The Rare Digests entry number 22. A scarce early article criticizing the publications of Leonard Burtman in one of the few printed examples of underground fetish material entering the mainstream press, May 1956. The article by Tom Regis tries to explain why photographs in the booklets, no more "revealing" by commonly understood definitions than the Sears catalog, are obscene. "..the shocking truth is that this is a special kind of gutter literature." The same issues Kefauver and the courts dealt with. How to define particular fetishistic material as obscene when it fails to meet the visual, voyeuristic and photographic definitions uniformly understood as nipples and pudenda. A tough call...and one which eventually led one justice to exclaim "I know it when I see it."
Behind The Scene Magazine 1956 Collection Victor Minx
THIS IS NUMBER TWENTY TWO IN THE SERIES 'THE RARE DIGESTS' Small essays on hopelessly obscure and scarce soft-core publications of the 1950s. Enjoy them All!
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