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I read a lot of 1970s sci-fi paperbacks and it's surprising how many of them have naked women on the cover. Well, not really surprising given the target audience at the time. But it's common enough that when I hit the second hand book shops I gravitate to naked women covers because I know they'll be the kind of sci-fi I like.

I did the exact same at the peak of my sf collecting, anything with half nude figures and psychedelic colours.
 
The science fiction I grew up reading, from the 80s and early 90s, very frequently featured complicated and gaudy covers (often by Steve Crisp) that in no way related to what the book was about.
Same in 79-80’s. The Sci/Fi-Fantasy sections of the bookstores were a little taboo/seedy because of the lurid covers.
 
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