According to Ginzburg, Eros was published as "the result of recent court decisions that have realistically interpreted America's obscenity law that has given this country a new breath of freedom of expression". Pushing and testing the boundaries of censorship after the case of Roth v. United States, Ginzburg made the best of such freedom and devoted the magazine to "the joys of love and sex", making Eros entertaining at the first glance. The third issue of Eros published of a collection of nude pictures of Marilyn Monroe, taken by the Bert Stern during the shoot famously known as "The Last Sitting" six weeks before she died, and those photos were among the most famous Monroe images ever recorded.