Modern-Day Sexy Bibliographies

If you're into the stuff I've been blogging about the last few days -- the mysteries of old forbidden books -- I must draw your attention to Scissors and Paste Bibliographies, which compiles information about old erotic books, such as a catalog of books published by the German Olympia Press.

You can pick up a lot of interesting detail there on the history of erotic publishing. See, for example, the fascinating page on Brandon House Library Editions, where you can see covers for books with excellent titles such as Clit Clique and Maidenhead Stories, as well as pick up some interesting historical notes on "the effective collapse of censorship [in the United States] in 1967."

A hat tip, as usual, to Geoff Nicholson's Sex Collectors, for alerting me to the work of Patrick J. Kearney, who maintains the site.

Disturbing Murmurings

I have been hearing murmurings for a while about issues with PayPal, credit cards, and various types of erotica. The more taboo forms always seem to get the focus, such as sites that sell pseudo-incest, non consent or dub con, and similar things. At some point, I want to research this more extensively, since I find it hard to form a picture of what's really going on.

But in the meantime, I wanted to call attention to this post from about a week ago, which outlines recent troubles with PayPal and Excessica books, All Romance eBooks, Bookstrand, and others.

Lacking a thorough analysis, the main thing I'm getting is that writers of erotica are extremely vulnerable to this conservative trend from payment companies. Anyone who writes or reads the genre should keep an eye on this.