Honeysuckle Divine

For the drag queen and actor born Harris Glenn Milstead, see Divine (performer).
Honeysuckle Divine
Born
Betty Jane Allsup

(1938-01-21) January 21, 1938 (age 86)
Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationBurlesque dancer
Years active1962–1985

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.

  1. ^ West, Ashley (October 5, 2014). "Whatever Happened to Honeysuckle Divine? Stripping, God, and Ping Pong Balls". The Rialto Report. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Sloan, Will. "Al Goldstein: The Anti-Hef". Hazlitt. Archived from the original on October 30, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2016.