Satan Was A Lesbian

In the 1950s and 1960s, best-selling authors from sci-fi great Robert Silverberg to crime writer Lawrence Block, made ends meets by grinding out softcore porn novels, often using female pen names, to fund their more lofty writing aspirations.

Collectors Weekly gives us a glimpse of a more repressed era when gay women were portrayed as aberrant or unnatural. Lesbian themed books were very popular during a time when lesbians were forced to live closeted lives. Some were novels designed to feed into male sexual fantasies while others were passed off as "scientific case studies".