Eros : Vol. 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1962) [Aphrodesiacs; Aphrodesiac Recipes; Sam Roth; Unicorn as Phallic Symbol; Merry Muses of Caledonia; My Quest for a French Tickler in Japan; Love Life of Napoleon; Brothel in Art; Clitoris; Fanny Hill; French Post C

New York, NY : Eros Magazine, 1962., 1962. Very Good. 96 pp ; color illustrations ; photographic boards featuring close-up photographs of Marilyn Monroe ; ISSN: 0425-2357 ; LCCN: 62-3170 ; sn 97-48172 ; 13" x 10" ; The third issue of the infamous sex periodical of the 60's, shut down after the fourth i ssue ; as publisher Ralph Ginzberg himself writes concerning this scandalous publication : "Upon discharge from the Army I shifted into broadcasting and magazines (NBC, Reader's Digest, Collier's, LOOK and other pillars of communications industry re spectability), then launched my own magazine, the artistic, cerebral, innovative and highly acclaimed hard-bound quarterly EROS. Writers and other intellectuals throughout the world celebrated it. Even the U.S. State Department bought copies to exhi bit at USIA libraries overseas as exemplars of American periodical publishing. But bluenoses here at home railed against the publication and one, the New York smut-hunting Catholic priest Morton Hill, persuaded U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy t o have me indicted, as Father Hill later boasted, for distributing 'obscene' literature through the mails, a federal crime. The indictment sought punishment of $280,000 in fines and 280 years in prison. New York's newspapers gave prominent play to F ather Hill's and the Justice Department's attacks against me. They quoted -- straight-faced -- the remarks of Congresswoman Kathryn O'Hay Granahan who declared, on the floor of the House of Representatives, that my publication of EROS was 'part of a n international Communist plot.' But newspapers ignored my every attempt to defend myself against these moronic allegations. I announced press conferences at various sites around town: at the Benjamin Franklin statue on Newspaper Row, at my magazine 's offices, on the steps of the General Post Office. All were listed in the AP and UPI daybooks but nobody showed up -- with one exception: Gay Talese, then a star reporter for The New York Times, appeared at my Post Office press conference where I presented an impassioned rebuttal of my attackers' charges and answered his few questions. I distinctly remember that he jotted down not a single word of my remarks. The Times ran no story the next day and Talese went onto become vice president and a director of P.E.N., the international organization dedicated to combating censorship of authors and publishers. After a brief trial in June, 1963, I was convicted in U.S. District Court, Philadelphia." ; Contents: MM 6/21/82 / Bert Stern -- Aphrod esiacs : The Pharmacopoeia of Love / Warren Boroson -- Aphrodesiac Recipes -- Sam Roth, Prometheus of the Unprintable / Robert Antrim -- The Unicorn as Phallic Symbol / David Bar-Illan -- Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips : A Short Story / Dan Greenburg -- The Merry Muses of Caledonia / Robert Burns -- My Quest for a French Tickler in Japan / Mimi Sheraton -- Q: How do Porcupines Do It? A. Carefully -- The Love Life of Napoleon / Daivd Bar-Illan -- The Brothel in Art -- Sexercise / Bonnie Prudden -- The Clitoris Part I : A Philological Note on a Defect in Sex Organ Nomenclature / Abram Blau -- The Clitoris Part II : A Philological Note on a Defect in Sex Organ Nomenclature / Leo Kanner -- French Post Cards -- Poem and Etching / Carol Leah Ea ton -- Fanny Hill - Condensed / John Cleland -- Introduction / Albert Ellis ; photos Bert Stern, Irv Bahrt ; artwork, Bob Sullivan, Charles B Slackman, Milton Glaser, Joe Kaufman, Virgil Solis, Abraham Bosse, Rembrandt, Crispin De Passe, C. Williams , Jan Vermeer, William Hogarth, Jan van Hemessen, Thomas Rowlandson, Kitao Masonobu, Utamaro, Jules Pascin, Ken Stuart, Toulouse-Lautrec, Jose Clemente Orozco, Georges Rouault, Picasso, Carol Leah Eaton ; other staff: Gin Louie, Tanya Moorse, Robert L. Mund, Estelle Proce, Gerald A Schneider, Susan Smith, Robert Tsang ; spine sunned, some scuff marks, else VG