Let's face it, as a straight guy, there is always that lingering hope that when you move, you'll find some hidden trove of porn from a bygone era that the people before you left behind. As we grow up, two things come about.
1. Our hopes to find porn change to treasure. (Though to a teen, porn is a type of treasure.)
2. We realize that porn from bygone eras is either A. pg-13 by today's standards or B. weird, and not in a good way.
We moved into our house about 6 months ago, and aside from the tunnel, and the attic, we have looked about, and found no treasures. (Though I am curious about the attic, we don't really have good access to it.)
I went to the basement today to get the baby seat for the bike out, and I saw a book on the ground. Now, really, we treat our books better than to leave them on a basement floor, but I hadn't noticed it there before. I picked it up, and the back cover was rather filthy. Not to mention the effects of sitting on the floor of the basement for uncounted ages. I got the title and author from the front, it was missing the cover, and was able to find it on Amazon. Now, to be fair, the book was published in 1971. It wasn't reprinted, as far as I can tell. Now, this is rather an odd thing. If it was newer, I would be less surprised. The book is 39 years old, and though it was on a floor, looks readable. It is virtually porn. Hell, by todays standards I think it probably is porn. Meine Gotten, that's porn from almost a decade before I was born! I guess you could buy the only copy available on Amazon, it looks like porn. Of course, so do most of the sci-fi / fantasy books from the 80's and 90's. (Thank you Boris Vallejo)
Of course, I am now torn between a morbid curiosity to read the thing, and another to throw it away. Now, as someone that has a 500+ library of books, the latter seems quite out as an option. The former seems wrong. There is also a part of me that wants to throw it up onto Ebay. (Or maybe read it and then put it on Ebay)
(Seriously, this place was a rental from about 1984~2009, 25 years that the book hid from people. Longer if it was dropped there even as about 5 years old. And aside from the front cover missing, is in rather decent shape. Kinda creepy.)
I wonder what I should do...
Thursday, April 22, 2010
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