Stewardess

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A stewardess is a female flight attendant employed by a commercial airline. Since the 1990s, the title of stewardess and air hostess has been generally replaced by terms deemed more "politically correct" such as flight attendant, cabin attendant, and cabin crewmember. Ever since commercial air travel began in the 1930s, stewardesses have been used to ensure the safety and comfort of the passengers. They, along with male stewards, also work on private jets and on some military aircraft.

The sexualization of the stewardess

Stewardesses wear uniforms and are stereotypically friendly, good-looking and slim-bodied (due to enforced weight and dress-size requirements). They quickly became sexualized objects of fantasy similar to teachers, waitresses, secretaries, nurses, maids and other female professionals.

Novels and magazines

The earliest manifestation appeared in the form of adult pulp novels starting in the early sixties. Cheap paperbacks with lurid cover art such as Fly Girl (1961), Flight Hostess Rogers (1962, photo), The Young Stewardess, Sin Hostess (1963, photo), Spanking Stewardess (1970, photo), and Orgy in the Sky (1970, photo).

Adult magazines also produced stewardess fantasy images. The spanking magazine New Derriere #4 (1981), for example, featured a cover story of a stewardess spanking (photos). The images were stills from the Harrison Marks video Air Hostess.

Film and Television

Romantic dramas such as Come Fly with Me (1963) and Boeing, Boeing (1965), an uproarious sex comedy based on a popular play, emphasized the glamour and adventure of the early days of air travel and the implied sexual liberation that came with being an airline hostess. This era was recreated in the TV series Pan Am (2011-2012). Set in 1963-1964, this period drama about the lives of Pan American World Airways stewardesses starred Christina Ricci and Margot Robbie. In its heyday in the sixties, Pan Am was renowned for its top-quality service, cuisine, and highly-trained and smartly attired flight crew.

In the late sixties and seventies the sexploitation film industry began a series of erotic comedies and dramas with sex and nudity featuring stewardesses. This "stewardess-spolitation" cycle was part of a then-popular uniform-fetish trend which included scores of adult-oriented and pornographic nurse, cheerleader, maid, and schoolgirl films.

Examples include Bedroom Stewardesses (Germany, 1968), The Stewardesses (1969), Stewardesses Report (Germany, 1971), The Air Stewardess (Greece, 1971), Swedish Fly Girls (Denmark, 1971), Supersonic Supergirls aka International Stewardesses (1973), Fly Me (1973), The Naughty Stewardesses (1974), Blazing Stewardesses (1975), Kokusai-sen stewardess: kanno hiko (Japan, 1976), and Stewardess School (1986).

In 2003, pop singer Britney Spears played a sexy stewardess in a vintage Pan Am-style uniform in the cinematic video for her single "Toxic" (YouTube video).

Archer, an animated spy spoof series features a sexy French stewardess in the first episode. She and agent Archer are laying naked in bed together. She has a large red bruise on her backside. Archer raises a ping-pong paddle and jokes "Just give me five minutes on my backhand". A clip can be viewed on YouTube, still photo at this website.

Spanking videos

Occasionally stewardesses are featured as characters in spanking videos.

Spanked-In-Uniform (website), a division of the Amsterdam video company Real Life Spankings, produces a Europe Airlines series with over 40 corporal punishment titles with stewardesses in sixties-style pink uniforms (photos).

Selected titles:

The Japanese company Cutie Spankee also produces videos and photosets featuring spanked stewardesses (gallery).

Titles from other video companies:

See also

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