Games

Another subject, we must pay attention to, is "games."

Today I will give you three examples of card games I got.

Enjoy them.

The saying "A dirty mind is a joy for ever" seems to have inspired the makers of the Erotic Memory Game I once bought in the Amsterdam Erotic Shop "Female & Partners," if I remember correctly.

The box, of which you can see the top and one of the sides above, measures 12.5x12.5x4 cm.

The little memory cards measure 5.3x5.3 cm, and have a "satin look" back side.

The next games have been gifts with the Dutch Penthouse Comix Magazine I mentioned earlier.

The first one is an "Erotic Quartet Game," with cards measuring 7x5 cm.

The categories are:

Dick Piercings (Hole Filler/Bonehead/Ball Bearer/Ring Tilter)

Toewax (compare: Earwax) (High-Flying/Sweaty Soles/Spread Toes/Toewax)

Second Skin (Horeca/Crime/Recreation/Care Sector)

Bosom Friends (Mad Dolly/Eye Candy/Mama Mia/Farrah Façade)

Festal Vaginas (Ting-a-Ling/Pinch-a-Thing/Ring-a-Ding/Chain Link)

Spring-Cleaning (Rinsing/Soaking/Cleaning/Scouring)

Mouth Shut (Plaster/Dish-Cloth/Muzzle/Skipping-Rope)

Handstands (Twaddling/Taking Aim/Licking/Lapping

Lip-Reading (Fold/Blabber/Mussel/Stripe)

The back sides of the Erotic Quartet Game shows an ad for an Erotic Sex Phone:

"The best place for an orgy, Cum soon in my hot pussy"

The last one is another Memory Game: PCX Memory, the cards measure 4.8x4.8 cm

Les Dames s'Amusent

A few weeks ago I published a booklet called "Les Dames s'Amusent," with etchings, that were made after a series of pen-drawings by Jan Asselbergs.
I am happy I finally found the original portfolio of etchings. Could not be so hard, because the size of the etches is 26x31.5 cm, so the portfolio is even bigger. As I told you before, I found it in a Gallery called "De 3 Gratiën" (the 3 Graces), what I did not mention was that I was lucky to find the #1 print of an edition limited to 100 copies.
I hope you will enjoy, the now larger and thus better, version of the etchings.

"...That completed series of pen-drawings that got the perhaps not quite so friendly working title LES DAMES S'AMUSENT, originated in the early seventies (of the 20th century, Xa). From what? From being busy with pen and ink, with Japanes engracings. From being in love, with the material as well with the bodies of the young ladies and the sticks around them. From a kind of professional voyeurism. From the challenge that originates with the subject per se, I mean: one model is a problem; two of them, and moreover, in motion, is almost impossible. And don't forget: now, in 1985, there is nothing special, let it be, shocking, about the subject. In those days there was..."
(From an interview withJAN ASSELBERGS).

This portfolio has been edited during winter 1985-1986 by De Bospers, Oosterbeek (The Netherlands) in co-operation with Galerie d'O in Amsterdam. The edition is limited to 100 numbered copies that were signed by the artist drawer.

This is nr. 1./100

Idylle Printanière - Spring Ydill

This time a "book without words." The author of the original publication is unknown, but specialists all agree that the etchings can be attributed to "Rojan," pseudonym for Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky.

Latvian artist Feodor Rojankovsky, known as 'Rojan', worked in Paris in the '20s and '30s. Famous as a children's book illustrator, his other artistic endeavours were perhaps less well-known but no less appreciated: Rojan regularly illustrated erotic fiction and his output was impressive. His erotic drawings enlivened the poetry of Raymond Radiguet and Pierre Louys as well as many others of the golden age of French erotica.
His chef d'oeuvre, however, has always been considered to be Idylle Printanière (Spring Idyll; published by ER Books as Paris Spring 1933, a "story without words" telling of an encounter between two elegant travellers who meet on a platform on the Paris Metro. Passing in a taxi through the Paris of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, the couple are soon passionately entwined... Delivered to a maison de passe they consummate their mutual lust with more privacy - but no less less frantic urgency.
This art-deco masterpiece has lost none of its original fire and brilliance. The original 1933 edition, comprising only 516 sets, is now almost unobtainable and has fetched up to £2,500 at auction.
(text from EPS).

I made the scans from the Dutch version of a cobined Italian-Spanish-Dutch publication of the year 2000.

The book itself has a grey cover, imitating the original.

But the book has an illustrated "dust jacket," this is the one for the Dutch version:

And now the "real" content:

Frontispiece

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Illustrations: