History of Female Domination Magazines: 1900 - 1970

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Like the French, German producers created hard media of photography and art with Fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing and Female Domination themes. German style Female Domination was big into boots and cruel women. The German influence made its way to England and eventually the United States prior to the Nazi reign.

Leonard "Lenny" Burtman was born in Nebraska in 1921 and lived in California between 1941 and 1950. During this time he worked in the electronics industry and trained at California Institute of Technology. In 1950, he moved to New York to start a new career. On arrival in New York, he started to work as a professional photographer, doing some work for Irving Klaw. Burtman met and married one of Klaw’s fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing models, burlesque dancer Tana Louise. Burtman and Louise became involved in New York fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing circles, and Burtman decided to become a magazine publisher and film producer with Tana Louise as his main model and actress. By the late 1950s, her marriage to Burtman had begun to deteriorate and they divorced. Soon after she left the magazine and disappeared from the public eye. In the 1960s, Tana Louise and burlesque striptease artist Mara Gaye started an exotic bizarre costumes mail order catalog company called ‘Tana and Mara’. Tana was one of the most famous fetish恋物 — a strong sexual focus on one thing models of her day, but as time went on she was overshadowed by her peer, Bettie Page.