The Press: Enter Eros

The advance promotion promised to lay sex right on the line. "Eros is the magazine of sexual candor . . . devoted to love in its every manifestation . . . It will not be fig-leafed by censors." The price only added to the excitement: $10 per copy, $25 for a four-issue yearly subscription. This week, with the arrival of spring and the rutting season, the first 75,000 copies of Eros went to charter subscribers and on sale at bookstores. One quick trip through the newcomer's 80 pages should have been enough for even the basest appetite to discover that Eros...

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