Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words

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Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words was first published in 1972 by Playboy Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster. Written by Robert Anton Wilson, it is sub-titled 'A liberated dictionary of improper English, containing over 700 uninhibited definitions of erotic and scatological terms'. The paperback edition's cover featured Mercy Rooney. It is a collection of 'items' from "Abbess" to "Zoophilia Erotica".

Interviewed by "Common Ground", Vancouver (July 1999 Issue), Wilson talked about how he's been tinkering with Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words, which he considers his worst book -- worst, that is, after the editors at Playboy did to the book "what the Roman Army did to the Sabine women". Claiming ignorance and inexperience, he didn't object at the time. If he re-writes the book the way he wanted it to be the first time, he would call it Robert Anton Wilson's Book of Black Magick and Curses. He aims to include all the anthropological and neurolinguistic theorems that Playboy removed.

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