Lesbian Erotica Covers from the 50’s and 60’s
A bit risque, but no nipples, nudity or bad language, and just absolutely jam packed with humor and cultural irony.
Dial up users beware! - Link is a zip file containing the 50 + jpg images (2.8 meg download)
From Abnormals Anonymous:
“Never had so desperate a group of human beings banded together.”
Hmmm… sounds like the SDMB!
From Abnormals Anonymous:
“Never had so desprate a group of human beings banded together.”
Hmmm… sounds like the SDMB!
Some others
While I find the covers intriguing, I have to wonder what the stories were like.
I know Oprah’s book club loved The Big Snatch.
good find astro !!!
I like the artwork, especially where the blouse is parted, revealing the “neck to navel” skin and nice cleavage. (See the covers of “Anybody’s Girl” or “Bed and Board”)
Since people have been quoting the cover taglines, here’s the one from “Black Silk Nymphos”:
“She lived for new thrills that could only be satisfied by the bodies of other women.”
And before anyone else says it: Black Silk Nymphos — band name !!!
Incidentally, I happen to be watching Showtime and saw an ad that the ‘L’ word will be shown next Monday (Aug 22). It’s a rerun which is good because on first viewing, I felt I missed the finer point of the plotlines. 
It depends – the more lurid ones were just glorified stroke books for the most part. The ones like Beebo Brinker, OTOH, were generally centered around an irritating and self-loathing protoganist and her dysfunctional life because of her “unnatural perversions” (seriously, pick up Beebo Brinker if you can find it for cheap/free at some point – you won’t know whether to laugh or cry). Important because they did open the door a crack for legit gay authors; and, well, it was the 1950s. While overwrought and sensational, some of the feelings and actions do ring very true for that time period.
Sadly, no you didn’t.
I wish I’d bought it but a former college prof was dealing in used pulp novels I helped him sort- one had a (off this topic) pulp of Orwell’s 1984, on the cover of which was a curvalicious, cleavage-showing halter-topped Julia prominently wearing her Anti-Sex League badge.
Oh man. Hilarious.
A Bed Is Not For Sleeping: HER STEPMOTHER TURNED HER TO THE QUEER LIFE BEFORE HER FIRST DATE SHE WAS WHIPPED BEFORE SHE STARTED.
Least literate book cover ever.
I not only own a copy of Beebo Brinker, I own a full set of the series (left behind by a lesbian roomate). I started reading them once, but I can only take so much self-loathing.