I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
I've been plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination
Welcome back to Escort Confessions and I am your host, Lili Manvour.
So as you can tell from the song, we are going to talk about Barbie and how she fits into the sex world.
Last week there was a world premiere of Barbie and Oppenheimer and I'm sure both are great.
I don't usually go to movie premieres because first of all there's too many people who leave popcorn everywhere.
People keep texting, people keep talking, people keep playing on their cell phones and shit like that.
So I'm sure it's fun, I'm sure everybody, well, everybody, well almost everybody wore pink for Barbie premiere
and you know, was very serious during the Oppenheimer, which I am really excited to see.
I really like Christopher Nolan's work and his work as a director and his ideas.
So yeah, and of course, Kari M. Murphy, he's great, has been in a lot of things, just haven't seen it.
I like him because he's, yeah, dirty material. Anyways, anyways.
First things first, my friend Lane, who was my co-host in season one, he sent me this link yesterday
and basically it was about how Barbie was inspired by German escort.
So here we go, here's some history.
Turns out that Barbie's original design was based on German adult gay gift escort doll named Lily.
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.
So Barbie started in the late 1940s as a German cartoon character created by an artist Reinhard Boethien
for the Hamburg based tabloid Bildseitung, which is German basically.
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.
She was famously quick with it and known to talk back when it came to male authority.
In one cartoon, Lily is warned by a policeman for illegally wearing a bikini out on the sidewalk.
With which Lily responds, Oh, and your opinion, what part should I take off?
She became so popular that in 1953, the newspaper decided to market a three dimensional version,
which was sold as an adult novelty toy available to buy from bars, tobacco kiosks and adult toy stores.
They were often given out as a bachelor party gay gifts and dingle from a car's rearview mirror.
So she was pretty small, but she was also like a Barbie sized doll.
So parents considered the doll inappropriate for children and a German brochure from the 1950s described Lily as always discreet.
And just like me, and with her impressive wardrobe, she was the star of every bar.
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.
While toy factories tried to cash in on her popularity with children, Lily still remained a successful adult novelty, especially outside of Germany.
A journalist for the New Yorker magazine, Ariel Levy, later referred to Lily as a sex doll.
In the 1950s, one of the founders of Mattel, Ruth Handler, was traveling to Europe and bought a few Lily dolls to take home.
She reworked the design of the doll and later debuted Barbie at the New York Toy Fair on March 9, 1959.
Mattel acquired the rights to build Lily in 1964 and production of the German doll seized.
And it's funny how Barbie's leather skin tone was just about the only noticeable change in the early days.
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.
I actually went on eBay and Amazon and looked for her. I didn't really find it.
And of course, the collectibles are going to be worth thousands of dollars. But I did find the Russian Barbie.
So she's a collection of dolls of the world Barbie collection. And I found two Russian ones.
I'm bidding on the 1990s, I think it's from. Yeah, I'm bidding on it. I found it for $62 on eBay.
I bid max 80. Nobody's winning except for me in a bid war on eBay. And on the Amazon, it was $162.
So I'm like, fuck you, Amazon. Fuck you. I mean, I don't want to say it makes sense. It makes sense.
I mean, she's blonde, she's cute, quick witted. You know, yeah, like she was a gold digger, but she was an escort.
I think it's like still super controversial and not a lot of people know about it.
Like not a lot of people know about Barbie's origins. Like I did not know about it. I never wondered about it.
But yeah, because Lane sent me that article. I'm like, oh my God, that changes so many things.
I mean, yeah, I'm kind of surprised that, you know, because we all used to play with dolls.
I'm sure. Well, every most every female used to play with dolls. You know, we got her naked.
Like I got my Barbie naked all the time and she hooked up with Superman instead of Ken because I did not have Ken.
I had a short Superman. My Barbie was super tall and they made babies and they had lots of sex like everywhere.
So, yeah, I wonder if that experience made me who I am today because that makes a lot of sense.
So, so, yeah, like we got we got Barbie naked. I mean, we saw her boobs, but I was just surprised.
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.
Yeah. So that's that was very interesting. I am surprised I didn't add penis to Ken doll.
But that would make sense because Ken came later. I'm sure. I actually have a Barbie doll myself.
I never play with it. I just kind of designed her clothes, changed her haircut.
And she did look like me from twenty twenty one when my hair was short and blonde.
But yeah, that is so crazy that that's how Barbie came to be. So, yeah, fun facts.
And yeah, in the next podcast, we are going to talk about misconceptions about escorts.
Yeah. So that's going to be very interesting. And I do hope you learn something from that, guys.
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