>
> The sex scenes
> are sometimes touching, sometimes quite erotic, only
once or twice
> lapsing into rote mechanics. The scenes of violence
are shocking and
> repulsive, all the more so since they always follow
the sex.
Are there other paperback originals or soft-core sex pulps of
the 50s and 60s that describe sex scenes as Hunter does in
_Lust Dream_? Some such passages were actually written by the
editor not the author. In Hard Case's ed of Block's _Lucky at
Cards_ (T_he Sex Shuffle_, Beacon 1964), the early sex scenes
seem formulaic, but I'm not sure about the last few, and I
guess "I fell on her like a tree" [!] is Block's writing.
That seems integrated with the story and character. I get the
same feeling from some of Willeford's novels, even _Pick
Up_.. There must be many more examples. Congrats to Curt
Purcell for his "groovy age of horror" website.
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