An interesting feature is the last sixteen pages where Ginsburg used feedback from the three million mailers (above and I'm still skeptical about that huge number, if only because of the postage costs) that were sent out for charter subscribers. Deeply conservative 1962 America let loose with these replies and as Ginzburg says: 'Please bear in mind that these negative criticisms were made several months before the first issue of Eros had appeared and that the people who wrote these letters were objecting to the mere concept of a magazine devoted entirely to Love and Sex'.
The production of Eros was as good as the first with a selection of papers and printing techniques. With a medium-weight bond, a 175 screen for the four color on a semi-gloss and a dense matt black for the two photo features, Paris and India.
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