If, unlike Rudolph Valentino and Thornton Wilder and a shipload of sailors, you missed out on making it into Sam Steward's Stud File, rating 746 of his sexual partners and recording "the dates and places of their encounters, a coded key of the various sexual acts that took place as well as partners’ penile dimensions," now you can console yourself with seeing that amorous artifact in person. Expanding from the super success of his Secret Historian
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I hope the Stud File cards are duplicated and posted so people can read them. Visitors to this exhibit want more than a look at a box.
For a different critique of Steward's erotica written as Phil Andros and others from that era, read Michael Bronski's Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps.
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