Sex to Sexty: The Most Vulgar Magazine Ever Made! | 
| Creators: Dian Hanson, Mike Kelley
Publisher: Taschen
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $26.37
You Save: $13.62 (34%)
New (30) Used (3) from $26.37
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 298030
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 419
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 3822852236
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9783822852231
ASIN: 3822852236
Publication Date: March 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: SHIPS from 5 locations based on your Zip Code and availability! (PA TN IN OR SC) *-* Gift Quality *-* Orders Processed Immediately! - We get your book to you Very Quickly! -L2356.07322
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Daring sexual humor from the irreverent magazine Sex to Sexty Some call it the most vulgar magazine ever made; others see it as the last honest compendium of American sexual humor, starting just as the sexual revolution was expanding minds and stomping taboos, and ending when political correctness made all such humor socially unacceptable. Whatever your stance, the magazine Sex to Sexty was and is an outrageous collection of dirty jokes and cartoons published from 1965 to 1983 by Texas entrepreneur John Newbern, whose life was lifted straight from the pages of his publication. His partner in crime against good taste was hillbilly artist Pierre Davis, who created elaborate oil painted covers for each issue that celebrate every permutation of manly humor. No topic was safe from the lowbrow wit of these two men and the cartoonists they recruited to preserve what they called the ?True Jokelore of America?. Sex to Sexty reproduces all 198 covers of the magazine and many of the original paintings that adorned them. Then, in the first in-depth analysis of American sexual humor, author and editor Dian Hanson categorizes the great themes revealed by the thousands of cartoons and jokes into spreads with titles like ?Stinkfinger, ? ?Incest on the Best, ? ?Cannibal Cuisine, ? and ?I Love Ewe!.? Raw, irreverent, uncensored and all-American, Sex to Sexty spares no gender, sexual preference, ethnic orientation, or hygienic dysfunction in bringing you what the magazine's original publisher called the ?World's Largest Accumulation of He-Man Robust Humor in the World.? Special fold-out dust jacket shows every cover image and unfolds to reveal a poster of a never before seen, unreleased Sex to Sexty coveroriginally deemed ?too tasteless? by the magazine's publisher, but definitely ?suitable for framing in your bar, rumpus room or bathroom?.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Wonderful item, wonderful price and service July 18, 2008
I found this book at a gift shop in Le Centre Pompidou in Paris for 30 Euros or about US$45. I found this item here for a little more than half of that the same evening and ordered it. The item arrived at my house the same day I returned from Paris, four days later. The book itself is a trip down memory lane as my father collected these magazines. The cover is sensational, the jokes as corny as ever and the history interesting. A good read.
 No wonder folks from the '60's & '70's are called "Baby Boomers"! April 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Got this book for my Dad-a long time fan of the magazine and who bemoaned its demise! Course I had to check it out...
It's a great collection of both subtle and not so subtle jibs at what polite folks don't talk about at the dinner table (but really DO talk about when it's just us guys or the gals think we aren't around and it's safe for them to "trade notes...").
Just make sure that you haven't a full mouth, bladder, etc., while reading it, cause at some point-you're going to hit a cartoon or joke that might just make you lose it when it hits your funny bone or offends your sensibility...
Only reason it didn't get the last star is that the first 50 or so pages are in French-not much good unless vous parlez francais. Definitely something for stress relief after a long day, so enjoy.
From the gas station men's room to your coffee table March 19, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Here was X-rated HeeHaw for Flyover Country.
Editor Dian Hanson opens her text by revealing the contempt even smut lords had for this oddball publication out of Arlington, Texas. "When we the editors of New York-based men's magazines paused to think about Sex to Sexty at all it was to wonder where something like that came from." But the vast populace between California and New York, ignored and reviled by the mainsteam press, tore Sex to Sexty off newsstand racks in the 1960s and '70s. The pages of the magazine were dense with non-stop gags: six cartoons a page and as many jokes and limericks. Hanson writes: "Sex to Sexty's humor is their humor, a humor more intrinsically American than any cartoon to ever appear in The New Yorker."
The humor was recycled from the "rich folklore" of America's dirt roads, often contributed by readers themselves. The themes were timeless: cheating wives, wedding nights, streetwalkers, mermaids, nudist camps, homosexuals, unwanted pregnacies, loose secretaries, impotent husbands, desert island castaways, the cannibal stewpot. The politically incorrect magazine also skewered ethnic groups and popular trends like women's liberation and hippies.
The man behind the dirty jokes was John Newbern, a Texas advertising executive and "God-fearing Christian" who believed God created everything, including sex and humor. The garish, eye-catching covers were painted by hillbilly artist "Pierre" Davis. Taschen has rescued these issues from restroom trash bins and presented a beautifully glossed up tribute to this "adult" classic. After the introductory texts, the book is padded out with hundreds of these smutty gags and the eye-popping Davis covers. The jokes are categorized by theme: Injuns, stinkfinger, Peeping Toms, etc.
I like this organization, but the great Sex To Sexty artists are almost completely ignored. This where I dock a star. It was this talented group of gagsters that made the magazine more naughty than filthy, more cheeky than gross. Unheralded and rejected by the big-city glossies, these guys were some of the best single-panel cartoonists around: Bill Ward, Bill Wenzel, Bob Tupper, Dick Lucas, Ted Trogdon, Ward Kimball, Pete Wyma. The project would have been more complete with some biographical sketches and their thoughts about the trade.
As a postscipt, I've bought original cartoons from the magazine on eBay from the founder's son, John Newbern Jr., at his seller ID tambo53. He calls them "American heirlooms" and makes them consistently available.
|
|
|
