tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post2189083324351521950..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFMagazines: AMERICAN APHRODITE #19 (1955); EROS #4 Winter 1962Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-39430897927536026702014-11-20T01:29:34.511-05:002014-11-20T01:29:34.511-05:00Well, I think they're more likely to find the ...Well, I think they're more likely to find the dangers (from governmental censorship and prosecution) far more puzzling, given particularly the mildness of most of the content. Erotica anthologies continue to sell well, even if erotica fiction magazines are very nearly exclusively a web phenomena in English, today. PLAYBOY and even the still-raunchier (after all these years) PENTHOUSE seem quaint, among the magazines that don't have much fiction...I think PLAYGIRL might've folded again, and ESQUIRE and its other stepchild MAXIM and their fellow-travelers are far from the height of their sales or influence.Todd Masonhttp://www.socialistjazz.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-92003790020370516972014-11-18T12:38:51.773-05:002014-11-18T12:38:51.773-05:00Living in a culture saturated with sexuality, read...Living in a culture saturated with sexuality, readers born since 1970 would have to find this whole phenomenon of middle-brow erotica pretty puzzling. Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-63469030128624072082014-11-16T10:48:48.106-05:002014-11-16T10:48:48.106-05:00It is remarkable, in middle age, how much young ad...It is remarkable, in middle age, how much young adults start looking ever more like kids, isn't it? Though I'm not sure how old she is, at all...my copy doesn't have its dust jacket. Probably should've given a little more explication with the flippancy already; there's often a felt tension in particularly such early erotica magazines and anthologies between a given piece of work's (and the whole enterprise's) overeagerness and half-trying--publishing ontogeny recapitulating early sexual adventure phylogeny, perhaps--but that is also the fate of both most artistic pioneers, and is perhaps most often evident in erotica, still the most likely to be discounted of literary (and other) forms. Thanks for the benisons!Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-83887207039480721062014-11-16T07:59:06.587-05:002014-11-16T07:59:06.587-05:00"featuring imagery of bare backsides didn'..."featuring imagery of bare backsides didn't keep them from feeling a bit half-assed" really cracked me up - thanks Todd. I wish the woman on that cover of American Aphrodite didn't look quite so young, but maybe its me getting old ...Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)http://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-84600744449489314392014-11-14T13:12:12.022-05:002014-11-14T13:12:12.022-05:00I'll have to look at it again, but a fair amou...I'll have to look at it again, but a fair amount of all chauvinism seems to be driven by sexual resentment among other sorts. There's at least one blog I'm aware of that's all about what the proprietor tags the insidious voluptuousness of Jewish women...with copious photographic illustration for educational purposes, doncha know.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-24320114053346276102014-11-14T11:55:13.530-05:002014-11-14T11:55:13.530-05:00The Sexual Side of Anti-Semitism Huh? An odd topic...<i>The Sexual Side of Anti-Semitism</i> Huh? An odd topic, I have no idea what that would have to say.Gerardnoreply@blogger.com