Ricky Retardo
02-16-2004, 05:05 PM
I admit it, I was in an adult bookstore. This one in particular was having a 15% off sale. Any item in the store was 15% off including all items previously marked down. Now the fact is that sometimes you can find some pretty interesting items in adult book stores (aside from the standard porn). So there I am, purusing the penis pumps and plastic pussies, just checking it out. Not too bad a selection, but nothing here is calling my name. As I work my way to the print section (with a detour at the smoking accessories) I see a wall full of hardback books with reduced stickers on them. Flipping through them I find a sealed copy of Richard Kern's photo book GIRLS OF NEW YORK at 50% clearance (Cover price is $50). I had to blink a couple of times. Richard Kern? R Kern? I pick up the book and look at the back. There is a blurb about FINGERED by John Waters. Yup, it's THAT Richard Kern. So I takes the book to the counter. With the additional 15% discount I wound up getting the book for a little over $20. This was the first I had heard of this tome, and I was not quite sure what to expect. I figured that I was probably going to get a misogynistic attitude with liberal violent imagery. I have to say that I was pleasantly suprised with the actual artfullness of the photgraphs. Aside from the expected bondage and gun fascinations, I have to say that many of the photos are quite striking. And the beauty of the models was several steps up from what I would have anticipated considering the glorified ugliness of his films. All in all it proved to be a quite worthwhile trip to the pornshop, for I consider this book to be one of my better finds in awhile.