This chapter discusses the creation and downfall of a sex paper called the New York Review of Sex. The speaker talks about their efforts to create something more serious and artistic than Screw magazine, but the publication struggled to sell enough copies and eventually faced legal issues. They share their experience of proving in state Supreme Court that the removal of their publications from newsstands was an instance of prior restraint.
Steven Heller—legendary writer and author—joins to discuss his new book “Growing Up Underground,” an entertaining and humorous coming-of-age story at the center of New York’s youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s.