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Grove Press 1968

Grove Press 1968

Forget Fifty Shades of Grey, here’s five erotic titles from the legendary Olympia Book Society including Bondage Trash, Until She Screams, Busy Bodies, and The Whip Angels, all 1969. In the 1950s, when dirtya nd great books alike were being banned in Britain and America, Maurice Girodias founded the Olympia Press and launched a career in Paris that earned him the nickname the “Prince of Porn.”

Forget Fifty Shades of Grey, here’s five erotic titles from the legendary Olympia Book Society including Bondage Trash, Until She Screams, Busy Bodies, and The Whip Angels, all 1969. In the 1950s, when dirtya nd great books alike were being banned in Britain and America, Maurice Girodias founded the Olympia Press and launched a career in Paris that earned him the nickname the “Prince of Porn.”

Smut: Perversion for Profit: Vintage Anti-Porn Propaganda - “A vintage card from the Tea Party playbook, or what the Kama Sutra has to do with the fall of the Roman Empire” Fascinating look (from Dan Colman of Open Culture ), about the face of  Savings & Loan crisis of the late 1980s, Charles Keating and his involvement in Citizens for Decent Literature, and subsequent production of mid-1960s propaganda films like Perversion for Profit, which he hoped would make the visual case that pornography, and homosexuality threatened to undermine America as a civilization.