Al Goldstein, Pioneering Pornographer, Dies at 77

[SecularMotion]

Source: NY Times

Al Goldstein, the scabrous publisher whose Screw magazine pushed hard-core pornography into the cultural mainstream, died early Thursday in Brooklyn. He was 77.

The cause was believed to be renal failure, said his lawyer, Charles C. DeStefano.

Mr. Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.

The manifesto in Screw’s debut issue in 1968 was succinct. “We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ,” it read. “We will apologize for nothing. We will uncover the entire world of sex. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html?hp&_r=0

[JackInGreen]

1. I know this will probably color my reception from a few

but I'll light a candle for him, wish him well...and all the angel and/or demon pussy he can get printed in the afterlife.

[FatBuddy]

2. RIP sweet prince

He was by far a very interesting man in a very interesting time.

[jsr]

3. Pubic hair is good

R.I.P.

[loli phabay]

5. on goats mayby, but otherwise. eeeewwwww. ymmv

[aikoaiko]

4. I think this was his first issue

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a little larger
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[marble falls]

6. Reducing Al Goldstein to "pioneering pornographer" trivializes a complex and important free....

speech activist.

[markpkessinger]

8. Agreed! n/t

[Demeter]

7. So, he died full of shit

A fitting death, IMO

[Xithras]

10. That's just dark.

Funny, but dark

[Historic NY]

9. Ah, screw it!!