DETAILS: Hard to find example of Nudist Living #17 Elysium Institute / Golden State News, Los Angeles, 1969. Though titled as a nudist magazine written by a scientific research institute, so as to circumvent local obscenity laws prohibiting interracial and drug related sexual depiction, this title was actually a psychedelic and blaxploitation themed erotic publication. Has strong pictorial theme of the LSD lifestyle (sic Hippies) and their views on sexual liberation, group sex and social conformity.
FYI In the late 1960's Golden State News made a concerted effort to try and replicate Parliament News Publishings hugely popular Jaybird beatnik erotica series. To differentiate their titles from the more mainstream Parliament series, GSN made their version more provocative avant-garde and edgier with strong influences of psychedelic art and other aspects of the hallucinogenic drugs that were popular within the growing Hippie movement. Though their attempts proved to be hugely successful with American readers, distributors and retailers resisted carrying the title for fear of breaching local obscenity laws. For this reason these titles distribution was restricted to only a handful of cities in the Northeast and West Coast of the United States that had more liberal local iobscenity rules that allowed such depictions.
FYI In the late 1960's Golden State News made a concerted effort to try and replicate Parliament News Publishings hugely popular Jaybird beatnik erotica series. To differentiate their titles from the more mainstream Parliament series, GSN made their version more provocative avant-garde and edgier with strong influences of psychedelic art and other aspects of the hallucinogenic drugs that were popular within the growing Hippie movement. Though their attempts proved to be hugely successful with American readers, distributors and retailers resisted carrying the title for fear of breaching local obscenity laws. For this reason these titles distribution was restricted to only a handful of cities in the Northeast and West Coast of the United States that had more liberal local iobscenity rules that allowed such depictions.
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