THE SWINGING SCENE 38 Interview with a Social Director 39 Report on a Social 41 Calendar of Coming Events 42 Interview with a Swinging Couple 45 Personal Contacts INTERVIEW
21 Rod Steiger
by Leo Guild FICTION & ARTICLES
34 Big Car Dreams
by Marshall Spiegel
48 Meet the Big Money Man of Sports
by Jack Curtin
89 Weekend Retreat: Honeymoon Hotel
by Christine Brooks
104 Witchery
by Ron Fry
78 Fear in High "C"
by Bob Schutte PICTORIAL PULCHRITUDE
25 Fiona
53 SWANK SWEETHEART: May
62 Little Miss Marker
81 Love—Seventies Style FEATURES
7 Foreplay
1 Forum 3
16 Double Exposure: Tina & Jason
18 Straight Talk About Sex
33 Consumer Tips
61 "Say, Did You Hear the One About..."
69 Reviews
75 Introducing
EDITORIAL
SWANK SWINGS
Frankly, we like to pride ourselves on keeping in touch with the ever-changing
social scene. And we know our readers do too. So it's with much enthusiasm that
we announce the editorial expansion of Swank. In addition to our regular, established
features, we'll have an interview with a major personality in each issue, beginning
with Rod Steiger this month, and Raquel Welch next. And we're adding a completely
new section that will make Swank the first major magazine to editorially cover
perhaps the biggest social phenomenon of the day: the Swinging Scene.
What is the Swinging Scene? Well, it's not a smutty, guilt-ridden activity that
self-styled moralists used to smirk about a few years ago. Today, Swinging is
a legitimate social function, engaged in by a hell of a larger percentage of society
than you probably imagine. And not just by the overly-sophisticated, big-city
swingers, either. More so, in fact, by the down-to-earth, sexually adventurous
couples and singles in suburban and rural communities from coast to coast. It's
not just a sex scene, though that's a major part of it, but an exercise in liberation,
expanding horizons, and the development of whole new life styles. And it takes
a variety of forms, from organized Swinging Socials (which we attend, starting
in this issue) to private affairs—with a difference from the old "cheating"
scene: all parties' mutual knowledge and consent. If anything, it's certainly
more honest.
But we're not offering a blanket endorsement of this activity. Nor are we turning
Swank into a "Swingers" Magazine. In addition to our celebrity interview
this month with Rod Steiger, our feature article on those infamous lawyer-agents
behind the athletes' big money, a scary look at the resurgence of witchcraft,
a new feature on consumer tips, and all your regular reading pleasure, we're covering
the Swinging Scene, editorially, with monthly features that will both inform and
entertain you: not only do we attend a Social, but we interview a beautiful young
couple happily into Swinging—and ask all those probing questions that come
to your mind whenever the subject is discussed. And more—including a calendar
of upcoming Swinging events and a page of Personal Ads, just in case you want
to personally expand your sexual horizons and get in on the action.
Next month we'll be visiting with Raquel Welch, as well as spotlighting the science
fiction scene with Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury. And we'll continue our feature
on Swinging, in a regular monthly section, inviting your questions, experiences,
opinions (pro and con) on the subject—a veritable forum on this extraordinary
social phenomenon. Join it—and all the editorially expanded features—each
month now, in Swank.
