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has anyone read this book? Apparently in America it gave birth to a genre of extreme bodice rippers.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this would be about the newspaper column "Savage Love." So disappointed.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm too lazy to make this an image: http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leoVIJgrvsGWBnXuCDsU0tiI4WO+J4WsMAaSw9oMrJLlFij2yb7WzqVbjADopVg4Rng=

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I read it when I was about 12 or so, it was filthy.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the first full-on filthy novel I read was Erica Jong's Fanny. Figures.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

And then started Ned's lifelong passion for books.

― hstencil, Friday, 28 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Small Pig and Goodnight Moon came first.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I read "House of Borgia", which is a lurid, tawdry description of the Borgia family that alternated between historical intrigue and full-on Penthouse Forum silliness. Possibly the most ridiculous scene was the party thrown by the patriarch (who was also Pope at the time, I think one of the Innocents) (HA THE IRONY MY ACHING SIDES) where the main entertainment involved pairing off the servants and putting apples on the male servants' cocks and making the female servants remove them with their vaginas.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

(Ned in prepubescent book orgy SHOCKAH)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

You have to start somewhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Mass market porn/erotica I read as a randy teen:

HIM
HER
TROPIC OF CANCER
FEAR OF FLYING

― order some disorder, Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue Skies, No Candy!

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Breakfast of Champions

(wide-open beavers!)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

thank god for that, I thought this thread was going to be about that cunt Robbie Savage.

― chris (chris), Saturday, 29 March 2003 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I got a couple of bodice-rippers as a joke gift for a friend a while back; I was frankly astonished at the variety available. There was a huge selection of books that concerned white frontierswomen and native men. I got one of those for her, it came with a feather bookmark. There is also a kinda sad subgenre of romance novels where the woman gets immediately pregnant and the rest of the book is about the baby.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Read by me by age 14:

Fear of Flying
Fanny
The Honey is Bitter
Joy of Sex
More Joy of Sex
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex
Every Woman Can
My Secret Garden
Men in Love
And some delightful reprints of Victorian porn by "Annoymous" (which introduced me to delightfully antiquated phrases that I now rarely have cause to use).

Wow - that list explains a lot about my teenage development.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Saucy literature read as an early teen:
Delta of Venus (possibly contributed to my current sex issues)
The Book of Lists (had paltry lists of sex positions which I read over and over)
Our Bodies, Ourselves
The Joy of Sex (very non-thrilling)
Playboy & Penthouse filched from my dad's very outdated stash
Yellow Silk (lent to my dad by our mailman)
Forever, by Judy Blume (and THEN I wrote her a letter saying she ought to write a sequel; she never responded though)

― miriam (serrano), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Laura, I feel certain you can find a way to slip those phrases into your ILX posts...

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

*laughing* Only if I can remember how to spell them, Chris. I'll work on it for you, though. "Master Piaprus" comes to mind, as does "a moss-filled cunny." Oh, and "tossing-off" with one's cousin.

So, um, did anyone ever feel guilty about said books, and in a fit of self-denial throw them away? And then feel even worse and lonely and creep out to the garbage can in the middle of the night, in the middle of winter, to retrieve the books, that from then on would reak of coffee crounds and orange peels?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Priapus. ;-)

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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