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Authors: Robert Gordon
The tributes to Muddy keep on coming. The Blues Foundation, in addition to including Muddy in its inaugural Hall of Fame lineup, has honored many of his recordings. In the Hall of Fame Classics
of Blues Recordings Singles, Muddy has five songs: “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man,” “Got My Mojo Working,” “I’m Ready,” “Mannish Boy,” and
“Long Distance Call.” In the Albums category, they have included
The Best of Muddy Waters, McKinley Morganfield AKA Muddy Waters,
and
Muddy Waters — The Chess
Box.
In addition, they have honored several reissues of his recordings.
While Muddy would certainly have been honored by these various accolades, the lasting tribute that may have been nearest his heart is found in a book entitled
365 Ways to Improve Your Sex
Life: From the Files of the Playboy Advisor
(James Petersen, ed.). They quote a correspondent, “W. G.” from Kansas City, Missouri, who writes about a technique called the
“Venus Butterfly.”
Take your penis, hard or soft, in hand and, starting at the south end of the vagina, gently rub the head into the groove of the vagina, lightly sliding it up towards the
clitoris. Now reverse the process and slide slowly back down. Repeat. After a few gentle repetitions, the labia should begin to unfold, with the cleft moistening. If it wasn’t hard when
you began, the penis should now begin to harden. Now you have prepared yourself and your partner for the Venus Butterfly. Gently work the shaft lengthwise into the fold of the vagina. This is
when you achieve the likeness of the butterfly, with the shaft of the penis as its head and abdomen and the labia as its wings. What’s more, even the smallest penis will adequately
stimulate the largest vagina and the smallest vagina will accommodate the largest of penises.
But the Venus Butterfly didn’t originate with the mysterious W. G. “For years I have been practicing this technique with great success, tho it is the late
great Muddy Waters who should be given credit for inventing it.”
274
“I’ve never been a big shot”: McKee and Chisenhall,
Beale,
p. 238.
275
“intensely worldly”: Work,
American Negro Songs,
p. 28.
277
Maxwell Street: For information on preservation efforts, see www.openair.org/maxwell/preserve.html and www.maxwellstreet.org.
279
James Cotton’s successful solo career: See his Web site, www.jamescottonsuperharp.com.
279
a successful harmonica instruction booklet: Portnoy’s booklet is available through www.harpmaster.com.
280
“When MCA acquired Chess”: Patrick Goldstein, “It’s Now Money — Not Just Glory — for
Bluesmen,”
Los Angeles Times,
December 3, 1989.
284
“The blues were around”: Fields,
Daily News
article, Library of Congress.
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