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  1. >I know we groan about some of the ones nowadays but there are some real eye-poppers to be found buried there.

    Very true.

  2. Oh, yeah, and about the titles to be found when digging around on BookScans – well, there are some true doozies there. I know we groan about some of the ones nowadays but there are some real eye-poppers to be found buried there.

  3. Oh, the things that they could work in there. Seriously. Particularly the 1920s-30s era movies writers were experts at getting all kinds around the censors. You just have to pay close attention or sometimes you really can blink and miss it. I just find it difficult to believe book writers of the same years – with so much more word count to work with – couldn’t be even more, um, creative. 😉

  4. Wow, I’m digging the “Sexy Digests” section of BookScans. Had no idea titles like THE ABORTIVE HUSSY were even possible. Nice! Actually, that one is too good to waste–I think I’m going to change my name to “The Abortive Hussy.”

    On a more serious note, I remember reading romance books and watching romantic movies as a teen and feeling so confused about the euphemisms and the unspoken sexual content/relationships. Frustrated me to no end, probably because I was unaware of the codes. Now, it’s like an interesting puzzle to solve.

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