David Blackburn

Smut Samizdat

Thanks to Twitter for alerting me to this small act of rebellion:

Taken outside the display windows at Smiths, @HypnoPeter

As Fleur Macdonald wrote a couple of weeks ago, it is a mystery ‘why people might want to read it [Fifty Shades of Grey] rather than Réage’s The Story of O, Bataille’s The Eye or any back issue of Cosmopolitan. And that’s to name but a few, and none of the masters like Henry Miller. As the Samizdat above tells you, assuming that you are in the market, go forth and find good smut. Please, anything but ‘it’.

HT: @HypnoPeter

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