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Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!
Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers An American Tale of Sex and Wonder | Mike Edison
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A wild and uncompromising history of four infamous magazines and the outlaws behind them, Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! is the first book to rip the sheet off of the sleazy myth-making machine of Hugh Hefner and Playboy, and reveal the doomed history of Hefners arch rival, Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, whose messiah complex and heedless spending on a legendary flop of a movie paid for with bags of cash, a porn magazine for women, and a pie-in-the sky scheme for a portable nuclear reactor fueled the greatest riches to rags story ever told. The adventure begins in the early 1950s and rips through the tumultuous 60s and 70s when Hustlers Larry Flynt and Screws Al Goldstein were arrested dozens of times, recklessly pushing the boundaries of free speech, attacking politicians, and putting unapologetic filth front and center through the 1990s when a sexed-up culture high on the Internet finally killed the era when men looked for satisfaction in the centerfold. As America goes, so goes its porn. Along the way we meet many unexpected heroesJohn Lennon, Lenny Bruce, Helen Gurley Brown, and the staff of Mad magazine among themand villainsfrom Richard Nixon and the Moral Majority to Hugh Hefner himself, whose legacy, we learn, is built on a self-perpetuated lie.
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(Continued)...aesthetics are bullshit," he explained. "This is the real thing: young mothers with a plate of spaghetti in their hands and a cock in their mouth!"

This is director Tinto Brass discussing his film Caligula. This quote gave me pause, and I'm surprised that the author didn't explore it further. Why would a young mother have both a plate of spaghetti in her hands AND a cock in her mouth? (Continued in the comments section).

keithmalek Are they really THAT busy that they can't do both things at the same time? Why are the mothers still holding the plate of spaghetti while sucking cock? Put it down and focus! Where are her children? Hopefully, they're not in the room. I can already tell that I'm going to be up all night thinking about this. 2y
keithmalek More questions: Why only young mothers? Do older mothers tend to put down the plate of spaghetti while sucking cock? Or is that their kids are now old enough that they no longer need her to cook for them? And why would the men want bliwjobs right when dinner is about to be served? 2y
sprainedbrain Omg… dying 🤣🤣🤣 2y
Suet624 🤷🏻‍♀️🥴😂 2y
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(On Jimmy Swaggart and other hypocritical Evangelical preachers)

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(Continued)...reeling off more than a dozen cases of Giuliani policy that were unambiguously unconstitutional.

Suet624 He was reprehensible years ago. So sad he crawled out of the sewer and back into the news. 2y
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Federico Fellini

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But I know that Hugh Hefner's gonna change his tune/When he's back on top/Back on top of Miss June.🤣

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(Continued)...no easy trick. Eels, it turns out, hate condoms. And, as was soon discovered, condoms also killed them. What was looking a lot like an epic eel failure was rescued by the quick thinking of a zoologically nimble actress who inserted the animal tailfirst.

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Two things. 1) I never knew that the Pillsbury Doughboy was the inspiration for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and, 2) "The Kama Sutra for the crescent-roll set" is fucking hysterical."

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I've heard of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, but never Blue Ball. Interesting.

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"Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
--Victor Hugo

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