And now we continue our parade of vivid censorship! These illustrators did their best to turn discrimination into art and make the hypocrisy work against itself. They had to ruin the logic and break the laws of physics in the process, but a la guerre comme a la guerre!
20. Seven Happy Men
We open the second part of our top (click here for the first part) by recounting seven happy men. These men allowed to be impossibly close to the nipples are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and, last but not least, Benjamin Franklin.
Fig. 1. pulpcovers.com
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19. Bra Weird Physics
It happens when you want to seduce and need to censor at the same time. Reality is boring. This was claimed by impressionists, surrealists, abstractionists, and adult books’ illustrators.
Fig. 2. pulpcovers.com
18. Papers, Please!
If she was raped as a virgin, the papers she’s reading are probably a criminal case file. Who knows, maybe in the twisted Universe of cheap literature, she won this case and then started using a copy of the docs as a night stimulant.
Fig. 3. pulpcovers.com
17. The Dream Catcher
If it’s a dream catcher, then the scene can be a dream it caught. If this dream catcher hangs over the entrance, the Peeping Tom is on shift again!
Fig. 4. pulpcovers.com
16. Weird Perspective
We can’t decide whether this ‘she-devil’ is another nippless girl or this pleasure boat’s come from a parallel dimension, and its’ antenna can magically hide female nipples independently of their location.
Fig. 5. pulpcovers.com
15. Strip Game
This is how you can spend the evening with your partner if wi-fi and TV don’t work. A deck of cards also can help if you need to draw a cover for a novel with a title like this.
Fig. 6. pulpcovers.com
14. Salinger Forever
This cover reminding of The Catcher in The Rye probably has a tragic story behind it. Imagine, you want to be like this great writer, but, to earn a living, you write about naked people at the farm. Or you want to illustrate immortal classics, but you’re commissioned to draw covers for people like Kevin North. And all you can do is depict the rye over the boobs of a red girl, hoping that Salinger would be proud of your sophisticated reference. Or even worse, you hate classics and write paperback novels setting yourself against this damned literature canon, but there’s always someone who associates your product with this darn Salinger! So many, many tragic stories!
Fig. 7. pulpcovers.com
13. Don’t Drain Marshes
Because you can drown dead bodies there! Or, at least, you can cover the boobs of a dead girl with marsh plants. If the action takes place underwater, the seaweed is also helpful.
Fig. 8. pulpcovers.com
Fig. 8b. pulpcovers.com
12. Film Strip
It seems that the illustrator took the term ‘film strip’ literally and decided to depict his vision. The cover has its’ advantages: it’s so abstract that it suits every porn novel.
Fig. 9. pulpcovers.com
11. Bang-Bang
That guy with a guitar from the first part of our top decided to break his daily routine. Now he’s a guy with a gun!
Fig. 10. pulpcovers.com
10. BDSM as Censorship
These covers promote the slogan Beat Disclosed Sinful Mammals. Bondage, domination, sadism, masochism, all kinds of whips and belts were invented to hide women’s nipples from the eyes of high-minded people. Yeah, together with the previous position, here’s a combo: Sin Boss, Sin Sucker, and Sin Mates.
Fig. 11. pulpcovers.com
Fig. 11b. pulpcovers.com
9. Camera, Action!
As you may notice, female nipples very often are censored by different phallic objects. This time, it’s a tripod. The lower part of the girl’s body is elegantly hidden by a camera. When they finish, she will cover herself with shots or a film strip, as we’ve already seen.
Fig. 12. pulpcovers.com
8. The Power of Art
Body art is the thing you should never forget about if you’re an artist. It allows looking in the eyes while looking at nipples.
Fig. 13. pulpcovers.com
Fig. 13b. pulpcovers.com
7. Fight Fire With Fire
If you’re asked to censor the nipples of a girl, no one forbids you to do it by another pair of boobs!
Fig. 14. pulpcovers.com
6. …Literally With Fire
Sometimes you can hide nipples by a satanic fire of a sadistic cult. The cultists are cautious people as the fire is also good at healing venereal diseases.
Fig. 15. pulpcovers.com
5. Christmas Vibes
In the first part of the top, there was a position occupied by tree branches. This cover is placed much higher because the whole thing is barely explainable. Spruce branches are the most elegant way to hide the naked body, especially when there’s nothing more except them on the cover.
Fig. 16. pulpcovers.com
4. Hokusai’s Shadow
Another charming way to censor the nipples is to engage an octopus. As admirers of Hokusai, we bestow the 4th place to this cover.
Fig. 17. pulpcovers.com
And here’s a final top 3!
3. Snakes and Wheels
The third place is taken by two covers at once. The first one is the steering wheel (an adequate (if this word is appropriate here) variant of the 16th place), and the second is a mind-blowing representative of the genre. “The lady is a spy! And she’s no lady!” So, who the hell is she? An alien cat-woman sometimes sporting snakes?
Fig. 18. pulpcovers.com
Fig. 18b. pulpcovers.com
2. A Razor, A Road Sign, and Ski Poles
If anyone asks you what’s common between a razor, a road sign, and ski poles, you can answer that all these things can perfectly hide women’s nipples on the covers of cheap porn novels.
Fig. 19. pulpcovers.com
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1. Smoke On the Sex Machine
And the first place of our top 40 ways to censor female nipples on adult books’ covers is shared by two outstanding contestants. The first one is a smoking lady. Could you ever imagine cigarette smoke hiding anything? We couldn’t. But the illustrator showed how poor our fantasy is. The second example is a wire of an electric dildo. Yes, the freaking dildo is something you don’t need to censor on your cover, while the nipples must be censored by all means. If you want, you can hide them by drawing sperm on tits.
Fig. 20. pulpcovers.com
Fig. 20b. pulpcovers.com
Sources: pulpcovers.com
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