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Originally Posted by seany65
I used to like it and Razzle, but from what I can remember, both changed the style of shoots they did. From "light, happy, sex is fun, and I like showing my body off" to doing shoots of 'couples' pretending to have 'sex' in the back of dimly lit pubs etc. At least that's as far as I can remember. I stopped buying them after that.
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I'm with you Seany65. Early in my porn buying years I did have favourite mags. In the late 70s they were Fiesta, the early Rustler, and Men Only, but in the middle 80s to early 90s Escort was easily my favorite followed by Razzle.
I could see that the likes of P*nthouse and Pl*yb*y were more sophisticated with the most beautiful girls, also true of Men Only and Club, and that the Sullivan-type mags were the most explicit on the UK top shelf, but the sophisticated models struck me as out of reach and unreal, while the girls in the Sullivan mags struck me as - sorry girls - whorish.
In the years after the 80s relaunch of Escort and Razzle the girls in the photosets looked fun, approachable, up for it in an "after a couple of cocktails at a party" way rather than a "hello darlin' lookin' for business?" way.
There was plenty of explicit public nudity, particularly in the "
Girls of..." centre feature, which I particularly liked.
Living in Manchester as I do, there were a few times we had "Girls of..." features on the city and cities nearby and it was always an extra thrill to think while knocking one out that "
hmm, she's flashing her twat outside Manchester Uni in broad daylight, I was just walking past there the other day"
or
"
Bloody hell, she's standing under a clear blue sky bare-arsed and cheeks apart just round the corner from Liverpool Medical Institute in sight of Paddy's Wigwam - anyone could see her".
I was never worried by the proliferation of phone sex adverts in Escort or other mags, as legitimate advertisers abandoned the girly mags they had to get advertising revenue from somewhere.
I was never much of a reader of the letters or the erotic fiction but I did like the Readers Wives and Girlfriends section, for some reason the girls were a more attractive bunch than in similar sections, perhaps because Escort and Razzle had younger readers with correspondingly younger partners.
The editorial staff of Escort and Razzle in the 80s had a good sense of humour - I remember in Razzle a running joke about "8-Orificed Persons" which they claimed was a non-sexist term for referring to females rather than using
sexist terms such as girl or lady.
I can't remember when I stopped buying Escort, it was probably around 1993 when I realised it had gone from being cheap and fun to just cheap. and many of the features that had made it such a good buy were disappearing.
I bought a copy of Escort around 2009 having not bought it for 15 years and was very disappointed by it. The girls looked rough, the girls in the single girl photosets had had their skin texture so heavily photoshopped that it looked like vinyl, and there were fake hardcore sets that were not only unconvincing but featured couples that looked scummy, the sort of people I would do a quick 180 degree turn to avoid, and all printed on paper so poor that it cockled on contact with the fingers.
It's your own fault when a page cockles because you've accidentally chucked your custard over it but it's very poor when it cockles just because you've turned it over.