Lesbian pulp fiction

Irresistible tales of forbidden romance. And sex.

Alex Q. Arbuckle

1935-1965

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“Pulp” magazines and novels were so named for the cheap wood pulp paper they were printed on, in contrast to more expensive “slick” magazines. Selling for as little as $0.35, pulp novels were usually exploitative genre works, with lurid cover art and tales of adventure, crime, murder, mayhem and sex.Within this range of titillating subjects was the subgenre of lesbian erotica. Even during times when discussion of LGBTQ issues was considered taboo, readers eagerly consumed steamy stories of forbidden, “unnatural” temptations.

c. 1935

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c. 1945

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c. 1950

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1950

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c. 1952

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1954

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c. 1955

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c. 1959

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