#227 - Focus 1 1

Focus, Volume 1, Number 1
Rainbow Publications / Tai-Pan, Incorporated
Mays Landing New Jersey
c. 1969

digital replica

In the 1970s, Tai-Pan Publications produced all-color magazines that show women in bondage. Published during the company's early, New Jersey period, Focus studiously presents and discusses nudity.

While nudism may be a wholesome, family-oriented lifestyle, nudity in the Focus context means the kind of thing men have enjoyed creating and viewing for thousands of years. Essays that consider nudity — in art, as shown in historical artifacts, as a subject for sketch hobbyists — appear between photographs. The page-3 editorial laments, “ . . . all those who equate nakedness with wickedness . . . bring to their appreciation of art an unhealthy, vulgar state of mind.”

In full color, the magazine introduces us to eight cheerful posers, who show us their pretty bodies. Some wear stockings and garter belts; others appear with little more than a friendly smile. Nearly every picture exposes nipples and neatly trimmed curls. These repeated presentation details apparently comprise the fetish focus of the editor/publisher.

Unusual for its all full-color printing, this magazine was printed on heavy, coated paper. The photography is more than competent, presenting clear complexions, head-to-toe, with little make-up. Each picture fills one page. 36 pages.

The full-sized digital replica includes every word and image of the deluxe ($5.00 cover price) magazine in the original sequence. Photo tonality was adjusted. The ebook offers the best mechanism for enjoying pin-up pulchritude from the 1960s, when innocent ideals promoted nakedness as clean, healthy fun.

One e-book, delivered by download link.