The hotel will provide swimming towels Enjoy your time off! Yes, Kuredu is a large island, the second largest in the country in fact, with over guests when fully booked and more than that number of staff. Considering the logistics of a self-contained island in the middle of the Indian Ocean and most people will understand the need for a large number of boats and some vehicles - delivering luggage by wheelbarrow doesn't work here unfortunately.
In order to clarify the claim of sewage pipes, these are actually water inlet pipes for the island's Desalination Plant. Thank you for the words of praise for Nelson, our wonderfully entertaining Teppan Yaki Chef at our Far East restaurant. Our nearby much smaller sister resort, Komandoo may well have suited your holiday needs better than such a large resort as Kuredu. We spent our honeymoon here, and it was perfect.
The food, service etc, was superb. Housekeeping twice a day, youre own waiter in the restaurants, fresh food, very clean, and i could keep going, but you get the point. We stayed at a water villa, and it was awesome. All the staff were very pleasant and polite. Dear Gisle, Thank you for your lovely comments following your Honeymoon vacation at Kuredu last September.
We hope to welcome you and your husband back one day. Beautiful Island fantastic holiday. However, I would like to warn people who visit this island that on our last day the seaplane took us to Male airport at 1. I asked for this to be changed to a later seaplane and asked for help from the manager but the only option we were offered was to stay in Kuredu lounge instead of airport which is not a better option.
We paid for all inclusive and would have had food and drink if we stayed on the island but had to pay for meals and drinks at the airport. Very disappointed as stayed on four other islands and never had this problem. Dear Patricia, I am pleased to note that you had a "fantastic holiday" which sounds like it was spoilt slightly at the end due to earlier than anticipated sea plane departure timing.
Our sea plane partners TMA are servicing over sixty resorts in the Maldives and over 2, passengers per day. Of course, everyone would like to not have to wait too long on arrival or depart from the resort too early but with so many passengers to transport around the country and complete all transfers during daylight hours, the scheduling may not always be favourable to all passengers. Our advice for guests is to try and book daytime arrival and departure international flights that will reduce waiting times due to the seaplanes only operating in daylight hours.
If that is not possible, then take the opportunity to visit the capital city Male, located just a short boat ride from the airport, relax in our lovely Lounge at the Seaplane Terminal or make arrangements to spend some time at a hotel near to the airport. Despite this disappointing end to your stay, we hope that one day we will have the pleasure of welcoming you back to Kuredu.
We had booked a jacuzzi beach villa for week one and a Sangu water villa for week 2. After a long delayed journey we were extremely delighted that we could still get a sea plane even though ours hadn't landed until We arrived to staff waiting for us and shook our hands. We were then walked up the jetty to reception to be met by more staff playing drums and clapping. This brings a tear to your eye and I found it so lovely we were given a cold towel and glass of ice tea which was very welcomed.
To our utter surprise and happiness we were upgraded for our first week to the sultan pool villa Wow this is an amazing villa. Large, pool, completely private. My only slight complaint was our cleaner. He didn't really do much to be honest and several times he didn't do the turn down service or replace items from the mini bar but had paid a visit to the room each time so we thought it was strange. Also the pool was never cleaned of leaves but we just did it as part of our daily swim.
On our second week we went to the water villa but unfortunately and disappointingly I felt I couldn't stay there. This was nothing to do with the room because this too was lovely with stunning views but just because I was too scared It was our first night in the water villa when we had really bad stormy weather and It just wasn't for me so we paid to go back to a Sultan pool villa but first stayed one night in a jacuzzi beach villa which was a lovely room too.
We were allocated some sun beds on the beach that did have a sign on saying for use of sultan pool villas and the number but every time we went to use them someone was on them and we didn't bother asking them to move but just went back to our pool or walked round the island. We ate most of our meals in the Bonthi restaurant and was served my Fulhu who was a lovely lad and was the best service we have ever encountered in a hotel and the lovely chef that makes eggs on a morning.
Fulhu was our favourite person we met. We visited O resort and Komas but just liked Bonthi more, but this was just our opinion. In all the restaurants all the food was lovely and would accommodate for anyone's taste. Food was always the correct temperature and varied from day to day with a theme every night. Your glass was never empty and was always topped up with water or whatever drink you wanted. We paid a visit to The Beach a la carte and each ordered the lobster but ended up leaving most of it due to the amount of pepper on it which was a shame but again this is just personal preference.
Thinking back I should have said no pepper so it was my fault The food was fantastic so couldn't complain about that it was just my personal taste. We also visited Francos and the pizza was gorgeous and very filling. We didn't really visit the bars that much as we are not big drinkers but every now and again when we did the staff were pleasant and friendly. The drinks we did have were lovely. And now all the cocktails are included in all inclusive.
We visited the coffee bar at the end of the pier and that was lovely too. It's nice to go on an evening to finish off the night and watch all the fish. We wish we would have visited more to be honest. Trips we went on were the sunset cruise which was lovely and we also went to dream island which was actually paradise.
I would recommend this trip to everyone as it was truly amazing and worth every penny. Most of our days were spent relaxing by our own pool, going for walks round the island and swimming. Which is exactly what we went for. We visited both spas and found the one near the main reception to be the best.
It was the nicest massage and the woman at reception in 'O' resort just wanted to try and sell us more and was very pushy. Every visitor should go to the back of house tour. It really does open up your eyes and after seeing everything that goes into making such a fantastic resort it makes you think about everything you do.
The amount of water and electric you use and the recycling factor. Also the kitchens were very well run and pristinely clean. Thanks to the island hosts who ran this tour just for me one day as no one else put their name down for it. Also must say the island wouldn't be as perfect if it wasn't for the ladies who sweep and the men that clear the beach of seaweed every day To them thank you. We had a few chats with Fikry and he is a lovely, funny, honest man.
To end this truly is a paradise resort and I would love to return. People are lovely, food is excellent, service is excellent and it is run fantastically. Thank you Kuredu and all the staff for making our holiday perfect. We will miss you and we will be back. We stayed in room Sultan pool room first week 1st-7th July, Sangu water villa 8th July, we think jacuzzi beach villa 9th July then Sultan pool room 10thth July. According to the Preface, this is a sort of expanded adaptation of the earlier work, created by one of the publisher's hacks from his memory of the original which he read many years earlier.
It seems probable that it is from this edition that the Brandon edition was reprinted. Introduction by John E. Translated by Andre Gilbert [Hilary E. Introduction by Albert Lowy, Ph. It seems likely that the translation was done from a French text rather than from the original Italian. However, an English edition translated directly from the Italian by Samuel Putnam circulated in manuscript for a number of years before eventually being published in at City of Industry, California, by Marvin Miller as one of his Collector's Publications.
It deserves to be better known.
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Mock mother-of-pearl wrappers, in printed slipcase. Translated by Hideki Okada. Introduction by John Glassco. Illustrated by Philip Core. Hideki Okada," is actually Glassco himself. Glassco's translation, or as he terms it, "interpolation," largely derives from Ken Sato's hilariously inept translation, Quaint Stories of the Samurais , published by Robert McAlmon, Paris, This art has long been practiced in Japan where, far from being regarded as a desecration of the original, it is applauded as an elegant embellishment which calls for the execution of the greatest taste, humour, delicacy and restraint.
Philip Core's illustrations were done according to Glassco's instructions. An Essay and Bibliography , Ontario: ECW Press, , p. Introduction by Frank Hoffman. However, it seems more probable that the novel was first published by Shostak. In Compendium, the combined catalogues of Brooklyn bookseller C. Scheiner, the original edition of the first edition is described as having been published by Shostak in either New York or Chicago, with the false imprint 'Dijon, France', in It had seven full-pages illustrations by 'Jacques Merd' [William Bernhardt], and numerous in-text illustrations by Emile Ganzo.
The edition was limited to copies. There is a German translation of this edition: Verlag Andreas Zettner Kg, n. I am obliged to Jan Onderwater for this information. A novel called A Case by 'William C. An Anthology of Tales in the Vernacular. Edited Without Expurgation by J. Mortimer Hall [ pseud. A reprint of the First Series of this famous collection of erotic humor will be found at no. A French novel probably dating from the 's. Madge Buford and Gus Tolman. The former is probably reprinted from an American edition of the early 's, although the novel undoubtedly is much older.
A typescript catalogue compiled c. Concerning Gus Tolman , Jan Moret describes what may be the original edition from which this edition is taken: Limited to copies. In fact, the book appeared c. The first, The Amorous Widow, is unknown to the compiler, at least under that title. Editions les Livres d'Or. I am indebted to Peter Mendes for this additional information.
Being explicity, an Anthology of Tales in the Vernacular. William Passemon [Joseph Fleisler]. A reprint of the Second Series of this famous collection of erotic humor will be found at No. Alexander's labours as translator were confined to the second novel, titled Caresses , and here credited to Jean Marie Tallien. The earliest edition of Count Alexis known reliably to the compilers is dated approximately , and typographically appears to be English. Count Alexis is credited in this Brandon house edition to a 'M. Cover art by Felix Labise. Gay with the false imprint 'Lisbonne: Chez Antonio da Boa-Vista'.
Le Blanc, the grand-daughter of the inventor Nicolas Le Blanc. At the time of the Second Empire, she lived at a large country house near Argentan where she was something of a bluestocking, and entertained the important poets and artists of the day. She is also supposed to have written another erotic work, Le Roman de Violette 'Lisbonne: Chez Antonio da Boa-Vista, ', i.
For a translation of volume 2, originally published secretly at Bruxelles in by Mlle. In , Brandon Books no. This is a reprint of a novel called The Life Line , credited to the same pseudonymous author, that was issued at Paris in by the Armor Publishing Company. Translated by Franz Mecklenberg [Hilary E. Cover art by Edvard Munch. Copy in the British Library at shelfmark YA. It is unlikely that an openly published book in would be as explicitly erotic as the Brandon House volume, and we must assume that either Hilary Holt added pornographic elements to an otherwise respectable text, or else a clandestine German publisher in the late 's did.
Forbidden Paths and Perverted Lady. The French original, by 'Fuckwell', one of the many bizarre pseudonyms of the prolific Alphonse Momas, was published about as Petites et Grandes Filles , presumably at Paris. The following year, an English translation, in two volumes, called Green Girls , also credited to 'Fuckwell', was printed at Paris for the London publisher Leonard Smithers and his French partner 'Duringe'.
An American edition was published at either New York or Philadelphia about , and it was here that the name 'Jo Tyler' seems first to have been used in association with the novel. The complication arises with another work by the redoubtable 'Fuckwell' called Fruits verts ['Green Fruit', published in ]. A translation of the first volume of Emmanuelle is noted at entry no. A copy is preserved in the British Library, at pressmark P. In the absence of a translator credit, one must assume this present edition to be a reprint of an American translation published in the 's.
About , Grove Press also published an edition of Wide Open , with the authorship credited to 'Jem', the name used to sign the French original. Limited to copies with 6 erotic plates. Last of the fancy covers. Copyright by Patrick J. Special thanks to Jim Linwood for making this piece possible. He is Milton Luros, and perhaps his dreamy, bemused smile reflects a thought that surely must have been floating just below the conscious level during his waking hours: Born in , Milton Luros, with no formal training, possesses keen business acumen.
Marry that to a trained, artistic sensibility: Luros begins his career in the fine arts in his home, New York City, but has to eat and so illustrates covers for science-fiction magazines. His cover for the May issue of Science Fiction Quarterly has an image prescient of his second career--a triumphant, edge-of-orgasm-featured bare-chested future-bohunk wearing a pharonic headcap behind a full glass space-helmet with a submissive, scantily clad future-babe wrapped around his midsection, supported by his muscular arms. As the science-fiction market begins to decline during the mid-late '50s, Milton moves over to cover art for "spicy" men's magazines, selling work to, among others, Bentley Morris for his Adam and Knight magazines after moving to Los Angeles.
The first time I meet him, he's sitting in the reception area of our office-- this is the late '50s--and he's got his portfolio of art; he's there to sell us some artwork. He's really an artist, a very fine artist. He's got pastels, oils, charcoals; a very, very talented guy. He's like, 'you want erotica? Came out here, needed work. The best part about it was we didn't have to pay him top dollar! This last remark by Morris is telling. Formerly a highly paid illustrator, Milton is now hustling for money. He's got a wife and two sons. A man's got to do what a man's got to do.
He's got contacts in the periodicals business going back nearly 20 years, specific experience in the post-Roth decision world of spicy men's magazines. Apparently deciding in the true can-do spirit of American entrepreneurship that he can do better than the people he's working for, in he parlays his experience with his need to feed himself and his family and sets out on his own, in all likelihood contracting with a local LA secondary periodicals distributorship and receiving an advance for printing costs after selling them on an idea: Milton, like William Hamling of Greenleaf Publishing in San Diego, one of his competitors during the s, and Hamling's chief editor Earl Kemp, who also began his career in the science-fiction world, understands the public's appetite for sex and violence in media.
Milt opts for sex but one thing is certain: Marvin Miller, perhaps the most notorious porn publisher during the era, says, "I admire Milton Luros, no matter what he thinks of me [not much]. He starts out small, he works hard and saves his money; he's a hard worker and he deserves all he gets.
He pays his bills. This is such a singular phenomenon that people can't help but mention it. Milton isn't looking to move beyond the legal curve; he, as much as possible, plays it safe, allowing others to fight the battles before he steps in, though he is, as Bentley Morris observes, "the master of the stretch," the cautious, incremental pushing of boundaries. Not that his caution will make much difference: He begins with, by today's standards, tame girlie mags of the bare breasts, legs, lingerie 'n lace ilk then moves into nudist magazines which, due to a recent Supreme Court decision, are deemed not obscene and thus legal.
Nudism magazines are allowed to show full frontal nudity for men and women; girlie magazines, no way. The earliest concrete evidence of this activity is the corporation he sets up to umbrella his nudist-mag operation, Sun Era, Inc. Stan Sohler being passed the antler-horn gavel after being elected president of the American Sunbathing Association.
Photo by Ed Lange, Lupine Lodge, Courtesy Gary Sohler collection. Stan Sohler, an ex-president of the Western Sunbathing Association and two-time former American Sunbathing Association president, is, at the time, with Ed Lange of Elysium, the premier nudism photographer in the country and a social nudist of long standing within nudism society. But he's a renegade. The community's insistence that eros and nudism remain mutually exclusive to protect nudism and its publications from being deemed obscene strikes Stan as a somewhat absurd parsing of reality.
In their beginnings, nudist mags have bizarre standards: In the late '50s Sohler, armed with a single Rolleiflex camera, a boat and five models shoots a series of photographs depicting people enjoying social nudism in a remote, safe, and beautiful location on a few of the atoll islands amongst the Florida Keys. Nude men and women touching! Tasteful displays of affection! Stan sells the entire package--text, photos, and layout--to Ed Lange who publishes it to great success.
But the American Sunbathing Association's official magazine publishers go into a tizzy: Next thing you know, nudists will be depicted holding hands, kissing, and, God forbid, having sex! In the early '60s Sohler approaches Milt with the idea of publishing an entire line of legitimate but much more liberated and aesthetically artful nudist magazines, including the titles Sun Era , Photo Field Trip , Backyard Nudist and eventually several others. Milt loves the idea and creates Sun Era, Inc.
To the nudist community Luros is a johnny-come-lately, hopping on the bandwagon after the hard-won battles for legitimacy have been fought at great personal and financial sacrifice by nudism pioneers like Ilsley Boone, whose obscenity conviction for publishing "obscene" nudism magazines is overturned on appeal to the U. Plus, the Luros nudism magazines kinda blur the line between "pure" nudism and what?
Sohler and Luros see that nudism magazines are pretty dull affairs: Milton and Stan improve the aesthetics of the genre with better photography and well-written text. Their quality is the best in the business though disappointing to the nudism faithful who view Luros as strictly an opportunist and Sohler as a traitor. Concurrently, in the wake of the Roth Supreme Court decision which legalizes soft-porn, Luros, in early , begins publishing original soft-core novels--as Parliament Books but after a handful of titles drops the Parliament name in favor of Brandon House--as an extension of his magazine lines, the first title being Hollywood Sex God , by "Bob Howard" [William Stroup].
Harold Straubing, formerly the comics editor at the New York Herald Tribune , is executive editor of the Brandon House line; he's been with Milt from the very beginning as magazine editor.
Many of the Brandon House novels are written by science-fiction writer Richard E. Geis under his own name or the pseudonyms "Peggy Swenson" and "Robert N. The Brandon House line generally features strong plotting--with sex, lots of it but not at the expense of story--Straubing via Luros insists upon it. Not all Brandon House books are porn; Milt apparently sees commercial potential in other areas of interest to men: Those first few loose hairs in your comb are a grim warning, but not a sentence to inevitable baldness--if you begin at once the simple, inexpensive program of treatments described in this book.
No costly treatments are involved--only practical homemade remedies, exercise and diets which include elements that have the extra effects of keeping your body younger and healthier. The important thing is to start at once, before the hairline recedes and major damage is done. For the first time in one concise and carefully documented book, many of the myths and fallacies so strongly promoted over the years by the Anti-Tobacco forces are dramatically exposed as basically illogical. It is NOT true that every cigarette you smoke is another nail in your coffin! You'll enjoy it more!
In Milt sets up his own distribution arm. Soon afterward, he establishes his own printing shops. He's sown the seeds for empire. American Art Agency initially operates out of offices on Magnolia Blvd. But in the meantime, Sohler has another idea, pitches it successfully to Milt and a new genre of nudism publications is born. The line between girlie mags and nudism mags beginning to blur, Sohler takes it beyond the blur and into the fuzz with Jaybird.
Stan's son Gary recalls: One day he received one from a Pacoima housewife who admitted that she spent the entire day, after she'd shoveled her husband and kids out the door of course, 'naked as a jaybird' while she did the housework. My father had an epiphany over this and realized here was a whole world of unexploited nudity; ordinary people practicing nudism in their own homes and backyards.
Once again, he sold the idea to Milt and the first Jaybird Magazine featured an illustrated spread of, you guessed it, the actual Pacoima housewife doing her housework in the nude. Big fucking deal, you say? If you think there wasn't an implied and very strong voyeuristic aspect to this, then think about it again. Milt Luros was no fool. Stan Sohler eventually leaves the Luros organization in the mid-'60s and after Keith and Iris Bancroft, well-respected members of the nudist community, have a turn running his nudist magazine operation, Milt hires Robert Reitman as Executive Editor for Sun Era; later, Reitman will ascend to Executive Editor for American Art Agency and all its constituent divisions, including Sun Era, as well as write a handful of non-fiction sex titles.
Reitman's evil genius is to lose all the amateur, true-believing nudists in spontaneous situations and hire very attractive professional models of both sexes to pose for trained professional photographers, adding va-va-voom to a genre distinctly lacking such: I recall with no little amusement seeing a vintage "pure" nudism photo depicting a slice of nudist life featuring a bunch of skinny and paunchy men and dowdy women wearing nothing but carpenter's tool-belts as they merrily hammer and nail away at a small nudist camp structure, blithely ignoring every safety rule that one can when using potentially dangerous tools that can sometimes strike unintended objects or body parts.
Reitman puts his stamp on Jaybird , and the magazine soon features males and females in legally protected full frontal nudity in "non-sexual" situations that are Clintonesque in their disingenuousness: During the Limbo dance craze, a totally nude chicklette can be seen--and how! Low enough to perform a full visual gynecological exam. But no sex, please.
Jaybird , no surprise, is a major hit; every issue sells out. And under Reitman's supervision Jaybird sales rise to 13,plus copies each. Joel Warner, whose L. Luros, on the heels of Jaybird , has published Continental Nudist, a mag featuring European nudist activity --containing a short story by "The Saint" author, Leslie Charters called "The Reluctant Nudist. Soon, Reitman expands Jaybird into an entire franchise: Teenage Jaybird , "healthy young Jaybirds enjoying wholesome recreations outdoors and in"; Urban Jaybird , "the city Jaybird at play in the country and at home in the city" which begs the question, how can you distinguish a city Jaybird from a country Jaybird in the city or in the country if they're nude?
The only title missing from the mix, unfortunately, is Bird-Watching Jaybirds , a title just pregnant with possibilities: But let us not ignore the stroke-mag side of American Art Agency. This is a distinct improvement over the late '30s--early '40s "art" magazine, Girl Beautiful from Graphic Arts Studio in Chicago "for serious students of art photography only," which featured art studies of beautiful nude women wholly neutered by having not just all pubic hair airbrushed out but their entire pubic mound and cleft.
Steve Lee, a recent college graduate who is hired by Harold Straubing for this his first job after being referred to American Art Agency by an employment agency, recalls that Milt "has a genius for spotting fetishes that will sell. After the Supreme Court obscenity decisions, demureness is gradually shown the door, and with the Supreme Court's Redrup v State of New York decision, the door slams shut behind it.
Convicted of violating Section of the Penal Code of the State of New York, which prohibits the sale of any "obscene, lewd, or indecent book," his case is appealed, his conviction ultimately reversed by the U. The message is clear to the industry and First Amendment attorneys throughout the country: With the Redrup decision, the legal striptease shedding the emperor Comstock's new clothes that began with Ulysses in is well nigh complete. This decision is the symbolic shedding of the pasties and G-string; with the Court's Stanley v Georgia decision,[9] the spike heels are removed, the strip-show complete.
In the aftermath of Redrup, Hose-Happy Harriet's still "hose-happy" but for a distinctly different sort of hose. Milt's now publishing "Groovy Men's Magazine's": These are just a drop in the gism bucket; there are countless others. They all sell out. But according to Steve Lee, Milton, a courtly, old-school gentleman, though thrilled that the magazines are doing so well, has mixed emotions: Gary Sohler follows in his dad's footsteps, becoming one of the most successful figure photographers in the business.
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He grows up in the social nudism movement, studies at L. He becomes one of two staff photographers for American Art Agency. He employs two very talented art directors, Wil Hulsey and Jerry Pecararo who oversee the design, layout, and photo selection of every single magazine.
They also review and pre-approve each and every model before the staff photographers can book them. Milt also employs an entire stable of salaried copywriters and a savvy copy editor as well as a whole roomful of airbrush artists who meticulously retouch every single black-and-white photograph. This to remove wrinkles and blemishes but also to add highlights to the model's skin, giving it a glow that looks exactly like the thin rime of sweat during sexual excitation. He also uses airbrush techniques to increase or decrease background values lightness and darkness to make the model jump out of the background.
Milt takes a great deal of satisfaction from surrounding himself with artistically talented, creative people. Doing this adds to the quality of his magazines and lends an aura of respectability to what for most people is a shady business at best. Milt's attention to detail, need for control and obsession with quality extend to the printing of every magazine on glossy starch-coated stock, a technique unheard of in the porn business and employed only by the high-end men's entertainment magazines.
With the windfall profits generated from the magazines, Luros hires the best writers, the best photographers, the best everything. He buys a cluster of buildings in North Hollywood, at and around Fulton Avenue, to house all the publishing, distribution and printing activities.
Regent House is Milt's mail order operation, Barclay House his non-fiction sex book division, and Brandon House his soft-core erotica imprint. Later, Milt will add Academy Press, a hardcover, non-fiction sexology imprint that includes studies of pornography, censorship and the law, and Socio Library Paperback Books, a trade-paper size line of sex educational materials.
It is a measure of Milton's obsession with quality that he sets up a fact-checking department to support all the non-fiction work, which includes reprints of the major sex studies of the late 19th--early 20th Centuries. Dennis Rodriguez, an editor and writer who has worked at a few of the major porn publishing houses, recalls his stint as editor at Barclay House with pride; every original "non-fiction" manuscript an entire genre of fictionalized "case histories," sexumentaries is meticulously pored over by the fact-checkers who insist on veracity no matter how inane or silly the "case history.
Everybody on staff is a college graduate; "it's a very intelligent, interesting group of people," Steve Lee recalls. Robert Silverberg, the award-winning science-fiction writer, authors many sexumentaries under the pseudonym of "Dr. Editor Herb Oxstein is formerly a professor and screenwriter. Prolific writing contributor Morris "Morry" Goodman's day job is with NBCin the network's Broadcast Standards and Practices department, where he routinely censors teleplays for potentially offensive material.
Wil Hulsey ultimately rises to head the art department for all of American Art Agency; he hires the most talented, best-trained illustrators he can find for the staff, including Kati Tint, a brilliant illustrator trained in her native Estonia. In mid, Brian Kirby, a young jazz drummer and rare book collector and dealer from Detroit who has recently moved to L.
I gave them Candy in return for a long interview with Milt. Candy made Milt a fortune and he suggested during our next interview that I come to work for him, see the business from the inside. Brian's friend had told him of Luros' success issuing a reprint of Fanny Hill , which Brandon House had issued despite the fact that the book--judged obscene--was still working its way through the appellate process and its ultimate fate would not be determined until the next spring's U.
Luros wanted to follow up on the book's success but hadn't found the right property. So, the meeting of Luros and Kirby was fortuitous for both. Candy , by Maxwell Kenton, the Terry Southern-Mason Hoffenberg comic erotic masterpiece originally published in Paris in by Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press was, like Fanny Hill , in the public domain;[11] anyone was free to publish it.
Its legal status, though, was still questionable but change was in the air and as long as Fanny Hill remained within the appellate process no Federal prosecutor was going to waste time and effort duplicating another Federal prosecutor's efforts. It could be safely published now; if events took an unexpected turn, it could be dropped from the catalog--long after it sold like hotcakes.
After all, it is the periodicals business; the books only have a day shelf life anyway. If anybody wants to press charges and suppress, well, too late, the evil's already left Pandora's box. When Southern learned Kirby's identity, he went into a ferocious tirade over lost royalties that Brian still shudders over in recollection. Brian has exquisite taste, he knows and appreciates fine literature and art, as does Milton.
Milton grows quite fond of Brian; Brian, in turn, respects and has great affection for Milton.
And Milton does something extraordinary, absolutely unheard of in all of American publishing. Long before mainstream publishers set up key, favored editors with their own imprints, Luros does just that, establishing Brandon House Library Editions for Brian. Brian will have offices apart from the rest of the publishing operations and answer to Milton only, a degree of independence unheard of within the porn business, much less mainstream publishing.
Kirby has insisted on this; he is not a corporate type, hell, he is part of the counterculture, in his twenties. No way is he going to trade his freedom for a stifling hierarchy. Milton, possessed of an artistic temperament himself, understands Kirby's attitude, undoubtedly viewing it as a plus. Suffice it to say, Robert Reitman, now Executive Editor for all of Luros' publishing activities, ain't happy about this arrangement.
He's become a favorite son if Milton likes you and you produce, he practically adopts you , and probably feels a degree of sibling rivalry. He undoubtedly feels a loss of power; Reitman has developed a reputation as a control freak, and Kirby's elevation must stick in his craw. The two hate each other's guts. Reitman, "a goofball, a total idiot who doesn't know how to write, who doesn't know anything," according to Milton Van Sickle, another editor at American Art Agency, doesn't, to put it mildly, impress Kirby, who is far from a goofball, not an idiot, knows how to write, and knows a lot.
Both are stubborn; they will often clash. And "Reitman's a schemer," according to Steve Lee. But Reitman is petty in addition to his other personal qualities. Van Sickle recalls a standard Friday morning meeting of the editorial staff. There's some international mail lying on the table. Kirby, a philatelist, picks up a letter. But Milton Luros has a plan, and it doesn't include Robert Reitman. Milt, in the wake of the March 21, Supreme Court decisions, has a lofty ambition: It also appeals to his business sense: Milton often has great ideas married to ulterior financial motives.
With Brandon House Library Editions he can indulge his fine taste with a legal bonus: Supreme Court; the imprint will be legally unassailable and lend respectability to his organization. Milton gives Brian the green light and, more important, the long green to achieve the goal. Brandon House Library Editions are printed on fine, acid-free paper no browning; these books' leaves are as white today as the day they came off the press.
Their covers feature erotic imagery from great artists: Because Milt has always insisted on quality, Brian will have the luxury of only having to issue two to three titles a month so he can attend to detail. Kirby designs the covers himself, over two hundred of them, choosing the artwork, doing the layout, writing all the copy for the covers, often writing the introductions, which are quite literate, informative and accurate in contrast to many intros from other publishers which are quite the opposite.
He goes on buying trips, scouting out and purchasing texts from esteemed collector, scholar, and dealer J. Rund in New York under the legal pretext of buying material for Milton's personal collection of erotica; Milton will amass one of the finest private collections in the world--I examined it after his death--but actually for reprint who brokers the sale of classic erotic texts from the collection of Karl Leonhart, a wealthy collector in Hamburg, Germany, and from booksellers and agents throughout Europe. Brian initiates one of the greatest programs of foreign language translations in the history of the business, commissioning first English translations of fine German and French erotic books heretofore unavailable to the English-speaking reader.
The first translation he does not recall the book is done by an L. So he puts together a string of three highly skilled, fluent translators: LaBan; Mark Lawrence, a free-spirited hippie who sorta lives, sorta bums in the ranch house on the Will Rogers estate in L. According to Kirby, Lawrence and Holt share a mutual dislike for one another; aside from personality clashes Holt being very old world, Lawrence being not of this, or any other world , they fiercely compete for assignments.
Holt will also write introductions for the imprint, sometimes under his own name when he has done the book's translation under one of his pseudonyms , sometimes under the pseudonyms John S. Lowy, or Allan D. His intros are always well done and insightful. Whether written under his real name or under the pseudonyms Geoffrey Lowndes, Rudolph Conway, or Steven George, Hirschman's writing invariably demonstrates a keen literary sense and appreciation for the genre with sharp psychosexual insight. While it is true that all porn publishers during the era are issuing many of the same public domain titles, almost all manage to unearth books that they alone reprint during the era.
In addition to first and only English translations of works such as E. Pelletils, arguably the most fantastic of all pornographic fantasies, featuring the inexhaustible Mitzi recalling every single sexual encounter she has ever had, a total of pages of one sex scene after another without a shred of plot, written by Mitzi at warp-speed during an orgy!
Milton Luros inspires incredible loyalty amongst his employees; they all love him. Though entry level employees tend to earn peanuts until they prove themselves, Milt ultimately pays the highest salaries in the business, too. Hard not to like that. If you are one of Milton's favorite sons, you are rewarded handsomely, even extravagantly: Milt buys a house for Brian Kirby and his wife. But not everybody stays beyond a few years. Robert Reitman probably enjoys the longest tenure, followed by Kirby. There are two reasons why everybody loves Milt but few stick around: Milt always has a bad cop to play to his good cop, and one of his primary bad cops is Robert Reitman, "a pedantic, anal retentive, insufferable asshole" according to Gary Sohler, whose controlling, somewhat paranoiac personality will inspire many a practical joke guaranteed to bring out the "who stole the missing strawberries!?
Milton's other bad cop isn't a man. If everybody loves Milton, there ain't a lotta love lost between the staff and Milt's wife, Bea.
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Talk to people and you form the impression of a Chinese dragon lady crossed with Philip Roth's worst Jewish mother nightmare, a woman described by a former employee as "morbidly obese who hasn't used a toothbrush in years" who sits at her desk with a huge half a pastrami on rye in one hand and hatchet in the other, her fingers ringed with precious rocks the size of meteorites. She has an office right next to Milt's with the bark-paneled walls not knotty pine but, yes, bark but, mercifully, isn't there much. Lookout when she is--she has a habit of calf-roping hapless employees who make the mistake of walking by her door and forcing them to endure "at least 30 minutes of meaningless blather and personal advice" or intense haranguement.
There is no escape. Though without official title or position, her hands are in all business affairs when she so chooses. It's a common practice by all employees who need to get to Milt's office on business to peer around the corner of Bea's door and wait until she turns her head, takes a bite of her corned beef sandwich, dials the phone, or is otherwise distracted, then leap stealthily past her like a frightened insect ducking a praying mantis," a former employee observes. In tough negotiations, it is Bea who does the handling and hold onto your balls, boys, there is a good chance you will leave the meeting without one.
He meets with Bea. By the time he is finished with her, she has finished him off and is picking her teeth with his bones: Free Press Bookstores to sell the damn things. Esteemed dealer and scholar of vintage erotica, J. Rund, recalls Milton as a very paternal, grandfather-type, a warm, Jewish zayde , easy to deal with and always trying to impart a little wisdom to nice bubelehs he is acquainted with.
Sometimes they take European trips together mixing business buying erotica and pleasure. One friendly with the Luroses observed of Bea: I tolerated her, withstood her, endured her, I was embarrassed by and for her. Mostly, she amused me. I have never seen anyone get away with the things she routinely got away with. Faced with tough money decisions--giving a raise, an advance against salary, expense account approval--Milt always defers to Bea: But if you want to go ask her yourself Bea has the last word. When Milt offers to buy the Kirbys a house, Brian and Lauraine shop around until they finally find one they fall in love with.
They invite Milt and Bea to take a look-see. The house is in the Hollywood Hills; few homes there are at ground level with the street and when the Luroses pull up and get out, Bea eyes the long flight of stairs that leads up to the entrance and turns to Brian and Lauraine. To be fair, Kirby has enormous affection for Bea, despite all, and Art Director Jerry Pecoraro considers her "a great gal.
Milt has given Stanley an office of his own at American Art Agency so Stanley can work comfortably when he needs to be on the premises; Fleishman is essentially confined to a wheelchair with the use of only one arm due to polio contracted as a youth.
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Despite his infirmities, he is a legal athlete of Olympian proportions; in the field of obscenity law he is without peer. He successfully defends many porn publishers before every Federal court in the nation and is so astute in discerning the legal and logical flaws and fallacies in obscenity statutes and prosecutor's arguments that cases brought against his clients are blown away like chaff in a storm and ultimately amount to nothing more than very expensive harassment. And this, in the end, is what frustrated prosecutors and attorneys general resort to because no argument, no matter how well reasoned, can stand against Fleishman's acute demolition of the illogic upon which it rests.
For a few months in the mid-Sixties, Milt is arrested every Friday at 5 pm, the day, time, and precinct location calculated to make it as inconvenient and annoying as possible: Because of Stanley Fleishman, Milt never spends a nanosecond behind bars. But Milton does have his legal woes. The Comstock Laws, which govern the mailing of "obscene" materials, give the Post Office more than enough ammo to go game-hunting, and the wealthiest, biggest game-animal on the smut savannah is Milton Luros. Now, up until , if the Post Office wants to prosecute an obscenity offender, the only possible venue is in the jurisdiction where the offender operates.
Since most obscenity offenders work out of L. In , the P. Included in the indictment are Bea, one of their two sons, who has a low-level job with the company while he attends college, and nine others, including some Brandon House writers Victor Banis, Richard Geis, and Sam Merwin, Jr.
Milton has a Byzantine business structure created to maximize and protect his assets and take full legal advantage of corporate tax laws; the fact that this corporate maze makes it very tough for district attorneys to follow a paper trail to Milton's ass is but a welcome side benefit surely calculated by Milt.
That the jury in Sioux City will likely be made up of unsophisticated rural conservatives no doubt influences the Post Office's decision. Predictably, the trial jury consists of ten heartland housewives and two farmers. The trial begins in Sioux City on October 18, The trial proceeds for some weeks whereupon the jury returns a guilty verdict on all counts. Federal Judge William C. Hansen dismisses the convictions against all of the individuals involved except Milton, who nobly assumes personal responsibility for the actions of his employees.
They don't want to get their asses caught in one of Fleishman's legal slings; it is the '60s and the conduct of authorities in general and the police in particular is being seriously challenged for the first time in U. Milton Luros will not have any serious legal problems until later in the decade. Twenty-three-year old Gary Sohler is miffed. Rancor over money issues has alienated his affection for Milt, who blames Bea, who cries poverty while buffing her rings on her blouse.
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