Fun cover from the late 50s/early 60s. "Peggy Swenson" was a pseudonym used by science fiction author Richard E Geis when he wrote pulp sex books (he penned over 100 of them!).
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It was the same with female authors. Back then it was basically impossible to get a novel published that portrayed homosexuality in a positive way. It was censorship. The publisher just didn't touch it. So, in almost all cases, the protagonists lived miserable lives, fell in with bad people, committed suicide, etc.
Besides, authors don't have control over covers, blurbs and, back then, titles.
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Ah, another Richard E. Geis novel. You know, of course, from the wording on the cover that it had to be a male author of that period (the sixties).
It was the same with female authors. Back then it was basically impossible to get a novel published that portrayed homosexuality in a positive way. It was censorship. The publisher just didn't touch it. So, in almost all cases, the protagonists lived miserable lives, fell in with bad people, committed suicide, etc.
Besides, authors don't have control over covers, blurbs and, back then, titles.
You can also see that the girl lifting the bar bells has high heels on...interesting.
Isn't that how you work out, Leone?