Screw (magazine)

Screw was a weekly sex tabloid published in New York City, founded in 1968 by Al Goldstein and Jim Buckley with 175 dollars each. "Screw grew from a combination of many factors, chief of which was my own dissatisfaction with the sex literature of 1968 and my yearning for a publication that reflected my sexual appetites," Goldstein wrote in a 1971 anthology. It sold 140,000 copies a week at its height. In its first three years Goldstein was arrested 19 times on obscenity charges; in 1974 a federal judge threw out an obscenity case against him. The magazine was later outdone by more explicit publications including Hustler, and it folded in late 2003, when Goldstein filed for bankruptcy protection.¹ Its review of R.C. Horsch's 1973 film The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig called the sex in it disgusting.²