DEAR EROS,
"'Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do.' Luke 23:34"
"(Gentlemen?) Your pamphlet on 'EROS' is a masterpiece of brainless brainwashing. Surely the pervert who composed it must have had one hand on the typewriter and the other on his throbbing penis."
"Since you seem to believe so strongly in free speech, you won't mind if i tell you to take this worthless shit and jam it up your ass!"
"RALPH GINZBURG IS A THUMB SUCKER"
Dr. William Knoedler January 22, 1962
"FILTH"
"Throw your junk in the East River, preferably around the brooklyn bridge where it won't contaminate the U.N.!"
"Sorry – You are 35 years too late"
"Go shit in your hat – I've told the postal authorites about this!"
"REPENT"
"L. Thomas March 21, 1962"
"The highschool kid who killed the woman next door had a collection of the kind of stuff you propose to disseminate. Your mother, wife, sister or daughter may be the next victim of such a sex crime"
"Definitely count us out!"
"What will you do on Judgement Day."
"I’d hate to meet all the poor suffering souls in Hell, who will greet you with aroused, wailing, suffering + who will blame you for their being there. You had better change your ways while you can."
"This kind of 'JUNK' doesn't get by secretaries to bosses."
"K. Bronson March 21, 1962"
"Gentlemen: Please take me off your mailing list. First my husband & I laughed – then we felt pity for your sick minds. May god have mercy on you. Mrs. P R. Casey"
"I read every word of your brochure several times very carefully & I want to tell you that it bored me to tears"
"Dear EROS: Please send me a free copy. I am very poor and very horny."
"Dennis Jarry"
"Rev. Farnsworthe E Fletcher III April 10, 1962"
"Mrs. Harold Frost February 2, 1962"
"of all the forbidden lucre, i’ve ever seen. This is the lowest type. Just this is the cause of so many morons, idiots, and feeble minded in our united states to-day. I am going to God on my knees in 30 minutes from now. And pray harder. With more fervent words than I’ve ever gone to him with before I’m going first to thank him for guiding my hands in opening this letter, thin fog him for hours, to stop your filthy mail. I know I can’t, but my “God” can. and I know you know Gods power or you never have used his name to promote your filthy Idolatrous, forbidden, sealed filth. I haven’t gone to any one with this but directly till now. God forbid not only you to destroy our young people but each and every one of your likeness and kind.
I am Mrs. Agnes Kelpen
918 N. Highland Ave N.E.
Atlanta, GA."
"Mrs. C. Z."
"Rev. Hiram Smathers"
"Lee Simonson"
"Dear Editors of Eros,
Your filthy trash should put you in prison. If I lived in New York, I’d come personally to your office and spit in your face for insulting the public with your filthy mail. A loving mother."
"D. T. Jensen Commander, USN Acting Commanding Officer March 15, 1962"
"Sorry, I can't subscribe. I have a severe heart condition and know what is best for me."
"Could you give me information on your 'male chastity belt' – I have a son in college."
"With TUMS being pushed for the Tummy, mayhaps your advertising agency would like to push Tums backwards, or Smut for the … but then, they alliteration is their problems isn’t it! E.M."
"Why don't you go to California and live with all the other queers"
"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul"
"Harold F. Armstrong January 12, 1962"
"Purity is hard enough with out having to suffer from added temptations of this kind."
"Boy! Would I like to be invited to your office parties!"
"Thank God there’s a real man like Senator Kefauver in Washington to take care of bastards like you - "
"Mr. Eros – How dare you send my husband such trashy picture of a naked women? You can keep your Eros, because I am going to report this to the authority's. Such filth can't you find single men? Or don't they ahve the money married men have. I suggest you remove my husbands name from your files. Thats an order. Mrs. J. Meali
"Sheesh!"
"Sandra Milstein"
"I've lived 57 years with a prude, She'd never let me have it. Sorry fellas"
"I think you are a bunch of Navel Movers"
"I have made a little wax figure of you as I imagine you (repulsive!) and it now sets on my radiator. Martha Soriuson Clearlake, Minn. "
"Thanks a lot for your interesting info. But being a widow and by no means dead below the neck I find it to be unbearable enough just living alone. But to read about love and not have a husband around to absorb what I already have to offer would be quite unhuman to me really. Send me a good love wire husband first and then I’ll be happy to subscribe to your publication..."
"Dear Eros- without a doubt the most diabolical, vulgar, indecent, immoral, or devilish magazine ever conceived by the evil mind of Satans chosen people. Please cast it into the “Bottomless Pit” where it belongs before it sends thousands there – ..."
"Americans For Decency"
"Jess Moody April 3, 1962"
"Your introduction to Eros has been placed in the hand of our lawyer and we are notifying the F.B.I, since, in our opinion, you are communist."
"You filthy, lousy sex-maniac bastards leave me alone or I'll have you prosecuted."