Tag: Adult Reading

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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All Women’s Flesh

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… is soft? Smells like lilacs? Is delicious with fava beans and a nice chianti? Where are you going with this title?!

From the back:

The Burning Flesh of Many Women
When Alain Le Ray’s wife ran off with his best friend, he tried to make a new life for himself in the arms of other women:
COLETTE—the tall and full bodied girl who lived across the hall. She gave herself to Alain the very first night ..
KAT—the sleek and athletic young actress. Although a Lesbian at heart, she didn’t mind sharing Alain with her voluptuous maid, MINA—as long as the three of them could be together .. .
MONIQUE—the ravishingly beautiful blonde who learned the facts of love in Alain’s arms . . .
ALL WOMEN’S FLESH is a penetrating novel of love and desire in today’s Paris.

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Hotel Room

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She Knew Only One Way To Hold Her Lover

From the back:

Behind every girl trapped in the vice racket is a man. A man she wants so fiercely she will do anything to please him. Until she finds out the only way she can hold him is by selling herself to other men. This is the powerful story of such a girl—the smooth and sinister racketeer who initiated her into evil—and two desperate people who risked everything to save her from total depravity.
“A grim and terrible tale of the men in big cities who prey upon women. The simplicity with which it is told and its lack of vulgarity only serve to emphasize the sordid and shocking situation into which some young women are lured.”

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