FetTimes 8
- THE WRATH OF MARVIN X
- From issue eight of Fetish Times 1974
On your knees, you motley lot of beggars! Prepare yourselves for the verbal lash of Marvin X-Master and Editor of the world's greatest underground newspaper. Make no mistake about that.
I am sorely displeased at the attitudes and actions (as well as inactions) of many of our readers. You know who you are. Never have I seen such an outpouring of unjustified criticism and griping. Never have I seen such a lack of support for such a worthy venture as this one.
Fetish Times constantly receives letters and phone calls from readers who complain that their personal tastes and fantasies aren't being catered to in each and every issue of this newspaper. Without exception these complainers represent minority interests, and yet they seem to have the loudest voices. Case in point: a cluster of cretins from California, obsessed with "giant negresses" and "negroid penises," bitch endlessly about the lack of same in FT. Like a bunch of crying babies, oblivious to all needs except their own, these minority groups wail and moan that they aren't getting what they want. Well, why don't you put out your own fucking paper? CREEPS!
ONLY A DOLLAR
I for one am very tired of this egocentric attitude. Not only is Fetish Times extremely responsive to the desires of its readership, but this publication is experimental journalism in its highest form. There is nothing even close to it anywhere in the known world. Where else can you find a constantly-changing format that sincerely endeavors to cover the broad extremes of the fetish world? And for only a dollar. ONE DOLLAR! Do you like paying $4.50 for a slick and predictable bondage magazine that loses its flavor after one perusal? What kind of masochists are you?
This leads me to my second point: non-support. This is not a non-profit organization. We do not receive grants from the Ford Foundation. While our circulation increases with every issue, the number of new subscribers is disappointing. Why don't people subscribe, choosing instead to lurk around adult bookstores waiting for FT to arrive? Paranoia and pettiness, mostly. Some fool is afraid to make out his checks to the B & D Co., fearful that the government will find out and file his name under P for Perverts. Another is afraid that his local postmistress will open FT's plain brown envelope and discover that he digs the bizarre. Still another idiot refuses to subscribe because the paper doesn't have a regular column on bicycle seat sniffing, yet he buys the paper every month. BULLSHIT!
Equally insulting is the fact that our readers aren't supporting our advertisers. Why,? I don't know. Are fetish people really the cheapskates that Ms.X- the Amazing Amazon interviewed in this issue and #7- claims they are? I choose not to think so. Our Classified section is another sore spot. Our rates are cheap enough, and we even give free ads to slaves. Yet, only a relative handful of new classifieds come in.
YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? You read Fetish Times every month in growing numbers, yet you don't support it in the areas where it really counts. Then you have the unmitigated gall to complain that you're not getting what you want! This paper should be published twice a month or even once a week, but it cannot grow without your support. Twenty editorial pages a month is hardly sufficient to cover the infinite variations on the theme called Fetish.
Instead of griping and bitching, you should be grateful - very grateful that such a publication as Fetish Times even exists in this shitstorm of a society we live in today. Eventually we will get around to covering even the most obscure of bizarre interests. Be patient. And if you represent some minority fetish and want to see something on it here, write down your experiences or your fantasies and send them to us. You don't have to be a genius or a professional writer to do that. Follow the example of the reader in Chicago who was disappointed in the lack of articles on rubber in FT. He sent us a classified ad with his photo, wrote a fascinating letter about his fetish, and offered to contribute to the paper. Now he's going to be doing illustrations for us.
And if you must complain, if you really feel compelled to gripe about something, God knows there's plenty to complain about these days. Write your congressman and tell him you want that gangster out of the White House. Write the TV networks and bitch about the garbage they put out. Write the Pope and complain. Anybody. Just don't bug me with your petty complaints. Remember, the world needs Fetish Times-now more than ever.
(And while you're at it, write some of our advertisers and send away for their products and/or free catalogs. And subscribe, damnit, SUBSCRIBE!)
Excerpts from Fetish Times
- The Genesis of "Fetish Times"
- Best of Fetish Times
- Fetish Times 1 - Premier Issue and cover
- Fetish Times 3 - Tied up in San Francisco
- Fetish Times 3 - The Techniques of Domination - Part 1
- Fetish Times 8 - The Wrath of Marvin X
- Fetish Times 10 - 3 Days With A Master
- "The inside story of Backdrop II" - Story by Marvin X
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