38/26/34 Vol. 12 # 2 - 1975 Magazine

FICTION:
8 HOT BLOOD AND COLD PASSION
Marc Shores
ARTICLES:
20 BREAST DEVELOPERS: THE SENSUOUS EXERCISERS
Cathy West
40 HOW TO SEDUCE A BUXOM BABE
Jack Varian
FEATURES:
34 FROM THE SPICE RACK
Bart Hills
46 BUST LINES
Letters
PICTORIALS:
4 PEEK-A-BOOBS
12 OILY TO BED AND OILY TO RISE
16 SHOWING HER STUFF
22 CHEST MASTERS
28 MAKING HER POINTS
36 STRUM PET
42 POKING FUN
48 JUNGLE JILL
50 RUB-A-DUB JUGS
54 ALL BUNCHED UP
60 SHEL'S BOMBS

EDITORIAL
The sorry lot of people who do not enjoy freedom of speech was recently demonstrated in Moscow when members of Russia's outstanding abstract painters held an "unauthorized" exhibit of their works in one of the city's vacant lots. (No hall had been made available to the artists by the artists' union.)
The painters had hardly put their works on display when the Soviet police descended on the exhibition with the force of a commando raid. Spearheaded by bulldozers and high-pressure water trucks, the police scattered men, women and children, including foreign diplomats and international newspaper persons.
Women with babies in their arms slipped and fell on the muddy ground while being assaulted by blasts of water, and a six-yearold girl was buried under an avalanche of dirt scooped up by one of the bulldozers.
Many of those attending the exhibition were roughed up even further. A foreign cameraman was punched several times, and a woman reporter of the Associated Press received a fist in the pit of her stomach, knocking her to the ground.
When news of this cruel fiasco reached the outside world, there were expressions of shock and disbelief that such restrictive censorship could have taken place even in Russia, and that such brutal tactics should have been employed to enforce it.
The most appalling aspect of this entire incident, however, was the fact that those who had been responsible for ordering the "censorship" had no inkling of, or regard for, what the artists were expressing in their work.
Their only reason for condemning the art was that it failed to meet the "social realism" demanded by Soviet officials.
For Americans, this sordid incident can teach a valuable lesson on the ludicrous extremes to which censorship can be carried. As citizens we should gratefully count those Constitutional rights which bless us with our freedoms, and we should vigorously resist all attempts by bluenoses and self-appointed custodians of the public weal to impose any form of censorship lest one day our freedom of speech is "bulldozed."