Swank July 1973 July 1973 Magazine Back Issue

0 COVER by Tony Currin
6 ABOUT THE AUTHORS
8 EDITORIAL
9 STRAIGHT TALK ON WAY-OUT SEX by W.D. Sprague, Ph.D
15 FOREPLAY
19 HOT LINE by Tina and Jason
22 PORNO FILMS: Past, Present, Future by Al Goldstein
27 THE MAFIA: How It Began—And How It Flourishes! Part II by Antonio Calabrese
30 CAMERA EROTICA by Tony Currin
36 TOP PIMP TELLS: How I Get My Girls by Dave Schulz
39 SYMPOSIUM: Correspondence, Comments
42 GRAPHOLOGY: INSTANT ANALYSIS by Michael Zimmer
46 BED TALK by Dallas Alexander, Ph.D
50 COZUMEL: The Best Catch in the Caribbean by Joy Bright
53 SWANK SWEETHEART: SUZANNE ORNLIDEN by Gai Terrell
62 THE TOO FAST WOMAN by George and Claudia Conway
70 MISTRESS OF PAIN: A Pro Reveals Her Tricks by Aldo Lucchesi
74 SWANK FICTION: OLLIE'S HANDS by Dean R. Koontz
77 BELINDA: The Beguiling Blonde

• Covergirl & Centerfold Sue Ornlinden Photographed by Tony Currin
• Bed Talk: Rapping Between the Sheets
• The Mafia -The Ongoing Story
• Working Both Sides of the Street: A Pimp Tells How He Gets His Women

Swank is a pornographic magazine for heterosexual men published in the United States. It includes hardcore sex, such as the use of sex toys, lesbian sex, and sexual intercourse between men and women.

There are also a series of DVDs and an official website produced under the Swank name.

The Magna Publishing Group bought Swank along with dozens of other pornographic titles, including Stag, in 1993 from Charles "Chip" Goodman, the son of Martin Goodman, founder of Marvel Comics. According to the New York Times, Stag and Swank “can even draw a line to the same pulp publishing outfit—Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company—that in 1939 started the comic book publisher that eventually became Marvel Comics, and that in the 1950’s and 1960’s employed future novelists like Mario Puzo and Bruce Jay Friedman as writers and editors.”

At the time Magna purchased the magazines from Goodman, the company was known as Swank Publications, and was a part of the GCR Publishing Group, which also published non-pornographic magazines, including such titles as New Body and Victorian Accents.

The Magna Publishing Group's website includes the claim that Swank has been established for "well over 65 years." A magazine called "Swank" was founded by Fox Features Comics founder Victor Fox in the 1940s. This early version of the magazine was a knockoff of Esquire, but eventually evolved to its current format. The magazine has had breaks in publication of several years during its history, so the "over 65 years" claim may be disputed by some media historians.