Honeysuckle Divine | |
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Born | Betty Jane Allsup January 21, 1938 Rock Island, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation | Burlesque dancer |
Years active | 1962–1985 |
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.[1] 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."[2] She was the only female associated with SCREW over any period of time.