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...newsstands now inundated with naughties, nudies and assorted onetime no-noes, the bestselling hard-sex publication is Screw, the tabloid that has inspired imitation by more than a dozen equally raunchy rivals...
...Screw's rags-to-riches story has been one of continuous legal troubles, but until now none of them had forced any change in format. Last month a three-judge panel in New York City's Criminal Court found it obscene, and Screw is taming itself a trifle in a sort of legal lobotomy...
...unretouched photos of men and women, singly and in enthusiastic groups, performing all manner of sexual acrobatics. The decision specifically found illegal the many ads offering dildos and other sex paraphernalia, and classified ads soliciting participants in sex acts that clearly violate New York's penal law. So Screw did away with dildo display ads and printed a notice to all of the would-be users of its classified columns that henceforth it "can no longer accept personal ads which solicit persons to break the law." But retreat hardly meant repentance. "We will still accept personal ads," the notice...
...obscenity conviction brought only a comparative wrist slap to Screw's cofounders, Publisher Jim Buckley, 26, and Executive Editor Al Goldstein, 35. Each could have received a $6,000 fine and six years in prison, as demanded by the district attorney. But the judges levied only fines of $1,500 apiece. Both men promptly paid up, announced appeals and went back to publishing. But two more obscenity trials for Screw lie ahead, both based on specific seizures of relatively recent issues...
Stablemates. Buckley and Goldstein started Screw in 1968 with a stake of $350, half from Buckley, the other half from Goldstein's wife Mary, then a stewardess for Pan Am but since fired because of her association with the publication. Bribes induced some two dozen Manhattan news dealers to handle the first issue's 7,000 copies. Screw grossed $650,000 in its first year and more than...