Word: exhibitionistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Geis cannot find a manuscript to promote, he orders one up to specification. His latest product is a novel, The Exhibitionist, by Henry Sutton. Geis has already sold the paperback rights for $250,000 and has printed 90,000 hard-cover copies in anticipation of the great rush...
Dancing with Daddy. The Exhibitionist is the story of a beautiful film star-Jet Merry Houseman, whose father is a fading movie idol. The plot is hardly original. Merry is an oversexed girl in search of herself, but she looks mostly in other people's beds. What she finds there is a variety of sexual activity ranging from earnest fornication through onanism, homosexuality, and-since these pursuits are so familiar to fiction nowadays-some rather esoteric variations. The denouement takes place at a masked ball, where the participants shed everything but their masks. And who should end up dancing...
...Exhibitionist precisely fulfills Geis's dictum that a story about seemingly real celebrities will sell big, especially if it is crammed with sex. Both Geis and Author Henry Sutton, a nom de plume for David Slavitt, 32, are careful not to suggest that the novel's characters are based on anybody in particular, but the readers are obviously incited to guess; after all, there are not too many young movie actresses around whose fathers are aging screen stars...