taste considering the occasion. The term "rational" seems clearly to be something he picked up from Ellis, but in my opinion, he hardly develops his thesis in a rational

way.

Dear Sir:

Mr. R.

Los Angeles, California

The March issue is a wonderful month's bouquet, what with Cory and Edward Denison waxing eloquent. Who could wish for more? As I have contended right along, ONE needs more contributors of Mr. Cory's and Mr. Denison's readability.

ERRATA IN EROTICA

Dear Editors:

Mr. M. Dallas, Texas

ONE has chalked up a number of wins for ones. It's done the trick by being a publication that's getting increasingly onto the stands. The tricky moment is when any body breaks cover, "comes out." Every life form has to do it. And most fail to make it. One slip and you're done. ONE's skill however has to grow with each further step.

Its progress is like that of the boy exhibiting on the high wire. He may show off as much as he likes provided he can keep his balance. The public will pay to see him because they get a kick out of watching how risque he can be and not fall off. If he crashes they'll prosecute him for "performing an improperly dangerous act."

ONE's public is growing. Its subscription list gives no real record of its impact. But no more than the tight-rope acrobat can ONE make an impatient step. It is hard for any minority treated with abominable injustice not to get relief by calling the callous majority names and enjoy shocking the smug. Yet that majority has to be not war-waged-against but won. And it is wavering.

ESQUIRE, PLAYBOY and now EROS-these are able magazines that are widening rapidly the breach in the front of "tight-laced Puritanism." As the hetero wins freedom for variety and dilation in the standard shrunken standards permitted for display, he is winning such liberty for all variants from a comprehensively stupid tabu. Once that tabu is shattered the principle (which it violates) of all just law becomes clear and will be reestablished: "Any law against any practice, to be just, must show that the act which is to be condemned has and does, when performed, cause manifest social damage.'

The three magazines mentioned above dissolve prejudice by able informed writing on hot themes, witty satire, broad humor, illustrations, reproductions and photos (which are so cleverly presented that they can show what still can't be so plainly said) and ultrasmart provocative ads.

EROS intends to close the circle of investment round the citadel of prudery by showing (as have those who have broken the stupid censorship on books) that great art is naturally continually dealing with erotic themes. If ONE will then take a page from the skillful strategy of these successful peri. odicals, avoid abuse and brutality and stress the clever, the smart, the exhibitionistically entertaining it could well come to find itself a national magazine.

A NATIONAL MAGAZINE? Dear ONE:

D. B. Vest London, England

Sorry for the delay in mailing in my renewal. I was using the renewal slip for a book marker and ran across it today. Mr. W.

Dear Mr. Slater:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The services ONE performs and the relentless struggle to inform and make things easier for all of us is completely beyond monetary value. Why can't each and every one of your twenty-five thousand readers send just one dollar?

If we are to remain disunited and can't help ONE then I'm ready to give up my membership in the human race. Let's start a ONE-for-ONE campaign.

Mr. C.

Seattle, Washington

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