LIFE

Early blueprints for bar scene scribes

B Magazine, Jim Algie, Published on 21/04/2013

» Years before the obscenity trial that allowed Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer to finally be published in America which, along with Playboy and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, helped to bring sex in from the margins of pornography to the bedrooms of suburbia, two British authors enjoyed scandalous successes by exposing the brothels and bargirls of Asia.