Celebrates the erotic diversity of a woman’s vagina. Color photos of 32 female flowers, shown in gynecological clarity, petals spread to greet the dawn. Sort of a Georgia O’Keefe stroke book. GR

Publisher: Down There
Paperback: 72 pages
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Puts the nose between the toes in more than 260 black-and-white photos. A football player makes his coach suck socks. A gray-haired cop gets his shoe leather washed. A burly top gets his boots polished by two tormented tongues. A busy executive gets some lip service on his Florsheims. Fully-clothed fantasies. GR

Publisher: Foot Fraternity
Paperback: 22 pages
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Throw out all your rainbows, girls, gay lib didn’t start when the friends of Dorothy busted their brassieres at the Stonewall riot in 1969. It’s all in this prize-winning and brilliantly researched account of the missing decades in the gay life of Manhattan. Here’s the dish: Gay boys were called pansies, inverts, fairies or queers, and the girlier girls were accepted by society as flamboyant curiosities. An 1870 guide book illustration shows a fairy as just another denizen of the Bowery, along with beggars, cops and shoeshine boys. In some queer circles, a red tie and shocking blonde hair was the fad. At one of the discreet “gay set” bars in Greenwich Village, dropping a hairpin on the table told everything about you. In Harlem, drag balls were reviewed in the straight press and were sometimes held at the best hotels. See how gay men and lesbians lived, loved, played and prospered, until the police cracked down on the pansy bars in the ‘30s and rigid morality laws drove flaming faggots into the closet until the ‘60s. That’s when Judy died and all the homos came out again to show the world where the bluebirds fly. GR

Publisher: Basic
Paperback: 496 pages
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Rip-roaring homo-sex initiation rites, where “weeps and asswipes” are tied to tables, tortured, gang raped and verbally humiliated by heterosexual frat studs at their drunken, horny best. Are they not men? The Bull-Milking Contest! The Paint Off and Piss Off! My Life as a Dog! First published in the reader-written Bound and Gagged and Pledges and Paddles, the stories’ emphasis is on ropes and rumps. “I am constantly amazed,” says the publisher of the magazines, “at the number of letters we get from readers who are not gay, but who are turned on by the idea of being tied up by, or tying up, men. Equally amazing is the number of readers who have confessed to us that they were required to engage in sexual activity with fraternity brothers in the course of their hazings and initiations, even if they put it all behind them afterwards and never were tempted to do it again. I personally found this a little hard to believe myself at first, until I heard it over and over again from now happily married family men.” GR

Publisher: Outbound
Paperback: 192 pages

“Treat yourself to a good fart!” is the advice from this English booklet of limericks, facts and folklore on ripping wind. “A philosopher once, named Descartes, was explaining himself to a tart. ‘Since I think—I exist,’ he remarked as he pissed, but what does it mean when I fart?”… “A nefarious Nazi named Goebbels, once loaded his anus with poebbels. The slightest suspicion or hint of sedition, found him farting a broadside at roebels!” Includes an A-to-Z of fart types. GR

Publisher: O'Mara
Paperback: 160 pages

Briefly speaking… The rise and fall of men’s shorts. From codpieces to longjohns to Jockeys to Calvin Kleins. Illustrates advertising, design breakthroughs, fads and folklore. To protect themselves from the Evil Eye, men of the Mamba tribe of the New Hebrides wrap their love meters in yards of colorful calico, making an impressive 17-inch basket. GR

Publisher: Added Dimensions
Paperback: 80 pages

The pros and cons of anabolic steroids, the synthetic derivative of male sex hormones used extensively in modern athletics. In America, they’re available by prescription only, but that hasn’t stopped their use and abuse by an estimated 1 million athletes. This book discusses “The Steroid Spiral,” a pattern of addiction common to heavy users; “Potential Psychological Alterations Induced in Men Using Anabolic Steroids”; “Beneficial Factors on Women’s Athletic Performance” (as well as “Adverse Factors”); and “Will the Use of [human growth hormones] in Athletes Cause Acromelgy?” The author argues that anabolic steroids should be a controlled substance, and covers the controversial use of growth hormones to treat gigantism, stunt the growth of “constitutionally tall girls,” and prepare prepubescent children for athletic success. GR

Publisher: McFarland
Paperback: 208 pages

True tales from the land of the foot-long dong. Meet Cadet Briggs, the straight lad who entertained his buddies by karate chopping pencils in half with his mule-sized meat. The Saudi Prince with the needy smokehouse salami. The Reverend at the urinal with a 10-inch firehose. And “Bill,” whose genitals grew too fast, leaving him with a horsecock that could throw a salute at 16 inches. GR

Publisher: Added Dimensions
Paperback: 100 pages

“Germany’s greatest painter” was “even more significant as an innovator in the field of woodcuts and engravings, and in the theory of proportions of the human figure.” A great explorer of perspective, Dürer created work which remains “surprisingly modern.” Bodies full front, bodies from the left, bodies from the right. The hand and arm in motion; studies of human proportion. “Stereometric constructions” that pre-date Cubism. Skeletal hands, positions of feet, walking studies. All meticulously rendered as the artist “pursued the subject in order to arrive at a workable system of constructing the human figure, suitable for artists.“ First published in 1523. GR

Publisher: Dover
Paperback: 335 pages
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Chapters include “Explaining Monsters,” “The Armless, the Legless and the Limbless,” “The Hirsute,” “Sexual Monstrosities,” “Composite Monsters” and “Giants and Dwarfs. “ All your favorites are here, plus more than a few amazing surprises, in hundreds of black-and-white photos. Fatman Renaud le Jurassien (1,373 lbs. at death), Chubby Dolly Dimples (620 lbs.), human skeleton Isaac Sprague (44 lbs.). James Elroy, who plays trumpet with his feet. Johnny Eck, the “half man.” Lionel, the lion man. The Tyrolean giant (7-ft. 10-in. tall), Herve Villechaise, Tom Thumb. An African hermaphrodite. Bobby Kork, a sideshow “half and half.” A tailed boy discovered in a Saigon jail. “White negroes.” The man with the rubber skin. Testicles as big as a rock. Forty-four-pound breasts. Four breasts! Six breasts! Two heads! Three legs! A bound foot! And a horrible Chinese practice of creating “animal children” by stripping off human skin and grafting the hides of dogs onto the flesh of young bodies, a practice uncovered by a visiting doctor in 1880. GR

Publisher: Citadel
Paperback: 188 pages
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