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Margo St. James Presents the 5th Annual Hooker’s Masquerade Ball
Robert Gotsch
San Francisco: Tea Lautrec, 1978.Original poster for Margo St. James’ annual fundraiser for COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), an American sex workers’ rights organization founded by James in 1973.
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Condoman Says: Don’t Be Shame Be Game. Use Condoms!
Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland)
Queensland: Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia, No date.Early/mid 1990s issue of the iconic Aboriginal HIV/AIDS awareness campaign poster (the earliest issues captioned USE FRENCHIES! instead of condoms). Originally conceived in 1987 by Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood and a small team of Aboriginal health workers in Townsville, Queensland, Condoman became one of the most successful Australian sexual health campaigns.
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Manrape
Marta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap)
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Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon
J. De La Fontaine
Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve, 1791.The Loves of Psyche and Cupid by Jean De La Fontaine with colour illustrations based on paintings by M. Schall. One of the most striking editions of Fontaine’s adaptation of the story of Cupid and Psyche with coloured stipple engravings by Bonnefoy, Mme Demonchy, and Colibert after Jean-Frederic Schall. This copy with the advertisement leaf (often lacking) announcing the publication of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with an additional portrait engraving frontispiece by Edelinck after H. Rigault, and an original drawing dedication “quatre amis dont la connaissance avait commence par le Parnasse” [four friends whose acquaintance had begun at Parnassus]: La Fontaine, Racine, Moliere, and Boileau, in pen and Indian ink enhanced with gold and colouring on vellum signed L. Benard 1893, bound in a fine signed binding by the Paris bookbinder Salvador David (1859-1929).
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The Naked Heroine: The Story of Lydia Lova [From the Folies to the Resistance]
John Izbicki
London: Neville Spearman, 1963.The story of Polish countess and dancer turned French resistance fighter, showgirl of the Folies-Bergere, stripper of Soho, a naked spy and one of the most decorated women of wartime France. This copy inscribed by Lydia Lova in the year of publication.
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The Truth About Incest
Daniel Hawkes
London: Luxor Press, 1971.Sexploitation pulp sensational sexological study of incestuous relationships.
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Homosexual in Society: Photo-Documented
Frank R. Clark
Hollywood: Twilight Pub, 1970.Pseudo-sexological pulp account of homosexuality in American society in the 1960s interspersed with graphic photographs, some in colour, of male and female homosexual and straight couples.
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The Girls, the Massage, and Everything
Bernhardt J. Hurwood
Sydney: Eclipse Paperbacks, 1973.The naked truth about massage parlors.
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Manrape
Marta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap)
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Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry
David Jennings
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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
Brian McNair
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. -
Good Sex Illustrated
Tony Duvert
Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007.“A scathing view of sex manuals for children and society’s hypocrisy of over sex that argues for the rights of children to their own bodies and their own sexuality.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography & Censorship
F.A.C.T. Book Committee
New York: Caught Looking, Inc., 1986.First edition, first printing, self published by the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce Book Committee: Kate Ferguson Ellis, Nan D. Hunter, Beth Jaker, Barbara O’Dair, and Abby Tallmer. FACT formed as a group of feminists opposed to the anti-pornography ordinances written b Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon and in oppositions to the feminist group Women Against Pornography (WAP). Caught Looking is filled with images from 100 years of pornography accompanied by numerous essays providing a balanced view of feminism, pornography, and censorship exploring the questions: What is the role of sexually explicit language and images in women’s sexual arousal and pleasure? What role do images play in the control of women? How can the attempt to control women, which is at the heart of sexism, be most effectively subverted? Would violence diminish if violent images were removed from our culture? How can we incorporate our need for sexual speech and freedom of sexual expression into our feminist thinking and goals?
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Suck: First European Sexpaper
William Levy; Heathcote Williams; Germaine Greer; Susan Jansen; Lynne Tillman; Jim Haynes; Willem de Ridder
London and Amsterdam: Joy Publications, 1969-74.A complete set of Suck, touted as the first European sex newspaper tasked with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”. Launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws. Heathcote Williams in his Suck manifesto declares “SUCK is Group Sex, Police Sex, Animal Sex, Teeny Sex, One Armed Bandit Sex, Geriatric Sex and Cosmic Sex”, highlighting the nothing is off-limits approach of the editorial board. Though Suck was no mere porno rag, as Australian feminist writer and Suck co-founder Germaine Greer told the academic journal Women’s Studies International Forum, Suck was “a new kind of erotic art, away from the tits ‘n’ ass and the peep-show syndrome.” Greer’s involvement helped push a wave of radical feminist pornography, though she fell out with her co-editors and resigned after they published a photograph of her naked with her legs over her head, not because of the nudity, but the context of its publishing, which is outlined in Greer’s resignation letter printed in the final issue. Greer’s involvement was not the only tip to a radical cause with noted contributors including William S. Burroughs, Valerie Solanas, Michael McClure, W. H. Auden, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Girodias, and many others. Primary editors were William Levy, Heatcote Williams, Germaine Greer, Susan Jansen, Lynne Tillman, and Jim Haynes, with art direction by Willem de Ridder.
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Glasnost 7 Seks
Jonny Axelsson; Audun Engh; Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Anne Granberg; Trond Havard Holmen; Christine Lochting; Ole A. Seifert; Egil Haraldsson Stenseth
Oslo: Futurum Forlag, 1988.Single issue of Norwegian anarchist publication Glasnost, the Sex issue.
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Sexuality
Sydney Filmmakers Co-Op
Sydney: Sydney Filmmakers Co-Op & Feminist Film Workers with assistance from Family Planning Association of NSW, 1980.Folding brochure advertising sex education films available to rent from the Sydney Filmmakers Co-Op. Films are offered in the following categories: Bodies, Sexuality, Masturbation; Gay Films; Rape, Incest, Exhibitionism; Relationships. Also listing discussion points, bibliography, and directory.
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America’s Newest Sex Cult: Wealthy Adolescents With Money and Passions to Burn
E. R. Linton
Los Angeles: Medco Books, 1966.Narratives, statistics, and analysis of sex, drugs, and privilege among rich American teenagers.
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The Strippers
James Holledge
Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1965.The naked truth on the girls who strip for a living. The story of: Why They Strip, How They Strip, Birth of Burlesque, G-String Genius, Stripping Australian Style.
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Notorious Women
James Holledge
Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1962.The sensational escapades of women whose colourful careers as brazen adventuresses, shameless courtesans, barefaced tricksters, cold-blood murderesses shock even the most broad-minded!
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Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace
Clifford Bishop; Xenia Othelder
Cologne: Konemann, 2001.A multidisciplinary look at sexuality and erotica with coffee-table appeal.