{"id":12291,"date":"2021-06-14T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2021-06-14T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:08:22","slug":"the-1970s-when-witchcraft-sold-skin-mags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12291","title":{"rendered":"The 1970s, When Witchcraft Sold Skin Mags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reprobatepress.com\/2021\/02\/25\/naked-witches-and-sexy-satanists-the-erotic-occult-magazine-explosion\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12293\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/witchcraft-1.jpg?resize=256%2C357&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a>From <em>The Reprobate, <\/em>&#8220;Your daily slice of art, culture and social commentary,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/reprobatepress.com\/2021\/02\/25\/naked-witches-and-sexy-satanists-the-erotic-occult-magazine-explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a photographic review of such long-gone late 1960s\u20131970s publications as <em>Witchcraft, Bitchcraft, <\/em>and <\/a><em>Satan, <\/em>all dedicated to the notion that &#8220;the occult&#8221; was sexy and could sell magazines.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the same content exists today, if you care to look for it, on Tumbler.com and elsewhere. But I don&#8217;t know who makes money off it.<\/p>\n<p>Author David Flint notes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, there are several witchcraft magazines in print, but all seem to take themselves and their craft very seriously, and I very much doubt that most of the Witches of Instagram would be very amused by the cheerfully exploitative nature of these ancient publications. But I might be wrong \u2013 perhaps there is a gap in the market waiting to be filled. If so, then we are happy to step up and revive this gloriously tacky, cheesy and outrageous world of sex, sin and Satanism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More than &#8220;several,&#8221; I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Reprobate, &#8220;Your daily slice of art, culture and social commentary,&#8221; a photographic review of such long-gone late 1960s\u20131970s publications as Witchcraft, Bitchcraft, and Satan, all dedicated to the notion that &#8220;the occult&#8221; was sexy and could sell magazines. Much of the same content exists today, if you care to look for it, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,7,135,29],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-journalism","tag-publishing","tag-satanism","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3cf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11058,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11058","url_meta":{"origin":12291,"position":0},"title":"Witchcraft Cycles and the Official Witch of LA","author":"Chas S. 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