OZ Magazine No. 42 (May/June 1972) belongs to the later phase of the UK underground publication, when the magazine had shifted from psychedelic excess toward lifestyle, travel, and alternative‑culture reportage.

The cover features a nude couple embracing in a natural outdoor landscape, framed by a decorative green border with stars. The imagery reflects the post‑1960s ideals of sexual freedom, pastoral escape, and communal living, presenting nudity as natural rather than confrontational.

Across the top banner, the issue advertises a mix of provocative and counter‑cultural features, including:

• “Germaine Greer’s Husband Flashes Cock”

• “Our Man in the Panama Jungle”

• “Inside Prisons”

• “Macrobiotics – Death Diet”

• “Inside Asylums”

By this point, OZ was no longer operating purely as a shock magazine, but as an alternative cultural journal combining radical politics, sexuality, travel writing, and social investigation.

Issue No. 42 illustrates OZ’s evolution away from courtroom‑driven notoriety toward broader counter‑culture documentation in the early 1970s.