Dirty Girl Things

Monday, May 07, 2007

Number Sixty

The Erotic Print Society. Adult Books for Grown-Ups.

For men & women who appreciate the best in erotic books, art, photography and literature. Established in 1994, EPS is now firmly established as the leading source of collectible erotica worldwide - from sexy pocket-sized paperbacks to beautifully bound limited editions.

HISTORY

The Erotic Print Society was founded in 1994; nine years previously, the Maclean Gallery in London’s West End had hosted the first exhibition of historic and contemporary erotic art ever held in this country, entitled “Forbidden Images”

The most popular items at this show were erotic prints. Hence Jamie Maclean’s idea to set up a publishing company specialising in the production of facsimile erotic prints that were too rare or expensive for the average collector to purchase.

Although initially successful, it soon became clear that the sale of print portfolios alone would not be enough to sustain this fledging business. At the same time they realised there were no publishers committed to the erotic works of contemporary artists and writers. The Society published its first book, with a good deal of amateur cut-and paste-work, in 1996. Now it produces around twenty titles a year with an erotic theme - more than any other publisher in the world.

Here’s a sampling of the EPS collection.

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SEx: The Magazine

Ever since the ‘vicars ’n tarts’ days of the News of the World, the media’s ‘moral’ position on sex has been a cynical awareness that a prurient piece on the evils of prostitution sells better than treating the subject seriously. More recently, the general sex lives of celebrities from any list are reported as explicitly as hypocrisy allows. The lifestyle gurus are earnest and patronising and the advertising professionals trade on the prevalent lack of sexual sophistication.

SEx changes all that, by giving sex the appreciation that it deserves. It aims high and takes an approach that’s different. It’s the Journal of the Erotic Print Society, which brings out more original books on sex every year than any other publisher. It doesn’t need a licence or a sanctioned context. It won’t be approved by WH Smith’s. It is as irreverent, informative, outspoken and witty as is necessary for intelligent readers.

SEx collects a broad range of established and new writers sympathetic to the theme. Some explore its social dynamic, others contribute fiction, while others look at the arts, the media, the adult entertainment industry, the law and politics.

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Twenty 2

TWENTY 2 is the brilliant new erotic graphic novel from the talented artist of the “Janice Trilogy” and “Twenty, Volume 1”. .

Twenty’s innocent young cousin, Sally, has a problem: in a sexually liberated society, she still has inhibitions to lose. In an erotic roller-coaster of a book, positively heaving with orgies, sado-masochistic thrills and ingenious sexual novelty, she achieves her goal to everyone’s satisfaction - especially her own! In that strange, twilight world of von Götha eroticism that seems to hover between extravagant fantasy and cheeky fact, Sally’s very physical education is a delightful mix of pleasure and pain, dream and reality. Von Götha fans will not be disappointed...Erich von Götha is the artist behind many bestselling erotic graphic novels.

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Some photography & artwork