Issue #202 is SCREW at full early-’70s throttle, when the magazine wasn’t just trying to offend America but exhaust it. Edited by Jim Buckley, this issue reads like a crowded bar at last call: loud, profane, political, and absolutely uninterested in good taste. Buckley’s own “Screw You” essay sets the tone, while Al Goldstein’s fingerprints are everywhere, especially on the “Shit List” and “Dirty Diversions,” where rage, humor, and cultural commentary blur into something closer to street journalism than smut. The titles alone were doing half the work in ’73, daring censors to even admit they’d read them.

Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) wearing a strap-on cock, reading SCREW while his inflatable dateable blow-up doll looks on, circa 1970-something.