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Jacqueline Susann and the “Sex-Boiler” « Commentary Magazine

Monday, August 20th, 2012

A sex- boiler is a novel, more often than not a roman à clef, which is written to capitalize upon the reading public's taste for sex. This is a surprisingly recent fashion, at least in literary history, and what with internet pornography …

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Jacqueline Susann and the “Sex-Boiler” « Commentary Magazine

Jacqueline Susann and the “Sex-Boiler” « Commentary Magazine

Monday, August 20th, 2012

A sex- boiler is a novel, more often than not a roman à clef, which is written to capitalize upon the reading public's taste for sex. This is a surprisingly recent fashion, at least in literary history, and what with internet pornography …

See original here:
Jacqueline Susann and the “Sex-Boiler” « Commentary Magazine