Hustler May 1975

5 PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT 10 ADVISE & CONSENT 12 BITS & PIECES 20 SEX PLAY by Mike Roberts Part II: Loving Positions 23 PORN REVIEW 25 ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE 31 LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON Getting together 39 ROSE Cover girl beauty 44 THE TELEPIVAE CLUB by James P. Morgan Free your imagination 47 GINGER And everything nice 60 BETTE MIDLER by Pat Salvo "Trash with Flash" 67 JODY MAXWELL by Larry Flynt Porn Queen opens up 71 RACK 'EM UP Sexy Pocket Pool 77 KINKY KORNER by Candy Hopkins What's your perversion? 86 PUTTING THE S-E-X BACK IN SEX by Brandon R. Blackman IV Put your energy to work 100 HONEY by Jim McQuade Honey's ins and outs PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, I definitely feel flattered after reviewing the March issue of Penthouse. The open beaver shot on page 77 is the first admission by Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione that Penthouse has been playing second fiddle to HUSTLER for quite some time. When I started HUSTLER one year ago, I expected a reaction from Guccione long before now. Especially when you consider the fact that he has never had an original idea of his own. However, I commend Mr. Guccione for his decisive action, at least it indicates that he has balls, but it is going to take more than balls to keep up with HUSTLER. He will need a few brains as well, an asset that he has failed to demonstrate very well. Other than blurred pubic hair, the only thing that he has given the public is a few kinky letters on enemas and sex with amputees. His remaining editorial content is about as boring as the sex life of a grasshopper. However, there is one aspect in his effort to imitate HUSTLER that I find quite humorous. Last Fall I did the NBC Tomorrow Show with his homely looking girl friend, Kathy Keeton, whose best defense against molesters is her face. She would look more at home back in London performing her old profession of go-go dancing, rather than trying to front for Viva Magazine, Guccione's most recent second rate attempt to imitate Playgirl. In the course of her demonstration of 'class' by constantly interrupting Tom Snyder and myself, she referred to HUSTLER's sexual explicitness as being vulgar. I found this amusing but in another way I felt sorry for her because it must be terribly embarrassing to go on national television and make such an ass of yourself. Despite this attempt by Penthouse to imitate HUSTLER, I welcome the challenge. I think the competition will be healthy for everyone, especially the consumer. As a matter of fact, if he and Hefner both would step out of their fantasy worlds and admit to themselves that they did not invent sex and started giving their readers what they want rather than trying to feed their own inflated egos, they might become serious competitors of HUSTLER. A good place for them to start would be to run an ad as HUSTLER did, requesting information from readers as to what they would like to read and see and transform this data to the pages of their magazines. The readers are entitled to this type of honesty; they only feel cheated when someone such as Hefner or Guccione try to jam personal philosophies down their throats. Of course, they would still be at a disadvantage because once they gathered this information, they would not know what to do with it. In any event, we at HUSTLER are proud that we have been, and will continue to be, responsive to our readers. It is your letters, your desire and your criticisms that establish HUSTLER's editorial content. This is the way it has been and always will be as long as I am Publisher. And all I can say to any would-be imitator is "eat your heart out baby, 'cause HUSTLER is an idea whose time has come."