As a book-lover and a sometimes sex-writer/blogger, I have found what could be quite possibly the best blog in the history of blogs: the blog is devoted to “Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks” and each entry contains a synopsis and a sometimes sleezy cover shot of a different trashy book. I should be embarrassed to admit it, but I am sincerely envious of this person’s sleaze collection.

The books featured on the blog seriously kick ass. My personal favorite book on the site is: “A Housewife’s Guide to Auto-Erotic Devices in the Home”, which is a book in a Nancy Friday kind of style with personal interviews from women about their favorite household appliances and their alternative uses. The blogger quotes one interviewee’s discovery of how useful her vacuum cleaner hose is. In part:

I accidentally touched the vacuum cleaner tube to the skin of my thigh as I was standing there admiring myself. It attached itself to my thigh, right on the inner side, about halfway between my knee and my crotch. I pulled it off, impatient with myself for dawdling around, but then I realized it had felt sort of good when I tried pulling it off. Even my thighs get very sensitive to the touch when I’m excited like that, and I saw that I’d hit upon something very interesting.

From the sounds of it, this woman would have been a little similar to Samantha of “Sex and the City”. Imagine what this woman could do as a vacuum cleaner saleswoman with a sales pitch like that.  

Another great-looking “read” featured on the site is “Swamp Lust”, which has the same sort of plot-line that you would find a cult-classics and the typical old-school drive-in movies, and is just as twisted and confusing. I’ll admit that  it doesn’t sound quite as exciting as reading about a housewife’s favorite appliances, but if I ever have the fortune of getting my hands on it, I’ll definitely give it a look-see.

In addition to the chance to learn about truthfully sleazy books from the 50's, 60's, and 70's it would normally take you a million years to find, the site is visually appealing because of the pictures of the book jackets, which have definitely changed styles from back in the day.