Post #539911 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 9:55 AM

Wait, Grog said "no Tikis" and not "no titties" :)
But I think I see your point.
Subliminal massaging, I mean messaging, just like the pomegranate on the Trader Vic's bottle label.

The many ways of artistically blocking full frontal nudity is one of the fun aspects of the classic paperback covers.
There are a lot of back views, the lei is a favorite nipple protector, and heads and others body parts come in handy sometimes.
Here is one of the few exceptions, albeit only ONE -the other being covered by a strand of hair:

Keep in mind that many of these novels had been published as LITERATURE before,
and to sell them to the sex-starved mid-century man, paperback publishers had to spice up the content

• by putting tempting titillation's on the covers.

This here work for example was first published in 1941, written by travel writer Ernestine Hill, who dedicated the book "For My Mother"
Its sexual aspects are wonderfully clad in (now dated) prose, here is an excerpt:

Now that second line could be considered Tiki-porn...
...but she couldn't have known then how it would excite us Tikiphiles now :)
To continue:

So "they drank deep of the perfume of the Tiare flowers"....and"Matthew was shy of tar-brush charms" ...Huh!?
Gotta love it. :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-06-30 10:08 ]