The most breathtaking of these beauties: a gown made of chocolate crocodile skin, cut into little squares and then individually sewn onto a nude body stocking.

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At one point, Anaya wears a black body stocking and a white plastic mask, and she looks like some legendary figure from a lyrical silent film.

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Beneath it too, sweating like a trooper in a thick body-stocking of foam rubber, was Ben Chapman.

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