Because I know my audience (cross-posted from JF)

[phosfate]

"It's a Victorian sex-ed manual. For children. Starring a monkey."

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0402/collins.php



ETA: For those interested, Bookfinder.com and Alibris.com list various copies in the series for $20-$100 per volume. Price seems to hover around $45.

Comments

O___O

[ahli.livejournal.com]

omg, poor monkey. :(

Re: O___O

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

"Shot off?"

Re: O___O

[ahli.livejournal.com]

I find that poor monkey's injuries gratuitious and um, incomprehensible.

Re: O___O

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Rectum? I nearly killed him!

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

And it even has flying monkeys! How much better can it get?

(Which reminds me. I have this wonderful Handbook for New Husbands, a sex manual from the 1890's. It came from a retired minister's library.)

[thornsilver]

Trauma!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

We all need this book. ... No, screw you, only *I* get to have it. *grabs and runs*

[sagralisse.livejournal.com]

But Sammy gets particularly familiar with white bodies in the form of his girlfriend, Julia Barkenstir. She is—pause for irony—the daughter of a cotton broker. Foote advocated interracial relationships on eugenic grounds of avoiding racial inbreeding, resulting in an extraordinary Sammy Tubbs illustration of Sammy and Julia kissing. It is, Sappol marvels, "perhaps the first positive representation of an interracial kiss in nineteenth century American illustrated fiction." And Sammy is unapologetic about it, yelling over the protests of Julia's father: "White men are constantly decrying miscegenation, miscegenation!—while they are the only ones that want to miscegenate. . . ."

Y'got that, Strom?

Okay, how much for this. ::pulls out Visa::

[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

Fish bladder condoms. That's all I saw.

[strawberrythief.livejournal.com]

For a copy of this book I would, quite literally, do murder.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

And I...would watch!

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I'd help. Then kill you and take off with it.

[strawberrythief.livejournal.com]

You'd... try. *puts on ninja suit*

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

*Gets out her katana, throwing knives and a big ass gun.*

Bring it on.

(Can I steal your icon?)

[strawberrythief.livejournal.com]

VICTORIAN MONKEYSEX = MINE!!!

*opens up an entire can of Kill Bill on your ass*

(Of course you may, lovely. )

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

*brings on a double-dose of El Mariachi / Desparado mayhem*

Cool.

[strawberrythief.livejournal.com]

*counterattacks with forty minutes of Johnny Depp being photogenically weird*



*and a death ray*

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

*ducks death-ray*

*brings out the big guns: Lawrence Fishbourne and Jet-Li*

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Jinkies. I want to read this now so badly. Poor monkeys. They really ought to have been kept away from guns and liquor.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

*sporflesnicker!*

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Hee! I demand there be a Simian Temperance Committee set up immediately!

[snacky]

Dear sweet Jebus. Poor monkeys.

Well, at least there wasn't a slash/incestual relationship between the two monkeys. Imagine the outcry!

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Oh that was in the self-published fanzine only available at Sponsie-con

[snacky]

Was that Sponsie-con 1876 or 1877? Sponsie-con 1877 was the one were Sponsie was accused of raping a fan's chihauha, in case you forgot.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Ah, the trauma of Sponsie-con 1877. But Sponsie got off on on the technicality that DNA testing hadn't been invented yet. The next year, he refused to come and told everyone publically to "get a life".

[strawberrythief.livejournal.com]

And then there was that thing with Sponsie and Victoria Bitter.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--*choke*

I am dead now.

[suzyd.livejournal.com]

*mind boggles* That book sounds all over the place! I would say that it's not *really* starring a monkey though - although god knows, one of the monkeys may die of syphilis based on some of their problems in the other books!