In my vast collection of vintage erotica (3000 BCE - 1974 CE) I have several examples of what are commonly referred to as Tijuana Bibles. Maybe this deserves a thread on its own in celebration of these invariably crude (though often exquisitely drafted) graphic comics of the American folkloric underground. For those who don't know, check this site: http://www.tijuanabibles.org/

Perhaps all you Americans out there in Mudcat Land might be so good as to disclose the cultural status of such things in your day as it were, and, indeed, what sort of currency they have today - or this is another venerable folk tradition killed off by technology?