'The Case For Bigamy'

 

Another bit of history that would have passed us all by if it hadn't been reported on by a man's magazine.  Who'd have thought that the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved by a bunch of girl skin divers raiding Castro's fortress?  As this is the October 1962 issue of Man's Action, I'm assuming that the cover story somehow ties in to that then recent event.  Certainly, in the wake of the crisis, the Cubans joined the gallery of cover villains beloved by men's pulps, which already included Nazis, Japs, Russian commies, Chinese commies and assorted other foreign types.  All, of course, with a penchant for torturing semi-naked women.  What I really love about this cover painting is that the two unflatteringly portrayed Cubans, (just look at the paunch on the one doing the torturing - not even Nazis got that treatment, invariably being portrayed as svelte murdering and torturing bastards), both sport Castro-style beards.  Presumably they were de riguer for all self-respecting Cuban communists.  Or maybe they are actually meant to be the Castro brothers themselves.

Elsewhere in the issue, judging by the stories trailed on the cover, it is business as usual: war and male sexual fantasies.  Not that any of it is made up, of course - I mean, that's a genuine 'open letter' revealing 'The Case For Bigamy'.  "I made two wives happy - why should that put me in jail?"  Well, if you were a Mormon, it probably wouldn't, but the reality is that the average adolescent reader of these magazines wouldn't have made one actual woman happy, (inflatable ones don't count), let alone married one, so the idea of satisfying two wives would probably have been their ultimate masturbatory fantasy.  Unlike a Cuban torture chamber, I'm guessing that the 'Torture Trap of the Nympho Schoolgirls' is one that most of the magazine's readers would like to fall into.  Jail bait sex is one of the enduring male sex fantasies, with the idea of the girls taking the initiative and subjecting their 'victims' to some kind of 'rough sex' providing the icing on the cake.  Of course, they'd be High School girls, making it all legal in most US states.  Because other wise it would, be well, pervy and only degenerate un-American commies would go in for that sort of thing...