Romolini first came across it while searching for vintage prairie dresses on eBay in the early 2000s. “It was so beautiful, so high-end, and really progressive sexually,” says journalist Jennifer Romolini. Anna Wintour did its fashion spreads at one point. John Lennon and Paul Newman posed for its pages (clothed). Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison were interviewed. Simone de Beauvoir, Joyce Carol Oates, and Nikki Giovanni all wrote for it. Viva featured stories on bisexuality and sex-worker issues, models sensuously draped in sheer chiffon, and arty male nudes shot by women photographers. This is the cover of the July 1974 edition of Viva - a feminist porn magazine that ran from October 1973 to January 1979. Walking away from the camera, they each rest a tanned hand over the other’s bare derrière. Walking away from the camera, this golden couple look like they’re on their way to have sex in the rough. Two nude hippies - their toned bodies tanned from the sun - languidly stroll on a pebbly beach.
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