# Marilyn Monroe or Bettie Page: who puts more va-va in your voom? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182 "2005-08-16T01:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/41 "2005-08-16T20:25:31Z")
Oops, forgot one thing: Loved Jennifer Connelly in **The Rocketeer**. Now imagine her with bangs…hmmmmm. An interesting thought. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/42 "2005-08-16T20:38:00Z")
**Rocketeer** , did you ever see the original comic book illustrations for _The Rocketeer_? They’ll put a r… Nah, too easy. I’d do a google search for them but probably not safe at work. I have long known that I am the reincarnation of Irving Klaw - except I don’t have my sister tie up the models 😃 - so there is no question about which lady I prefer. My lovely wife who is also a fan got me an Irving and Betty diorama from Dark Horse Press a few years ago. Too well endowed? I like Bettie somewhat despite the fact that her build isn’t as curvy as I prefer and Marylin was not exactly top heavy. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/43 "2005-08-16T20:43:26Z")
> [@EarthStone777](#): > > Although I prefer blonds to brunettes (but it’s redheads who really get my blood pumping)… Wow, was I glad to see that post. I get so bummed out by all the discussions of “Who’s sexier, blondes or brunettes?” Although I find both Marilyn and Bettie to be very attractive (even though I am a heterosexual female), I abstain from voting unless there is a redhead on the ballot. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/44 "2005-08-16T20:59:33Z")
A [Much](http://www.operagloves.com/Superstars/BettiePage/bettie-page02.jpg) better picture of betty. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/45 "2005-08-16T21:12:24Z")
Marilyn Monroe, even though I don’t especially go for blondes. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/46 "2005-08-16T21:14:09Z")
> [@Padeye](#): > > **Rocketeer** , did you ever see the original comic book illustrations for _The Rocketeer_? Well, of course I have. 😉 Dave Stevens’ Bettie is purt-nigh the sexiest gal ever put in a comic book. ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/47 "2005-08-16T21:40:22Z")
i once received this from a self proclaimed “expert” (and yes, he granted permission for me to post it) To {pixisis} ``` You are one of only seven women world-wide who have been given access to the secret and revered world of Betty Page. Betty Page IS sex. You are not to divulge to any other woman the existence of Betty Page or your newly acquired knowledge that millions of men around the globe use Betty Page as THE Bedroom Standard by which all other women, for nearly half a century, have been judged. You have been allowed into the secret World of Men and Betty Page because we have judged you to be "One Who Understands and Appreciates." Emulate Betty and your pillow shall be of Rose Petals, your dinners shall be sumptuous, diamonds shall illuminate your bodice, and your stockinged covered legs shall be stroked and worshiped. Tell NO OTHER WOMAN. They will NOT understand. Signed The Men. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/48 "2005-08-16T21:56:11Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > A [Much](http://www.operagloves.com/Superstars/BettiePage/bettie-page02.jpg) better picture of betty. Link doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/49 "2005-08-16T23:14:40Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Link doesn’t work. [http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.operagloves.com/Superstars/BettiePage/bettie-page02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.operagloves.com/Superstars/BettiePage/bettiepage4.html&h=600&w=380&sz=31&tbnid=krxWXI4WH7QJ:&tbnh=133&tbnw=84&hl=en&start=14&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbettie%2Bpage%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.operagloves.com/Superstars/BettiePage/bettie-page02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.operagloves.com/Superstars/BettiePage/bettiepage4.html&h=600&w=380&sz=31&tbnid=krxWXI4WH7QJ:&tbnh=133&tbnw=84&hl=en&start=14&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbettie%2Bpage%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG) Oddly enough, if you go there once, the link will work after that. Strange. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/50 "2005-08-16T23:35:10Z")
Marilyn is pretty hot, very sexy, but it’s the lovely [Maureen O’Hara](http://www.skylighters.org/photos/pinups/moohara1.jpg) that does it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/51 "2005-08-17T00:00:06Z")
I honestly can’t choose between the two of them. Can’t I have both? ---
**Author:** ![Mickeyboy87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@Mickeyboy87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickeyboy87)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/52 "2005-08-17T00:30:01Z")
Mm. ---
**Author:** ![Mickeyboy87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@Mickeyboy87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickeyboy87)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/53 "2005-08-17T00:31:36Z")
That should be MM ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/54 "2005-08-17T01:11:04Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Ginger vs. Maryann is \*\*Maryann \*\* all the way for me. I buck geek convention on that one and go with Ginger. Redhead. Up-front va-va-voom. Yummy. > [@Queen Tonya](#): > > If my, uh, voom could va-va, it’d be for Bettie. I deliberately used a gender-neutral euphemism for a spike in horniness, so your voom can probably va-va with the best of 'em. > [@pinkfreud](#): > > Although I find both Marilyn and Bettie to be very attractive (even though I am a heterosexual female), I abstain from voting unless there is a redhead on the ballot I highly encourage you to set up a sexiness poll involving an iconic redhead. This one came about not to explore brunette/blonde thing, but because I was thinking about Bettie Page (yes, just _thinking_) and wondered, given the revival of interest in her, how she compared to another, more mainstream '50s sexual icon. MM seemed the obvious counterpoint. > [@buttonjockey308](#): > > Artists like Coop aren’t drawing Monroe 50 years later, they’re drawing Bettie Page Ahem. How about [Ron English](http://www.popaganda.com/Paintings/body_paintings.shtml) (PROBABLY NOT WORK SAFE)? That said, I much prefer Coop, and you can consider your point taken. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/55 "2005-08-17T19:47:46Z")
> [@Interrobang!?](#): > > I highly encourage you to set up a sexiness poll involving an iconic redhead. Hmmmm. Who should it be? [Maureen O’Hara](http://www.skylighters.org/photos/oct95pu.html)? [Tempest Storm](http://www.imagemakers.mb.ca/pinups/burlesque/storm/tempest06.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/56 "2005-08-17T19:54:13Z")
Marilyn. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/57 "2005-08-17T20:03:20Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Hmmmm. Who should it be? > [Maureen O’Hara](http://www.skylighters.org/photos/oct95pu.html)? [Tempest Storm](http://www.imagemakers.mb.ca/pinups/burlesque/storm/tempest06.jpg)? There aren’t nearly enough iconic redheads. I dig April Hunter, myself – go ahead and Google her website, but not from work. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/58 "2005-08-17T21:40:23Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > There aren’t nearly enough iconic redheads. I dig April Hunter, myself – go ahead and Google her website, but not from work. Holy Flurking Schmidt! …but is she “iconic”? ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/59 "2005-08-17T22:02:36Z")
Marilyn. Bettie looks trashy to me. I’m really more of an Audrey Hepburn type, though. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182/60 "2005-08-17T22:06:23Z")
Bettie for me. BTW, **kelly5078** , somehow I’ve always thought of Audrey Hepburn as being classy, and that’s never been the image I associated with MM. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marilyn-monroe-or-bettie-page-who-puts-more-va-va-in-your-voom/317182.md?page=4)