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Stud For Sale

Title: Stud For Sale (Bedside BB 1231)
Author: Jim Grant
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1962

“He had what women wanted–and they paid him for it.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA

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Women in Prison

Title: Women in Prison (Perma Star 239)
Author: Joan Henry
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1953

“The revealing Story of the Strange Warped Life of WOMEN IN PRISON”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

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The Off-Limits World

Title: The Off-Limits World (Domino 72-902)
Author: Carla Josephs
Artist: (photo)
Year: 1965

“Normal men and women were not permitted to enter their realm of lust and passion gone wild.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

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Black Opium

Title: Black Opium (Berkley G-120)
Author: Claude Farrère
Artist: Robert Maguire
Year: 1958

“A forbidden world where human bodies find themselves possessed and driven by desires which consume them in the flames of hot-blooded ecstasy.”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Drug Use

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Ask the Dust

Title: Ask the Dust (Bantam 1194)
Author: John Fante
Artist: Harry Schaare
Year: 1954

“He was Young, Broke and Driven by a Raging Thirst for Life”

Categories: Hot-Blooded Classics

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The House on Q Street

Title: The House on Q Street (Dell First Edition A175)
Author: Robert Dietrich (pseudonym of E. Howard Hunt)
Artist: Robert McGinnis
Year: 1961

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Mystery and Thrillers,

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Kept Boy

Title: Kept Boy (Rapture RB 408)
Author: Ed Culver
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1964

“Warner Barclay was a well-known Interior Decorator, his Manhattan town house reflected his talent and his impeccable taste. But his cottage on Fire Island was a decorator’s nightmare; at least to his young friend and companion Carl Miller.”

Categories: Gay Male

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Lesbo Spa

Title: Lesbo Spa (Evening Reader ER 792)
Author: John Dexter
Author: Robert Bonfils (?)
Year: 1965

“They sated their twisted passions at this LESBO SPA! The sin resort that could cure or kill any sickness. . . any sickness except the wanton excesses that drove the guests straight to shame and degradation.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

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Naked Holiday

Title: Naked Holiday (Nightstand Book NB 1512)
Author: Don Elliot (aka Robert Silverberg)
Artist: W. H. McCauley
Year: 1960

“They exposed their bodies and their hungry desires.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA

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The Fag End

Title: The Fag End (Adult Book AB442)
Author: Dick Dale
Artist: Robert Bonfils (?)
Year: 1968

“They hurried on down at the gay souls’ picnic”

Categories: Gay Male

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