Dr. Seuss's Little-Known Sex Book

[wa3zrm]

One hundred eight years ago today, the world welcomed Theodor Seuss Geisel, better-known as Dr. Seuss—legendary children's book author, radical ideologist, lover of reading. Among his many creative feats is a fairly unknown, fairly scandalous one: In 1939, when Geisel left Vanguard for Random House, he had one condition for his new publisher, Bennett Cerf—that he would let Geisel do an "adult" book first. The result was The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History's Barest Family, which tells the story of nudist sisters who, after their father's death, pledge not to wed until each of them has "brought to the light of the world some new and worthy Horse Truth, of benefit to man."
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[Mdisch]

Holy cow - this is awesome!

[Veganpunk]

That is awesome. Who knew.

[Snusdog]

That is awesome. Who knew.

The whos............. thats who..............oh and the Grinch

[redicccc]

i know this ..............
really awesome i have some audio cd...........

[Ephemeris]

I know this is an older thread that just got bumped for reasons unclear, but a few serendipitous things to point out since we're on a snus forum.

Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, in addition to being a snuffer, was the daughter of Frederika Wise, who was a granddaughter of P. Lorrillard's brother, the oldest snuff manufacturer in the United States. This made her a millionaire many times over.

Second, if you're familiar with the EC comics of the 50's (Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, etc) many of the early stories were taken from Cerf's two horror anthologies of the forties, Famous Ghost Stories and The Unexpected. Jack Davis, dyed-in-the-wool snuff dipper and world renowned artist, got his start at EC and followed the company into the magazine business, where he still turns in an occasional cartoon for Mad Magazine. He's the only contributor who was part of the initial launch of Mad in 1952. (61 years!)

Third, Dr. Seuss wrote The Seven Lady Godiva's as part of a bet that he could do an "adult children's book" with EB White (Charlotte's Web), who also did a similar book entitled Is Sex Necessary? ten years earlier. As some of you may know, EB White was a fancier of French snuff.

The Dr. Seuss book is pretty tame by today's standards. If it was an animated film it would probably be rated PG. Everybody Poops is more graphic than The Seven Lady Godivas.

Not sure what this all means, but I've learned:

Guys who write children's books take snuff and draw naked kids
Cartoonists from the South dip snuff
Everything is related through six degrees of snuff-eration.