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The Spank Statement began in 2007 using a reclining nude by 18th Century French painter Francois Boucher as the header image. The model is Mary-Louise O’Murphy a young Irish girl who became one of the mistresses of King Louis XV. Ever since, I’ve changed the image each year but stuck with the basic subject of a rear view reclining nude with draperies.

In 2008 actress Lindsey Lohan replaced Louise O’Murphy.

She is recreating the famous ‘Last Sitting’ photoshoot by Marilyn Monroe for New York Magazine in February of that year.

In 2009, I used a picture of British fashion expert Susannah Constantine which was found on an itv.com web page about her latest television series. (One reader thought that it was Cybil Shepherd.)

In 2010, this was replaced by a screen grab of British actress Jodie Whittaker taken from the 2006 film Venus - the subject of one of the earliest Spank Statements.

As I explained in the post, she is recreating a famous nude of the Goddess of Love by Spanish painter Velasquez in the National Gallery, London.

In 2011, I appealed for a ‘lost’ photo of actress Leslie-Anne Down which I hadn’t seen for years and a reader kindly found it for me on the Vintage Erotica Forum. It comes from a shoot that Lesley-Anne did for the soft porn magazine Mayfair.

The pose is probably also based on the Velasquez picture.