Gowns & Gunsels

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Gunsel Noun (plural gunsels)

    1. A young man kept for homosexual purposes; a catamite
    2. A gun-carrying hoodlum or other criminal. (By misunderstanding of a 1929 Maltese Falcon quotation (which survived in a popular 1941 film adaptation). The novel was originally serialized in a magazine, Black Mask, whose editor refused to allow vulgarities. Hammett used the word gunsel knowing that the editor would likely misunderstand it as relating to gun, and therefore allow it.)

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Perversity

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A Strange Woman — A Stranger Love

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Perversity is the story of the compelling passion that overwhelmed two men and a woman in the rain-swept backstreets of Paris.

Irma, the young and wanton prostitute, lived with her “man” Bébart. Then her brother’s strangely perverse passion sudenly dragged all three of them down into a nightmare of agony and torture…

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Sex Kitten

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Old enough and big enough she took a sip of sin — then took a bath in it.

From the back:

A Handful With Her Hands Full

When a voluptuous teen-age girl from Brooklyn spends a week end on the loose in Manhattan she can learn a lot. Maxine did. She started with a truck drive on Friday and ended with a detective on Sunday. In between, she gave her regards to Broadway and Broadway gave it right back to her in a way she would never forget.

She Was A Sex Kitten On Her First Prowl, And All The Cats Were Ready

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