Eros. Volume 1. Number 1, Spring, 1962, 1962 / editor, Ralph Ginzburg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ginzburg, Ralph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Erotic literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (79 pages)) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

1962 /

New York : Eros Magazine, 1962.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from scanned document's title page (viewed on June 9, 2021).

"Collection: Eros Collection"--Home page.

"Series: Annuals"--Home page.

"Collection Overview: Eros magazine was first published on Valentine's Day of 1962 by Ralph Ginzberg. A lavishly produced quarterly bound in hard covers, only 4 issues of Eros were produced. Ginzberg had initially promoted the magazine by sending out three million direct mail In December of 1963, Ginzberg was sentenced to serve 5 years for sending "obscene" literature through the circulars. In response to this, Ginzberg received approximately 10,000 unsolicited letters expressing opinions both pro and con with regard to the proposed magazine. In addition, the Postmaster General received 25,000 letters of complaint from citizens who had received the mailer. Soon thereafter (with a 5th issue of Eros in production), Ginzberg was served with an indictment accusing him "sending obscene matter through the mails" in violation of the Comstock Act of 1873. The indictment was based on a book published by an affiliate of Eros magazine though Ginzberg believed it was an indirect attempt to hamper the production of his magazine. In December of 1963, Ginzberg was sentenced to serve 5 years for sending "obscene" literature through the mail. The trial and subsequent appeals dragged on for another 10 years. On February 17th of 1972, Ginzberg began serving a five-year sentence at the Lewisburg Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. He was paroled eight months later."--Home page.

"Related Document(s): Eros Autumn 1962, Vol I, No 3, Eros Winter 1962, Vol I, No 4"--Home page.