Unexpected erotica finds

[Wifetheif]

Sometimes a movie novelization can really surprise you. The Flash Gordon tie-in by Arthur Byron Cover based on a version of the script by Lorenzo Semple, Jr surprised me. It is nothing like the legendary "Jaws 4" novelization which, because that movie was so stupid and illogical, is about the ins and outs of the cocaine industry! The Flash Gordon novelization features a lot more racy sex than I expected and if it had made it into the film would have earned it an R rating. Here is an example. It is the famous scene where Ming zaps Dale with his ring and enjoys her sexual response. Titillating in the movie but in the book, we journey inside Dale's mind and are treated to "her first time." Sample,

"Sitting naked on the blanket, the silver-haired man gave Dale a glass of wine. She watched the lines of his middle-aged body, examining how his chest muscles moved with his arm. He was so cool, so experienced. The wind rustled the trees. An owl hooted."

-- Now that is what I call entertainment! There's more to that scene. Also, among other niceties, Princess Aura's clothes are reduced to tatters with only her belly covered when she is tortured and a hint of Dale coming on to her fellow inmates in the harem to get a bit of leverage. In Short, this version would have made a way better movie!

! Anybody else knows about other "buried treasure" novelizations?

 

[lovecraft68]

Over the years I've come across(pun possibly intended) some horror novels that have featured some surprisingly detailed and kinky sex scenes. For some reason finding a scene like that in a book not dedicated to erotica actually makes them hotter.

 

[SimonDoom]

This was one of the great pleasures of reading popular fiction in the 1970s when I was a teenager. Sex scenes -- rarely necessary to the plot but sprinkled in to attract more readers. My first exposure to erotic thrills in writing wasn't from erotic stories, per se, but from the salacious and sexy scenes in novels that I read. There were some passages in Salem's Lot, for example. Or The French Atlantic Affair -- a great trashy yarn. There's a scene in Clive Clussler's Raise the Titanic where the primary female lead gets naked in front of a bunch of guys for no good plot reason, just pure, contrived salacious thrill.

To a teenage boy, it was great stuff.

I never thought I would look back on the 1970s so fondly, but I often do.

 

[49greg]

I've always enjoyed an unexpected erotic scene when reading an otherwise non erotic book. Unfortunately for the Flash Gordon book mentioned in the OP, it looks like, at first flush, that that FG book is the only version that hasn't made it to Kindle.

Dammit. Maybe I can find it in a thrift store, garage sale, or used book store.

 

[Handley_Page]

Wasn't there a film about Flesh Gordon ?

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Wasn't there a film about Flesh Gordon ?

Not one worth mentioning...

 

[ElectricBlue]

Not one worth mentioning...

What the fuck? It's a B movie classic! Cult movie, mate, cult movie!

Kowtow to "Your Protuberance" immediately.