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Remember This?










Our all-time favorite Madonna photo. Very Angie Dickinson on a bender!



Madonna's Sex book caused quite the media maelstrom upon its release. We admit to buying a copy on the first day it became available. Why not? Though many found it to be much ado about nothing, we think it succeeded on its own terms, whatever they may have been. Not the least bit titillating to those of us familiar with the sexual underground, it none the less opened some eyes in middle-America. These days, we just see it as a curious photo spread, the likes of which no mainstream star would consider doing, before or since. The entire book has been posted here.



[fotos: steven meisel]

6 Responses to "Remember This?"

TJB said :
June 20, 2008 3:34 AM
Hmmm? Sexual underground? Never heard of it. Nope. Never. Uh-uh. No siree bob!
June 20, 2008 6:34 AM
I was a teenager in high school, and working part-time in a book warehouse when this came out.
It was sealed in a silver foil cover, and I remember two of the managers climbing up to the top of the six foot high shelves and throwing three copies on the concrete floor, so the envelopes would be damaged and they could get a look at the nude Madge.
June 20, 2008 8:35 AM
wild.

i was just flipping through my copy. i too absolutely love the hitchhiking pic.

if i had a body like that, i might not be gay, but i would be naked right now.
Donna Lethal said :
June 20, 2008 12:51 PM
That is the best Madge pic ever! Did you hear that someone recently actually thought it was a 'lost' photo of MM?

Madge today is humorless and dull. I miss her old nasty fun self.
Noelia said :
June 20, 2008 2:32 PM
OMG! I got back and I found a post about Sex! Thank you dear Thom!
I love this book, more than anything because it opened my mind when I was 13... I actually made a post about a month ago...
I always wonder what is she gonna tell Rocco or Lola when they ask her about this. Probably that's why she's so strict with them :-P
Noelia said :
June 20, 2008 2:34 PM
PS: the "erotica" version in the book is great... "I'm not a witch, I'm a love a technician" is one of my faves lines...

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