Saturday, September 8, 2018
Sex-Riot at Our Schoolyard Bra-Burning
Time once again to dive head first into the whamma bamma drama dumpster of sex, sin, and other atrocities against life, love, and the pursuit of happiness, as we dredge up yet another trashfest-o-rama as only the Sterling Group Inc. could do 'em back in the day, aka Modern Love Stories (February 1969.) In one issue you have bra-burning sex riots, love-in parties, bewitchingly sexy tramps, child molesters on the loose, naughty photos, white mamas with no soul (!!!), PLUS a whole cavalcade of marriage snafus to send you screaming for the hills! I've said it before, I'll say it again-- warm up the shower, and suds up that sad bar of soap-- you will definitely need to get clean after this one!
On "my son is bewitched by a sexy tramp" the FONT is more sexy than the woman!
ReplyDeleteThey definitely do (did) have some great fonts
ReplyDeleteI kind of want to finish reading about the Bra-Burning Sex Riot and the Love-In Singles-Only Apartment House. And the Bewitched Son, too, now that you mention it. I mean, what does god need to forgive Billy's mom for, exactly? I fear the worst.
ReplyDeleteI'm always a little sad when these aren't painted by Mort Künstler or Norman Saunders (or the like). Still, I like the garish spot colors and the grimy look of the overlit photography tucked into these dark compositions. I think the Black Baby spread is especially well designed, visually.
Half-Married and Panic in Our Neighborhood are tied for my favorite font.
Haha, I have to wonder if anybody ever actually read any of these stories— they all seem to be almost identical except for the over the top titles and photo spreads
ReplyDeleteMan I'd like to read some of these. Is the husband who delivered the baby a doctor??? Did the young girl really marry a man as old as her father??? Did the white mother get back her black child???
ReplyDeleteI want to know!
The answer is NO to everything
ReplyDeleteAwww, come on!
ReplyDeleteUh no... it takes long enough just to scan the two image pages and edit them together —sorry, Crafty!
ReplyDeleteNo - I meant aww, come on, your're ruining my fantasy! I know how long it takes to scan that stuff :/
ReplyDeletePretty sure that fantasy ruining is the whole point of these magazines anyway. Success!!
ReplyDeleteDarn, the people in these stories were born too soon to appear on the Jerry Springer/Maury Povich show or reality TV. If the internet had been available during The Kennedy Administration all of the protagonists/antagonists in these stories would have had their fifteen minutes of shame.
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