books: Vintage Smut Cover Blurbs

So a dapper older fellow came in with a ratty cardboard box full of old time smut paperbacks, the sort of vintage stuff we love to get.  Alas, as is often the case with smut from the olden days, it had spent much of its life hidden in a barn or shed so the books were absolutely filthy...and I'm not talking about the contents.

So as I bravely address the caked miasma of cigarette smoke, mouse turds & Hantavirus dust with a bottle of Windex & a roll of paper towels I figured I'd share the better cover blurbs with y'all- titles bolded.


Marcia offered Belle a strange arrangement on terms she couldn't resist....
THE PRICE WAS PERVERSITY
- an explosive story of a woman who wanted stardom badly enough to enter the shadowland of the deviates!

Strange Thirsts
A brilliant novel which probes deeply, boldly, into forbidden areas!

Their "depraved" passion was a raging flame that couldn't be quenched, but had to be masked....
WHEN LOVE MUST HIDE

MEN OR WOMEN, IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE AS LONG AS THEY HAD BODIES!
Lesbo Nympho




The Education of Lydia
A novel dealing with the kind of campus activity that never appears on a report card

A novel that takes a bold look at the problem of the attractive, wealthy widow with time on her hands and...
MEN ON HER MIND


Death wore a G-String!
Naked Passions


And mixed in with the sleaze the inevitable copy of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
You'd think cover blurbs by Lionel Trilling & Dorothy Parker would tip off the porn hounds, but no.
It's like my homegirl Jane Austen said,

For it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good trove of vintage smut must be in want of a copy of Lolita.