THE HOMOSEXUAL HEALTH GUIDEBOOK
(1970)
First edition sexual reference work on practices, ailments, and remedies for the gay man, from the first year after Stonewall.
Sex & Smut
THE PASSIONATE POLLSTER
(1968)
First edition of this scarce piece pulp erotica about a door-to-door survey administrator who only has to knock once.
SWINGERS YELLOW PAGES (Volume 1, No. 3)
[197-]
Contains primarily personals from swingers throughout the country, some of which include explicit photos. Also includes features on "Singles Only Apartments."
THE NATIONAL SWING: For The Sexually Aware - No. 6
(1974)
Swinger-focused sex paper featuring articles including "The Morality of Swinging," and "Three Part Harmony," plus a review of recent porn films, a lengthy personals section, and more. Notably, includes a "Complete National Swing Club Directory."
SWING: "The Bold One" - Vol. 1 No. 9
1972
Pornographic newspaper focused primarily on swinging and swingers, but also orgies and BDSM. Includes a lengthy personals section.
GAY POWER: The Entertainment Tabloid for Today's Gays - Vol. 2 No. 28
[1973]
Scarce copy of this gay men's erotic newspaper.
NATIONAL INFORMER - Vol. 26 No. 18
1974
Nationally circulated pornographic newspaper. Features soft-core photographs and articles on topics including "Swedish love clinics," the constitutionality of prostitution laws, and more.
GINGER & SPICE [Unnumbered Issue]
[197-]
Pornographic newspaper featuring many explicit close-up photographs, texts, and a centerfold "jackoff poster of the month."
BIPLANE - Vol. 2 No. 3
[197-]
Issue of this pornographic newspaper, reminiscent of Playboy with its focus on essays (featuring humorous articles on politics and the like, in additon to erotic texts).
THE SWINGER - Vol. 7 No. 4
(1970)
Issue of this pornographic newspaper focused on swingers and "bizarre couples."
IT'S HAPPENING: The News Others Dare Not Print! - No. 757
[197-]
Issue of this bizarre blaxpoitative porn tabloid, featuring a wide variety of expicit photos and texts on topics including "Women's Lib," polyamory, "male menopause," "breast therapy," and so on.
FETISH TIMES: The World's Most Interesting Newspaper - No. 14
(1975)
Fourteenth issue of this early pornographic paper; this issue devoted to spanking.
FETISH TIMES No. 4
(1974)
Fourth issue of this early pornographic paper, which later added the subtitle "The World's Most Outrageous Newsapaper."
FETISH TIMES No. 2
(1974)
Second issue of this early pornographic paper, which later added the subtitle "The World's Most Outrageous Newspaper" and variants ("World's Most Interesting.
MANLIB!
(1974)
Signed first printing of this sleaze paperback by science fiction writer Andrew J. Offutt writing as John Cleve, the persona and one of several pseudonyms under which he published enormous amounts of erotica over several decades.
DISCO
(1978)
First edition of this salacious '70s pulp set in the disco scene — in excellent condition.
QUEEN KONG
(1977)
Scarce first edition of this novelization of the 1976 film — a parody of KING KONG in the style of the classic British sex comedy.
THE NAKED LIGHT
(1970)
First edition of one of Moffatt's many pulps, the story of "Black Magic slayings in the Hollywood Hills."
ABC EROTIQUE
(2003)
Unique miniature erotic artist's book, hand-painted and collaged onto a France Poste mailing label booklet.
NIGHT-BOOK
(1980)
First Bard edition of Kotzwinkle's early erotic novel, a set of linked contemporary tales presented as "the rare and obscene love tales told each year by the most beautiful women" of classical Greece and originally published in 1974.
SEX LIFE OF A SPY
[ca. late 1960s]
Presumed first edition of this photo-illustrated erotic pulp thriller, full of sex, violence, Cold War sleaze, and poisoned brandy.
PROSTITUTION IN NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY CALCUTTA
(1985)
First printing of this historical and anthropological look at "the oldest possible social institution" (jacket) in India, with a focus on prostitution in Calcutta.
TANTRA FOR GAY MEN
(2002)
First printing of this work about exploring the spiritual side of sex through Tantra, including a description of the structure of Shaivism, from which the practice originates – with tips for and illustrations of practical applications.
ENCYCLOPEDIA EROTICA SEXUALIA: The Study of Sexual Practices, Normal and Abnormal
1967
With seven chapter titles: Sadism, Masochism, Fetichism, Lesbianism, Exhibitionism, Nymphomania, Voyeurism; these being all the normal and abnormal sexual practices known to the authors as of 1967.
THE SEXUAL DIGEST
1968
Anonymously authored compilation of variously titled erotic vignettes (The Lesbian Victory, Brothel Bitchings, I Wield the Whip, etc.).
