Harem Whipping, Interrupted
This Italian pulp-cover harem whipping scene is interesting to me mostly for the gender ambiguity of the character doing the whipping. I suspect in its 1970 or 1980 context we were intended to read this person as the stereotypical harem “eunuch” but the earrings and eyebrows encode something like “sadistic drag queen” to my 2018 eyes:
But here’s what I really want to know: is that a badly-drawn Gallic Elvis who is bursting in to save the day?
Artwork is from the cover of Belfagor #15.
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