In 1958, Milton Luros left his job in New York, designing and illustrating detective magazines, to move to North Hollywood, California. A year later, with a loan from an underground agent, he founded a publishing empire that revolutionized men's magazines in the 1960s. The so-called “California slicks” borrowed the themes of bad girls from the pre-Playboy burlesque titles, featuring shoots with big hair, heavy make-up, cigarettes, and cocktails, set against the mid-'60s West Coast backdrop, with better photography, paper, and printing.

Californian Elmer Batters invented foot fetish art photography the same year, with titles like Black Silk Stockings, Leg-O-Rama, Tip Top, and Elmer’s Naked Jungle. In New York, Irving Klaw introduced fetish editions, leading to a fetish boom in the 1960s, with magazines like High Heels, Satana, Striparama, and Leg Show. At the same time, the rise of sexploitation movies gave birth to magazines such as Blazing Films and Banned.

The freedom of the 1960s extended to England, where George Harrison Marks launched the magazines Kamera and Solo with fully nude models, creating the “top shelf” titles: those not on public display. Finally, in Sweden, the term Swedish Sin was used for the first magazines that challenged censorship in Europe, a challenge they soon won.

Volume 4 of this series contains over 650 pioneering covers and photographs from the USA, England, and Sweden with descriptive text.