PET BOOKS
    Greenleaf Classics published smutty paperbacks from as early as 1959 and lasted into the early 1980's.
    With the loosening legal limitations on publishing, Greenleaf was one of the longer-lasting houses to disseminate all kinds of books on everything from homosexuality, slave-sex, and beastiality; incest and degredation abound throughout their publications.
    The series of images that appear in this selection of UNPOP Readymade art are from the anonymous illustrator of the "Pet Book" series. There was enough interest in female-dog, female-horse, female-etc. copulation that the books were published from the late 70's into at least 1983 (a minimum of 5 years with many titles published each year).
    Each book, of course came with full color covers, featuring a circular painting (or in a few cases, colored pencil). Colorful and sometimes somehow innocent, the images themselves are fairly innocuous; but the literary contents they advertise and allude to connote a taboo that few in the extremes of the sexual underground would boldly challenge.
    Though there is a support group for male homosexual pedophiles, websites and fanclubs for people who like to dress up and imitate animals - there are very few instances of people who willfully admit they enjoy having sex or watching others have sex with actual non-human animals - but yet the longevity of this series tells of the many people who did (and in all likelyhood - still do).
                                                       -Kevin I. Slaughter