[Willem de Ridder, ed] - LOVE; America's First Reader Written Magazine. No. 41

[Willem de Ridder, red] - LOVE; America's First Reader Written Magazine. No. 41 - Beverly Hills USA / [Italy] - Love International - 1977 - 1st edition - [80] pp - Stapled wrappers - 17,5 x 27,5 cm. - Cover artwork: Elsa del Puerto.

Condition: Good.

Underground sex magazine by Fluxus artist Willem de Ridder (1939-2022) with pornographic stories written by the subscribers themselves. Illustrated with black and white porn photos (again submitted by the readers themselves) and comics.

This issue with "typewriter / tampon" cover, a letter sent in with photos of 'sanitary pad fetish' and 'Period Sex', femdom SM mistress 'Godess Adrena', 'the Watermelon Man', 'SEXROBOTS' and a photo session (in comic strip form with balloon texts) including a kinky threesome with a man, woman and inflatable sex-doll (!).

¶ LOVE was founded in December 1974 and was distributed in exile from Italy from 1976 onwards. It was available in 'Limited Edition' for up to 1001 paid subscriptions of $25 per year (12 issues). Not in NCC. An image of a cover of a Dutch version of the magazine can be found in 'Onder de toonbank' p. 237.