DAVE WILER 18 5'10.5" 162 lbs. PP readers have received Dave with great enthusiasm and we plan to bring a number of other shots of him. He was embarrassed that arms weren't larger, though they are quite strong--he can military press his own weight. Works out for the fun of it--no desire to get into contests or be a big name, Likes. the simple outdoor type of life. AMG offers Daves Album YP: 12 4x5 dbl-wt silk photos $2.50, 9 catalogs 90c, Viewmaster Stereo color wheel of 7 pairs $3. (Viewer $2.).

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PAT ROOT 20, 5'9" 152 pounds A completely unaffected type of young man, Pat is the species of

model photographers phers call "plos-

tic. He finds it easy to adapt himself to any pose suggested

to

and has a physical frame frome which

while light is completely suitable for aesthetic posing. Equally desirable to the plastic Equally destro model is the "dominate del who has very clea clear-cut pre-

mo-

conceptions on how the photositting shall go, and drifts independantly from one pose to o pose to another, but finds it near-impos stole to follow through on the

photographer's pose suggestions. AAMG we toke our models as we find them, rather than to ask them to adjust to us. We hope that the result is an interesting variety of poses and situations, non-stereotyped (except for our often criticized speckled light backgrounds as in this photo). 6 catalog pages of Pot available.

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WHAT ARE THE TABOOS OF YOUR TRIBE? Among the Touareg, the men are veiled and do not expose their face even before other men when eating. A Haida Indian woman is embarrassed to be caught by a strange man without her lower lip plug. Among many Negro groups in Africa propriety requires the buttocks to be covered, not the genitals. Phillippine Islanders and Samoans think it indecent for the navel to be exposed, though every other part may go uncovered. In China, it is an obscenity for a woman to expose her feet to a strange man. An Eskimo woman in her igloo may be stripped down to a tiny Bikini skin garment before strange men if only she keeps her boots on, since removal of the boots has a sexual connotation. The Koryak regard it as deeply sinful to look upon the face of a dead person. Ainu women cover the mouth when speaking to a man. Rameses III (1198-1167 BC) boasted in one of his inscriptions that his rule was so successful that he made it possible for an Egyptian woman to go anywhere she liked with her ears exposed, and no stranger would molest her. Among some Tahitians copulation in public was acceptable, but eating in the presence of other people quite obscene. Nowhere can we find those absolutes which normative ethicists desire to discover in order to support their own tribal rationale--there are no such human universals. Various tribes of men have widely varying concepts. All that we can postulate of the social animal, man, is that he has the capacity for repression through socialization or enculturation, and hence can have very intense reactions to the prohibited or the obscene as defined by his society--but so far as any "universality" of description content of these categories is concerned, this is wholly the prescription, cultural or legal, of his own social group or subgroup. ......The foregoing is based on an article in a book entitled "Obscenity and the Arts" available at $2. per copy from the Duke University, School of Law, Duke Station, Durham, North Carolina.