J.HAYNES, B. LEVY, H. WILLIAMS, J. SHRIMPTON and G. GREER
Suck: First European Sex Paper. Complete group of eight issues. Folio, each 16-20 pages on newsprint with color covers. Joy Publications. Amsterdam and New York 1969-1974.
An underground sex newspaper founded in 1969 by Billy Levy, Jim Haynes, Heathcote Williams, Germaine Greer, Willem Ridder and Susan Janssen (independent journalist, theatrical impresario, playwrights, feminist, filmmaker and underground bookstore owner). Germaine Greer has spoken of Suck as an antidote to the exploitative pornography of magazines like Screw and HustlerThe publication, featuring illustrations, comics, photographs, stories, poetry and more is a light-hearted, unabashed titillating glorification of eroticism.
