Libertine

The title Libertine was used by a number of adult-oriented magazines and journals published by different companies during the late 1960s and 1970s. These publications varied widely in both format and content, ranging from pictorial magazines to specialist journals devoted to historical, literary and erotic material. Some featured content considered controversial even by the standards of the day, much of which would be unlikely to find a mainstream publisher today.
Many of these magazines attracted the attention of the authorities, and some became the subject of obscenity investigations, court proceedings and publication seizures. As a result, surviving copies provide an interesting record of the changing social attitudes and censorship debates of the period.
Because several unrelated publications shared the Libertine title, individual issues are best identified by their publisher, date and volume number. Together, the various Libertine magazines reflect the diverse and highly specialised adult magazine market that flourished during the late twentieth century.
Today, surviving copies are collected as examples of vintage publishing history and are of particular interest to researchers and collectors studying the underground press, alternative publishing and adult periodicals of the era.