‘Lara Croft is always game for water sports’: Freaky sex in kids’ books, starring Jack Frost & Tinky Winky

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

Three Bizarre and Filthy Cash-in Kids’ Books

Discovered at: Thrift stores across this great nation

Once in a while, attentive cartoon fans spot impossible surprises that shouldn’t have got past the executives: a sex-toy on The Little Mermaid video box, or a topless gal in The Rescuers, or the word “SEX” in a dust cloud in The Lion King, or an honest laugh-out-loud joke in last week’s season premiere of The Simpsons.

The shocks differ, but they stir up the same questions each time: Is it truly there or is it a collective delusion? Would Disney or whoever intentionally risk the good will of families?