12 THE HAPPY HOOKER'S MASTURBATION HANDBOOK Here, for the first time, are Xaviera's secrets on getting the most mileage from
those erotic manual techniques.
14 THE GODFATHER KIDNAP SQUAD
Turning the tables on The Mob, they snatched the Mafia's best-protected men in
a deadly game of hide and seek that brought the underworld machine to a screeching
halt.
16 SEX DIARY OF AN AIRLINE STEWARDESS
"When I started flying two years ago, I decided to take a leaf from the sailor's
little black book that lists a girl in every port. My object is to make every
layover a non-stop, no-holds-barred blast."
18 THE GREAT ANIMAL TORTURE SCANDAL
Once in the hands of a buck-hungry dealer, they're doomed to a one-way hellride
that makes a Nazi horror camp look like a vacation paradise.
24 SHIP OF SKELETONS
When they'd cleared away from the foundering Ocean Stream, there were eight men
aboard with a good chance at survival. By the time they were found, seven were
dead and a murderous madman crouched the tiller.
26 THE TWO-WAY EROTICS: BISEXUAL NYMPHOMANIACS
"I can go for weeks happy with the 'straight' scene, then something snaps.
I'm in a sexslide with every man or woman in sight."
28 3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR
Escaping the mob-type wipe-out of his entire CIA branch, Ron Malcolm began an
impossible race for survival. 1975's movie-of-the-year, blockbuster book bonus.
31 STAGDATE NO. 2: LORNA DIXON
Given three weeks to spend as you pleased, what would you do? Chances are, Lorna
would head for the hottest spot she could find, get rid of all clothes, then settle
in for 21 days of uninterrupted -almost- sunworshipping.
36 "BRING IN THE FIREFIGHTING BASTARDS FROM HELL"
"They tabbed usthe Suicide Squad because when the fire is too much for anyone
else, they call us in. Why not - we're all nuts!"
40 WE SWAPPED SEX LIVES FOR SIX MONTHS
Tape-recorded interviews by Dr. Carl Avery with two couples who took the big step
deciding they'd rather switch than fight, trading lifestyles and mates for a period
of 180 days. PLUS:
6 STAG CONFIDENTIAL
8 YOU ASKED ABOUT SEX
11 LAST LAUGHS
20 STAG-DATE NO. 1: DAISY LOWELL
34 STAG'S BIG PICTURE
38 FOR YOUR INFORMATION
50 THAT'S THE LAW
54 MAN'S WORLD MEMO
Features in This Issue
The Two-Way Erotics: Bisexual Nymphomaniacs
About Stag
The first Stag magazine, published by Leeds Publishing Corp., beginning with vol. 1, #1 (June 1937), was a 25-cent, 96-page, digest subtitled "A Magazine for Men" and which included articles and stories by such writers as Carleton Beals, Elsa Maxwell, Bernard Sobel, and Hendrik Willem van Loon. It covered a range of topics, including literature, music, sports, and theater, along with stories on male-female relationships, sexual issues, and such topics as striptease.
A second volume, published by Official Com. Inc. and edited by Noah Sarlat, appeared circa 1951 as a 25-cent, 82-page, standard-sized men's adventure magazine. This version, containing ostensibly "true-life" fiction of men in wartime or in rugged adventure mode, continued through at least volume 22 in 1971, by which time it had published by Martin Goodman's related company, Atlas Magazines Inc., and Magazine Management Co., Inc., by which time the cover price had been raised to 50 cents.
Goodman also published the annual publication Stag Annual, starting in 1964.
Writer Dorothy Gallagher reminisced in 1998 that by the early 1960s, when Magazine Management occupied the second floor at 60th Street and Madison Avenue, "...magazines were produced the way Detroit produced cars. I worked on the fan-magazine line. On the other side of a five-foot partition was the romance-magazine line. And across a corridor were the financial staples of the organization, the men's magazines — Stag, For Men Only, Male — for which, at one time or another, Mario Puzo, Bruce Jay Friedman, David Markson, Mickey Spillane and Martin Cruz Smith wrote, until they became too exalted and rich to do it anymore." Cover illustrators included Frank Soltesz.
Stag transitioned to become a men's pornographic magazine, published by Goodman's son Charles "Chip" Goodman at Magazine Management's successor company, Swank Publications. The publishing group Magna bought Stag and its sister publication Swank from that company in 1993.
