Word: erotica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Life & Loves was a prime piece of erotica in intellectual and academic circles. After all, it was not merely dirty. Harris was a literary figure, an editor of some stature in late-Victorian London, a familiar of such wits as Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm and Bernard Shaw. Between beds, his book is studded with "As I said to Lord Asquith . . ." and intimate tidbits that every conscientious scholar should know about the private life of literary personages ranging from Thomas Carlyle to Guy de Maupassant. Harris' obsession with and clinical description of his mistresses' vital organs could...
Patently Offensive. The first to take a fall was aggressive, Brooklyn-born Ralph Ginzburg, 33, a onetime Esquire staffer with a sharp eye for a salable commodity that is spelled sex. In 1958 he published An Unhurried View of Erotica, a sort of bibliography of banned books, and sold 275,000 copies. Last year he began publishing Eros, a quarterly "devoted to the joy of love." At $10 a copy, Eros offers little more than what can be picked up by a determined voyeur with scissors and a library card-a reworking of Lysistrata, ribald pieces by De Maupassant...
Eros is the by-blow of Ralph Ginzburg, 32, a Brooklyn-born freelance writer who first discovered the marketability of the sex label during a tour with Esquire Magazine. Ginzburg wrote an article on erotica that Esquire paid him for but decided not to print-partly on the ground of dullness. Fired later by the magazine, he expanded his article into a book, An Unhurried View of Erotica, which, he claims, sold 125,000 copies in hard cover and 150,000 in paperback. This response to what was little more than a bibliography of erotic books encouraged him to give...
...purpose so well that he has had 150,000 copies printed in Spanish to be sold for 5? per copy. For whatever U.S. audience that could be reached, a New York Castro-phile named June Cobb translated it into English. U.S. publisher: Lyle Stuart, a Manhattan publisher of erotica and Castroite propaganda who has also served as treasurer of the New York branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee...
...pages as if answering a roll call. There is the tough-guy-meet-Zen school, whose usually quite high priest is William (Naked Lunch) Burroughs. There is the mumbling, imagist-naturalist prose that reflects life as if seen through a speckled barroom mirror. There is a scattering of earnest erotica. Much of all this displays the four-letteracy with which very young authors prove to the world that they are grown...