The "Sensuous Woman" Index

July, 1971

In the old days, a sex book didn't need an index. It was scarce, expensive or illegal--usually all three--which meant that the book passed back and forth among many readers, whose sweaty hands smudged and dog-eared all the interesting parts. One could let it fall open to the spicy places or else riffle the pages and feel where to stop and look. However, in these permissive times, the most explicit sex books are (to succumb to a pun) so easy to come by that any given copy rarely travels farther t...