University of Wollongong Research Online OZ magazine, London Historical & Cultural Collections 5-1971 OZ 35 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1971), OZ 35, OZ Publications Ink Limited, London, 48p. http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon/35 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] OZ 35 Description This issue appears with the help o f Jim Anderson, Pat Bell, Stanislav Demidjuk, Felix Dennis, Simon Kentish, Debbie Knight, Stephen Litster, Brian McCracken, Mike Murphy, Richard Neville, John O’Neil, Chris Rowley, George Snow, David Wills. Thanks for artwork, photographs and valuable help to Eddie Belchamber, Andy Dudzinski, Rod Beddatl, Rip-Off rP ess, David Nutter, Mike Weller, Dan Pearce, Colin Thomas, Charles Shaar Murray, Sue Miles and those innumerable people who write us letters, which we are unable to print and sometimes forget to reply to. Contents: Special Pig issue cover by Ed Belchamber. Stop Press: OZ Obscenity Trial June 22nd Old Bailey. ‘The onC tortions of Modern Cricket’ A commentary on the current state of the game – Suck, sexuality and politics by Jim Haynes + graphics. ‘The onC tinuing Story of Lee Heater’ by Jim Anderson + graphics. How Howie Made it in the Real World 3p cartoon by Gore. Full page Keef Hartley Band ad. ‘The Bob Sleigh Case’ by Stanislav Demidjuk – freak injustice. ‘Act Like a Lady’ – gay advice from Gay Dealer + graphics by Rod Beddall. Chart: ‘The eM dical Effects of Mind-Altering Substances’ – based on charts by Sidney Cohen MD and Joel Fort MD. Drug Chart Extra. ‘Acid Through the Looking Glass’ and The aY geDitran Conjecture – Peter Stafford author of LSD—The Problem Solving Drug and the forthcoming Psychedelic Baby Reaches Puberty on psychedelics. Full page trippy Alice and white rabbit graphic. Drugs Fight Dirty – Hit Back Hard text & graphic. Full page Dan Pearce graphic. Pink Fairies & Roy Harper ads. Ozjets D’art at Clytie Jessop’s Gallery in Kings Road – thanks for the exhibition + graphics including Hockney’s portraits of the editors. Mail order OZ including Luff, Honeybunch, pregnant elephant and Three Virgins (girls from the centrespread of OZ 27) T-shirts & badges. Ad for Jill Neville’s The Love Germ. Edward cartoon ad for Nasty Tales & IT. Centrespread Hans Bellmer graphic. Mike Murphy cartoon. Edgar Broughton Band & Brian Auger ads. ‘Desolation Dribble’ – David Reitman plays basketball with Dylan + Dan Pearce graphic. ‘His Duty to Serve – Hers to Inspire’ – Lee Harris on Gandhi. Gnidrolog by Charles Shaar Murray + full page 3rd eye photo. Spike: the Little Red Schoolbook and repression. Ink. Richard Brautigan poem ‘Flowers for Those You Love’. St Cecelia ad. ‘Terror on the Tubes’ – Stanislav Demidjuk on Theatrespiel performance. S. Clay Wilson Spider Joy cartoon. ‘See Me Feel Me Touch Me Heal Me’ Esalen and Encounter Group Therapy – Jerome Liss talks to Don Braisby + graphics and groups list. Gypsy and B.B. Blunder ads. Fan mail + Lynn Barnes graphic. Thin Lizzy & early Hendrix on Saga Records ads & Friends of the Earth books by Ballantine ad. LP reviews: Brian Auger, Third World War, John Cale & Terry Riley, Keef Hartley Band, Loudon Wainwright IIIrd. 2p M.J. Weller catoon The irF m. Back cover ad for United Artists Records featuring boy reading OZ 33. Publisher OZ Publications Ink Limited, London, 48p Comments Please be advised: This collection has been made available due to its historical and research importance. It contains explicit language and images that reflect attitudes of the era in which the material was originally published, and that some viewers may find onfc ronting. This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon/35 OINK! Ed Ed Belchamber STOP PRESS: OZ OBSCENITY TRIAL JUNE 22 OLD BAILEY A commentary on the current state of the game n apple a day ness it will make little difference trying to do away with erotic art oi keeps the doctor what kind of social organization we sex, but in trying to get some joy away.” choose to live under, because we out of both. How we relate to sex Well. I say “An will be open, kind, and generous. is how we relate to the world. A orgasm a It is sexual frustration, sexual envy sex-positive person is going to have day keeps the psychiatrist away.” sexual fear which permeates all our a more positive attitude towards How are you doing out there with human relationships and which the world.” your own sexual revolution? Rufus perverts them. The sexually Collins, Living Theatre Black Freak liberated, the sexually tolerant and A small Buckminster Fuller quote Beautiful makes the observation : the sexually generous individuals worth pondering: “We should do “It’s a constant battle to free are open, tolerant, and generous in away with the absolutely specious myself from my own sexual mores all their activities. Therefore notion that everybody has to earn but each time I overcome in that S.E.L.F. wishes to encourage a living. It is a fact today that one particular battle I am opened up sexual freedom, sexual tolerance, in ten thousand of us can make a further. When one finally realizes and sexual generosity. technological breakthrough that everything is sexual and most capable of supporting all the rest. of the frustrations in the world, How is this for a beautiful mad The youth of today are absolutely are sexual frustrations then it idea? Would it not be fun if in right in recognizing this nonsense becomes absolutely necessary to every part of the world a bell of earning a living. We keep invent­ hammer on the door of the sexual could be sounded every day at a ing jobs because of this false idea revolution.” Yes, yes, Brother different time, and when you that everybody has to be employed Rufus, you are so right! And for heard the bell, you stopped cook­ at some kind of drudgery because, all of you who do not know, there ing, eating, walking, talking, etc according to Malthusian is the newspaper Suck hammering and made love with the person (or Darwinian theory he must away. persons) nearest you, no matter justify his right to exist. their age or sex! Suck was the sponsor of the Wet So we have inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true busi Dream Film Festival, the worlds How many of you know that in first so-called pronographic film ness of people should be to go October 1967 the American back to school and think about festival, which took place in Congress created the President’s Amsterdam last November. I whatever it was they were Commission on Obscenity and thinking about before understand that Suck plans to Pornography, and that after two sponsor another Wet Dream Film somebody came along and years and two million dollars of told them they had to Festival in Amsterdam, the 20th study and research, the Commission to 24th of October. All film makers earn a living.” It is about in its 900 page report urged that time we think about interested in participating should obscenity laws should be repealed. contact Suck. establishing a minimum And in fact that pure pornography income for everyone — man, (whatever that means) might have Attention all you sexual atheletes. woman, and child; and we all socially redeming value. But need­ return to living a full creative life Next year in Munchen during the less to say, in October 1970 same period of the Olympic Games, style. For me, the definition of President Nixon totally rejected work is doing something you do reliable rumour has it that the the Commission’s findings without first Sexual Olympics will also not like doing. And therefore one even bothering to read any of the should “work” (in that sense) as take place. The people organizing Report. I understand that the the Sexual Olympics have asked little as possible. In fact in this Report will be published soon in special sense, I have almost never me to help them in various ways, France and in Germany. (It is in so if you have ideas or if you worked in my life. I have spent Germany, by the way, where we energy teaching, writing, book­ think that you are a record-breaker, might find another censorship free please write to me c/o OZ. selling, publishing, producing zone. Starting from little Denmark, theatre, running a cinema, etc etc, the right to read and see any For me, sex is the root of most but it was all fun. I did not do any material has spread to Sweden and of these things for the money human pleasure and/or anxiety. to Holland. Should one dare to ask Among earthly pleasures, it ranks reward; the “work” itself was its when these same rights will be own reward. When I go to my supreme, just above food and hot available in England?) In G. showers. I feel that most of the Metro stop and I see this young Legman’s classic study of censorship lovel girl punching tickets I want world’s problems could be solved 7 m io nnri I Ion rh ho umtoc* , i • • Thi . Love and Death, he writes: to cry out in pain. This is a crime. if we all could develop a tender “Murder is a crime, describing concern for each other. Wilhelm What is the meaning of Her life? murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Public transportation should be Reich believes that the determining Describing sex is.