Not the most lurid or the rarest; I mean, what books do you have on the shelf that you don’t want a first date to see? Or that you’d hide from the cat-sitter? I just bought Suicide in the Entertainment Industry, which is highly absorbing. Other questionable books in my flat:
• Voluptuous Panic, recommended—as if you’re surprised!—by Ukulele Ike.
• Death Scenes. Too creepy even for me.
Well, we have a reasonable collection of leathersex books. I don’t know that we would hide them, though.
I have several volumes of L. Ron Hubbard’s Mission Earth series; that’s enough to provoke ridicule from any science fiction fans that may visit.
“Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Old West”. Mrs. R gave it to me (!); I suspect that she felt that it neatly combined three of my main interests: girls, crime, and the Old West.
Best Bisexual Erotica I & II
Best Women’s Bisexual Erotica
(I’d rather broach the subject myself than have a date see them…)
Sex Tips from a Dominatrix
Sex Tips for a Straight Woman from a Gay Man
Sex Tips for Gay Men
Bones (About murder cases & Forensic Science)
Dead Men Do Tell Tales (ditto)
I also have a book about NecroSearch International, but I forget the title.
Yeah, Voluptuous Panic was the first one I thought of, too, when I saw the thread title.
Until my copy of John Willie’s Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline arrived in the mail last week. At first glance it’s all demure and '20s-ish, but then you realize that the artwork is almost entirely made up of ladies in ropes and manacles.
I had a copy of Tom of Finland: His Life and Times on my office bookshelf for YEARS, which was always good for a few dropped jaws and bulgy eyes.
I have some Wiccan books that I hide when my fundie sister comes to visit. I am definitely in the broom closet when she’s around. I refer to my altar as the “candle table.”
[B} End Product — THe Last Taboo** – a book about…uhhh… human fecal matter. I saw it in a used book store and couldn’t resist.
Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown – a collection of humorous science and engineering articles, intended to prove that scientists and engineers do so have a sense of humor. It arguably makes the opposite case much better. The same article also appears in A Random Walk through Science.
I’ve got quite a collection of books on witchcraft and demonology, including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum, which explains when and why to use torture, as well as how a man ought to proceed if he suspects a witch has stolen his penis. Probably not first-date material, although it would be an interesting way to weed out the ones who spook easily.
I shall be buying Voluptuous Panic from my local global online bookseller tout de suite!
I have a book on chaos magic that I wouldn’t expect people to understand or approve of.
a pop-up version of the Kama Sutra
The Bedside Erotica Review.
All my Nancy Friday books.
The Topping Book.
My true crime books.
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do, always raises eyebrows and comments. However,
DeSade raises eyebrows but no one ever comments. Most people just say “Holy Crap! You have a lot of books.” Looking at the selections of others, I gotta get out and read more.
Probably The Other Balkan Wars: A 1913 Carnegie Endowment Inquiry in Retrospect with a New Introduction and Reflections on the Present Conflict.
Intimidating as all get out, pretentious sounding, and nerdy.
Not to mention all those V. C. Andrews books.
To Serve Man-A Cookbook For People
By Karl Wurf
A Poisoner’s Cookbook
The History Of Torture
The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy
The Smythe Report-Atomic Energy For Military Purposes
Many Jack T Chick tracts
I have a book called Golfing for Cats with a big swastika on the cover.
Final Exit For Cats-A Feline Suicide Guide
Revelations Of The Dark Mother (the book is actually supplement to the Vampire rpg. )
I have a couple of Left Behind books. I really hate having to explain those (“Yeah, I know the writing is shite and the message annoys me, but I started reading them at work, and they’re ADDICTIVE, DAMMIT!”).
Also, my more obscurely occult books. “Enochian Magic for Beginners,” for instance. Also, “The Last Days of Jesus Christ, Vampire,” which is just a weird-titled book.
And the Baby-Sitter’s Club books left over from my childhood.
The Turner Diaries. Just because I own a copy doesn’t mean I agree with the author - but it’s better to keep it out of sight to prevent anyone from making assumptions.
I’ve got a big, leather-bound book of Rudyard Kipling stories that’s liberally festooned with swastikas. That’s given more than one visitor pause. I’ve also got a lot of books with names like, “Saucy Susan and the Naughty Sorority,” but I don’t put those out on the bookshelf.
Mine are so tame:
The Kama Sutra (non-pop-up version).
One of those fake Necronomicons that’s in every mall book store. Yawn.
The Fermata by Nicholson Baker.
Frank Zappa’s Negative Dialetics Of Poodle Play by Ben Watson. The title always gets “WTF” reactions from people peeking at my shelves.
After reading this thread, I have new heroes, and a whole new reading wish list.
:: prints thread ::