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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
It was not helped by the lurid covers of older SF magazines featuring scantily clad heroines menaced by slavering aliens.
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One of my favorite family stories involves the moment my grandmother noticed a magazine that held my grandfather's rapt attention. The cover featured a large, green BEM ("bug-eyed monster," for the uninitiated) drooling as his sucker-tipped tentacles ripped the bodice off a helpless-yet-alluring ingénue. Classic stuff, in other words.
"David," she asked, "don't you think the subject matter is a little
lurid for you to be reading in front of the children?"
"No," he responded, with just a touch of regret, "it's pure as the driven snow...."
- M.