Forced Sex As Magazine Design
Monday, May 13th, 2019 -- by Bacchus
I have no idea what the editors or the uncredited author (perhaps the same person?) thought they were writing about in the Forced Sex article in the Fall 1973 issue of Teeny Floppers magazine. The text is an incoherent mishmash of disconnected psychobabble terms like “frustrated incestuous desire” and “castration complex”. The whole article is eminently forgettable; indeed, from what I can tell, pretty much all of the text in the magazine is just cheap and shoddy filler, designed (badly) to keep the nude pictures from sticking together. The only respect in which any of it is notable is the eye-catching graphic design of this one article header. The entire half-page of typographical art is impossible to miss, and was surely intended to arrest the eyes and fingers of casual news-stand page-flipping browsers: