Sex to sexty cover art

View Larger Image. Bookseller Inventory Synopsis: 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 to 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.

By David Everitt Howe. The exhibition, which was organized by guest curator Jenelle Porter, revolved around this series and the various subseries it spawned. The Prenatal Mutual Recognition of Betty and Barney Hill presents two Hofmann-like geometric planes of flat color as unmoored shapes that hover around ghoulish, washy renderings of the heads of a boy and a girl who appear awestruck, their mouths agape. The Hills were a couple who in claimed they had been abducted by aliens.

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The result was dirty and entertaining volumes, the covers of which are included in this large format, full color, and beautifully produced book. Not for the pure-at-heart, the book explores various themes from the magazine including cannibalism, bestiality, incest, and other treasured taboo topics. Which is exactly why I love it. 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 to by Texas entrepreneur John Newbern, whose life was lifted straight from the pages of his publication.