Shaved for the Mailman: How America's Nudist Magazines Beat the Post Office and the Supreme Court

In the early 1950s, a model named Marguerite Hamrick posed for a series of photographs headed for one of America's nudist magazines, and before anyone even loaded the camera, she had to shave. It wasn't a style choice. Federal rules at the time simply wouldn't let a nudist magazine print pubic hair, and showing it risked getting the entire issue pulled from the mail, the printer investigated and the publisher hauled into federal court. It sounds like a small, almost silly detail, but it's...