4 OPENERS
Crappy clothes, Mounds of mags, Bozo goes politico and a host of other happenings.
8 SOPHIA'S SOFT SOFA
Pictorial
17 LETTERS
What's write and wrong with OUI.
20 DR. OUI
The Doctor is in.
22 WEIRDOS, FREAKS AND OTHER AMERICAN ECCENTRICS
Proving that the U.S. is the land of the freak and the home of the depraved.
By Carl Sifakis
25 BEAUTY AND THE BEAT
Pictorial
32 KILLER QADAFFI
An inside look at a modern day madman whose very existence is a is threat to your
life.
Article by Lee D. Server Illustration by Anthony Schiano
36 CARESSA
Pictorial
44 KING OF THE NBA
Bernard King, that is, who has overcome alcoholism and depression to reach the
height of his athletic prowess.
Article by Barry Janoff
Photos by Noren Trotman
48 THE BANK DICK
His sexual deposits kept her interest high while paying erotic dividends. Fiction
by Jessie Alexander
50 RED HOT
Centerfold Pictorial
60 WANTED: BALD MAN SEEKS WITCH TO HELP INSPECT DIAPERS
OUI's inside look at contacting anyone about anything anywhere anytime.
Article by Michael Herman
62 OUI'S EROTIC THANKSGIVING MEAL
A guide to preparing the sexiest, most erotic Thanksgiving menu since the Pilgrims
first talked breasts and thighs.
Illustration by Curt Hoppe
65 THE SEDUCTION OF SUZY
Pictorial
72 BUKOWSKI
The master of offbeat fiction strikes again.
Illustration by S. Clay Wilson
75 VIEWS
Frank Goes to Hollywood, Peewee goes Big Time, Mamet goes legit and other travel
information.
78 CELEBRITY SEX QUIZ
If they said it, OUI'll tell you about it.
80 SPORTS
Column by Barry Janoff
82 TRAVEL
Column by Lee D. Server
84 REELS
Column by Michael Kaplan
86 MUSIC
Column by Ron Smith
98 NUDES-A-POPPIN' '84
OUI returns to the Ponderosa Sun Club and finds more nude women than you can shake
a stick at. Pictorial
EDITORIAL NOTE
November is Thanksgiving month, so OUI serves up a full meal complete with tasty
tidbits and munchy morsels.
Our main course this issue is the story of a madman whose recipe for power includes
a takeover of the United States: Killer Qaddafi (p. 32) by Lee Server takes an
inside look at a modern-day Hitler who claims that "I hold the power to destroy
all of Islam's enemies. The nuclear weapons of their invention are in my power."
OUI's second course is a special look at a special athlete: Bernard King: King
of the NBA (p. 44) by Barry Janoff takes an inside look at the man many consider
to be one of the top players in the NBA, a man who has battled drugs, alcoholism
and depression to reach his stature—a true Thanksgiving story.
Looking for some tasty side dishes. OUI has plenty this month, each one a unique
gourmet delight. Our own Michael Herman, that master of elusive fact and fantasy,
outdoes himself with Wanted: Bald-Headed Man Seeks Witch to Help Inspect Diapers
(p. 60), a guide on how tc contact anyone about anything anywhere anytime. If
that's not enough, take a look at Weirdos, Freaks and Other American Eccentrics
(p. 22) by Carl Sifakis, in which the true history of the U.S. comes to light.
A pimp politician? A male governor who wore dresses? The fattest American? All
true, and proud Americans all.
In case you're getting the idea that OUI only deals with strange birds, our piece
on how to have your own Erotic Thanksgiving (p. 62) should ease thouse thoughts.
Devil's Triangles, Cock-a-Leekie Soup, Sweet & Sour Balls and many other step-by-step
recipes that will get your lover into that special holiday mood. If you still
need to arouse your mate a bit more, try The Bank Dick (p. 48), a burning piece
of fiction by first-time contributor Jessie Alexander.
Well, you're ready for dessert now, and that can only mean frosty helpings of
Dr. OUI (p. 20), OUI's Sex Quiz (p. 78), Bukowski (p. 72) and our usual helping
of Columns, Openers and Views. Of course, you can skip the main course and head
right for the cream of the crop: six sensual pictorials certain to get your gravy
bubbling and your Jello mold hard, including an on-the-scene look at the Ponderosa
Sun Club (p. 98), where the young women of the U.S. come to tan their tushies.
And if you've got any energy left, why not get funky with OUI—Ken Funk,
that is, whose special artistic talents now design the entire OUI package. His
stay with OUI should be a fruitful one, despite the fact that he is a fan of Pee-wee
Herman and a personal friend of Amy Schraub.
Features in This Issue
Covergirl & Centerfold Traci Lords
Oh No, It's A Killer Qaddafi: Libyan Top Dog Perfroms Sex And Executions!
Bukowski: The Bullies Hang The Sissy
Strange Associations: Shoe Fetish Clubs And Bald Men Unite!
Mouthwatering, Eyepopping Girls!
About Oui
Oui was a men's adult pornographic magazine published in the United States and featuring explicit nude photographs of models, with full page pin-ups, centerfolds, interviews and other articles, and cartoons. Oui ceased publication in 2007. ("Oui" is French for "yes".)
Oui was originally published in France under the name Lui by Daniel Filipacchi (first French issue November 1963), as a French equivalent of Playboy. In 1972, Playboy Enterprises purchased the rights for a U.S. edition, changing the name to Oui, and the first issue was published in October of that year. Jon Carroll, formerly assistant editor at Rolling Stone magazine and editor of Rags and later editor of The Village Voice, was selected as the first editor. Arthur Kretchmer, the editor of Playboy, however, had a role in ensuring that editorial choices would be in line with Hugh Hefner's vision.
The intention was to differentiate the audience in mass-market men's magazines, in an attempt to answer the challenge brought by Penthouse and Hustler, with its more explicit photography, and therefore compete on multiple fronts. At first Playboy considered a direct response by following Penthouse in a nudity escalation, but Playboy management was hesitant to alter the magazine's philosophy, based on a more 'mature' and 'sophisticated' audience (one-third of Playboy's readership at that time was estimated to be over 35). Instead, a separate publication, Oui, was introduced in order to pursue a younger readership, offering a combination of a "rambunctious editorial slant with uninhibited nudes pictured in the Penthouse mood."
In the late seventies, Oui published some interesting articles, including "Is this the man who ate Michael Rockefeller?" (April 1977) by Lorne Blair (lately famous for the Ring of Fire documentaries), beginning with a photograph of a grinning New Guinea native, told by the intrepid anthropologist/reporter who journeyed to New Guinea, interviewed people who had known Michael Rockefeller, then ventured into the jungle and talked to members of the tribe from whom Rockefeller had bought native art artifacts, including totem poles. In the end, he found a man who claimed he had eaten the unfortunate collector.
Oui also hosted several reportages about Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activity, like the article "CIA vs. USA – The Agency's Plot to Take Over America" by Philip Agee, about an alleged Operation PBPrime, whose leaders were the top four men in the CIA and whose target was the control of the U.S. government.
In a more humorous vein, Oui also published the essay "The 3 Most Important Things in Life" by Harlan Ellison in its November 1978 issue. The three things in question were sex, violence, and labor relations, each illustrated by anecdotes from Ellison's life. The sex anecdote involved a less-than-successful assignation with a young woman, the violence anecdote was about witnessing a murder in a movie theater during a screening of Save the Tiger, and the labor relations anecdote was Ellison's version of the story of his being fired after only one morning at The Walt Disney Company for jokingly suggesting the making of a pornographic cartoon using the primary Disney characters. The piece has since been republished in Ellison's Stalking the Nightmare and Edgeworks 1. Oui also published short fiction.
A 1977 interview by Peter Manso of the then 29-year-old emerging actor Arnold Schwarzenegger on issues like sex, drugs, bodybuilding, and homosexuality produced some embarrassment 25 years later to candidate Schwarzenegger in the 2003 California gubernatorial campaign.
During the 1970s, Oui printed a copy of Shere Hite's questionnaire about female sexuality that was used as the basis of The Hite Report. Replies were received from 253 of the magazine's women readers.
Despite its popularity, Oui was unable to produce a profit. Furthermore, management realized that Oui was taking more readers from Playboy than from Penthouse. So, in June 1981 Playboy Enterprises, based in Chicago, ended its Oui experiment. The magazine was sold to Laurant Publishing Ltd. in New York; its new president and chief operating officer was Irwin E. Billman, former executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Penthouse Group.
During the 1980s the magazine maintained its distinction from Playboy by publishing graphic nude pictures like its rivals Penthouse and Hustler. Initially, Laurant featured celebrity nudity in Oui, peaking in 1982 with pictorials of Phyllis Hyman, Linda Blair, Demi Moore, and Pia Zadora. In the same year the magazine bought the short story "Down Among the Dead Men" by science-fiction writers Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann. The editorial plan was to return the magazine to the "younger Playboy image" that it previously had.
The 1990s found the magazine focusing on pop culture and youth-centered topics, with rock musician interviews and an increasingly large comics section that included R-rated versions of the X-rated Carnal Comics: True Stories of Adult Film Stars line, Rip Off Press's Demi the Demoness (later the first adults-only comic character to be adapted as a live action film), and a serialized version of Jay Allen Sanford's illustrated book Triple-X Cinema: A Cartoon History.
The magazine subsequently experienced a significant decline in circulation. As had many of its competitors, Oui expanded its photo content to hardcore in the early 2000s, which included depictions of couples having sexual intercourse, including explicit penetration. Oui ceased publication in 2007.
