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I must say a few words on the hypocrisy that has led to the conviction of Ralph Ginzburg [June 21]. The chief criticism of Eros, from its inception, was that most of its material could be found and viewed and read in the public library and public museum. Why then...
Patently Offensive. The first to take a fall was aggressive, Brooklyn-born Ralph Ginzburg, 33, a onetime Esquire staffer with a sharp eye for a salable commodity that is spelled sex. In 1958 he published An Unhurried View of Erotica, a sort of bibliography of banned books, and sold 275...
The Government began keeping an eye on Eros after 25,000 letters poured into the Postmaster General's Office complaining about the magazine's oversexed promotional pamphlets. Ginzburg "used every publicity gimmick in the book to almost force us to ban it," said one official, even down to...
Ginzburg marshaled 65 psychologists, sexologists and assorted literati to testify. Lillian Maxine Serett, who wrote The Housewife's Handbook under the pen name Key Anthony, told the court, "Women's role in sex is widely misunderstood. Women do have sexual rights." Essayist Dwight Macdonald testified that he found...
Antonioni's style is beyond argument; his substance is not. No doubt he has reasons for his pessimism: millions of people now alive have lost their souls and will never find them; Eros in this era is all too often not a god but a disease; "the world today...