A Blushes Girl’s First Job
From Blushes 25, a behind-the-scenes piece with the girl I will always think of as Sharon Smithfield. I can’t quite put my finger on the story this shoot relates to, although it looks familiar. Any ideas? A full commentary would be redundant; it will be sufficient if you know that there is an all-male ‘crew’ of five there to shoot a sequence in which Tracey is to play the part of a first-year student opposite a man whose role is that of lefty lecturer with licentious notions about girl students and discipline. It has been mentioned to Tracey that for the sake of ‘realism’ it may be necessary actually to apply palm to bottom or cane to buttock — ‘Nothing to worry about, sweetheart. Just enough to make it look ‘real’ — that’s quite important you know.’ This information, dropped into the conversation dismissively, has, of course, begun to play on Tracey’s mind; she breezes about putting over an act of careless gaiety, but one can tell,...