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Abnormal Tales: 33 Vintage Lesbian Paperbacks From the 50s And 60s
“TWISTED”, “Depraved”, “Warped” – these are words often found on the covers of sleazy lesbian paperbacks of the 1950s and 60s. Anything other than “normal” heterosexuality was seen as shameful and...
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Classic Sleazy Reads: The Christina Books
THE Christina books lasted through the Seventies and the Eighties, through several authors at the helm, and through several publishers. The series is a testament to what a hot chick on a paperback...
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15 Unspeakably Bad Book Covers
I very nearly wrote an article on the greatest book covers, but soon realized that bad ones are much more fun. Here are 15 vintage book covers that deserve our mocking laughter due either to their...
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An Ambush Of Psychotic Lust! 10 Sleazy Mid-Century Paperback Blurbs
The wonderfully lurid covers of trashy pulp fiction are a joy to behold; however, it’s the blurb on the back that provides the most entertainment. These over-the-top descriptions were designed to shock...
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Paperback Tramps: A Vintage Bad Girl Library
To list every vintage paperback featuring husband chasers, saucy secretaries, and teen temptresses would fill up the internet. Suffice it to say, the bad girl paperback was a genre unto itself in...
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Attack of the Floating Eyeballs! A Vintage Design Virus
The imagery goes back to prehistory, it was an Egyptian symbol, a facet of the Hindu religion, and a major part of the symbology of the Freemasons. America’s Founding Fathers were all a bunch of...
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Sex And The Censors: America’s First Obscene Books Commission (1953 – 1973)
“Trying to Define What May Be Indefinable”: The Georgia Literature Commission, 1953-1973 It has been said that when the late Justice Potter Stewart penned his now-famous or (infamous?) definition of...
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Girls on Phones: A Vintage Pop Culture Gallery
Here is a gallery of 45 ladies on telephones culled from vintage books, magazines, records, found photographs, advertising and other ephemera. We’ve covered this topic once before (see Dial “R” for...
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Skulls on Vintage Book Covers: A Frightfully Overused Motif
Admittedly, it’s a compelling image. What’s more attention grabbing and fitting for a macabre tale than the image of a human skull? Yet, it’s an understatement to say it was an overused concept,...
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80 Playtime Paperbacks: A Library of Sleazy Reads
Many decades before the internet began providing the word with a cornucopia of sleaze, paperback books were a favorite among adult smut connoisseurs. The sheer number of sleazy reads published...
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Blood, Bullets & Broads: 50 Vintage Espionage & Action Paperback Covers
Vintage espionage and action paperbacks gave a guy everything he could ever want in a book: cool dudes, sexy girls, and pages upon pages of gun battles and amorous adventures. If they were half as...
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When Pan Was King
There was a time when it seemed every home had a Pan paperback somewhere on the premises. They could usually be found tucked up on a shelf, or faithfully nestling dogeared by the fire, or hidden...
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