1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,000 I've been plastic, it's fantastic 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Imagination 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Welcome back to Escort Confessions and I am your host, Lili Manvour. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:24,000 So as you can tell from the song, we are going to talk about Barbie and how she fits into the sex world. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Last week there was a world premiere of Barbie and Oppenheimer and I'm sure both are great. 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:38,000 I don't usually go to movie premieres because first of all there's too many people who leave popcorn everywhere. 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,000 People keep texting, people keep talking, people keep playing on their cell phones and shit like that. 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:52,000 So I'm sure it's fun, I'm sure everybody, well, everybody, well almost everybody wore pink for Barbie premiere 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,000 and you know, was very serious during the Oppenheimer, which I am really excited to see. 12 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,000 I really like Christopher Nolan's work and his work as a director and his ideas. 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,000 So yeah, and of course, Kari M. Murphy, he's great, has been in a lot of things, just haven't seen it. 14 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:16,000 I like him because he's, yeah, dirty material. Anyways, anyways. 15 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:25,000 First things first, my friend Lane, who was my co-host in season one, he sent me this link yesterday 16 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:32,000 and basically it was about how Barbie was inspired by German escort. 17 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 So here we go, here's some history. 18 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Turns out that Barbie's original design was based on German adult gay gift escort doll named Lily. 19 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:50,000 That's right, she wasn't a dentist or a surgeon, an Olympic gymnast, but you know, she wasn't a toy for little girls back then. 20 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:59,000 So Barbie started in the late 1940s as a German cartoon character created by an artist Reinhard Boethien 21 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,000 for the Hamburg based tabloid Bildseitung, which is German basically. 22 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:15,000 The comic strip character was known as Bede Lille, a post-war gold digging, box and broad who got by in life seducing wealthy Maine suitors. 23 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,000 She was famously quick with it and known to talk back when it came to male authority. 24 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:27,000 In one cartoon, Lily is warned by a policeman for illegally wearing a bikini out on the sidewalk. 25 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:33,000 With which Lily responds, Oh, and your opinion, what part should I take off? 26 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:41,000 She became so popular that in 1953, the newspaper decided to market a three dimensional version, 27 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:49,000 which was sold as an adult novelty toy available to buy from bars, tobacco kiosks and adult toy stores. 28 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:55,000 They were often given out as a bachelor party gay gifts and dingle from a car's rearview mirror. 29 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 So she was pretty small, but she was also like a Barbie sized doll. 30 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:10,000 So parents considered the doll inappropriate for children and a German brochure from the 1950s described Lily as always discreet. 31 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:17,000 And just like me, and with her impressive wardrobe, she was the star of every bar. 32 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:27,000 She did indeed have such a wide range of outfits and accessories you could buy for her that eventually little girls began wanting her as a play doll too. 33 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:37,000 While toy factories tried to cash in on her popularity with children, Lily still remained a successful adult novelty, especially outside of Germany. 34 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:44,000 A journalist for the New Yorker magazine, Ariel Levy, later referred to Lily as a sex doll. 35 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:53,000 In the 1950s, one of the founders of Mattel, Ruth Handler, was traveling to Europe and bought a few Lily dolls to take home. 36 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:01,000 She reworked the design of the doll and later debuted Barbie at the New York Toy Fair on March 9, 1959. 37 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Mattel acquired the rights to build Lily in 1964 and production of the German doll seized. 38 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:15,000 And it's funny how Barbie's leather skin tone was just about the only noticeable change in the early days. 39 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:30,000 And build Lily had really long eyelashes, she had her nails painted red, a variety of clothes, and she was skinny, a perfect hourglass figure. 40 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I actually went on eBay and Amazon and looked for her. I didn't really find it. 41 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:46,000 And of course, the collectibles are going to be worth thousands of dollars. But I did find the Russian Barbie. 42 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:53,000 So she's a collection of dolls of the world Barbie collection. And I found two Russian ones. 43 00:04:53,000 --> 00:05:04,000 I'm bidding on the 1990s, I think it's from. Yeah, I'm bidding on it. I found it for $62 on eBay. 44 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:15,000 I bid max 80. Nobody's winning except for me in a bid war on eBay. And on the Amazon, it was $162. 45 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:21,000 So I'm like, fuck you, Amazon. Fuck you. I mean, I don't want to say it makes sense. It makes sense. 46 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:29,000 I mean, she's blonde, she's cute, quick witted. You know, yeah, like she was a gold digger, but she was an escort. 47 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 I think it's like still super controversial and not a lot of people know about it. 48 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Like not a lot of people know about Barbie's origins. Like I did not know about it. I never wondered about it. 49 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:45,000 But yeah, because Lane sent me that article. I'm like, oh my God, that changes so many things. 50 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I mean, yeah, I'm kind of surprised that, you know, because we all used to play with dolls. 51 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,000 I'm sure. Well, every most every female used to play with dolls. You know, we got her naked. 52 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Like I got my Barbie naked all the time and she hooked up with Superman instead of Ken because I did not have Ken. 53 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:10,000 I had a short Superman. My Barbie was super tall and they made babies and they had lots of sex like everywhere. 54 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:17,000 So, yeah, I wonder if that experience made me who I am today because that makes a lot of sense. 55 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:24,000 So, so, yeah, like we got we got Barbie naked. I mean, we saw her boobs, but I was just surprised. 56 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:32,000 It wasn't like, you know, like a little slit. So, like, you could see that it is, you know, her vulva and vagina and yeah. 57 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Yeah. So that's that was very interesting. I am surprised I didn't add penis to Ken doll. 58 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:44,000 But that would make sense because Ken came later. I'm sure. I actually have a Barbie doll myself. 59 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,000 I never play with it. I just kind of designed her clothes, changed her haircut. 60 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 And she did look like me from twenty twenty one when my hair was short and blonde. 61 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:01,000 But yeah, that is so crazy that that's how Barbie came to be. So, yeah, fun facts. 62 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:11,000 And yeah, in the next podcast, we are going to talk about misconceptions about escorts. 63 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Yeah. So that's going to be very interesting. And I do hope you learn something from that, guys. 64 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:26,000 And please support this podcast. If you can catch up me, my cash up is dollar sign, Lily Monroe 555. 65 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:33,000 There was no spaces. And yeah, five dollars, twenty dollars. I mean, fifty would be great. 66 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:40,000 But yeah, five dollars, two dollars, ten dollars. Anything would help. You can follow me on Instagram. 67 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:49,000 You can follow me on TikTok. 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