Candy

Banned smut with artistic pretensions will always attract a crowd, and the "scandalous" Candy, co-authored by Terry Southern, attracted a crowd of some 3 million readers after a Paris edition was reissued in the United States. Many of them, I suspect, eagerly fingered the pages looking for the dirty parts, which include anatomical terminology and some clumsy sex scenes. Southern's novel Blue Movie and his work in film make you wonder how he could have produced this satirical dreck.