Prison Perversion and for God's sakes don't drop your soap

Images of men-to-men sex behind bars are an enduring part of Gay iconography. Below is a fairly representative selection of books that deal with both the reality and fantasy of "situational" penal buggery. Boyd, Robert N. The Day I Couldn't Cum In The City Jail. (short story) First Hand(magazine), June 1985. Fine in fine paper wraps, 130 p. $25 Boyd, Robert N. My Last Day In Prison. First Hand, Aug. 1985. Fine in fine paper wraps, 130 p. $25 Boyd, Robert N. (1925-1993)Sex Behind Bars. SF, Gay Sunshine, 1983. Signed by Boyd. An as issued copy in a clear acetate dust jacket, 237 p. One of a limited edition of 10 special copies handbound in 1/4 cloth covered boards that comprised the entire hard bound issue. A paperback edition was also issued at the same time. Summers cites both Boyd and Sex Behind Bars. $350 Includes the following pieces: Nonfiction Life Behind Bars Prison Slang Sex Behind Bars Prison Sex true accounts Slippery Sex Prison Slaves Butch Virgins Fiction Tank Boss Who's Kidding Who? Prisoners Cellmates What Goes Around The Hole Going Home Novella No one Ever Wins Charles, Anthony. Prison Punk (Gay pulp fiction) Illustrated. Rough Trade, 1979. Fine in fine paper wraps, 180 p. Norman listing 1482. $25 Genet, Jean. The Thief's Journal. NY, Grove Press, 1964. Advanced review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fine in fine DJ, 268 p. Young listing 1392* $150 Graeme, Roland. Prison Sex (Gay pulp fiction) 1980 Surree, 1980. Fine in fine paper wraps. Norman listing 2132. $20 Ingersoll, Robert G. Crimes against criminals. (Reprint of 1906 edition) First American edition. SF, Manroot, 1974. A treatise against how society treats its outcasts. Fine in fine paper wraps, 60 p. $35 Johnson, Peter. Rough Cons (Gay pulp fiction) Illustrated. Rough Trade, mid 1970's. Fine in fine paper wraps, 186 p. Norman listing 2598. $20 McGee, Richard. (warden of Riker's island prison) The Sex Criminal. NY, Emerson, 1941. Includes a chapter on homosexuality entitled "What can parents do?" (not much, let me tell you) Good in fair DJ, follows 1938 edition, 211 p. $35 Montgomery, Rex. Ken Anderson thrown into the prison world of man-to-man sex Rough Ridin' (Gay pulp fiction) Blueboy, 1977. Fine in fine paper wraps, 184 p. Norman listing 3224. $20 Puig, Mauel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. NY, Knopf, 1979. First American edition. Fine in fine DJ, 281 p. Young listing 3143. $150 Teale, Christopher. Behind These Walls an unusual story of prison life. NY, Fredrick Fell, 1957. First American edition. Fine in fine DJ with some chipping to the spine, 224 p. Young listing 3761*. $150 "...not for the queasy minded, here is a book by a convict about convicts---about a strange relationship between a case-harden(?) criminal and a clear eyed pink cheeked (what kind of cheeks) young boy who was typically high school in appearance---no attempt has been made to render incidents among hardened (there we go with the hard stuff again) sex starved criminals more palatable to those who are unable to face up to life and realities."