Smut Evolution.

Wherein it occurs to me that a pile of paperbacks I found in the same box at a charity book fair last week make an interesting case study re: changing attitudes toward sex in paperback publishing through the ‘60s and ‘70s.

1962:


(Fontana, cover illustration uncredited.)

1967:


(Collier books, cover uncredited.)

1972:


(Grafton, cover photograph: Beverley LeBarrow)

1974:


(Pinnacle Books / Heinrich Hanau Publications, Cover design: Neil J Crawford / Bromley Arts)