The Best of Sexology: Hugo Gernsback's Sex Mag
Craig Yoe says:
My new book that I edited and designed, The Best of Sexology collects the wackiest and most unintentionally funny articles from America's first sex magazine, Sexology, The Illustrated Magazine of Sex Science. "Homosexual Chickens", "Adolph Hitler's Sex Life", "Sex and Satan", "Twin Beds or Single?", "Sexual Tattooing", "When Midgets Marry" are just a few of the subjects covered...or should I say uncovered?The Best of Sexology: Kinky and Kooky Excerpts from America's First Sex MagazineThe publisher of "Sexology", started in 1933, was Hugo Gernsbach, who published the first pulps of science fiction (the term originated in his pubs) and the science fiction award The Hugo is named after him. Gernsback used his science fiction writers and artists (like Frank Paul) to produce Sexology. There's a peek at the book here and I'll be on Fix TV's Red Eye show Fri. nite/Sat. morn at 2:00 a.m. to talk about it.
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My 1-year wedding anniversary is coming up in under 2 weeks. That's the "Paper Anniversary".
This is the perfect present for my wife, she loves this kind of stuff.
Bought :)
In 1988 I worked for a computer mail order place located on Bi-County Boulevard, Farmingdale NY.
One nice day I spent my lunch hour walking around the grounds of the rambling, modern office building. At one end was a suite with an outside door. A rather plain-looking sign on the door read GERNSBACK PUBLICATIONS.
I asked the receptionist if it was THAT Gernsback Publications. She said yes.
There was no sign of the company's glorious past . . . just a few framed modern-day magazine covers, for electronics hobbyist zines.
Kind of sweet and sad. Like finding out that Pan Am was still in business, running one commuter flight a week between Toledo and Sheyboygan.
This is a great book. The wife has had a lot of fun reading it.
Please also recall Hugo Gernsback single handedly invented amateur radio, too.
Apparently, you could do anything if you had enough will power in those days. Subject the ether to your desires, write sex magazines, create worlds.
I would've LOVED to have seen what H. P. Lovecraft would've contributed to that book/magazine.
Wow, Christmas has come early thanks to BoingBoing. I used to work in my college's Interlibrary Loan Department. The Journal of Sexology (we only had something like five volumes) was uncontested as my favorite. I would always hope someone would request an article from them, and then slack off for a while to read it. Great stuff.
Mr. Yoe, to you or whoever designed that cover: *excellent* job!! Simply *nailed* it, and that is so rare.
Wish listed!
Derek C. F. Pegritz: Based on what I know about Lovecraft, I think that it would have to be something like "Sex Is Icky."
The perfect, ahem...Stocking Stuffer.
thanks folks for your kind and fun comments! it was a helluva fun book to put together! btw, i'll be on FOX TV tonight, not "FIX" TV. That'll be at 2:00 a.m. on the Red Eye show. (technically Saturday morn *YAWN*.)
Having worked for Hugo in the 50's and beyond I am rather familar with Sexology. In fact there is a chapter titled "Taking the X out of sex" in his biography that I recently published.
I’ve recently published a new 900-page biography about the life and times of Hugo Gernsback. It is available on Amazon. Just follow this link:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=steckler+hugo+gernsback
The manuscript was found while I was in the process of closing down Gernsback Publications Inc. in 2003. It was apparently written some time in the 1950’s. It covers all the areas that Hugo found interesting: wireless communications, science fiction, publishing, patents, foretelling the future, and much more.
Want more info? Contact me at PoptronixInc@aol.com
I have this book and it's a riot. What's amazing is that they found enough DIFFERENT stuff to write about sex for all those years. They accomplished this by covering the weirdest and most obscure aspects of sexuality. The stuff on fetishes is especially interesting. You find yourself saying "Really? People do that?"
It makes a great coffee table book if for no other reason than it looks so great on a coffee table. The illusion of an old, tattered volume is very convincing. It should be in every bathroom in America!