No one objected to the bondage, blood, or violent theme. This cover resulted in censorship in Los Angeles county. In the foreground two virtually naked warriors lie bleeding (dying) from arrows penetrating their backs. Mattachine organizes The Committee to Outlaw Entrapment.ġ952, August: Cover date of Physique Pictorial issue bearing a cover painting by Quaintance, 'Sacrifice,' depicting a nearly naked man chained in spread-eagle suspension to a vertical sun disk.
1950, Dec.: Mattachine Society founded in Los Angeles.ġ952, April: Dale Jennings, a member of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles is arrested by the police.