Extract from the Headpress book

HIP POCKET SLEAZE
The Lurid World of Adult Paperbacks
by John Harrison

Extract from the chapter

THE 1970s: WHEN SOFTCORE HARDENED & THE SLEAZE BECAME SICK

By the earlier 1970s, the golden age of the vintage adult paperback had well and truly come to a close. As legal standards loosened, trashy scribes like Jacqueline Susann were free to publish material which was more graphic and descriptive than most adult material published up until the mid 1960s, without fear of being raided and hauled off to jail...

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