COME FULL CIRCUS

Absolutely zero Fuchs given about realism in crazed carny sleaze novel.

Here we go again with the carnival novels. We’re compelled to read them, even when they look terrible before we open the covers. In 1970’s Circus of Sex by Renaud Fuchs a nowheresville lad named Sam Sloan decides to join a traveling spectacular called Fuchsia Bath’s Astounding Circus (Fuchsia is male, amazingly). But the book isn’t about circus life at all, so much as the alleged sex practices of carny folk. In Fuchs’ fevered telling, they’re pansexual, which means Sam better get used to liking it all ways all the time—even, as things develop, against his will. We often criticize sleaze novels for being too chaste. Then there’s this kind. You’ll keep looking over your shoulder to make sure no one catches you reading it. What with the rape, bestiality, and general depravity, your reputation would be completely ruined. You can give Fuchs a pass. But we do like the cover. It’s credited to someone named M. Coxe.

Bee-Line Books, Renaud Fuchs, M. Coxe, cover art, literature, prostitution

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

September 6

1901—McKinley Fatally Shot

Polish-born anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies September 12, and Czolgosz is later executed.

September 5

1939—U.S. Declares Neutrality in WW II

The Neutrality Acts, which had been passed in the 1930s when the United States considered foreign conflicts undesirable, prompts the nation to declare neutrality in World War II. The policy ended with the Lend-Lease Act of March 1941, which allowed the U.S. to sell, lend or give war materials to allied nations.

September 5

1972—Munich Massacre

During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, a paramilitary group calling itself Black September takes members of the Israeli olympic team hostage. Eventually the group, which represents the first glimpse of terrorists for most people in the Western world, kill eleven of the hostages along with one West German police officer during a rescue attempt by West German police that devolves into a firefight. Five of the eight members of Black September are also killed.

September 4

1957—U.S. National Guard Used Against Students

The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, mobilizes the National Guard to prevent nine African-American students known as the Little Rock Nine from enrolling in high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

September 3

1941—Auschwitz Begins Gassing Prisoners

Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps, becomes an extermination camp when it begins using poison gas to kill prisoners en masse. The camp commandant, Rudolf HÃ¶ss, later testifies at the Nuremberg Trials that he believes perhaps 3 million people died at Auschwitz, but the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum revises the figure to about 1 million.