Hey, I loved the Dracula reference, as well as the nod to Bowie's 1976 MWFTE film -- I think that film is sexy as hell! I wonder, could you list your top ten mistresses in fiction/film/TV etc.? I'd have the woman played by Penelope Craig in BBC's 'Butterflies' in the top five, for starters ...
Hope all is well with you and your beloved. Belaqua is coming to stay tomorrow for the Bank Holiday weekend: bliss!

lasttape

All is well with my beloved and myself except we will be apart for a week. I’ve just been away for a few days and he’s about to go and stay with his daughter….

I hope you and Belaqua have a lovely time together.

And as for the challenge – Quite a difficult one…

In no particular order:

1) Mme Butterfly for pathos, but I want to shake her as well…

2) Posy Simmonds did a rather funny version of Mme Bovary that appealed more than original – Gemma Bovary

3) I don’t remember a mistress in ‘Butterflies’ –But you made me think of Felicity Kendal in ‘The Mistress’ and I’d put her in top ten, but seem to remember she had a tough time...

4) Betty Boop – If she’s not a mistress she ought to be!

5) For sheer scariness – The therapist in Fay Weldon’s ‘Affliction’

6) I seem to remember Rona Jaffe’s ‘The Other Woman’ as a bit of a timepiece – may have to revisit, though…

7) I enjoyed Joanna Trollope’s ‘Marrying the Mistress’ (but not as much as ‘Other People’s Children’) and thought the mistress was very positively drawn.

8) Nell Gwynne is one of the more positive role models I guess – although real, the image is so hackneyed she’s almost fictional... At least there was something fun about her.

9) Very sentimental, but I am embarrassed to admit I quite liked Signora from Maeve Binchy’s ‘Evening Class’

10) And of course Glenda Jackson was very classy in ‘A Touch of Class’

Now that I have your attention I wish to discuss - film sex! Lasttape reminded me that as well as having found 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' sexy, I also found the Bowie film about vampires erotic as well. The film was absurd, but the sex was quite....stirring I seem to remember...
I was particularly impressed by the shower scene which brings me to an appalling anecdote.

I've always thought shower sex sounds erotic, but I'm such a wuss that I hate water running down my face. One of my male friends in my youth said he'd 'done it'. I explained my aversion and he said it wasn't a problem because they turned the shower off! Not exactly how I remember the film....

Lasttape has challenged me to think of a list of mistresses - may take a while...