Books: Gentle Porn

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Successive Supreme Court decisions have left the issue of pornography hopelessly muddled, but it is difficult to imagine a community whose standards would be offended by Nin's tales. Read in the supposedly liberated '70s, these pictures from a stricter age take on a quaint charm. They are reminders that there was a time of garters and romantic assignations, an age when sex delighted not because it was healthy but because it was naughty.

— Paul Gray