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Maybe they call it erotica, but local college students like their sex wrapped up in pulp paper for spare time reading just as much as their less-educated contemporaries, a survey of Square newspaper stand operators, spa keepers, and candy store owners disclosed this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Still Supercharges Pulp Trade | 7/12/1951 | See Source »

...recognize irreligious music when they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unholy Music | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine-sprouting faun in red tights concentrated on knitting a sock with three-foot knitting needles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Krafft-Ebing Follies | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...unfamiliar with it, perhaps, Rosemary?... Not at all... in fact very flattering. Very, very Herry. That's the way Mr. Jaunders used to pronounce it. Not Jaunders... won't you dawdle in my bordel said the spider to the fly. Who, I, said the fly? Not "me," you notice. Erotica Vagabondis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...late, great Foreign Minister Louis Barthou who was assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 15), fetched $2,736 this week in Paris at an auction of his library. On the first auction day $69,498 was realized. M. Barthou's collection of erotica having been unrivaled. A comparatively pure item of Napoleon-to-Josephine letters fetched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Versailles & Erotica | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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