You can always count on the French for their uninhibited perspective on cinema. If there's a nude scene in a movie they have no compunction about showing it uncut and that includes printing unfiltered photographs in their film magazines.
Take the long-running weekly CINÉ REVUE magazine for instance. Founded in 1944 as THÉÂTRA CINÉ REVUE, the title was changed to CINÉ REVUE, then to CINÉ TÉLÉ REVUE when television became popular entertainment. It has been published out of Brussels, Belgium since its inception. As far as I know, every issue still contains at least one full-page nude photo of a (usually) buxom woman.
What we have here today appears to be a special edition of L'EROTISME DANS LES FILMS D'EPOUVANTE (Eroticism in Horror Films), published in October 4, 1975. It is a remarkable collection of horror films over the years that contain elements of nudity, torture, bondage, bloodletting and other fetish topics. I don't read French, but it's not difficult to get the idea. And guaranteed -- you'd never see something like this published in the States. Suffice to say it's a visual feast on its own and there are many stills that I have never seen before.
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