Wifetheif
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My reading habits are, to put it mildly, bizarre one of my "guilty pleasures" are the Ki-Gor adventure stories that appeared in "Jungle Tales" magazine from the 1940's to the publication's demise in 1953 Yes, he is a Tarzan knockoff but his adventures are usually far better written than Edgar Rice Burroughs's sometimes turgid prose.Several scribes toiled under the John Peter Drummund nom de plume and some of them were quite skilled. The main difference between Tarzan and Ki-Gor is that aside from being less racist, Helene, Ki-Gor's flame-haired mate, is an equal partner. In Burroughs's books, Jane is a really boring character who simply waits at the tree house for Tarzan. Helene is a spitfire in a really tiny leopard skin bikini who is equally capable of kicking butt as her husband. The story I am noting here "Cobra Queen of the Congo Legions" appeared in 1944, like most Ki-Gor tales, the title has very little to do with the story. In this case, the main antagonists are a slimy Arab bent on revenge against Ki-Gor and the last queen of the Egyptians! Pure pulp writing at its finest, Ki-Gor's Africa bears very little resemblance to the real continent. It is a backdrop for the heroic doings of the jungle lord and his flame-haired mate Helene. The writers were not shy about highlighting Helene's charms to wit, describing her about to engage in a little skinny dipping,
"The leopard-skin halter was bright yellow and black against her body, and she shrugged it free of her rounded supple breasts, hung it on the stub of a broken twig. Then she loosed the thongs that held the spotted breech-clout to her slender waist, slid it down her slender legs, stepped free. She hung the clout atop the halter, then stood nude in the sunshine. She was slender and smooth and supple as she stood there in the bright sunlight; she was a titian-haired goddess standing there in the radiance of her sun-God."
HOT stuff indeed for 1944! I'm sure the G.I.'s stranded European foxholes or Pacific beaches appreciated this bit of fan service, however. Not that I'm counting or anything, but Helene ends up nude three times in this story, including an off-stage stripping by the story's bad guy. The REAL focus of the story, however, is Ki-Gor, the almost superhuman white lord of the jungle. I suppose all of this is a roundabout way of asking what vintage mainstream of erotica sources are you fond of. What writing of an earlier generation still "does the trick" for you? What vintage stuff would you recommend, either to mine for ideas or just to enjoy on its own terms?
"The leopard-skin halter was bright yellow and black against her body, and she shrugged it free of her rounded supple breasts, hung it on the stub of a broken twig. Then she loosed the thongs that held the spotted breech-clout to her slender waist, slid it down her slender legs, stepped free. She hung the clout atop the halter, then stood nude in the sunshine. She was slender and smooth and supple as she stood there in the bright sunlight; she was a titian-haired goddess standing there in the radiance of her sun-God."
HOT stuff indeed for 1944! I'm sure the G.I.'s stranded European foxholes or Pacific beaches appreciated this bit of fan service, however. Not that I'm counting or anything, but Helene ends up nude three times in this story, including an off-stage stripping by the story's bad guy. The REAL focus of the story, however, is Ki-Gor, the almost superhuman white lord of the jungle. I suppose all of this is a roundabout way of asking what vintage mainstream of erotica sources are you fond of. What writing of an earlier generation still "does the trick" for you? What vintage stuff would you recommend, either to mine for ideas or just to enjoy on its own terms?
