his wife hopping about the flat without crutches. So much so, that nowadays she usually discards her crutches in the house and hops gaily about with an ease an expertness that to a stranger must always appear quite an astonishing feat.

Perhaps I need hardly add that this charming and vivacious little lady is the original of the heroines that have already appeared in my stories in "London Life."

Admired Though Limbless.

An obvious case of this type of attraction was revealed only a short time ago in a letter contributed to the correspondence columns of "London Life" by a pretty one-legged girl who, it will be recalled, stated that, in spite of the fact that she was one-legged, she never lacked for admirers, and had, in fact, already been engaged twice. She put her success down to the fact that she was pretty and dressed attractively; but there is no doubt that she attracted a certain type of boy who found a curious fascination in her onelegged condition, and I am quite willing to wager that the man she marries will eventually confess to the possession of this peculiar "kink."

Strange Matrimonial Advertisements.

Though it may seem incredible, there have actually appeared matrimonial advertisements inserted by individuals seeking wives lacking one or more limbs! Quite a number of advertisements of this type have appeared in German papers, the advertisers being mostly desirous of meeting girls with only one leg; but in one case, at least, an armless woman was specified, and in another it was bluntly stated that the advertiser wished to meet a lady "who has lost both legs by amputation, of fair complexion and big built, not under 40, homely and pleasant rather than pretty. Adviser would prefer the lady to be completely without legs, thighs, or movable stumps." This advertiser explained his queer preference, by the way, by the fact, that his wife, who had recently died, had been quite legless, and he wanted someone to take her place

Within my own experience there have appeared at least two advertisements of a similar type in English publications. The first appeared about 1906 in a weekly periodical, now defunct, and which, for a time, ran a matrimonial column. The actual wording of this advertisement, as far as I can recall it, was as follows:

"A gentleman, 21, of independent means, would like to meet, with a view to matrimony, a young lady of about 19 or 20, pretty, fond of dress, a devotee of tight-lacing and high heels, and with only one leg, the other having been amputated, preferably at the thigh. Write, enclosing a photo and giving particulars of amputation, to - "

The other advertisement appeared in a publication entirely devoted to matrimonial advertisements as recently as 1920. It ran something like this:

"Gentleman, in good position, good-looking, attractive, would like to correspond, with a view to matrimony, a young lady lacking a limb or otherwise crippled".

In this same publication there also appeared an advertisement from a lady "whom the surgeons knife has deprived of lower limbs," and who wished to correspond with "a sympathetic member of the opposite s*ex who may, or may not be, similarly handicapped."

And from time to time there appeared several advertisements from gentlemen wishing to make the acquaintance of lame girls!

Extraordinary Marriage.

Readers of the recent articles in "London Life" on "Limbless Beauties" will have noted that quite a number of these ladies were married - Madame Gabrielle, the legless "halflady," has been married twice, by the way - a fact which goes to prove that certain types of men found them attractive. One of the cases cited, that of "Princess Anetta," the armless and legless girl who was actually stolen from the show where she was on exhibition, and married by her ardent admirer, is a remarkable instance of this peculiar "fetish". And another extraordinary example is that of Mdlle. Defries, the beautiful armless and one-legged girl, with whom a wealthy Greek, who saw her on exhibition, fell in love at sight and married amid great public ceremonial. One astonishing theory, too, about all these limbless ladies, on exhibition all over the world, is that they are the recipients of letters from numerous admirers, and proposals and marriage sent through the post quite common;

Love Letters to the Limbless.

A remarkable example of the power of this attraction came to light in the American papers of 1915 or 1916. A beauty contest was being run in one of the Southern States, and it was discovered that one of the competitors was a very beautiful girl, quite without legs, both having been lost in a street accident when a child.

She did not win one of the big prizes, as perfection of figure as well as of face was being taken into account; but a special price was awarded to her. As a result of the publicity, she received shoals of letters of congratulation, and many proposals of marriage. She eventually married one of her correspondents, and, according to the published account, was carried in full bridal attire to the altar by her father, and carried from the church, after the ceremony, in the arms of her newly-wed husband. One of the photographs taken after the ceremony showed the bride, a very radiant and beautiful girl, lying in the arms of her husband, and revealed quite clearly that she was entirely without legs, as the thin, filmy silk of her skirts hung quite slack and empty from her hips.

Pity is Akin to Love.

A somewhat similar case occurred in the North of England a few years ago. Among the victims of a bad railway smash was a girl whose injuries resulted in the amputation of both her legs at the thigh. She was the recipient of many letters of sympathy from total strangers, and a friendship developed with one of her correspondents that ultimately led to marriage.

One rather incredible aspect of this strange subject is that this fetish, in common with a large number of others, is actually catered for in certain quarters, though I must confess I have no personal experience of this.

In various continental cities, and in South America, notably in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, there exist agencies of a certain type, through which clients are introduced to suitable members of the opposite s*ex. the usual procedure is for the client to make his choice from sets of photographs amounting in all to several hundreds, one set being devoted to women lacking one or more limbs.

The majority of these women are, or course, one-legged, though one or two examples of armless or legless women have been encountered; and even, in one case at least, a young girl entirely without limbs; The informant to whom I am indebted for these facts also told me that at once, in a certain night haunt in Buenos Aires, he encountered a very attractive and voluptuous Spanish woman, sitting drinking at one of the tables. After an introduction and a chat, he asked her to dance and, we a little amused laugh she simply picked up the skirt of her thin crepe de chine frock and let it fall slackly over her knees, thus revealing the startling fact that she was quite legless from the hips; He learnt that the woman was a well known habitue of the place, and had her admirers just like any other woman.

Fetishism of any kind, including this particular form of it, is, by the way, much more common in men than in women, some psychologists being the opinion that it is extremely rare in women. But one form of it, though not, of course, a true form, does exist - namely, the keen desire in a woman to gratify the fetish or craving in the man.

Thus woman will take a keen delight in wearing abnormally high heels, or in extremely tight-lacing, in order to gratify these cravings in a lover. And, of course, as every girl knows, she very often takes a delight in these things for their own sake. In exactly the same way, strange as it may seem, cases are in record in which women have come to regard their lack of limbs with a perverse pleasure, and even pride; Often this arises, somewhat naturally, because of the admiration of the man who has fallen in love with their incomplete charms. They press themselves under his administration, and so come to regard their deficiency as something at least novel and interesting.

This curious pride, or whatever it is, is most frequently observed, however, in women born without one or more limbs, and who are exhibited as freaks before the public; and, in a way, it has merciful dispensation. In many cases they look upon themselves as unique human beings, especially if they are pretty and their forms, except for the absence of limbs, are built on pleasing lines.

A pretty armless girl, on exhibition in America, when asked if she did not miss her arms, replied characteristically:

"Why should I miss them? I never had them, and my feet and toes do everything I ask them. I guess, anyway, arms ain't anything to worry about. Here and there you should see a good looking pair, but mostly they don't amount to much; and they sure would spoil my shoulders if I had them!"

The girl in question had a perfect pair of shoulders, revealing no trace of arms and without a blemish of any kind, and surgeons and artists have commented upon their wonderful symmetry. She was therefore quite unashamedly proud of her armless shoulders, and really enjoyed exhibiting her deficiency and showing how cleverly she could do without such useless and unornamental appendages as mere arms.

At least one case is on record of a pretty girl undergoing voluntary and complete amputation of a crippled leg, as she preferred to have one pretty and shapely leg to two, and one of which was unsightly. The case attracted public notice because of an attack made on the surgeon who amputated the limb, and he defended his action as not only humane, but necessary, as the girl's health had improved enormously since her recovery from the operation.

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed on in your philosophy, Horatio," wrote Shakespeare, and the immortal words are as true to-day as when the great dramatist penned them, three hundred years ago.

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