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Eros was a counter-culture magazine centered on all things Sex: from Marilyn Monroe’s final photo shoot, to articles on America’s obsession with John F. Kennedy, interviews with the Women of Rue Saint-Denis in Paris, examinations of the “Vitality” tonics and serums of the Old West, and even reprinting their own hate mail.
Eros Magazine was produced by Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin in 1962 and ended that very same year after an obscenity lawsuit was filed against Ginzburg by then U.S Attorney General, Robert Kennedy.
The lawsuit claimed the issue containing the Monroe photoshoot, which was published just before her death; as well as a nude photoshoot within the forth issue containing a black man and a white woman, had violated federal anti-obscenity laws. The Court ruled in favor of the Attorney General and Ginzburg was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison, for which he served eight months. The magazine shut down soon afterwords
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10" x 13"
