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Betty Boop and Bimbo Get Into a Sexual Tangle in ‘Barnacle Bill’

By Kit MacFarlane

The Fleischer Studios' Betty Boop cartoon Barnacle Bill embraces the pleasures of the perpetrator far more than the fate of the victim, where a cute cartoon pup gets to be a sexual predator and stoke our prurient interest in the 'joy of punishment'.

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