Editing Screw (magazine)

{{Short description|American pornographic magazine}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use American English|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox magazine
| image_file    = Most Controversial US Flag “United State”.jpg
| image_size    = 
| image_caption = The cover of issue #1,061 (July 3, 1989), which replaced the [[Flag of the United States|stars and stripes]] of the U.S. flag with female and male genitals. Designed by [[Mikhail Armalinsky]].
| founder =  [[Al Goldstein]] and [[Jim Buckley (editor)|Jim Buckley]]
| publisher     = Phil Autelitano (2018–)<br />Kevin Hein (2004–2007)<br />[[Al Goldstein]]/Milky Way Productions (1968–2003)
| editor = Bruce David (1970s)
| frequency     = Weekly
| based         = [[New York City]] (1968–2007)<br />[[Miami]], Florida (2020–present)
| category      = [[Pornographic magazine|Pornographic men's]]
| company       = AMG, LLC
| firstdate     = 1968
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| circulation = 140,000
| website       = {{URL|https://www.screwnetwork.com}}
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}}
'''''Screw''''' is a [[pornographic]] [[online magazine]] published in the United States aimed at [[heterosexual]] men; it was originally published as a weekly [[tabloid newspaper]].

The publication, which was described as "raunchy, obnoxious, usually disgusting, and sometimes political",<ref name=Jewniverse>{{cite web|first=Marc|last=Davis|title=The Screw-y, Filthy World of Al Goldstein|work=Jewniverse|date=November 18, 2013|url=http://thejewniverse.com/2013/the-screw-y-filthy-world-of-al-goldstein|access-date=November 20, 2014}}</ref> was a pioneer in bringing [[hardcore pornography]] into the American mainstream during the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |title=Al Goldstein, a Publisher Who Took the Romance Out of Sex, Dies at 77 |first=Andy |last=Newman |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=A1 |date=December 19, 2013| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/people-algoldstein/al-goldstein-pornography-pioneer-who-claimed-free-speech-dies-idUSL2N0JY17Q20131219|title=Al Goldstein, pornography pioneer who claimed free speech, dies|last=Cavaliere|first=Victoria|date=December 19, 2013|website=[[Reuters]]|access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref><ref name=Guardian>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/dec/19/screw-magazine-publisher-al-goldstein-dies-aged-77|title=Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein dies aged 77|agency=Associated Press|date=December 19, 2013|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref> Founder [[Al Goldstein]] won a series of nationally significant court cases addressing [[obscenity]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Frumkes|first=Roy|title=FIR '08 Stocking Stuffer|publisher=Films in Review|date=2008-12-21 |url=http://69.195.124.61/~filmsinr/2008/12/21/fir-08-stocking-stuffer/|accessdate=3 June 2010}}</ref> At its peak, ''Screw'' sold 140,000 copies a week.<ref>West, Ashley. [http://www.therialtoreport.com/2014/01/05/remembering-al-goldstein-a-happy-jew/, "Remembering Al Goldstein: A Happy Jew,"] ''The Rialto Report'' (January 5, 2014). Retrieved October 30, 2014.</ref><ref name=BrowardScrewed>{{cite news|first=Bob|last=Whitby|title=Screwed|newspaper=Broward/Palm Beach New Times|date=February 22, 2001|url=http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2001-02-22/news/screwed|access-date=October 30, 2014}}</ref>

== Publication history ==
In November 1968 in New York, Al Goldstein and his partner Jim Buckley, investing $175 each, founded ''Screw'' as a weekly [[underground newspaper]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Defunct or Suspended Magazines, 2003|url=http://www.magazine.org/insights-resources/research-publications/trends-data/magazine-industry-facts-data/2003-defunct-or|work=The Association of Magazine Media|accessdate=13 December 2015}}</ref><ref name=nytobit /> An an initial price of 25¢, a statement on the cover offered "[[Masturbation|Jerk-Off]] Entertainment for Men".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tumblr.com/safe-mode?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscrewmag.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F83323946584%2Fhappy-easter%2C|title=Screw Magazine Tumblr account|website=www.tumblr.com|accessdate=Oct 11, 2022}}</ref>

Beginning in 1969, ''Screw'' co-founder Jim Buckley founded ''Screw''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "sister" tabloid ''[[Gay (newspaper)|Gay]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://41.media.tumblr.com/0d31009fcacb06cc0b36ee55aa0de504/tumblr_n5diszxVcx1sbtct0o1_1280.jpg|title=Advertisement for ''Gay'' from the pages of ''Screw'' (March 11, 1974).|website=Tumblr|accessdate=Oct 11, 2022}}</ref> edited by ''Screw'' columnists [[Jack Nichols (activist)|Jack Nichols]] and [[Lige Clarke]]. Contributors to ''Gay'' included [[Dick Leitsch]], [[Randy Wicker]], [[Lilli Vincenz]], [[Peter Fisher (activist)|Peter Fisher]], [[John Paul Hudson]], [[Arthur Bell (journalist)|Arthur Bell]], [[Vito Russo]], and [[George Weinberg (psychologist)|George Weinberg]]. ''Gay'' reached "a broad audience and went on to become the most profitable LGBT newspaper in the U.S.;" it continued until early 1974.<ref>{{cite web|title=GAY Newspaper Offices|url=https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/gay-newspaper-offices/|website=NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project|date=Dec 2022|first=Jay |last=Shockley}}</ref>

In 1973, Screw published nude photos of former First Lady [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]], which led to scandal — and issue sales of more than a half-million copies.<ref name="nytobit" /><ref>{{cite web|title=SCREW PUBLISHED NUDE PAPARAZZI PHOTOGRAPHS OF FORMER FIRST LADY JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS|work=Avenue Magazine|date=May–June 2023|url=https://issuu.com/avenue_magazine/docs/avenue_may-june_2023_lr/s/24062986}}</ref> (Nude photos of Onassis had previously appeared in the Italian softcore magazine ''[[Playmen]]'' and later were published by the American hardcore magazine ''[[Hustler (magazine)|Hustler]]''.)<ref>{{cite news|title=Jackie Kennedy and the billion dollar nude: 50 years since the first case of 'revenge porn'|first=Martín|last=Bianchi|date=Sep 11, 2023|work=[[El País]] English|url=https://english.elpais.com/society/2023-09-11/jackie-kennedy-and-the-billion-dollar-nude-50-years-since-the-first-case-of-revenge-porn.html}}</ref>

Goldstein tried, unsuccessfully, to expand ''Screw''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s reach beyond New York City. In 1976–1977 ''National Screw'' was published, only lasting nine issues. The June 1977 issue of the magazine contained, according to its cover, a new story by [[William Burroughs]] and an interview with [[Allen Ginsberg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vintageadultmagazinecovers.tumblr.com/post/85141297591 |title=Vintage Adult Magazine Covers |publisher=Vintageadultmagazinecovers.tumblr.com |access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref> Other issues contained original adult [[comic strip]] work from cartooning legends [[Wally Wood]], [[Guido Crepax]], and [[Will Eisner]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cornell.worldcat.org/oclc/55740108|work=Cornell University|title=Library Catalog – National Screw|access-date=November 20, 2014}}</ref>

In 1979–1980, Goldstein's company, Milky Way Productions, published ''Screw West'' out of an office in [[Hollywood, California]]. According to an advertisement, it was intended to answer such questions as, "Where can I get laid in San Francisco? What's the best swinger's club in Los Angeles? How do I find all those out-of-the-way Pacific Coast nude beaches? And what are those bawdy brothels outside Las Vegas really like?" ''Screw West'' is known to have published 54 issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://suncat.csun.edu/record=b2477029| work=California State University |title=Library Catalog – Screw West|access-date=November 20, 2014}}</ref>

One of Goldstein's best friends was [[Larry Flynt]], publisher of ''[[Hustler (magazine)|Hustler]]'' magazine, founded seven years after ''Screw''. Goldstein claimed that ''Hustler'' stole its format from ''Screw'', but that he was not angry. According to Goldstein, Flynt succeeded in creating a national publication, at which he had failed.<ref>{{YouTube|id=GdBWpHZkPPo|title="Goldstein on Flynt, Flynt on Goldstein"}}</ref>

''Screw'' folded in 2003, unable to make payroll;<ref>Nathan Thornburgh, [http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/70052 "82 Minutes with Al Goldstein"], ''New York'' [magazine], December 10, 2010; retrieved November 20, 2014.</ref> only 600 copies were sold of the last issue.<ref name=AntiHef/> Goldstein's Milky Way Productions, which published ''Screw'' and ''Midnight Blue'', entered bankruptcy in 2004, having lost sales and subscribers as a result of the proliferation of [[internet pornography]], abetted by Goldstein's financial mismanagement.<ref>{{cite news|last=Newman|first=Andy|title=68 and Sleeping on Floor, Ex-Publisher Seeks Work|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/nyregion/68-and-sleeping-on-floor-ex-publisher-seeks-work.html|access-date=2013-12-23|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2004-08-12}}; Al Goldstein and Josh Alan Friedman, ''I, Goldstein. My Screwed Life''</ref>

=== 2004 relaunch ===
In 2004 the ''Screw'' periodical was restarted by former employees led by Kevin Hein, with writer [[Mike Edison]] coming onboard as the new editor. (Edison had started writing as a freelancer for ''Screw'' almost two decades earlier.) In late 2006 Edison announced that he was leaving the editor-in-chief position. Soon after, in 2007, ''Screw'' ceased physical publication as the title neared, but did not reach, its 2,000th issue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nypress.com/the-new-screw-review/ |title=The New Screw Review|date=2 March 2005|work=New York Press|accessdate=11 August 2011|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416004752/http://nypress.com/the-new-screw-review/|archivedate=16 April 2012}}</ref>

Original founder Al Goldstein died in 2013.<ref name="nytobit" /><ref name=Guardian />

=== 2019–2020 relaunch ===
In 2019, ''Screw'' returned as an adult, subscription-based television channel ("SCREW TV") on [[Roku]], developed and produced by longtime Goldstein friend and associate Phil Autelitano.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xbiz.com/news/244808/screw-tv-brings-storied-magazine-to-roku|title=SCREW TV Brings Storied Magazine to Roku|last1=Walker|first1=Reggie|date=June 17, 2019|work=XBIZ|accessdate=20 March 2020}}</ref>

On November 4, 2020, the 52nd anniversary of its initial launch, ''Screw'' resumed publishing in digital-only format, published by Autelitano (as "Phil Italiano") and Autelitano Media Group of [[Miami]], Florida.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.xbiz.com/news/254506/miami-group-to-relaunch-legacy-brand-screw-magazine|title=Miami Group to Relaunch Legacy 'Screw' Magazine|last1=Parkman|first1=Dave|date=September 18, 2020|work=XBIZ|accessdate=1 December 2020}}</ref>

== Contents ==
''Screw'' features reviews of [[Pornographic film|porn movies]], [[peep show]]s, erotic [[massage parlors]], [[brothel]]s, [[Call girl|escorts]], and other offerings of the [[adult entertainment]] industry. Such items are interspersed with sexual news, book reviews of sexual books, and hardcore "gynecological" pictorials. The original paper regularly ran, without permission, photos and drawings of celebrities.

According to author Will Sloan:
{{cquote|Goldstein was the first journalist to seriously review porn films. Had he not written a rave review of a low-budget film called ''[[Deep Throat (film)|Deep Throat]]'' ('I was never so moved by any theatrical performance since stuttering through my own bar mitzvah'), it would never have become a hit at New York's World Theater, would never have been targeted by the [[vice squad]], would never have spawned a [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] cause célèbre, and might not have led to the modern porn industry.<ref name=AntiHef>{{cite web|first=Will|last=Sloan|title=Al Goldstein: The Anti-Hef|work=Hazlitt|url=http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/longreads/al-goldstein-anti-hef|date=December 20, 2013|access-date=November 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030211908/http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/longreads/al-goldstein-anti-hef|archive-date=October 30, 2014|url-status = dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
}}

[[Jack Nichols (activist)|Jack Nichols]] and [[Lige Clarke]]'s column "The Homosexual Citizen", which launched in 1968, was the first [[LGBT]]-interest column in a non-LGBT publication.<ref name="startribunegayworld">{{cite news |last1=Byrnes |first1=Ronald |title=The 'gay' world in sunshine and in shadow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/185155460/?terms=%22Lige%2BClarke%22 |accessdate=July 31, 2018 |work=Star Tribune |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |date=August 6, 1972|page=62|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration }}</ref> As a result of this column, Nichols and Clarke became known as "The most famous gay couple in America."{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

On May 2, 1969, ''Screw'' published the first reference in print to [[J. Edgar Hoover#Sexuality|J. Edgar Hoover]]'s sexuality, entitled "Is J. Edgar Hoover a Fag?"<ref>{{cite magazine |volume=1|number=11 |date=May 2, 1969 |url=http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=12758#.VL16PkfF9S0 |magazine=Screw |title=Is J. Edgar Hoover a Fag?}}</ref><ref name=Jewniverse /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=12758|title=Screw : The Sex Review|website=Specific Object|accessdate=Oct 11, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUv0lOqrPB4C&dq=%22Is+J.+Edgar+Hoover+a+Fag&pg=PT106|first= Mike |last=Edison|title=Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of —Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers—An American Tale of Sex and Wonder|publisher= Soft Skull Press|year= 2011|isbn= 9781593764678 |accessdate=November 21, 2014}} {{ISBN|1593762844}}</ref> A few issues later, ''Screw'' became the first publication to print the word "[[homophobia]]" (a term coined by [[George Weinberg (psychologist)|George Weinberg]]).<ref name="nytimesobit">{{cite news|last1=Grimes|first1=William|title=George Weinberg Dies at 86; Coined 'Homophobia' After Seeing Fear of Gays|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/us/george-weinberg-dead-coined-homophobia.html|access-date=March 23, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=March 22, 2017 |quote=}}</ref> The word appeared in an article written for the May 23, 1969, issue, in which the word was used to refer to heterosexual men's fear that others might think they are gay.<ref name="Herek 2004">{{cite journal |last=Herek |first=Gregory M. |date=April 2004 |title=Beyond 'Homophobia': Thinking About Sexual Prejudice and Stigma in the Twenty-First Century |url=http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/Herek_2004_SRSP.pdf |journal=  Sexuality Research and Social Policy|volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=6–24 |doi=10.1525/srsp.2004.1.2.6|s2cid=145788359 }}</ref>

In December 1970, New York City music teacher [[Pat Bond (Eulenspiegel Society)|Pat Bond]] placed an ad in ''Screw'' that led Bond to connect with Fran Nowve, and for the two of them to form [[The Eulenspiegel Society]], the first [[BDSM]] organization founded in the United States.<ref name="Weiss2011">{{cite book|first=Margot|last=Weiss|title=Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dR7bTc1aXbcC&pg=PA8|date=20 December 2011|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-5159-7|page=8}}</ref>

''Screw''{{'}}s most successful issue, published in 1973, contained unauthorized photos of [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] nude.<ref>McShane, Larry. [https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/al-goldstein-screw-magazine-founder-dies-77-article-1.1552851 "Al Goldstein, Screw magazine founder and lover of hard-core porn, dies in Brooklyn at 77,"] ''New York Daily News'' (Dec. 19, 2013).</ref>

[[Stripper]] and erotic performance artist [[Honeysuckle Divine]] wrote a column, "Diary of a Dirty Broad", for ''Screw'' for several years in the mid-1970s.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://36.media.tumblr.com/95598a5d4bba63bc4aa7ace5b6fe37a1/tumblr_n8et7yfxSe1sbtct0o1_1280.jpg |title=Diary of a Dirty Broad |magazine=Screw |date=1974-03-11 |access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref> Divine's specialty was inserting objects such as pickles in her vagina, shooting out many of them. She put the pickles in baggies and sold them to patrons. Goldstein said that her act "was unbelievably disgusting, so naturally, we made her our symbol."<ref name=AntiHef/> Divine was the only female associated with ''Screw'' over any period of time;{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} she also appeared in the 1975 feature production ''SOS: Screw on the Screen''.<ref>{{IMDb title|0185654|SOS: Screw on the Screen}}</ref>

== Legal battles ==
In 1974, publishers Goldstein and Buckley were charged with 12 counts of obscenity in a federal court in [[Kansas]]. (Goldstein believed that the case began as a result of ''Screw''{{'s}} May 1969 article, "Is J. Edgar Hoover a Fag?")<ref name=Jewniverse/> The case dragged on for three years through two trials and was finally settled when Goldstein agreed to pay a $30,000 fine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/16/archives/goldstein-pays-30000-ending-obscenity-trial.html|title=Goldstein Pays $30,000, Ending Obscenity Trial|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 16, 1978}}</ref>

In 1977, [[Alabama]] governor [[George Wallace]] sued ''Screw'' for $5 million for publishing the claim that he had learned to perform sexual acts from reading the magazine. The two parties settled for $12,500, and ''Screw'' agreed to print an apology.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tRIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TGcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6626,5982141&dq=screw-magazine&hl=en|title=Wallace Settles with Screw|author=UPI|date=1977-04-13|work=[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]]|accessdate=11 August 2011}}</ref>

In 1978, ''Screw'' set in motion a [[Precedent|precedent-setting]] case that established [[Fair use (U.S. trademark law)|fair-use protections]] for publication of registered trademarks in sexually explicit parodies in the United States.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|url = http://scholarship.law.campbell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1563&context=clr|title = Of Chew Toys and Designer Handbags: A Critical Analysis of the "Parody" Exception under the U.S. Trademark Dilution Revision Act|last = Lim|first = Eugene|date = 2012|journal = Campbell Law Review}}</ref> Known as ''[[Pillsbury Co. v. Milky Way Productions]]'', the case stemmed from an illustration in ''Screw'' depicting a figure resembling the [[Pillsbury Dough Boy]] in various lewd sexual acts, including [[fellatio]] and [[sexual intercourse]]. The parody also featured Pillsbury's barrelhead trademark and two lines from the refrain of a two-stanza song entitled "The Pillsbury Baking Song". The illustration was published in the February 20, 1978, issue of ''Screw''. The [[Pillsbury Company]] filed an initial complaint several weeks after the original publication of the cartoon, contending that the manner in which the magazine presented the picture implied that Pillsbury placed it in the magazine as an advertisement. Pillsbury alleged several counts of copyright infringement, federal statutory, common law trademark infringement, violations of the Georgia Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act and of the Georgia "anti-dilution" statute, and several counts of tortious tarnishment of its marks, trade characters, and jingle. The judge presiding in the case issued a temporary injunction against ''Screw'' on April 21, 1978, which the defendant disobeyed.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.yalelawtech.org/wp-content/uploads/215_USPQ_124.pdf|title = The Pillsbury Company v. Milky Way Productions, Inc. et al.|last = O'Kelley|first = William|date = Dec 24, 1981|website=[[LexisNexis]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033112/https://yalelawtech.org/wp-content/uploads/215_USPQ_124.pdf|archive-date=Mar 4, 2016}}</ref> Ultimately, the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia]] held that the pictures were editorial or social commentary and, thus, protected under fair use.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.rjg.com/protectionofobsc.html|title = Protection of Obscene Parody as Fair Use|access-date = Jan 14, 2015|website = Richard J. Greenstone Attorneys & Counselors At Law|last = Greenstone|first = Richard|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150115011208/http://www.rjg.com/protectionofobsc.html|archive-date = 2015-01-15}}</ref>

== Contributors ==
Larry Brill and Les Waldstein were the original designers for ''[[Screw]]'', having earlier designed ''[[Famous Monsters of Filmland]]'' and other [[James Warren (publisher)|Jim Warren]] publications in the late 1960s. Brill and Waldstein later went on to become the publishers of ''[[The Monster Times]]''. [[Steven Heller (design writer)|Steven Heller]] later served as the paper's art director, before moving on to ''[[The New York Times]]''.

Artist [[René Moncada]] became a major contributor to ''Screw'' beginning in the late 1960s, which provided an outlet for the artist's early erotic illustrations, and a forum for his later anti-censorship diatribes.<ref name="Screw Mott 2">
{{cite news | title = An Apple A Lay | newspaper = [[Screw]]
 | publisher = Goldstein Publications
 | location = New York, NY
 | date = April 11, 1983|page=14
}}
</ref>

A number of [[underground comix|underground]] and [[alternative comics|alternative]] cartoonists got their start doing illustrations and comics for ''Screw'', including [[Bill Griffith]], [[Milton Knight]], [[Leslie Cabarga]], [[Drew Friedman (cartoonist)|Drew Friedman]],<ref>Kelly, John. "Drew Friedman". ''The Comics Journal'' #151 July 1992.</ref> [[Tony Millionaire]], [[Eric Drooker]], [[Kaz (cartoonist)|Kaz]], [[Danny Hellman]], [[Glenn Head]], [[Bob Fingerman]], [[Michael Kupperman]], and [[Molly Crabapple]]. [[Spain Rodriguez]] contributed cover art to more than a dozen issues of ''Screw'' from 1976 to 1998. In the 1970s and early 1980s, [[Paul Kirchner]] did several dozen covers for the publication. "[[Good girl art|Good girl]]" artist [[Bill Ward (cartoonist)|Bill Ward]] also did a number of covers for ''Screw''.<ref>Ward, Bill. "Cover" ''Screw'' #1305 (March 7, 1994) New York: Milky Way Productions.</ref>

Writer [[Josh Alan Friedman]]'s first published work was for ''Screw'' in the late 1970s. He continued to write for the magazine for several years, eventually holding the position of Senior Editor through 1982. He covered the [[Times Square]] beat for ''Screw'' during a perilous time when few, if any writers, ventured there. He also worked as a producer on ''Screw''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[cable television]] show, ''[[Midnight Blue (TV series)|Midnight Blue]]''.

[[David Aaron Clark]] edited ''Screw'' for five years in the early 1990s.

== ''Screw'' in other media ==
===Movies and television===
In 1973, "''Screw Magazine'' present<nowiki>[</nowiki>ed<nowiki>]</nowiki>" ''[[It Happened in Hollywood (1973 film)|It Happened in Hollywood]]'', a [[pornographic movie]] produced by Jim Buckley. At the Second Annual New York Erotic Film Festival it won awards for Best Picture, Best Female Performance, and Best Supporting Actor.<ref>"Screw Film Sweeps Awards", ''Screw'' (March 26, 1973).</ref>

In 1974 Goldstein began ''Screw Magazine of the Air'', soon renamed ''[[Midnight Blue (TV series)|Midnight Blue]]'', a thrice-weekly hour-long adult-oriented [[public-access television]] program that ran for nearly 30 years on Manhattan Cable's Channel J.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/05/arts/channel-j-pornography-is-cause-of-lockout-law.html|newspaper=The New York Times| title=Channel J Pornography is Cause of Lockout Law|first=Sally|last=Bedell Smith|date=March 5, 1984|access-date=October 10, 2015}}</ref><ref name=Guardian />

''SOS: Screw on the Screen'' appearing in 1975, was a stridently unsexy attempt at a cinematic newsmagazine that included a lot of goofy comedy, a gay scene, and several minutes of Goldstein ranting about America's sexual hypocrisy. Also appearing was [[Honeysuckle Divine]] (who often appeared in ''Screw'').

===The Screw Store===
The May 17, 1976, issue ran an ad for the "Screw Store", which offered dildos, including a "Bicentennial Dildo", vibrating [[Ben wa]] eggs, and a vibrating [[cock ring]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://screwmag.tumblr.com/post/83282516250/may-17-1976 |website=Screw Magazine |publisher=Tumblr |title=May 17, 1976 |date=Apr 20, 2014 |access-date=2016-10-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012223107/http://screwmag.tumblr.com/post/83282516250/may-17-1976 |archive-date= Oct 12, 2016 }}</ref> Selling dildos brought one of Goldstein's many arrests.<ref name=AntiHef/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Friedman |first1=Josh Alan |url=http://mmuseumm.com/exhibitions/al-goldsteins-personal-ephemera |title=Al Goldstein's Personal Ephemera |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210050717/http://mmuseumm.com/exhibitions/al-goldsteins-personal-ephemera |archive-date=December 10, 2014 |access-date=November 20, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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