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by
Liz Goldwyn
This
interview was originally published
in the October 5, 2000 Velvet Hammer
souvenir programme.
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Zorita
was adopted at an early age by a family in Chicago. To make some money
and get out of an increasingly bad home situation, she started manicuring
at a barbershop. She was 15 years old, with “big knockers”
when a colleague asked her if she wanted work at stag parties. This
meant stripping for bachelors to phonograph records or an accordion.
“It’s hell trying to dance to an accordion,” she tells
me. From stag parties she went to work at a nudist’s colony at
the San Diego World’s Fair as “Miss England.” Here she
befriended a geek who charmed snakes among other talents. As a parting
gift, he gave her two snakes, Elmer and Oscar, which she kept in her
closet, in a canvas sac. Zorita then found work in a burlesque theater
and fell upon her own gimmick — the snakes. She came up with a
number called “the consummation of the wedding of the snake.”
A synopsis: “a gorgeous young maiden is going to be sold into slavery
to an ugly old man. Instead, she dances with a snake, gets bitten and
dies.” This dance, she re-enacts for me with full candor, replete
with grinding and orgasm moans as the “wedding” is consummated.
I can only imagine what kind of response she got.
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Zorita shows me page after page of glamorous photos of herself —
black hair with platinum streaks, men’s suits with sexy lingerie
underneath — a real spitfire. She thinks I am prude and overly
fascinated with her sexuality. I don’t know how I can help but
be fascinated by this woman who presents a picture of complete control
and confidence. She stripped for men but loved women. After all, she
tells me, men are “hairy” and “only good for getting
what you want out of them.”
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