How I Learned About Adult Star Trek Fanzines

A Trek Through the Weird 1970s

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In the 1970s, I could read wild paperback novels with bonkers sex scenes and violent fight scenes. But I was too young to buy adult Star Trek fanzines.

A black-and-white photo of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner portraying Spock and Kirk. They are standing behind a model of the original USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). — Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner as Spock and Kirk in a Photo from NBC Television. (Source: Wikimedia; Public Domain.)

But First, an Interlude About 1970s Weirdness

How I Learned About Adult Star Trek Fanzines

A Trek Through the Weird 1970s

But First, an Interlude About 1970s Weirdness

Written by Anne Marble