Imagine a woman so beautiful that men fought and killed each other in order to win her hand. A woman whose sexuality and beauty was so much that more than one man committed suicide at the end of his affair with her. No this isn’t the famed Helen of Troy of which I speak, but a queen among courtesans, the lovely La Belle Carolina Otero. During the early 1900′s the courtesans of France were heavily sought by men around the world. They came at an extremely high price, decorated themselves in expensive jewelry and had a grace in their gait that drove men mad. La Belle Otero was one of these women, her hair raven black, figure like a wine glass and complexion intoxicating. Born in Spain to a poverty-stricken home, the poor girl was raped into sterility at the tender age of 10 (Author’s note: what the hell!). At 13 years old she ran… [Read more]

I know I am going to get a ton of flack for this article but I am taking one for the team. God knows I will be whipped and tied to the “tree of woe” for this but it must be done. In the dating world, we tend to meet all types, you get the nice folks, the manipulative folks and the too perfect folks. Everyone writes about personality types, hell we here at the Dragon Blog are guilty of that too… but what about jobs? Doesn’t the nature of a person’s job weigh heavily on a relationship too? Now, you “married out of high school” people should play the sidelines on this one, this is for the troopers who have been in the trenches and have dated an emo nurse or pissy waitress. We all know that the job is extremely important in your partner’s temperament and sometimes a certain career path will lead… [Read more]

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, is a famous spy from history who was most definitely a hottie by every sense of the word. One of the most influential forces behind Orientalism and modern exotic dance, Mata Hari lived by her own rules and died with as much defiance of convention as she had lived. Yes all of you modern strippers and women of the night owe a little something to lady Margaretha who made such a mark that her name became world renowned by the time she was executed for treason. When she was about 18 yrs old, Margaretha answered an ad in the local newspaper, placed by a military man looking for a wife. After marrying and moving to the Dutch East Indies, the couple had two children named Norman-John and Jeanne-Louise.  The marriage was one of violence and drunk spousal abuse by officer Rudolph John MacLeod who blamed his position on his wife and beat… [Read more]