Today is the 31st birthday of one of my favorite British racktresses, London native Rachel Stirling. So it seems like a good time to muse on her greatest work to date, the lesbian-laden three-part BBC miniseries Tipping the Velvet. In this Sapphic serial, the title of which is old British slang for rug-munching, Rachel plays a working class oyster picker who becomes a high-class clam digger when she discovers the hidden world of Victorian vag-itarians. Over the course of her sexual awakening, Rachel grinds groins with other girls, gets her carpet cleaned, and even walks among a crowd of women wearing nothing but gold body paint and a huge strap-on dildo. Rachel's hotness comes with a pedigree; her mother is Diana Rigg (Emma Peel from The Avengers), who was second only to The Beatles as Britain's hottest export in the swinging sixties.
Rachel Stirling Will Have You Polishing Your Silver
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