Uploaded August 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Topless Torero teaches 1950s housewives the "Picas". A new stream lined way of exercising called Las Picas.
A slimming device expertly demonstrated by a topless man and some London show girls. A very innovative invention.

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A slimming device expertly demonstrated by a topless man and some London show girls. A very innovative invention.
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