I was worried that by heading into the territory below I might derail this thread but I've been in touch with Sharkhunter, who started the topic, and he's OK-ed it.
Cheers Sharkhunter, appreciated
Back in the late 70s in the UK, as some of you might be old enough to remember, there was a brief time when the 'harder' sort-core girlie magazines made small excursions into hard-core. As I remember this was mostly vaginal penetration and vibrator insertion, with nothing as shocking as a cum-shot, but it was the hardest that had been on open sale in UK newsagents until then.
If you don't already know, the magazines that published them were largely the Sullivan and G*S*P stables of mags that had already pushed - opened? - the envelope of explicit fanny (UK) and fanny(US) poses in the year or two previously.
After a matter of a year or so, these hardcore sets stopped being published in these Girlies and that was the last I saw of fucking in porn until by accident in the early 80s I found a quiet little shop on Tib Street in what is now called the Northern Quarter of Central Manchester.
I went in the shop out of curiosity and inside found a bare white room with minimal white shelving and behind the bare white counter a guy I knew from the counter of a mainstream second-hand book shop on Manchester's Shude Hill. The second hand bookshop is there still so if you know the Manchester book and mag trade at all, 'plastic hands' should be enough to let you know who I mean.
On the minimal white shelving was a sparse selection of hard-core magazines, some american, some german but mostly from our alliterative friends from Copenhagen. All bagged up in clear plastic bags.
I can't remember every magazine on display but there were single copies of Climax, Blue Climax, Sex Bizarre, New Cunts, the even more bluntly-named CUNTS and a rather knocked-about copy of a magazine the cover of which very much more than all the others drew my eyes.
Which was this one:
I picked it up and on the back cover found this photo.
and I was sold.
The magazine wasn't cheap, I think £8, which was a lot of money in the early 80s, but it was cheaper than the rest of the stock and it was the best cover there.
When I got home I found perfectly acceptable hardcore photos inside, harder than I'd seen in my life up until that point, and I absolutely loved the way the lass on the cover was getting a load on her nose on the front cover and had a load over her eye on the back. Very shortly I was spurting my own sauce looking at her be-spunked face.
I don't know what I did with the rest of the mag but I still have the front and back covers and indeed used them to solve a 'Magazine Request' for a fellow VEF member a few years ago
You can see a composite of the covers of my actual purchase
here
and a copy of the full set inside the magazine in lunacougar's post
here
So this particular "eyes on stalks" cover was the thing that converted me to a lover of hard-core. My first interest in porn was tastefully-posed girls nude or semi-nude but the coincidence of first sex with my discovery of explicit open-legs and spread-bum magazines had turned me on to 'fanny mags' by the mid-70s.
And this first excursion into all-out hardcore magazines made hardcore my main porn target. Yes I still had lots of favourite soft-core models, yes I still bought soft girlie magazines but after the contents and particularly the cover of 'the Sharpshooters' I preferred hardcore and I did my best to find sets of my favorite soft girlie models taking the cock.
Indeed, that was one of the the main things that led me to VEF in 2007, that and Joanne Guest's bottom
.