Al GoldStein Publisher of Screw Magazne R.I.P. 1936-2013

[Tucsoncoyote]

And antoher porn Publishing legends bites the big one..

Al GoldStein, Publisher of Screw Magazine, perhaps the raunchiest magazne since Larry Flynt's Hustler Magazine passed away today at age 77 after suffering from a long illness at a Hospice in Brooklyn New York

Goldstein Once quote saying, "To be angry is to be alive. I'm an angry Jew. I love it. Anger is better than love. I think it is more pure," he said in an interview in 2001. "There's so much to be angry about, because people are ripped off, the election went to the wrong person, the good guys usually lose and society sucks."

And man, was Goldstein Angry.. and i mean this was the guy who gave us the middle finger salute, and who in fact showed us the real angry side of porn.. Complete with Pink shots up the wazoo...

I mean he will be missed, but it does make me question.. How far in Porn is too farm? How far do you have to push the envelope to take porn from the tasteful side like Playboy and Penthouse, to that of Hustler and Screw..

It does make me wonder....

Tucsoncoyote

[dr_deathproof]

*raises a glass to Uncle Al*

He was the Sultan of Sleaze. Agree with him or not, the guy was like the Larry Flynt you never heard about... fighting the system and society in his own way.

[John C. Holmes]

I met Al on the subway a few years ago. (Post downfall.) Even at his worst he was appreciative that people would talk to him and I got to chat with him for about 20 minutes or so. (Mostly about the glory days of Midnight Blue and Screw.) When my stop came my parting words were, "I aint from here but as far I'm concerned you ARE this city man." (And I meant it.) He smiled and gave me the finger. I gave him a thumbs up and was on my way.

Love him or hate him, (and I'd suggest doing both,) but never forget what he did for us by protecting the 1st Amendment and bringing us entertainment along the way.

RIP Big Al.

[intersex2500]

I never met Al, but I lived in the city briefly in the 80s (and was within its sphere of influence the entire time). He was the kind of crazy-ass New Yorker that made the city great. Of course he gave you the finger. You should've given him the finger back.

Here's the NY Obit,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/ny...t-77.html?_r=0

and this touching piece

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...rapher/282575/

Stern's the last of these characters. It saddens me to see the city's public hair shaved, Screw Magazine replaced by Sex & the City. the streets safe and sanitized, pimps, hookers, and porno theaters gone.

Anybody have any issues out there? I'm amazed there's only one issue here.

http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com...screw+magazine

[John C. Holmes]

Oh I was far from complaining that Al gave me the finger, I walked away smiling because I considered it an honor that he felt enough of me to do that.

Here's a tumblr with tons of Screw mag pics.

http://screwmag.tumblr.com/

[jerquer]

The kind of bet you wanna win

Originally Posted by JayC79

Seka giving Al Goldstein one of the five blowjobs she owed him after losing a bet.

[intersex2500]

I didn't mean that you were complaining. I meant that wouldn't giving him the finger be the appropriate salute? !

[John C. Holmes]

Originally Posted by intersex2500

I didn't mean that you were complaining. I meant that wouldn't giving him the finger be the appropriate salute? !

Nah, the man deserved to get the last word.

[birchplow]

Some interesting info. about him:

Al Goldstein, the anti-Hugh Hefner, died earlier this week. Whereas Playboy marketed the idea that men who leer at naked women embody a suave, sophisticated, almost James Bond-like cool, Screw magazine restored the popular prejudice that pornography remained a habitual refuge for sweaty, socially-awkward blokes frustrated by their inability to live their fantasies in the real world. There was honesty in Al Goldstein’s pornography.


Goldstein knew his audience because he was his audience. Before shops held dirty magazines captive in clean plastic, the “adult” aisle teemed with gawking Goldstein look-alikes. Hefner’s magazine placed women on a pedestal; Goldstein’s knocked them down into the gutter. Playboy did beautiful; Screw, ugly. The physiognomy of its readers reflected the content of its pages.


The jewel of Hefner’s Beverly Hills paradise remains the grotto, a beautiful earthen cavern that mixes light, water, and rock to project an otherworldly quality. The centerpiece of Goldstein’s Florida mansion was a giant statue of an extended middle finger. Hefner, a man lacking in spirituality, at least extolled the wonders of the material world. Goldstein lived to offend that world, incapable of shielding his seething contempt in manner, speech, or even lawn fixtures.


In a precursor to the celebrity sex tape, Goldstein published surreptitiously obtained nude photographs of the former First Lady of the United States in 1973. A half-million Americans aided and abetted his invasion of Jacqueline Kennedy’s privacy through purchase of his magazine. Like so many who vehemently assert their own rights, Goldstein showed little respect for the rights of others — let alone the duties he owed them as fellow human beings. When he vindictively published the phone number of a former receptionist who had angered him, Goldstein advertised his bitterness for all, or at least for his readers, to see.


Perceived slights from Big Apple small businessmen incurred his wrath on his vulgar cable-access program, Midnight Blue. “The women who are not good at b--- jobs wind up doing your fingers and your toes,” he maintained in calling out a Manhattan nail salon that had kept him waiting. “These bastards who would be much better off s---ing and f---ing are used to lying to Americans.”


The misogyny that inspired Goldstein to depict women as props in his fantasy inhibited relationships with actual women, a malady that he spread to his readers. He married five times, eventually alienating each of his brides. When his only son kept him off the guest list at his graduation from Harvard Law School, Goldstein published a doctored depiction of him having sex with his mother. The principled pornographer remained faithful to smut more than family.


Goldstein’s kin suffered through living with him; more so did Al Goldstein.
In addition to his wives and son, he lost his business. Screw magazine ceased to exist in 2003 after 35 years and nearly 2,000 issues. What print had done to peep shows, the internet exacted upon print. “There is a pattern to American life that what is avant-garde becomes commonplace,” Goldstein, out-smutted by the competitors he had inspired, observed in 1981. “The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.”


Goldstein soon lost his home along with his business. Whereas he once split time between his Upper West Side townhouse and Pompano Beach manse, in the new millennium he alternated between sleeping at a local homeless shelter and in his car parked behind a Boston Market. He spent days behind bars. In 2004, police arrested him for stealing books at Barnes & Noble. Publishers not named Al Goldstein maintained no rights Al Goldstein felt obligated to respect.


A man enslaved to his own appetites becomes a tyrant to those around him. Wives, sons, and secretaries could quit Al Goldstein. The tragedy for Al Goldstein is that he could never quite elude Al Goldstein.

http://spectator.org/articles/57220/...ti-hugh-hefner

[<3TanyaMarie]

Originally Posted by intersex2500

Anybody have any issues out there? I'm amazed there's only one issue here.

http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com...screw+magazine

Originally Posted by John C. Holmes

Here's a tumblr with tons of Screw mag pics.

http://screwmag.tumblr.com/

Is there any place that has scans/images from issues in the latter 90s? I've been looking to jog my memory about something I read in an issue that came out sometime between '95-'97.

Thanks.