6 LIP SERVICE
The latest in lubricated letters from our wild-and-wet readers
Envelopes aren't all that open.
8 FIT TO BE TIED
A gal who's really all strung out
Knot to be believed!
10 BIG APPLE BUST-OUT
Dancers unpeel in a juicy jamboree
New York disco explodes with keep-the-beat porn stars.
11 JILL MONRO'S SPACED-OUT SPECTACULAR
Our Space-Age Glamour Girl blasts off to new heights
Going down for the countdown.
14 AMERICHERI
Headlines from Sex Central
Hot new swing ads and uncensored astrology.
18 CHERRY BOMB MEETS THE PLASMATICS
Dropping in on rock's wildest revolutionaries
Vivacious violence erupts.
20 CHERI READERS GO MILE HIGH
A swinging flight through the friendlier skies
With a wing and a hair.
29 THE CHERI ORCHARD
Columns by liberated women for liberated men
34 SHELL: SURROGATE SEX PARTNER
She starts where the sex counselors leave off
Profile of a woman who has pioneered action therapy.
43 BODIES BY THE BAY
Golden Gate lovers work the swing shift for CHERI
You'll leave more than your heart in San Francisco!
53 ARMY BRAT
She's rawer than the recruits
Taking a hard look at one gal's enlisted lust.
62 JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
A private nurse for your private parts
She bares while she cares.
70 THIGHS OF THE BEHOLDER
Beauty can truly be skin deep
Your tongue needs a home.
76 FRENCH KISS
Something's rising higher than the Eiffel Tower
Here's why men beg for merci!
82 CARIBBEAN CONNECTION
Tropical treats don't always grow on trees
Getting off by going away.
90 WAVE LENGTHS
A beautiful sea siren who longs for love
Do you crave salty succor... ?
100 TANDEMONIUM
Hot housemates dig togetherness
Two girls in one cottage makes for compellingly close quarters!
106 ENGLISH MUFFIN'
Samantha Bliss mixes more than metaphors with an English teacher
Giving it the old school try.
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Dolly Photographed by Ed Sonner
Surrogate Sex In San Francisco: In-Bed Instruction From A Stand-In Lover
Hot Housemates: Two Bi Beauties In A One-Bedroom Cottage
A Private Nurse For Your Private Parts: She Bares While She Cares
Coffee, Tea, Cheri? Looking Up At A "Mile-High" Swing Crew
About Cheri
The adult magazine, Cheri started publishing in 1976.
Peter Wolff was the brains behind Cheri magazine. God knows, he had the experience and the track record. By 1976, he had already worked on magazines such as Rogue, Topper, Bachelor, Ace, Follies, Frolic, Gala, Tab, Vue, Jaguar, Duke, Stud, Escapade, Daily Girl, Caper, and Gallery, to name but a few. He’d even been the editor of rival magazine High Society.
As indicated in Taschen’s History of Men’s Magazines, “Publishers would hire Peter to start a magazine, and while his magazine would be incredibly innovative and profitable, he’d be partying and obviously having way too much fun. As part of his deal with any publisher, he always insisted on a tab at a convenient bar, with his own table. He was a compulsive gambler and four-pack-a-day smoker. His office was littered with betting stubs, cigarette butts, take-out food, random slides, and manuscripts. His t-shirts and jeans were stained, and his long gray hair was often unwashed: he was fat and not particularly handsome. And yet he managed to have sex with most of the models, through his immense charm and intelligence. He never believed a publisher could fire him, but eventually the drinking, the arrogance, plus spending tons and tons of money, would always be too much for them. So they’d dump him… and get his great ideas.”
But to view Wolff as purely an adult magazine veteran is to underestimate and undervalue him. His first experience as an editor was on a student newspaper at Queens College, when he was active in the Women’s Liberation and Civil Rights Movements, even risking his life in black voter registration drives in the South. He became involved in the world of counter-cultural publications in the late 1960s, before becoming involved in erotic magazines. But Wolff differed from the vision of porn magnates like Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione in that he had little time for the fantasy world of the beautiful people. He was fascinated in the sexual interests of common men – and their wives. He wanted to democratize the content and involve the readers directly in the magazines he produced.
In early 1976, Carl Ruderman needed a figurehead to divert attention from his position as publisher. He hired Peter Wolff – but Wolff suggested he appoint a nominal female 'publisher' instead. And not just any female – he wanted a glamorous woman already associated with the New York sex scene. Wolff suggested adult film actress Bree Anthony, star of porno hits Oriental Blue, The Vixens of Kung Fu, Highway Hookers, and others. Appointing Bree Anthony proved a smart idea – and selecting her eventual successor, adult film actress Gloria Leonard, an even smarter one.
Wolff was fired by Ruderman after the first two issues, May and June 1976, but soon found a home at Cheri, the magazine that would prove to be his most lasting success.
About the Publisher, Cheri
Magna Publishing Group, Inc. is an American publishing company headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey. Founded in 1975, the company publishes a number of magazine titles and is one of the largest publishers of pornographic magazines in the United States with titles such as Cheri, Club, Swank, Genesis, Gallery, Gent, as well as "nearly 60 total adult titles". The company has only 1 to 10 employees. On December 22, 2015, Magna Publishing Group was purchased by 1-800-PHONESEX for an undisclosed amount.
