Word: erosions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANNA V. MCCAFFREY Cambridge, Mass. Sore Eros Sir: Your merciless lambasting of Eros [March 23] proves what enlightened people already know about your magazine: it is a dazzling editorial product with a predictably narrow viewpoint, and at the core, it is rotten.
The advance promotion promised to lay sex right on the line. "Eros is the magazine of sexual candor . . . devoted to love in its every manifestation . . . It will not be fig-leafed by censors." The price only added to the excitement: $10 per copy, $25 for a four-issue yearly subscription...
The magazine's nudes are reproductions of old masters-Bordone's Venus and Cupid, Manuel's The Judgment of Paris-and remarkably chaste: for the true voyeur, either Playboy (60?) or New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (admission free) houses far fleshier work. Some of...
Eros is the by-blow of Ralph Ginzburg, 32, a Brooklyn-born freelance writer who first discovered the marketability of the sex label during a tour with Esquire Magazine. Ginzburg wrote an article on erotica that Esquire paid him for but decided not to print-partly on the ground of...
"If to say 'God is love' merely says what God means to us but says nothing of what we may mean to God, then it may arouse eros, the desire to possess, but not agape, the desire to serve. And a concept of God that does nothing to...