The Pearl

(This book is sexually explicit.)

What did Sherlock Holmes read when he got horny? "The Pearl." He was in college when it first came out. He probably saved copies and shared them with Watson around the fire at 221B Baker Street years later.

There weren't too many copies--the police shut the magazine down after 18 months. Supposedly the reason was obscenity (well, plenty of that!) but I suspect the real reason, as I describe in an ending essay, was political.

So was the most famous porn magazin...