Collecting Magazines

[mayfairreader]

I admit that today, with the internet, the day of printed porn is numbered. But even now, my main interest in adult material remains in the form I first found it - magazines.

Being a member in his 20s, my era is very much from the mid 90s to today, and I find myself every passing month with a rapidly growing collection of UK mainstream top shelf titles - to the point where my collection's perilously close to the 1000 magazines mark.

Magazines are still, for me, something that are truly memorable. From the enticing glimpse of what's inside from the cover, to the simple fact that a well-designed magazine spread showing multiple shots is so much more pleasing on the eye than a single jpeg on a screen ever can be.

Is there anyone out there along with me who still appreciates magazines for what they are, and is building up an out-of-control collection? Post and make me realise I'm not the only one!

[imtrying]

I've got a pretty good collection. They're stashed in a footlocker in my best friend's garage. The main focus of my collection is "Celebrity Sleuth". I bought the first one when it came out and just kept going. I also have a few odds and ends, like a few old copies of "Players" and "Black Tail" with Jeannie Pepper. My favorite is a copy of "Pl****y" from 1965. The interview is The Beatles.

[electile disfunction]

I admit that today, with the internet, the day of printed porn is numbered. But even now, my main interest in adult material remains in the form I first found it - magazines.

Is there anyone out there along with me who still appreciates magazines for what they are, and is building up an out-of-control collection? Post and make me realise I'm not the only one!

You are not alone in your ... taste for print. The pictures are actually high resolution, are never outdated, and provide a medium that is extremely easy to navigate. (Your computer monitor might be a "high-resolution monitor but it is still less than 1/10th the resolution of any basic printed magazine.)

My wife and I collect photos. If an electronic picture will not create a worthwhile print then it is replaced as quickly as possible with something of "real" quality. We also have many, many books--they do not need electricity and will never become technologically unreadable the next time Microsoft or Intel decide they wish to get more money from the average consumer by changing proprietary formats. We take books--and our "adult" mags--camping with us ...

Good on yer' mate,
e.d.

[eelcat]

I use to have a small collection of mags during the 70's to mid 80's that served their purpose. Mainly Penthouse but had some early Swank, Eros and Knaves thrown into the mix as well. With the advent of vcr's the collection seemed to be heading the way of the old 78 speed records. Now the video's are headed in the same direction. I do miss those little one panel cartoons in Penthouse (honestly, is the main reason I bought them).
So as a side note does anyone know where I can get a collection of these cartoons again or download them from somewhere?

[adamski]

Years ago I went to an auction and picked up Mayfair volumes 8 to 16 in Mayfair Binders plus twenty copies of odd Mayfair volumes 4 to 7 and the odd Best of, Girls of etc. I also have some early Model Directory and Club magazines. If anyone wants to buy them, send me a pm.

[billybunter]

Well, I have several thousand porn mags all stashed in the garage. I still buy mags, though mostly on the internet. I still pick up mayfair every month.

[Tomkin1]

I have a collection of Playboy dating from hee 70's and still can't stop adding to it - sort of become a ritual. I did have a collection of Mayfair and Men Only from around the same time but lost it in transit during one of my foreign postings and lost the incentive to keep buying them. In days before the internet, I used to pick up hard core porn every time I was travelling in europe and still have a hundred odd copies of those lying around -

[Jmel78]

I lost my collection twice while moving… and had to restart it in 1984.
My current collection is about 100 magazines/calendars…
Mostly Players, Players Calendars, Players Girls Pictorial, Players Nasty, Black Tail, and a dozen or so of the top two real popular USA mags…
I thought that I had a lot, but I guess that it is nothing compared to the previous posters.

I slowed way down in buying mags when VCR porn increased. And you could only get mags in adult book stores or behind the counter instead of any corner drug store… Then I started collecting my favorite parts of movie scenes on VHS. I have about 65 hours of that stuff.

And when my local VHS rental places closed down a few yrs ago, I was “forced” to go internet-only. Back in late 2009, I took a nostalgic ride around town to look for paper magazines and found nothing. I later heard that many magazines bit the dust in 2009, not just the men’s mags. Even the men’s mags they sold at Wal-Mart (e.g., King Magazine) bit the dust. Well, the paper version bit the dust. It still exists on-line.

As a previous poster mentioned, the bad thing about electronic copies is that you need the decoder to read it. And decoders may not be supported as technology changes. But the bad thing about paper copies is that you usually have only one copy and it could get lost in a move (like me) or get destroyed in a fire/hurricane/flood etc…

Even though monitors have less resolution that print media, the scanned pics look better to me on the monitor. I don’t know why. Maybe because the pics are much bigger? Maybe because the monitor produces light instead of reflecting light? I don’t know…

So, the only thing I miss about paper is my lost 1975-1984 Players stuff (e.g. Players Girls Pictorial). But this web site has some of the most popular models featured in Players during that time frame:
+ Shanna Evans http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=331 (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=331)
+ Kelli Stewart http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=11190 (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=11190)
+ Margaret Wallace http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=5273 (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=5273)
+ Stella Tandy http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=40958 (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=40958)
+ etc.
And this site has more pics per model than Players. And some vids too…. Which is great since I didn’t have access to vids back in the day…

[mcewan]

250 plus for this porn adddicted lad.
Hustler - Every issue dating back to 1982
Buttman - Every issue ever published
Taboo - I've been collecting dating back as far as 2000
Chic - I have issues from back in the 80's
Mayfair - A decent collection
Private - A bunch of those glossy magazines

[dasduffer]

Only thing I can add to this topic is that I have pretty much all the Mayfair magazines from the 1970s and a few from the late 60s. Bought them about 11 years ago from some guy via a newsgroup. I had a quick look at them and they been up in the attic ever since in plastic containers lol. Nice time piece though and I find the adverts, cartoons and stories as interesting as the pictures.

[onelucky1]

I have about 500 or 600 hundred mags, the ,re in the cellar ,stopped collecting some 10 to 15 years ago ,they are a variety some club mayfairs ,all different sorts ,if theres anyone out they wants 500 or 600 mags pm me , I cant bring my self to through them away

[jmishi]

I collect magazines because constantly sitting in front of the computer to see porn actually has hurt my legs over time.:(

It's also a "fail safe" if my PC blows up on me.:)

[MayfairFan]

Until this year I didn't have any - I bought loads new in the 80s and into the 90s (mostly Mayfair, Club, the odd Penthouse and few others), but stopped when I got a computer with decent net access and decided it wasn't worth the risk of my wife catching me any more :). Never kept any of them longer than a month or so until it was replaced by the next one.

But now I have started collecting old Mayfairs - just a couple of dozen so far, although I intend to get more. I've made myself a nice fairly secure place to keep them and as with many of us, I do find the whole 'magazine experience' much more interesting than just pics on a screen. Yes, even the articles! Many of them are fascinating as a snapshot of the world as it was back then, and some even in their own right.