#529 - Unique World Two 1971 Eros Goldstripe

Unique World, Two
Eros Publishing [L. Burtman] Company
Wilmington Delaware
1971

a page-by-page digital replica
and
optimized for ebook viewing

In the 1960s, about half of Mr. Burtman’s magazines were distributed by a company called All States, out of Chicago. By 1966, All States was bankrupt and disappeared, owing Mr. Burtman $180,000. The financial crisis resulted in a new alliance with Reuben Sturman of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Sturman is generally recognized as the covert publisher or distributor of most of the adult magazines in the US from 1960 through 1990. Robert Blue called him “the King of Porn.” Unique World reflects the continuing connection between Mr. Sturman and Mr. Burtman, after his California migration, with ads for magazines by mail order out of Cleveland.

Unique World is the direct descendant of Bizarre Life magazine, both of which were published by Leonard Burtman. While Mr. Burtman had a practice of reusing the product of photo sessions, circulating them among his titles, all but one piece is new content. As with many Burtman publications, models seen on the cover are not found inside.

Five photo narratives show dominant females in fetish attire physically hurting a man. As nicely described in adjacent texts in three pictorials, submissive men ask for punishment from a student, a maid and a customer Photographs show pretty models in corsets, stockings, boots, strappy high-heeled sandals and patent pumps, holding whips. A common disciplinary ritual in this issue involves boot licking.

The re-cycled photo story pictures a wife spanking her husband for alleged infidelity. After finding telltale lingerie in his brief case, she tears off his suit and spanks him with a stiff switch.

An unidentified male wanders into the lair of sexy Barbara Bell. After she changes into corset, stockings, leather bra, long leather gloves, and two-tone boots, she hurts him with her hand and whip. In shiny studded halter, belt, panty, glove and high-heeled pump ensemble, she whips him, rides him like a pony, and pulls his hair.

In a story without words, color photographs show two whip-wielding beauties abuse a naked man. In the last frame, he wears collar and leash while they kiss each other.

A short story tells of the Baroness's tutor, who teaches “the intense pleasure of pain.” Fourteen watercolor and ink panels signed Van Rod (Gene Bilbrew) illuminate another short story about discipline and bondage. Most of these pictures originated in the comic serial titled Bound Over (see SKU#962). “B.O.” appears at the bottom edge of some illustrations.

A page-by-page digital replica
The original 100-page magazine is presented in a large-format ebook. The tonality of photographs was adjusted. The sequence of pages has not been revised to disclose the strangeness of the original layout, required by the inclusion of “10 unique pages of blushing color!” Some page layouts have been revised slightly to obtain larger pictures of the models on ebook pages. In so doing, some of the floors, window coverings, walls, furniture and empty margins have been cropped out. Due to these modifications, the ebook provides a viewing experience that is superior to that of the original paper version.

Optimized for ebook viewing
The optimized version is based on pictures, not pages. Each picture is positioned on a separate, wide ebook page, and fills the screen from top to bottom. The model is shown complete, and fetish details, such as corsets, stockings and footwear, are enlarged beside the complete image or on another page.

Specks and blemishes on pictures in the optimized ebook have been re-touched. All original scans.

Unlike the original, the optimized ebook presents all pictures of a set on succeeding pages. Photos are sequenced to show narrative progression. All illustrations are clustered, one-to-each-page, at the end of the optimized version.

Issue Two offers a banquet of sexy models in corsets, boots and shoes, giving submissive men the discipline they want and need. The optimized ebook provides a convenient fetish album of femdom imagery that reduces the need for zooming and scrolling and anticipates the curiosity of the viewer.

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