When Sex Was Dirty
By Josh Alan Friedman

Welcome to the twilight days of debauchery, when porn was filth and sex was still dirty.

Josh Alan Friedman, author of Tales of Times Square (Feral House), provides face-to-face reporting from licentious New York City of the 1980s—a compelling assortment of pimp laureates, porn starlets, evangelical strippers, bizarre 42nd Street inhabitants, Screw magazine staffers, "the strikeout king," and his stud-like counterpart, "God’s Gift to Women."

Josh Alan Friedman is also the co-author (with Drew Friedman) of Warts and All, co-editor (with Nile Southern) of Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995 (Grove Press), and contributor to It’s a Man’s World: Men’s Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps (Feral House).


"Evocative, entertaining, not for the faint-hearted. Friedman’s no-holds barred portrait of the porn industry and its workers is intriguing, if a little cold-blooded."
—Chicago Sun-Times, on Tales of Times Square


5 1/4 x 8 1/2 • 133 pages • b&w photo insert
1-932595-07-4 • $12.95

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