7 STATEMENT 9 BITS & BITES
Crazy, Zany & Bizarre
15 RESTRICTED REVIEWS
19 SEX GUIDE
Sizzling Sex by Harold Henneman
27 BELLE
Her fingers to the walking
34 INTERVIEW: Samantha Fox by R. Allen Leider
44 WILLIE: THE CARTER FAMILY'S BAD PEANUT
Shocking Secrets Revealed by Burton H. Wolfe
47 LOUISE
She takes it all
56 SEX MANIAC MYTHS
The good, the bad ana the kinky by Paul Brock
67 Carroll Baker
72 FIVE TIMES AND OUT
A Rural Romp by Floyd Hilliker
83 Hey There Georgie Girl
91 EROTIC ENCOUNTER
Sharing a Lover by Mary-Ellen Darling
93 STAR WHORES
Spaced-out space bunnies.
PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT
RIP-OFF!
The first thing I saw on my desk this morning was an angry letter from J. H. J.
Caron, of Thetford Mines, Quebec. Censorship and high prices
were the things on his mind — just the sort of letter to shift my hangover
into high gear and make me wonder if I'll ever manage to get out an issue without
pissing someone off.
Three aspirins later, I had it together enough to realize Mr. Caron wasn't bugged
at RUSTLER; he likes our content and our price. He was mad at Hustler, the big-budget,
American mag. He's picked up a copy and found various bits of the hUmma-porn-star">Uman anatomy
coloured in or blotted out with those annoying black circles.
He's right to be mad, of course, but we all know that while the law and the Customs
Office stay unchanged, certain things: penetration, hard cocks, oral-genital contact,
will be forbidden. Not much we can do.
But what really got reader Caron steamed was the price of this censored mag: $3.95.
A bad price under any circumstances, but for a mag with black circles, Outrageous!
It is outrageous and there's no reason for it. In the United States, Hustler costs
only $2.95. That extra dollar is tacked on strictly for the Canadian buyer. And
Hustler isn't the only one. Chic, another Larry Flynt publication, also jumps
a buck when it crosses the border.
But there must be some good reason for that higher price, right? Wrong! Playboy
and Penthouse, with the same costs and the same distribution set-up, up their
prices only 25¢ for Canada. With the difference between the Canadian and
American dollars, 25¢ makes perfect sense. But that's the only difference
— no extra shipping and handling charges, no import duty to pay and no postage
problems. So why do Hustler and Chic cost an extra buck up here?
How does pure profit grab you? That's right, the extra buck is going straight
into the pockets of Flynt and company, minus a little taste for the Canadian distributors
and wholesalers. That's money, leaving your pocket, leaving your country and for
what? A censored magazine.
This is a consumer rip-off of the worst sort. You're paying more and getting less
and, on top of that, the money is going straight out of the country — we
don't even get to keep any of it in the form of government revenue.
Somebody should do something. The government? Not likely. American magazines in
this country receive better treatment from the Feds that home-grown ones do. That's
a whole horror story in itself and I'll get into it next time, here or in ELITE.
For now, it's enough to say, don't look to Ottawa.
That leaves us. You and me. The magazine buyers. If anybody's going to do anything,
it's got to be us. But maybe you don't want to do anything; maybe you're happy
with $3.95 for a censored magazine. That's your business and your right. For the
rest of us, remember that old Latin motto: Caveat emptor. Let the Buyer Beware!
