'Revenge of the Nazi Love Slaves'

 

Those God damned commies are beating us at sex too, now!  Is there no end to the benefits that Marxist-Leninism can bring to the proletariat?  Or do you have to be a party member to benefit, with the peasants still confined to twice yearly fumblings beneath a pile of blankets on the anniversaries of the revolution and Lenin's birthday?  I'm sure that the story 'Are Russians Better Lovers' in the August 1965 edition of True Danger addressed all of these questions.  I'm assuming that the cover painting illustrates 'Revenge of the Nazi Love Slaves', as it features Nazis, whips and a chained up semi-naked woman.  I love the way that the Nazi (or Jap, Russki, Red Chinese, Cuban, Hell's Angel etc) brutes wielding the whips always allow the unfortunate women they are torturing to preserve their dignity by leaving, at the very least, their underwear intact.  They might be bastards, but they're considerate bastards. (Even with the Fuhrer's portrait looking on, they don't go any further than cutting her bra straps).  Despite this surprising display of sensitivity, you can guarantee that before the word count for that story is used up, that woman and her fellow captives will have escaped and done something terrible to those Nazi guys.

Other delights trailed on the cover promise even more sleaze and sensationalism of the kind favoured by men's magazines.  We've 'World's Fair Vice Rackets' (which sound a bit mundane and dated) and 'The Secret Jet Set Hell Harem', (which sounds far more up to date).  Damn it, you just know those jet setters  had to be up to some sort of sex-related shenanigans - turns out they have their own harems.  On jet liners, no doubt.  Flying around the world, delivering sex to the wealthy and privileged.  Or something like that - the actual story is probably far tamer.  More startling than either of these stories, though, is that 'Free Bonus Insert', which promises 'Flash-News: Dad Chains Bad Girl Full Year'.  This raises all sorts of questions - was the 'bad girl' just some random young female chained up by some guy who was a father?  Which sounds pretty sinister - did he keep her chained up in the basement and periodically 'punish' her?  Even more disturbing though, is the thought that we should take the headline literally: that a father chained his actual daughter up for a year?  Just what did this girl (be it his daughter or someone else's) do that was 'bad' enough to warrant being restrained in this way?  Did she steal bubblegum from his store?  Did she wear a skirt that ended above her knees?  Come to think of it, just how old was she?  (The accompanying photo seems to show one of those twenty eight year old 'school girls' so beloved of these publications, posing in her underwear - the height of 'badness').  This has to be one of the most troubling story titles I've ever come across on a men's magazine cover.  Still, it was 1965 and those kids were starting to do all sorts of sinful and unAmerican things, like grow their hair long and wear open neck shirts...