Man's True Danger

The second issue of Man's True Danger's ten year run pretty much typifies the approach of this particular men's magazine: bound and semi-naked women being tortured, threatened with torture and/or rape.  'The Tortuous Ordeal of Two Girls at the... Orgiastic Gates of Hell!' is the story being illustrated - note that the unfortunate women aren't just at the 'Gates of Hell' but the 'Orgiastic Gates of Hell', just in case the casual newsstand browser didn't get the suggestion of sexual violence being inflicted on them from the cover painting alone.  All the usual elements are present in the contents, going by the story teaser titles on the cover - the main story has the war angle covered with those 'beastly Japs' in addition to the violence to women aspect, while 'The Bloodbath of the Bootleg Barons' would seem to account for the usual gangster violence angle.

'Blonde Queen of the Naked Zambus' suggests one of those fantasies about naked (or at least topless) nubile white girls lost in the jungle as children who grow up to be 'White Queens of the Savages'.  It was a popular male fantasy perpetuated into the seventies and beyond by a significant body of Italian exploitation films.  Also apparently exposed in this issue is 'The Truth About Part-Time Joy Girls' - very possibly another of those stories supposedly uncovering rings of suburban housewives turned amateur prostitutes.  The magazine was pretty consistent in terms of its content and presentation throughout its history.  Every so often, just for a change, it would be would be gangs of wild women tying the guys up and threatening them with all sorts of unspecified depravities.  But generally, bound and imperiled women were preferred.  For a while, in the late sixties, the magazine, which by then had dropped the Man's part of its title, experimented with photo covers, featuring young women threatening to fall out of their clothes.  But, for the last few issues it reverted to more traditional cover paintings, (sometimes recycled from earlier issues).