Spectator (magazine)

Spectator (magazine)

"Spectator" was a weekly newspaper published and distributed in San Francisco from 1978 until October 2005, and dubbed itself "California's original adult newsmagazine". [ [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spectator.net/ Spectator.net] , from the Internet Archive] The magazine in tabloid format featured sex and BDSM related stories and advice as well as numerous advertisings for phone sex, strip clubs and other sex-related businesses. The paper was distributed through news racks, adult book stores, strip clubs and some general stores.

Publisher and owner Kat Sunlove was interviewed for Wendy McElroy 1995 book "XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography". She relates how "The Spectator" originated in 1978 as the adult-services advertising portion of the earlier free-speech paper "Berkeley Barb". In 1987 the "Spectator's" employees bought the paper. [Wendy McElroy. " [http://www.zetetics.com/mac/xxx/ XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography] ", 1995. Chapter 7.]

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* [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spectator.net/ Spectator.net] , from the Internet Archive


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