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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 21, February 1942
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V-O-M 5 months ago, before he became a PRO, said he was considering putting out a fanzine to be called FANTASY NUDES. He seemed to have some doubt as to whether or not he could send it through the mails. And I used the same argument that Harry uses now; namely, that great quantities of pictures of lovely damsels in their birthday suits could be purchased at any book store or newsstand. As a form of art. I can find nothing wrong with nudes; but I muse say that most of those appearing in VOM, partly because of the difficulties inherent in the processes of reproduction, are far from artistic. Tom Wright's lovely ghost, or whatever, was a different matter; that wasn't a nude, but that isn't the point; Tom turned out what to me seemed to be a really beautiful, fantastic piece of work. I think that Wiedenbeck has done a pretty fair job on the conventionalized figure for Daughter Time on the current cover; but their are some rather obvious anatomical faults in the figure of the mother which detract from the picture. And, to top it all off, I can't help wondering just how a psychiatrist would interpret this excessive interest in the depiction of the 'female form divine' which has suddenly become such an engrossing subject to the VOMEDS. Is Fortier really right, or are some of the antis? Well, maybe I just worked too long on the Municipal tennis courts in Lincoln; it is astonishing how many of the patrons among the so-called weaker sex would would have looked much better in the tennis attire of the gay 'Nineties. Of course, there were exceptions!."
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V-O-M 5 months ago, before he became a PRO, said he was considering putting out a fanzine to be called FANTASY NUDES. He seemed to have some doubt as to whether or not he could send it through the mails. And I used the same argument that Harry uses now; namely, that great quantities of pictures of lovely damsels in their birthday suits could be purchased at any book store or newsstand. As a form of art. I can find nothing wrong with nudes; but I muse say that most of those appearing in VOM, partly because of the difficulties inherent in the processes of reproduction, are far from artistic. Tom Wright's lovely ghost, or whatever, was a different matter; that wasn't a nude, but that isn't the point; Tom turned out what to me seemed to be a really beautiful, fantastic piece of work. I think that Wiedenbeck has done a pretty fair job on the conventionalized figure for Daughter Time on the current cover; but their are some rather obvious anatomical faults in the figure of the mother which detract from the picture. And, to top it all off, I can't help wondering just how a psychiatrist would interpret this excessive interest in the depiction of the 'female form divine' which has suddenly become such an engrossing subject to the VOMEDS. Is Fortier really right, or are some of the antis? Well, maybe I just worked too long on the Municipal tennis courts in Lincoln; it is astonishing how many of the patrons among the so-called weaker sex would would have looked much better in the tennis attire of the gay 'Nineties. Of course, there were exceptions!."
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