LEGS

DAVE NAZ
Goliath, Frankfurt ***

I have to admit I’m grateful that with Legs, Dave Naz —  a charming and urbane individual — has shifted his focus away from the gusset-sniffing territory of his previous book Panties. There is just no way of making a book with a title like that look cool, and the whole cotton keks thing is so not what modern fetishism is about.

Legs are a much more legitimate area of pervy interest, though one has to wonder why a book almost entirely devoted to the delights of hosiery-clad limbs should have, as its cover image, one of the few nude pictures in the set.

A lot of the images inside were shot for US leg-porn mags like Leg Show and Leg World, but the book’s general style is very much that of showing the whole woman, not just the area specifically fetishised. Nina Hartley, author of the foreword, points out, “each model displays her own personality… some sport tiny smirks, others wide grins…”. You know, looking at some of these poses, I’d have looked for another way to say that!

Anyway, fans of US fetish models who appear regularly in European magazines are going to find plenty of familiar faces here. And if you like your pins clad in shiny Lycra, fishnet or classic seamed nylons, and your women photographed in the sort of domestic settings that can bring out the cutesy girl-next-door in some of the most glamorous fetish queens, then this is a book for you.

I won’t lie and say Legs is a gusset-free zone. But the gussets are mainly of the pantyhose variety and there’s only one really dodgy white cotton shot in the whole book. TM (Reviewed Dec 2004)
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