AN FP'S BOOKSHELF

by JOANNE

I would like to make some comment on the literature in our field, most of which is contained in that sub rosa library having to do with the shadowy world of sexuality just analagous to ours. Of technical material I will speak another time. It will not be considered here.

Unavoidably, it appears, I must address myself not to what exists for the TV alone since--our own excellent magazine aside- that is almost nothing, but to that which exists primarily for others and to which the interest of a TV is tangential.

The literature is scant and uniform. Most of it comes sealed in cellophane at an exorbitant price. It is thinly done stuff, done by people who are making a great deal of money at it yet have, it is readily seen, little first hand information and NO personal interest in the subject. I should use the plural, sub- jects--some four or five rather obvious deviations or differences from the sexual norm--which are treated in a hackneyed and pre- dictably illiterate shotgun fashion, and with such unimaginative sameness that it is obvious they have been copied one from another to such an extent that they resemble a kind of inbred Jukes family of neo-pornography. They are invariably done on expensive paper and their sole bit of inventiveness seems to be the inclusion of ever widening margins. The composition is atrocious, they run 200 words to a page made for 600. The photographic reproduction is excellent--but reproduction of what? My God! A bored model in a garter belt and a cotton brassiere tied in a coyly ridiculous pos- ition on a rollaway bed in somebody's basement with knotwork of such palpable inadequacy as would turn a bucko mate into a jibber- ing cretin upon first viewing it. This under the guise of "dis- cipline" is patently a bit of cheap pandering to the latent de- viations in some--literally, the cheap thrill seekers--and the only expensive recourse for many others who can find no comment or entertainment or understanding or anyTHING else, anyWHERE else.

There is a plethora of this trash about, some of it unbeliev-

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