Author William Knoles provides a bit of humorous nostalgia with his article, "Girls For The Slime God", in the November 1960 issue of PLAYBOY. He asserts that, despite the Kingsley Amis critique of science-fiction, "New Maps of Hell" (written the same year), where he discussed the "puritanical tone" of the topic, there were instances that proved otherwise.
While not the all-out "orgy of sex in print" that a contemporary "elderly educator" claimed, Knoles does recall a few instances of salaciousness that popped up here and again in the sci-fi pulps of the 30's and 40's.
Accompanied by a series of pulp cover parodies by a pre-Little Annie Fanny Will Elder -- with story titles like, "Zucchini Beast of Jupiter's Moons" and "Gifilte Fish-Men of Pluto" -- this article provides an amusing romp through a science-fiction history that (wink! wink!) might have been.
BONUS! The Gahan Wilson cartoon from the issue.
This same issue contains Gahan Wilson’s “Poe,” several great cartoons based on the works of EAP.
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