History of Female Domination Magazines: 1900 - 1970

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Like Coutts and Guyette, Burtman was a publisher who was also socially linked to practioners of female domination and fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing lifestyles. In 1958 Burtman and his business associates produced the first entirely FemDom女性支配 — female domination magazine, called “ Bizarre Desires”. It was big on Forced Feminzation and Female Domination themes. In 1959 and 1960, Burtman published “Masque” magazine. It only had 4 issues. Burtman started a new company, Selbee, and published such magazines as “Pepper”, “Fashion Fantasy”, “Lynda in Leather”, “Midnight Nurse” and “High Heels”.

In 1964, Burtman published “Bizarre Life”, which was dedicated to Female Domination, S&M and Fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing lifestyles.

Bettie Page at Leonard Burtman's apartment

In 1960, Leonard Burtman and his business partner, Ben Himmel, engaged in a large and novel project that was a milestone in the history of American Fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing style, the production of a 35mm feature film with explicit bizarre content, entitled “Satan in High Heels” (reviewed by Ms Kathleen in the Sept/Oct 2007 issue of Predominant) and is the first feature film created by sub顺从者 — a submissive person-cultural producers. It was the first mass-distributed, popular culture film to employ explicit American fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing imagery.

Burtman frequently used his apartment when taking photos of fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing models which appeared in his magazines. He also used his apartment as one of the sets in “Satan in High Heels”.