Mexican Pulp Art

From the Collections of Bobbette Axelrod and Ted Frankel
Introduction by Maria Cristina Tavera

The lurid cover art of Mexican pulp novels is a pop culture revelation. Never before seen in an English or even Spanish-language collection are the often surreal and psychedelic images of extraterrestrials, robots, dinosaurs, dastardly killers, Zorro, Santo, and many other icons from stories involving suspense, mystery, romance and the supernatural.

Prisoner of X

20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine

Allan MacDonell

During his tenure in the Hustler trenches, punk-rock dropout Allan MacDonell ascends from entry-level comma-catcher to editorial overlord of the unseemly offerings at Larry Flynt Publications. Here’s the inside story of running America’s most influential porn domain. “Prisoner of X is hours of guilty pleasure that pass like seconds. Here’s the unsafe, hook-up sex of memoir. You’ll need to indulge before the restraining orders pull this great book off of store shelves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Choke, and Haunted

The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber

Weimar Berlin’s Priestess of Depravity

By Mel Gordon

Available now

The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber is the first contemporary biography of the notorious actor/dancer/poet/playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin during the 1920s.

Sin-A-Rama

Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties

Edited by Brittany A. Daley, Hedi El Kholti, Earl Kemp, Miriam Linna, Adam Parfrey, Contributions by Stephen J. Gertz, Jay A. Gertzman, John Gilmore, Michael Hemmingson, Lydia Lunch, Lynn Munroe, Robert Silverberg

The forgotten world of erotic paperbacks from the 1960s, when sex acts were described with code words and publishers hid behind mail drop addresses.

The X-Rated Bible

An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures

By Ben Edward Akerley

The Holy Bible, a book filled with incest, rape, adultery, exhibitionism, debauchery, abortion, prostitution, drugs, bestiality, castration, scatology…