November 15, 2006

Vintage lesbian paperback artwork from the '50s and '60s. (NSFW.)
posted by tracicle 18 years ago
  • At last!
  • Lesbians. Is there anything they can't do?
  • My wife asked if there were really lesbians in the '50's.... hmmm... were there?
  • No, lesbianism is an entirely new construct perpetrated by the gay conspiracy.
  • Ya know, that lurid kind of artwork suggests to me that women weren't necessarily to whom these books were primarily being marketed to. (yes, that's about the worstest sentence I've writ today)
  • Hubba-hubba
  • "Satan Was A Lesbian" Must have been one helluva time for Eve.
  • YAY Beebo Brinker!
  • Winner:
  • Interesting site, thanks, trac!
  • "...if there were really lesbians in the '50's...." Sure, they were called 'maiden aunts'.
  • We know there were lesbians around 630 BC, when Sappho of Lesbos wrote: I have not had one word from her Frankly I wish I were dead When she left, she wept a great deal; she said to me, "This parting must be endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly." I said, "Go, and be happy but remember (you know well) whom you leave shackled by love "If you forget me, think of our gifts to Aphrodite and all the loveliness that we shared "all the violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, dill and crocus twined around your young neck "myrrh poured on your head and on soft mats girls with all that they most wished for beside them "while no voices chanted choruses without ours, no woodlot bloomed in spring without song..." --Translated by Mary Barnard
  • We know there were lesbians around 630 BC, when Sappho of Lesbos wrote: We assume, I'd say. That and the assumptions of a supposed corollary of the forerunner of NAMBLA in ancient Greece.
  • BOW CHICKA WOW!
  • fantastic stuff.
  • Goodness me! Is the prose as powerful as the artwork?
  • Yes, we're all secretly lesbians. It's what you always suspected, isn't it? Does that excite you?
  • This one is my favourite.
  • I dream of sapphic pajama parties with pillowfights and kissing.
  • TOO -- MANY -- BAND -- NAMES --
  • Yes, we're all secretly lesbians. It's what you always suspected, isn't it? Does that excite you? Yes. Duh. *inserts more $$*
  • I am not a Lesbian! I am a free man! (Trapped in a horrible, horrible, horrible, wonderful village.)
  • Jeez, sounds like an Ed Wood movie.
  • ...the lengthy segment's vaguely salacious claims about local high school girls being raped and "sodomized" with "sex toys bought on the Internet"... Ooooh, not the regular ones from Joe's Porn Shack, the super-satanic ones bought on the internet!! Lock up your daughters! I think pink pistols sound cute. Would one go with these shoes?