The bard makes list of bawds

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34047, 10 January 1976, Page 9

The bard makes list of bawds

A directory to debauchery, dissolution and dissipation is nowbeing offered, writes Marsha Dubrow.

It’s called “The Whole Sex Catalogie” and it gives recips for lewd food (such as Marquise de Salade), guidelines for sex advertiiements and a chart of punishments for sex offences Literary gloss derives from recommendations for specia reading listing ail of Slakespeare, three of the Nhrquis de Sade’s works. Emile Zola’s “Nana” ind tales by the nmeteetth century London autior, William Dugdale.

These are billed as containing “many singular amorots tales and narratives, particularly Lord K’s apes and seductions.”.

A rote by the editor, Berthardt HuNvood, points to the Vatican as having the best collection of erctic literature in the world.

A list of sexual terms, facetious and factual, defines passion as an elegant way of spelling lust and abstinence as “watching television.” In a chapter on advertisements for sex newspapers, a specialist tells what happened when he placed the following “Absurd heterosexual pornographer seeks uninhibited woman or nylon fetishist lesbian dwarf truck-driving necrophiliac.”

The advertiser received threatening letters and one appeal from the American Bible Society. Various fetishes are in the catalogue. One society in California has ths slogan, “sex by age of eight or else it’s too late.* There is a county-wide guide to swingers hangouts, including iinocentsounding sports like the botany talk houst in New York and the “chss reunion” in Washington. A book abcut “lusty Europe” tells where to find master-shve marriage bureaus and ski slopes for nudas. A hot-line number is given on whiih the caller can be told of obliging people in hit or her own area.

nere’s eren a quiz to test whether you should break awty from conventional sex.

An editor’s note recalls that the United States Government spent $250,000 prosecuting an obscenitv case against the film “Deep Throat.” If the Government had won, which it did not. the maximum penalty would have been a $5OO fine.