They are the older/non-sexual "Mammies", with stereotypical black features, large breasts, large hips with protruding butt, large lips, large noses, but also have the potential to be sexually deviant . Then there is the Jezebel, created during slavery "to mask the sexual and economic exploitation of young black women." (Willis, 71), was used and attached to young black women during slavery to mark them as “primitive, seductive, and ever-desirous.” for sex." (Willis, 71) Both caricatures are enduring plaques for black female sexuality. There is never an in-between version of mammy or the immoral jezebel/primitive 'ho'. Black burlesque performers use their bodies/attitudes so as to promulgate that yes, I am sexual, yes, I am flirtatious, yes, I like attention, applause, laughter, audience support, and yes, I can woo a crowd using my sexuality and my body in a way that is not just a personal statement but a significant political statement that I choose to show my body is mainstream, copied and reconstructed on more acceptable bodies Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace” which dealt with how black women are presented in popular culture, notes that: “when black women relate to their bodies, our sexuality, in ways that make it erotic