Word: erosions
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Ginzburg a "pornographic racketeer?" The magazine with "no scholarly, literary or scientific interest"? Did the editors even look at Eros, which at its best was the most handsome publication around, and at worst, even by the starchy standards of the day, was mildly racy? If the editors did peruse Eros...
That Eros was banned, and Ginzburg imprisoned, says less about the magazine and more about the times (and the Times). As everyone now agrees, the 60s really began with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Vietnam protests, the ghetto uprisings, and of course sex, drugs and rock 'n roll...
There were hints of a change in the success of Playboy, which married an upmarket life style to photos of undressed cuties, and in court decisions that allowed the publication of sexually frank novels like D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. But pornography was something most people hid under...
(2 of 3) Like the foreign films of the time, which offered both snob appeal (subtitles and chess games with Death) and sex appeal (the occasional exposed bosom), Eros hoped to be a status symbol for the would-be liberated. Ginzburg, just 31 when he launched his dream book, would...
One problem. Hefner, in his robe, pipe and ascot, a blond on each arm and around each leg, really looked like a playboy. Ginzburg, unfortunately, was Central Casting's idea of a pornographer: shady, you might say shifty, with a thin, sallow face and a small mustache. But he, unlike...