The Easy Way

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Maybe it was time to play follow the leader and date one of her roommate’s strange, but obviously generous female friends?

From the back:

No Men Allowed
It was a private club with a very select clientele. The membership consisted of wealthy society matrons and the staff, beautiful young girls with highly specialized skills and a taste for luxury.
RHODA… the madam, who started out as the master but ended up a helpless love-slave.
DORIAN… who wanted to be boss and who clinched the deal in a bubble-bath.
OPAL… the eager and avid matron with a penchant for mirrors and hot-eyed brunettes.
UNDINE… the performer, who didn’t mind what she did as long as she had an audience… 
MELANIE… the student, who experimented too often and found she couldn’t break the habit…
A Startling Exposé Of Girls Who Cater To The Specialized Needs Of Older Women On A Cash-and-Carry Basis.

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Pagan Summer

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“It was her job to see that the young widow forgot about the tragedy of her honeymoon…and she intended to earn every penny of the salary being paid her!”

From the back:

For Muriel, it was the chance of a lifetime, being hired as a resident nurse and personal companion to the young socialite who had been widowed on her wedding night. Erin Lenox had the face of an angel and the body of a goddess and the shock of her tragedy had left her seething with unfulfilled needs and pathetically vulnerable and susceptible to any form of affection.
Muriel knew it was only a matter of time before she’d be able to show the girl a different kind of love… a different source of forbidden passion. And, once initiated, Muriel was confident that their roles would be reversed… she’d be the mistress and Erin Lenox, the slave.
She’d own that lovely face, that glorious body… and most of all, all that wonderful money!

A cropped version of the painting was also reproduced in the adventure pulp Men’s, January 1968, for the story “Encounter on the Beach” by Frances Lengel. The lesbian theme is gone and it was used instead to illustrate a story about man and woman meeting on the beach:

“My fingers caressed her skin with sun-tan oil, and I could feel the tension leaver her….. soon her whole body was responding to my touch.”

They even made the standing leg more masculine for the magazine reuse

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Edit: Added alternate cover from a reprint

Her body was ripe for love — Any kind that came along

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Kid Sister

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She wondered what her brother would do when he realized he was sharing his new bride with his own… Kid Sister

From the back:

SO YOUNG, SO WICKED
She came out of a girls’ reform school and into her brother’s home. It became a delightful game, seducing her brother’s pretty and passionate young wife, introducing her to the kind of sensuality that had run rampant in the girls’ dormitories at the reform school. It amused her to watch her victim struggle with guilt and shame, only to fall prey to her awakened needs every time her husband left them alone together. It gave her perverse pleasure to see the seduced become the insatiable aggressor, willing to submit to any and every demand, willing to endanger her marriage, willing to sacrifice her self-respect!

This cover has been my own personal white whale. I have been looking for a decent scan since 2010.

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