I think she’s supposed to be a pilgrim. Gobble gobble.
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Here’s another lovely PSA from the 1950s to conclude your evening. While it’s not as entertaining as the Ralph warning, it is definitely more cheerful. The penis illustrations are so vague and adorable.
Have you ever watched PSAs from the 1950s? They have delightful music, a narrater, and usually no one talking. I’ve posted a charming menstruation video before, and now I share with you the classic gem “Boys Beware.” You meet Ralph, the sick homosexual who shares a striking resemblance to John Waters, and Jimmy, the silly teenager who doesn’t know any better. Remember, children, “no one ever knows when the homosexual is about.”
Happy Birthday, Bikini. You’ve been the cause of creamy jeans and wet dreams for 65 years.
life:
No American art form has ever managed to capture the enduring appeal of the profoundly sordid as neatly as pulp fiction. From the propulsive storylines to the laconic prose to the striking cover art that has, for decades, routinely adorned pulp paperbacks, the genre is edgy pop culture at its most elemental: sex and violence with a side of wry.
Today, one publisher in the U.S. keeps the hard-boiled paperback tradition alive: since 2004, Hard Case Crime has published scores of titles — some of them brand new, others classics of the genre lovingly reprinted for a new audience — each one featuring a cover that, like the tale inside, grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. Here, in partnership with Hard Case, LIFE.com presents a celebration of American pulp fiction, and the gorgeous, lurid cover art that has forever been its visual trademark.
Here is Friend Christine’s favorite genre of literature, and Our Hero is currently reading something of a modern pulp novel right now too. It’s called Hero by Perry Moore.
Indeed, Andrew knows me so well. The saucy pulp covers are too damn irresistible and the reason why I have two framed above my bed. My favorite series is Women Write Pulp published by the bombin Feminist Press at CUNY. I’ve often recommended their novel The Girls In 3-B before by Valerie Taylor in the past. If anyone wants to read to vintage stories of sex, drugs, and homosexuality, give these novels a try.
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Don’t douche.
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The curse of the rotten kisser.
Bad kissers can really ruin foreplay.
