Though there is still tension about what the library and librarians of today should be, the connection between librarians and sex is surprisingly persistent.
One of the frustrations of being a librarian is the occupational stereotyping. Librarians tend to be depicted in books and movies as elderly spinsters, rigid and frigid. More recently, in a predictable attempt to subvert convention, the slutty librarian trope has emerged: young, hot-blooded, yet not exempt from the cats-eye glasses.
From The Millions, librarian Elisabeth Cohen reviews a few books on the sexy librarian phenomena that you might have missed.
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