Rubber

Rubber Quarterly, Volume 12, Number 2
Eros Publishing Company Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1982

digital replica

This 48-page, English-only issue consists of three pictorials, a brief album of photos and an essay. The Spider Pool became a Hollywood destination for photo and film shoots. The tiled pond and fountain located in front of a large white house has been the setting for dozens of photographs that appear in our ebooks. Although the spider mosaic is obscured, the Spider Pool provided the backdrop for the first pictorial.

Wet and Slick

In puffy red rubber panties, bra and long gloves, a lovely blond fingers herself in the Spider Pool. She's approached by another beauty in black rubber gas mask and the two have instant rapport. In the water, they engage in intense fondling.

The Rubber Fetish — essay

Apparently a rubber fetishist, the writer says that contact with rubber serves as a mother-substitute and anxiety reliever for some males. He offers these explanations:

The deep-seated incestuous desire and its equivalent prohibition may well limit a man's attitude toward a wife who does not carry any noticeable resemblance to his mother. In fact, such a man will be limited in his attitude toward women in general, no matter how he tries to change. He knows instinctively as well as the rest of us where surcease is to be found from the unbearable longing for the maternal breast-but fear and guilt prevent him from accepting it. In many cases, men in such a difficult state will, by accident, discover the substitute qualities of rubber film. When they do, they become fetishists.

Rubber, having so many of the desired qualities can give much of the satisfaction so ardently desired, and offer once more the sensation of being loved and cared for-without involving a man in incest-guilt. He will at once "project" into the inert substance, all the power of his own longing and imagination, so that it becomes-for him-a "magic substance" inhabited by a principle to be "irrationally reverenced." In fact, rubber film becomes a mother-substitute! Its effect is apparently "magical" and "powerful" because all the magic and power is invested in it by the man who uses it.

It seems to be "irrationally reverenced" by the fetishist, simply because no one not involved in the fetish has the least idea why the man has placed so much of his life-force into it. One man sees a sheet of rubber; no more. The other sees the perfect delight of regained innocence, utter dependence and complete surcease from anxiety and personal responsibility. . . .

In the final issue, if a man has no other solace, and if the course appeals to him, and above all, providing he does not cause offense to anyone else by it, it seems to me that rubber fetishism is one of the least harmful ways of overcoming, temporarily certainly but very effectively, social anxiety. The payoff is that the relief of anxiety by this strange expedient results in restoration of sexual powers; and since loss of sexuality is the greatest single source of masculine anxiety, the dividends can obviously be very considerable indeed.

Rubber fetishism, like any other form of obsessions, possession or fetishism, seems irrational; appears to be inexplicable. And to that extent it appears to be "magical." But as with all magic, it is men themselves who supply the magic power to the inert substance in order to draw it back in another form. . . .

Tight in the Crotch

In high-heeled, thigh-high boots, long gloves and taut rubber panties, a willowy blond turns and squirms on a chaise. She swoons serene as she touches herself with rubber-clad fingers.

The Dominatrix Dominated

Lili pulls back the stretchy material of her exotic costume and displays the anatomical indicia of her womanhood. Then, an imposing figure in rubber hood, cape, bra, corset and gloves arrives. “In this new and awe-inspiring company, even this rubber-clad dominatrix knows she had been out-dominated! She has no choice but to kowtow and serve as best she can before the super-dominatrix who has entered her bedroom!”

Latex Ladies

A collection of 1960s and 1970s photographs showing sexy models in rubber garments.

The digital replica contains all content of the magazine, including advertising. Some margins and borders were cropped out. To obtain continuity of the prose piece, one page was re-positioned in the page sequence.

Brightness, contrast and levels were adjusted and shadows reduced. Excellent photography and production transposed well to ebook format.

All new scans. Nudity.

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