What’s going on with these naked castaways? They’re the stars of a strange little bit of pseudo-porn (probably very wholesome, just with lurid marketing) from more than a century ago, courtesy of the March 1917 issue of Metropolitan magazine:

nude castaways discovery young love on a deserted island

Our naked couple are the hero and heroine of a story being distributed as a magazine subscription promotion, per this advertisement:

Two young people, a girl and a boy shipwrecked in infancy on a desert island, do not meet until they are twenty years old. Previous to having met, neither had ever seen a human being before. Naturally, their modes of living are extremely primitive and in a daring story Morgan Robertson tells of their awakening to the immutable laws of Nature. It’s an idyll of young love…

“But what if we took the story of Adam and Eve, made it all modern with castaways on a desert island, and sold it like it was a dirty story?”

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