Eros Archives: dealers in erotica since 1985

Reviews & articles

Dian Hanson in the  September 97 issue of LEG SHOW magazine wrote the following profile on our company:

"This is a great source for all kinds of hard-to-find fetish books, magazines and even original art. They carry old Elmer Batters magazines such as Tip Top and Succulent Toes; Eric Stanton's Bizarre, an incredibly perverse mag for the fifties; the equally kinky Exotique, heavily illustrated by rival artist Gene (Eneg) Bilbrew; the first Leg Show, published in the fifties and no connection to this publication, plus back issues of our LEG SHOW. These guys are aficionados....If you have a yearning for some other obscure book they will actively search for it, and they buy old fetish and erotic materials. So when your wife says either the Leg Shows go or she does, now you know who to call. Though I don't think they pay alot for used wives".

Ernest Green in Hustler's Taboo had the Following review:

"Ever wonder where we find some of the pervacious and esoteric volumes we review in TABOO? We'll let you in on our secret source. When it comes to fabulously fetishistic books, mags, pix and flix from eras past, we turn to our pals at Eros Archives, a North Hollywood based mail-order only emporium of "vintage and contemporary smut".  Stocking everything from luxuriously produced fetish photo anthologies to 70s bondage magazines to 8mm porn loops, the friendly and expert bibliophiles from Eros have or can find stroke worthy artifacts of virtually any epoch. If your still looking for that fat-lady daguerreotype you saw at a swap meet ten years ago, these folks may be your salvation. They've even got a web site where you can check out the goods".

Jon Woods in BONDAGE LIFE magazine (issue #71) wrote the following:

"Consider the following more of a public service announcement than an unabashed plug for a worthy company. Every now and then we're asked if our older magazines are available. Unfortunately, these magazines only have a single run, and once we run out, we just can't get anymore. However, many older titles (including early issues of Bondage Life) are still available through our friends at Eros Archives. These knowledgeable folks have quite a wide selection of fetish erotica which they sell through mail-order only (sorry, no walk-in business), featuring classic magazines by Harmony and many other companies. They frequently buy up collections if you've got one to sell. They've got a nifty warehouse full of stuff, which I'm hoping to use as a location for one of my videos in the near future."

We have also been mentioned or reviewed in the following magazines: Whap! (Women for administer Punishment) Skin Two, <<O>>, Secret, Factsheet 5 and  Ben is Dead. 

Project contributions

We have provided vintage erotic images and magazines for the movie productions of L.A. Confidential, Mumford, the E! channel documentary on Bettie Page, research/reference materials for The Cell and the Bob Crane bio-movie "Auto Focus" and most recently for the upcoming Linda Lovelace documentary.

Eros Archives has provided images for the following publications: Whap!,  John Willie - The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline (Belier Press. 1999 Enlarged & revised edition),  The Christy Report, Naked as a Jaybird, and the soon to be published multi volume "History of Men's Magazines" (published by Taschen)