Title: The Sex Education Racket - An Exposé
Author: Phoebe Courtney
Cover artist: a purveyor of nightmares
Yours for: SOLD (Feb. 09)
Best things about this cover:
- Oh, god, who are these kids and what are they doing on this cover? Are they all hopped up on sex ed?
- "After receiving sex education in school, Peter looked at his stepsisters Marcia and Cindy in a whole new light..."
- These kids are so much more horrifying than Anything you'll find inside this book (which is mostly specious anti-communist and anti-"Negro" nutjobbery - don't ask me what either has to do with sex education, because I just can't tell you)
- "Phoebe Courtney" went on to inspire the sitcom "Friends."
- This book is in amazing condition. Appears never to have been read. Shocking.
- I love the idea that sex ed is a "racket." All those sex ed fat cats, rolling in all that sex ed money. Say no to Big Sex Ed! (Hey, I knew a guy named "Big Sex Ed" once ... so that's what his name meant)
Best things about this back cover:
[late addendum - this woman is famousish in the history of radical right politics in America: see here. Why oh Why is there no mention of her husband on this book cover!? Thanks for the reference, Steve]
- Oh ... my. Hello, Misssssss Courtney. Don't you look ... happy.
- What is her hair doing!? Maybe Miss Courtney is a perfectly reasonable human being whose mind is being controlled by some kind of parasitic mock-hair creature.
- I love that she wrote a "series of pamphlets" (who is she, Thomas Paine?) called "TAX FAX," many years before "FAX" was a household term.
- Like any good, husbandless, sexually repressed woman with hair pulled so tight on her head that her face is contorted into a permanent smile, she likes to keep a "massive German Shepherd dog" around the house.
- How much would you like to bet that Phoebe Courtney was into some seriously kinky shit.
- There is a section of blank pages at the back of the book marked "Your Notes"
Page 123~
If you oppose sex education in the schools, then you will want to do something about it.
There's a "handling the media" guide and everything. This book is awesome in that it represents early evidence of the albatross that now hangs around the neck of the Republican party: it's anti-science, anti-black, anti-public education, anti-union, anti-masturbation (seriously). It's also very much pro-ugly/scary book covers. Further, it's apparently responsible for ushering in the 70s' lamentable obsession with earth tones.
~RP
