Dancer

Honeysuckle Divine

American prostitute

Born 1938 · Rock IslandUnited States
Honeysuckle Divine
Image: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Honeysuckle Divine is an American dancer, born in 1938 in Rock Island.

Biography

Honeysuckle Divine (born Betty Jane Allsup; January 21, 1938) is a retired American stripper, erotic performance artist, and sexual columnist. Her specialty was inserting and ejecting things from her vagina onstage; when she performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, she was described in the program as "vaginiste", a performer using the vagina. She was often arrested. According to Bruce David, editor of SCREW in the 1970s, then editor of Hustler, she was at one point the best-known stripper in the United States. She is particularly associated with SCREW, for whom she was a sort of mascot. As Al Goldstein said, her act "was unbelievably disgusting, so naturally, we made her our symbol." She was the only female associated with SCREW over any period of time.

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Contemporaries

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