# Any novels/book series that now seems out of date/risque that wasn't back then?

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**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-novels-book-series-that-now-seems-out-of-date-risque-that-wasnt-back-then/930279 "2021-01-11T19:07:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-novels-book-series-that-now-seems-out-of-date-risque-that-wasnt-back-then/930279/21 "2021-01-13T14:33:21Z")

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> [@furryman](#):
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> The nudity of the female characters in Edgar Rice Burroughs books was fan service even back in the the early 1900’s. But you notice that there’s never been a serious movie adaptation where they did that. Unless you count Bo Derek in _Tarzan._

Maybe not in the movies\*, but in the comics adaptations – even in the Gold Key days – there was a surprising amount of near-nudity, both male and female.The DC and Marvel adaptations of Tarzan and especially of John Carter of Mars and the Pellucidar series featured plenty of flesh. And, of course, there were those Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo book covers.

> **[The Beasts of Pellucidar: Comic Book Style - Dark Worlds Quarterly](https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/the-beasts-of-pellucidar-comic-book-style/)**
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> The Beasts of Pellucidar first came to me comic book style with art by Riss Manning, Alan Weiss and Mike Kaluta.

Nowadays on the comic covers they’re practically nude.

\*at the end of the Disney _Tarzan_ both Jane and her father are living with Tarzan in the jungle, wearing minimal covering.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-novels-book-series-that-now-seems-out-of-date-risque-that-wasnt-back-then/930279/22 "2021-01-13T16:35:37Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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Yeah - Stranger in a Strange Land was quite tame when compared with FF and TEfL, and IWFNE just gets gross. What’s a little cannibalism and free love, compared with Heinlein’s obsession with incest and just-barely-fertile girls? Ick.

Door Into Summer bordered on the squickiness but not badly, compared with the others; the main character never acted upon (or even seemed all that tempted to) any misbehavin’ with Freddie, at least until she was fully adult.

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