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Originally Posted by Sharkhunter
It's amazing how us pre-Internet porn hunters rolled, eh?
I had to chuckle gentle at Chris and Historian's stories, and mine was somewhat similar. I was into photography when I was younger - and still am, though things are a hell of a lot easier these days - and I'd often be able to buy a copy of a photography magazine. I can't remember the title (there were a good few of them, but it might have been Amateur Photographer or something similar) but one section was about photographing nudes.
I knew I was going to be in for a few bikini models and perhaps some boobies, but I almost had a coronary when I saw some actual bush.
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Yeah, it really shows how the world has changed- back then I reckon the usual progression for a teenage lad in acquiring wanking material was the underwear section in his mum's Kays catalogue, Page 3, Custom Car/Superbike/Amateur Photographer etc. (I had the odd copy of that as well) until that first 'proper' top-shelf mag, usually swapped with a mate at school until he could pluck up the courage to reach for the top shelf- Now it's straight on the net to find the kind of porn we didn't even know existed back then...
The other thing that amazes me now is that mags like Custom Car could actually feature women with their tits out
on the cover- not even the top shelf is allowed to do that now (when did that change- early 80s?). Also, the fact that not only, as I said before, my local newsie happily sold them to me, but my mum didn't worry about me having a stash of them either!
Here's one cover that definitely had me spending my pocket money on the mag- The car is Nick Butler's 'Revenge', one of the iconic cars of the 70's/80's British hot rod scene, although I can't remember who the girl is. Actually, at the time I bought that one, I was about 12, and it was probably still the car that first caught my attention (I
so wanted to own that car in my teens- It still exists, in Spain, and I probably still couldn't afford it!)- I was only just starting to take an really serious interest in naked women at that age...
Quite coincidentally, VEF member
jefflynne has started posting scans from 70's Custom Car mags this morning, which should bring back some memories- although he's started at 1973, which is a bit before my time with CC