Swedish Venus: Ulla Lindstrom for the Festival of Lucia

It's the Swedish festival of Lucia today where Swedish girls put on white dresses with a red sash and walk about with candles on their heads.  It's a curious mixture of a celebration of early Christian martyr Santa Lucia, odd in itself for a primarily Lutheran country, and the Pagan festival of Yule built around the Winter Solstice. The winter solstice was celebrated on the 13th December rather than the 21st in Sweden.  This probably dates from the old use of the Julian calendar, until the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582.

First Page 3 picture

Anyway, here is the splendidly Swedish Ulla Lindstrom from Penthouse's November 1969 issue.  This was the same month that Ulla appeared as The Sun newspaper's first Page 3 Girl, on November 17th 1969.

There isn't a traditional greeting as such for Saint Lucia's day so we will just wish all our Swedish readers a God Jul for the season!

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Seven Million visits and some South Sea Island Venuses

We have just passed seven million visits on this blog so thank you to everyone who visits and, in particular, comments.

Now we usually try to feature a young lady from the country whose population most closely matches the landmark number of visits we have achieved.  The country with the population closest to seven million is Papua New Guinea.  

Oh no, we thought, we'll never find any Venuses from there.  We had such an issue in the past when we were trying to find attractive women from the Democartic Republic of Congo.  I'm sure there are  many attractive women in the Congo, they just don't take their clothes off and pose for photographers.  Actually, we had forgotten about the Zande people, who live in the north of the Congo as there are some very attractive ladies amongst them.

Anyway, back to PNG and we have discovered, with delight, that the ladies there have not bowed down to colonial missionaries who tried to get them to cover up in the nineteenth century or, rather, they now don't bother.  PNG must be one of the few (the only?) country where the contestants for the national beauty contest, Miss Papua New Guinea, pose topless in traditional dress for the contest.

Several of these shots are actually from past Miss Papua New Guinea contests.  Well done ladies; you look spectacular!

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