Hey Matthew. Regarding Steve - I can't lie, with all the tributes since he died, the column he wrote in Forced Exposure nearly 40 years ago regarding Pure magazine continues to haunt me to this day. I subscribed when I was in college, so I read it then and not as part of some sort of campaign against him. I own "Atomizer" and even the "Rema Rema" 45. I get the edgelord thing and I know it got the reaction it intended, but did he ever really address what he wrote? I mean, in the next issue, he downplayed it a bit, but it was still fucked up. And two years ago, he was still referring to Peter Sotos as a friend. IDK. I'm struggling with this. In a culture where forgiveness is extremely rare, the whole "youth, provacateur, edgelord, maybe I went to far" rings a bit hollow to me. I don't think he was a pedophile, but he put stuff in my head that has been living rent free for years.
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Hey Matthew. Regarding Steve - I can't lie, with all the tributes since he died, the column he wrote in Forced Exposure nearly 40 years ago regarding Pure magazine continues to haunt me to this day. I subscribed when I was in college, so I read it then and not as part of some sort of campaign against him. I own "Atomizer" and even the "Rema Rema" 45. I get the edgelord thing and I know it got the reaction it intended, but did he ever really address what he wrote? I mean, in the next issue, he downplayed it a bit, but it was still fucked up. And two years ago, he was still referring to Peter Sotos as a friend. IDK. I'm struggling with this. In a culture where forgiveness is extremely rare, the whole "youth, provacateur, edgelord, maybe I went to far" rings a bit hollow to me. I don't think he was a pedophile, but he put stuff in my head that has been living rent free for years.