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And here's the saddest confession of my late teenage years: I was going to college at a school nearby, and still living at home. So, folks, if Eros had really been pornographic, my good conservative Catholic parents would surely have raised a ruckus.
EROS AND ME
How did they get the name and address of a 17-year-old in Philadelphia? Typically, publishers buy subscription lists from other magazines, but I didn't subscribe to any. The truth is, I wasn't that special, since, in the months before Eros started publishing, Ginzburg had sent out...
I went for Eros not so much because I was a horny kid (though I was) as because I was a pretentious one. My bedroom library was stocked with such scholarly tomes as The Natural History of Love, Eros in the Modern World, the Kinsey Report and Ginzburg's own...
None of these books had a priapic impact on me - that I would remember - and neither did Eros. Fact is, whatever the eventual tut-tutting of the courts, the magazine had loads of literary and artistic value. What it lacked for me, frankly, was redeeming prurient interest.