Vintage paperback covers: girls good & bad
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A site with a collection of vintage paperbacks with covers featuring women in trouble, being naughty or simply sexy.
Good Girl Art, usually shortened to GGA, is the term that describes certain types of Vintage Art, and specifically Paperback Cover Art. Richard Lupoff in his The Great American Paperback defines it as "A cover illustration depicting an attractive young woman, usually in skimpy or form-fitting clothing, and designed for (mild erotic interest). The term does not apply to the morality of the 'good girl', who is often a gun moll, tough cookie, or wicked temptress."
Vintage Paperbacks Good Girl Art
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Woodford rocks, pulp rules.
“Come Back For More”, Al Fray.
Great cover, sweet girl.
Dare I bring up Thompson’s “A Kiiler Inside Me”?
Posted by: spieler | March 22, 2004 8:19 PM
I grew up in the 50’s in the UK. Somehow I got the message that women who wore ‘black underwear / stockings’ were ‘of a certain type,’ that means ‘sexually naughty’ - as ‘sex’ was not something spoken about (out loud) and yet I had the message that ‘it’ was something naughty / fun and illicit. However, the POWER in my desires was almost on the level of ‘pain,’ and especially on the emotional level; the desire to be met with femaninity, the wanting to suck in softness, to balanced with or against the hardness of my masculinity.
My sexual ‘awarenes,’ the playing of ‘childhood sexual games’ began before I reached the age of 7, and I suspect, around the age of 4 or 5.
I resent the ‘secrets’ society kept from me then, and I resent the ‘free sexual attitudes of the young today’ where there is no mystery, no allure and where everything is ‘in your face.’
Finally, the free use of language devaluse the useage of it - where Hot means anything you want it to mean without having a gague or means of measure by which deliniation or a definition to others can be given.
There is no Seduction because you cannot seduce the willing.
I love the book covers, by the way.
Posted by: Sash | June 9, 2004 8:26 PM