This is from Butch Magazine Volume 5, put out by DSI (Directory Service Industries) in 1966. The title, Butch, may be a bit misleading, but there are some fun archival photos from a period where porn was still dangerous and experimental. The best part is the flawlessly lacquered hair piled up into the perfect pompadour.
Read what it says on the table of contents page:
BUTCH is the international naturalist magazine. It is dedicated to the furtherance of realism in art, photography, and literature – without idealization of the beautiful or avoidance of the ugly. The photography, art and articles contianed in BUTCH are offered to illuminate the conviction that the body of man is clean and wholesome and that there can be no obscenity in God’s handiwork. It is our belief that the ability of man to be one with himself, to have a high opinion of the portions of his body so long rejected and degraded, will make him stronger, not weaker; more moral instead of less moral. BUTCH hopes to do its part to bring about a world wherein man will, from the moment of birth, accept himself – not with guilt and shame, but with esteem and serenity – in his totality as God made him.
The publishers of BUTCH hold that all of us, every citizen, have a common ground to defend. There is no place in our society for efforts, whether legal or extra-legal, to coerce the taste of others, to confine adults to reading and viewing matter deemed suitable for children, or to inhibit the efforts of writers and photographers to achieve artistic expression. Those concerned with freedom have the responsibility of seeing to it that each individual book or publication, whatever its contents, is given the freedom of expression granted to it by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Wow! That’s more than a bit obtuse! Sounds like it was written by a guy in a ruffled shirt with a quill pen! Notice he didn’t mention anything about jerking off (…other than the ability of man to be one with himself...).
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Tags: 1960's, Gay History
