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...those publishers is Stig Vendelkjaer, whose titles include I, a Woman. "I have 500,000 unsold books in stock," he complains. "Heaven knows how I shall ever get rid of them." Hardest hit of all, perhaps, are the obsequious little men who run Denmark's fleshier kiosks and porno stores-and who are now trying to unload for $8.50 a reel skin flicks that last year sold for $40. "The legalization is killing business," says one, "and you have to be content with what you can sell of decent magazines...
...sure many will object that of what is included too much is pornographic. Advance notice on the book made it sound like a singular piece of middlebrow porno that would bring about a best-selling marriage between the wandering tribe of former Salinger aficionadoes and Jacqueline Susann's camp followers. But Roth reads so quickly and so engagingly that much of what could pass for smut is more parody than prurience. The book lacks the turgid seriousness that marked Updike's Couples as a more perfect example of the genre. Portnoy--who admits to being "the Raskolnikov of jerking...
Other words came right out of old Scotch-Irish dialect-wee for small, kimmie for man, tweed for young man, deek for look at. Still other words were borrowed from the Porno Indians, who moved off to a reservation after an early settler set up his general store in the middle of their camping ground. A few words are corruptions of French, like gorm (gourmand...
Pioneer of the pseudo-respectable porno picture was I, a Woman, a cheap, Swedish-made study of nymphomania. It seemed destined for the grind-house circuit until Distributor Radley Metzger, a sometime actor and film editor, had the bright idea of booking it into a New York art theater. Since 1966, the film, which Metzger bought for $75,000, has grossed more than $3,000,000, and the money is still rolling...
With only the judge dissenting, the commission concluded that censorship should go. Last June, after a minimum of debate, the 176-man Parliament agreed by an overwhelming vote of 159 to 13. What happened? Immediately, of course, a flood of new books came out under such labels as the "Porno Series" and with such titles as Stark-Naked, the story of a frigid girl whose therapy by an orgasm expert is carefully detailed. The ecstatic exactness of description had not been legal before, and publishers settled back to await the hordes of buyers...