Eros magazine was a hard bound quarterly published by Ralf Ginzburg. For $25 a year you could get highbrow pornography delivered to your door by a uniformed employee of the federal government.
I have three of the four issues before they dared to publish pictures of an interracial couple and the feds pulled the plug on the magazine.
Autumn, 1962, Volume One, Number three, features the last Marilyn Monroe photo studio shoot taken just six weeks before<s> she was murdered with a poison suppository</s>,……er, I mean, uh…. her death.
She had gone through the transparencies and marked, with an orange magic marker, the photos she didn’t like but they printed them all in the magazine, complete with her markings. She’s a bit slimmer than she was earlier and absolutely stunning.
Babe of the 20th century, indeed.
