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Condition: Poor Cover creased, worn and stained, pages loose and some ink inscriptions. Content: "Gillian Freeman, in this humane and witty study, takes a sympathetic journey through the tangled undergrowth of literature. In addition to her appraisal of the cult-literature of sexual minorities, she makes some startling discoveries about the nature of such apparently innocent material as the contents of women's magazines and children's books and comics. Her conclusion that pornography performs a vital therapeutic role in the lives of many people is also an informed plea for greater tolerance of the private inclinations of individuals." (from the cover) Contents: Foreword by David Stafford-Clark 1: Phantasma-orgia 2: Mums and Lovers 3: Wink, Kink and Co. 4: Mein Camp 5: The Fladge Market (1) 6: The Fladge Market (2) 7: TV Times (1) 8: TV Times (2): Trans Everything 9: Our Fettered Friends 10: Having a Rubber Ball 11: Woman's Only 12: Minor Tendencies Background / Biography: Gillian Freeman ( born 5 December 1929) is a British writer, whose works include the gay classic The Leather Boys (use search box in left column to check whether that title is currently available through Arbery Books). biography continued on Wikipedia Reviews: "A fascinating dip into the pornographic underworld, a well-documented study of current sexual fantasies and fetishes as displayed in books, magazines and modern advertising." Town magazine (from the cover) Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "In London I found that the cyclostyled novels illustrated by drawings or photographs of intercourse were mainly printed in England, but that the less blatant magazines were American, from the 2s variety to fetish publications costing £2. The price of these is related to the price in the United States, but the purchasing power of the dollar being what it is, they are relatively more expensive in England. In fact, with one exception of rubber fetishism, all the fetish books are imported. Some firms, like Klaw and Nutrix, hog the market and produce a comprehensive coverage of interests with magazines identical in style. format and price. (Other firms tend to disappear after only a few issues.) There is no reason for these latter magazines to be classed as illegal (although the degree of legality varies from state to state in the USA), since they are solely fetishistic and are concerned with elaborate paraphernalia and not with the sexual act, which is never photographed or described. Close-ups of gagged women or six-inch-heeled shoes are not classed as obscene and could only incite the already committed. Transvestite magazines, on the other hand, unless presented as surveys of show-business female impersonators, contravene the homosexual laws in both countries." from pp25-26, Chapter One Secondhand booksellers |
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