Screw: The Sex Review (Australia) No. 54

Mary Morgan
Sydney: Lovecraft Domestic Services, 1973.
South-East Asian Edition.

40cm x 29cm. 16 pages, black and white illustrations. Tabloid newspaper.

Single issue of the Australian Screwcraft Review, the weekly Kings Cross Guide sex newspaper with the motto “It is the right of every adult Australian to be able to read and view anything in the privacy of his own home.” Produced in Sydney, and distributed in newsagents shortly after the dismantling of Australia’s strict censorship regime by Gough Whitlam, Screw was largely aimed at placing adult media in the hands of discerning and undiscerning adults. Largely hetero, but definitely not lacking, gay, lesbian, and transgender material, each issue filled with advertisements for sex shops, mail order adult products, and personal ads, accompanied by pornographic photographs, erotic fiction, and by late 1973 commenced running arts features on high profile musicians and artists. Labelled as the South-East Asian Edition of Al Goldstein’s New York publication by the same name, with distribution extending to New Zealand, New Guinea, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, by its second year Screw Australia claimed a circulation of over 50,000 copies and by 1974, over 70,000, and stating they receive thousands of letters a day to their office. Scarce Australian erotica, with only an incomplete holding at the University of Sydney and a very minor holding of later issues at the National Library when it was re-subtitled Australia’s National Adult Weekly.

Minor tanning and edge wear. Light horizontal fold. Very Good Condition.

SOLD