Magazine covers: eyes on stalks

[chris chunt]

Old tit bits magazine covers are quite fascinating .
No tits featured inside though sadly as I've found out with the odd copy I've bought on flea bay .

I've still managed a retro knob twaddle though just about the cover girl .

Page 3 girl Nikki DeBuse starring here .

[Pinkpapercut]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

Old tit bits magazine covers are quite fascinating .
No tits featured inside though sadly as I've found out with the odd copy I've bought on flea bay .

I've still managed a retro knob twaddle though just about the cover girl .

That's an interesting observation chris chunt - I usually think in terms of my dad's 'hidden' stash of girly mags as the main source of my wank-fodder as a young teenager but, on reflection, around the time of my puberty c1969 'Titbits' and the very similar 'Weekend' magazine always had sexy and usually half-dressed girls on their covers and 'Weekend' used to have some similar photographs inside too, non-nude but light-dressed young women in pin-up poses, and my parents had both magazines delivered.

You've reminded me that the appealingly sexy girls on the covers of 'Titbits' and 'Weekend' ensured that these mags were actually the first thing I reached for as a young adolescent with an itch for stimulation. It should go without saying what the second thing I reached for was

I'm moving off-topic in adding the following but in the very early 1970s another good source of wank-fodder for me was the surprising amount of female nudity to be found in the Sunday Times magazine back when porn, particularly arty 'erotica', was briefly considered chic rather than 'sexist'. For instance my first photos of Marilyn Monroe fully nude were taken from the Sunday Times Magazine and I remember a long photo-illustrated article about soft-core porn magazines that I kept until it was too tatty to 'use'.

Again, the Sunday Times was another publication my parents had delivered and which I made sure I cut all the sexy photos from before the old copies were chucked in the bin

Thanks for the reminder

[chris chunt]

More titbits with vef faves Penny Irving ,Linda Hayden and Nicola Austin on the covers .

I really want that issue with Penny .
Great sleazy movie she is publicising and such a kitsch cover .

[caboosier]

I only just recently discovered this photograph
but I didn't know who the model was until
tonight, when I decided to catch up with the thread.
What a thrill to find more views of Carol's fabulous arse!

Originally Posted by Pinkpapercut

The cover grabbed my attention partly because it was Carol Heaps and partly because it was a back view of her fully dressed but pulling her knickers off over her foot. You didn't often see knickers being taken off on the covers of British Girlie mags back then and 'knickers coming off with her back to me' promised just one thing to my single-track mind - BUM

You'll notice from my avatar and my signature that I'm very much a bum man. Seeing that cover of Carol made me think that the next photos in the sequence would focus even more on her bum and hopefully would be inside that particular edition of 'Escort'.

I had a quick flick through the magazine in the shop, holding the magazine away from the counter so that the photos wouldn't be visible from there, and was delighted to find there were a couple of excellent photos on the fold-out and in the middle of the mag of Carol bent over, the cheeks of her arse apart showing her back door to Paradise.

With my eyes lowered I paid my money for the mag and a coke to the girl on the till and left shamefaced and blushing



As soon as I got to my flat it was 'Escort' open, eyes pinned to that third photograph, cock in hand, and me imagining deeply pumping Carol's rump, something I've done many times since over the nearly 30 years since Carol posed for that set.

If you're not familiar with Carol Heaps...

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=23568

Pinkpapercut's experience is similar to my own:
sizing up the irresistible magazine,
embarrassment at the cash register,
the joy of discovery back at home...

[caboosier]

Talk about embarrassment!


I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I
found this publication at the corner store.
Naughty nurses are one thing, butt I'd
never seen a model as decadent as Desire,
(aka Desiree). I didn't want to be seen
buying this, but I couldn't help myself...


It wasn't any easier bringing this one to
the counter, where the proprietor had a
habit of flipping through my purchases
before taking my cash! This is a special
interest that you might not want to


share with just anyone but the promise
of her pretty posterior was irresistible.

[Pinkpapercut]

Originally Posted by caboosier

Talk about embarrassment!


I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I
found this publication at the corner store.
Naughty nurses are one thing, butt I'd
never seen a model as decadent as Desire,
(aka Desiree). I didn't want to be seen
buying this, but I couldn't help myself...

It wasn't any easier bringing this one to
the counter, where the proprietor had a
habit of flipping through my purchases
before taking my cash! This is a special
interest that you might not want to
share with just anyone but the promise
of her pretty posterior was irresistible.

Hi Cabs !

I was a long-time buyer of 'Cheeks' and similar magazines and I very clearly remember the issue that had that first photoset featuring Desire/Desiree so I understand why you would be embarassed .

I wasn't a fan of her as a model but through that set and the videos of the french porn model Laeticia I developed a strong taste for her 'party trick' and sought out the issues that featured Desire over the following two or three years.

Reading your post reminded me that around 2000, quite soon after buying that issue of 'Cheeks' I was browsing the hoppers of a porno shop in my home city (Manchester UK), looked up at the wall and saw my first ever copy of 'Buttman' magazine.



It wasn't the image on the cover that made my eyes bug out on stalks, it was the fact that it was a copy of 'Buttman' - I knew 'Buttman' only as a producer of videos I couldn't find anywhere.

The shop eventually became Jobbydealer.

I don't have to hand any of the photosets from that issue of Buttman and it was a job just finding that cover online. I wouldn't mind betting that most of you wouldn't like them anyway, perhaps Caboosier excepted.

Long story short, I bought this copy of 'Buttman' unseen in its see-through plastic bag and was delighted when I opened it to find not only page after page of bottom-centric photos (it was a John Stagliano publication so this was its USP) and lots of photos of girls taking it up the bum but also featured lots of models performing Desire/Desiree's party trick.

Suffice it to say that I became a regular buyer of 'Buttman' magazine right up to the day I stopped buying soft and hard porn mags about ten years later.

A final digression: Cabs, I'm pleased I unknowingly provided you with the identity of Carol Heaps, think of it as an unknowing thank-you on my part: your threads and contributions here at VEF have given me a lot of pleasure over the years

[chris chunt]

Another titbits cover from 1973.

You would think that you would be on for a knockout vintage knob twaddle with at least a bare bum on show from the cover girl inside but there's nowt and I own a copy of it .

Amazing cover though .
Worthy of any top shelf mag .

[J J]

Originally Posted by martsm

One more Knave cover that grabbed me at the time.



I remember thinking that this was a clever way to get a complete nude on the cover of a magazine. The 'period London' set inside didn't really live up to the promise of the cover. For my money, the best set inside was of Irma (Carolyn Evans), and this pic in particular still features in my imagination from time to time:



Scans of the whole mag are here (all credit to Mayfair1975).

Wow


The cover shot of the Nell Gynne photo story takes me back to when I bought that copy in the seventies.

I’d just broken up, after over a year, with the most stunning girl I’d been with, who just happened to bear a striking resemblance to that cover girl.

I had many a happy hour with that mag!

[Pinkpapercut]

Originally Posted by J J

Wow
[...]
The cover shot of the Nell Gynne photo story takes me back to when I bought that copy in the seventies.
[...]

I remember that Knave 'Oranges' cover although I don't remember the circumstances in which I bought it, nor, following the link in martsm's post, any of the sets in that issue.

But it was an excellent cover.

Despite having myself posted a Knave cover (Jennifer Eccles aka Bobbie) in this thread I hadn't looked around the VEF 'Knave' 1969-1979 thread despite being a member here since 2007.

I started buying my own UK Girlies in late Autumn 1973 and I'd remembered Knave as being at best number three on my five core buys back then, my order of preference being 1) Men Only 2) Club International 3) Knave 4) Fiesta 5) Mayfair.

Your post martsm, with both the Oranges cover and your quoted photo of the girl with her hand well down inside her knickers, and J J your quote of martsm's post, had my eyes out on stalks enough this morning to have a look around the VEF Knave 1970s thread.

Having just now had a quick browse of that thread and read up about Knave online, I'd forgotten two things about Knave in the early mid 70s, first how hip and cool the writing and the writers were and second, and most importantly to me at the time, how the magazine rivalled Men Only and Club International for subtly but clearly showing the girls' cunnies and bumholes.

I'd remembered Knave as being a slightly younger-feeling Mayfair with the girls' holes being airbrushed into shadow in any photos where they would have been otherwise visible.

Thank-you to both of you for inspiring me to visit the 70s Knave thread and for having my eyes out on stalks with a 45 year old cover here in the present day

Off now to have a thorough good look around that 70s Knave thread and... well, you know what

[Pinkpapercut]

I've just realised that I've overlooked most of the posts in the first hundred in this thread so I've gone back, read them and thanked them - I hope no-one minds if I use this post to address a couple of points that particularly took my interest:

Originally Posted by caboosier

This is one of the last magazines I bought
before I became obsessed with usenet.

I was totally mesmerized
by the high-gloss vulgarity:
a blonde in boots & cut-offs
masturbating on the cover!

I'm aware that that's a 1997 cover Cab and I think you're located somewhere in N.America but by my memory there were quite a few girly mags in the 70s here in the UK that had covers that implied the girl shown was masturbating.

How very much things have changed even in the twenty years since your 1997 Swank cover - few paper and ink Girly mags still in existence, usually anodyne covers, and those often in 'modesty' bags whilst online we can find every kink catered for.

I'm going to make it mission to see if I'm right about these 1970s cover masturbation covers and if I am I shall bring my prizes back to this thread to put eyes on stalks.

Originally Posted by Sharkhunter

[...]I was into photography when I was younger [...] and I'd often be able to buy a copy of a photography magazine. I can't remember the title ([...]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.

I know that part of the appeal of magazines like Amateur Photographer was the tastefully erotic photos they sometimes had on the cover and inside but for me the great appeal was the classifieds where glamour models would tout for business and one could find a girl somewhere in a town nearby who would let you photograph her nude and spread.

I went to models' home studios a few times in the 80s - none of which girls I recognised although they all had their modelling books and showed me them - but I didn't have the facilities at my own place to develop colour film and couldn't bring myself to send them to a professional lab so I never saw any of the photos I took

The undeveloped films might still be around the house somewhere, dusty and decayed beyond developability by time

For me Amateur Photographer was never a mag I looked to for an eyes-on-stalks cover but a magazine by way of which I could arrange private stripteases by attractive young women under the guise of taking photos of them