Mayfair Magazine - "It's the Quality of the Editorial". - Page 3

**Office Boy** · December 25th, 2017, 12:04 AM

Mayfair was easily the best mens magazine available for a very long time. A lot of models didn't pose for mags other than Mayfair. There was such a variety of topics within the pages like classic cars and trains, a very successful comic strip (Carrie), film reviews, music, eating out. Even jigsaw puzzles and their own movies (super 8 I seem to remember). It was a winning formula all the way. Only when Paul Raymond got hold of it did it become just another top shelf mag that was reduced to telephone numbers and in your face girls who appeared time after time often under different names and a totally different story. It was so far fetched at times, you could tell it was all lies.

We know that not everything written in these mags were real, but Mayfair was more believable than the majority of others and I think this is why it stood way above what other mags served up. I collected Mayfair for thirty five years, and it is the volumes 6-20 which gave some of best articles and real girls, top names as well.

longjon73 · December 25th, 2017, 05:36 PM

For me it's much the same thing. Pre-Raymond Mayfair was my staple, and I liked it a lot more than the other mags. High quality photography was part of that, but I did actually enjoy the editorial. The story was usually pretty decent, the letters were fun (I assume they were mostly made up as with other mags, but still good by comparison), the cartoons were excellent, and then there was Quest on that weird brown paper.

I never really knew PB in its prime, but thinking of what made it great - beautiful photography and great editorial - I think the old-school Mayfair was about the closest the UK got to that kind of product. It really pays to put in the effort - such a shame that it went down the pan, but I suppose the whole magazine side of the business has been dying for years.

isambard1803 · December 25th, 2017, 10:27 PM

The articles on issues of blokish interest were good - steam trains, traction engines, cars, military exploits, and so on. I think it was rather better attuned to British taste than Heffer's publication, with its rather overblown prattle about "the PB philosophy". it certainly took a noticeable and immediate nose-dive when Raymond took over.

superscorer2003 · March 8th, 2019, 07:40 AM

I was brought up in a very strict home where sex was never mentioned and Benny Hill was banned! When I was 15 a friend showed me his huge stash of Mayfair magazines that his dad had brought home for him (he was a fireman); this friend's parents were very open minded and thought it was perfectly normal for boys like us to be interested. Anyway afterwards I went to WH Smith. The Mayfair on sale was the classic vol 11 no 10 with the amazing Lynne Davidson.

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t75...-davidson.html

Unfortunately I was so nervous I could not pluck up courage to get it off the shelf and take it to the checkout, so I left it. A week later I returned with new resolve. But the magazines had gone and now on display was vol 11 no 11 with Elizabeth Frogmore on the cover (beautiful and sexy but not in the same league as Lynne Davidson).

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t97...-frogmore.html

So that's the one I bought. I just remember my hand shaking as I took it to the middle aged woman on the checkout. (I suppose nowadays they would not sell it to someone obviously under 18). It was like entering a different world. In my real world sex was never mentioned but in the pages of Mayfair the whole thing was about sex. From then on I bought the mag on and off throughout the 80s and early 90s. I loved the girls and quest and the Carrie feature, the letters, the jokes, the sexually orientated film reviews etc. I really didn't appreciate the general interest stuff. Who wants to read about steam engines when you've just been wanking over these gorgeous naked women! It was wonderful when creamcheese appeared and it was possible to revisit those old mags from all those years ago. Sad that it has now gone. I have set up some pinterest pages with my favourite Mayfair models if anyone is interested.

https://www.pinterest.com/superscore...mayfair-girls/

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...22&FORM=HDRSC2

**haroldeye** · March 8th, 2019, 09:50 AM

Interested! Excellent job sir, I see why you have the word 'super' in your nom de VEF.

**Staffsyeoman** · March 8th, 2019, 09:26 PM

Don:t know what happened with the Bing links, but the pictures in over half of them don't match the names... Sure as heck isn't Corinne Russell...

December 25th, 2017, 12:04 AM	#21
Office Boy Former Staff Join Date: May 2008 Location: in the office upstairs Posts: 1,415 Thanks: 6,048 Thanked 40,263 Times in 1,357 Posts	Mayfair was easily the best mens magazine available for a very long time. A lot of models didn't pose for mags other than Mayfair. There was such a variety of topics within the pages like classic cars and trains, a very successful comic strip (Carrie), film reviews, music, eating out. Even jigsaw puzzles and their own movies (super 8 I seem to remember). It was a winning formula all the way. Only when Paul Raymond got hold of it did it become just another top shelf mag that was reduced to telephone numbers and in your face girls who appeared time after time often under different names and a totally different story. It was so far fetched at times, you could tell it was all lies. We know that not everything written in these mags were real, but Mayfair was more believable than the majority of others and I think this is why it stood way above what other mags served up. I collected Mayfair for thirty five years, and it is the volumes 6-20 which gave some of best articles and real girls, top names as well. __________________ DON'T TREAD ON ME.

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December 25th, 2017, 05:36 PM	#22
longjon73 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 116 Thanks: 33,305 Thanked 2,572 Times in 115 Posts	For me it's much the same thing. Pre-Raymond Mayfair was my staple, and I liked it a lot more than the other mags. High quality photography was part of that, but I did actually enjoy the editorial. The story was usually pretty decent, the letters were fun (I assume they were mostly made up as with other mags, but still good by comparison), the cartoons were excellent, and then there was Quest on that weird brown paper. I never really knew PB in its prime, but thinking of what made it great - beautiful photography and great editorial - I think the old-school Mayfair was about the closest the UK got to that kind of product. It really pays to put in the effort - such a shame that it went down the pan, but I suppose the whole magazine side of the business has been dying for years.

December 25th, 2017, 10:27 PM	#23
isambard1803 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 122 Thanks: 2,926 Thanked 826 Times in 106 Posts	The articles on issues of blokish interest were good - steam trains, traction engines, cars, military exploits, and so on. I think it was rather better attuned to British taste than Heffer's publication, with its rather overblown prattle about "the PB philosophy". it certainly took a noticeable and immediate nose-dive when Raymond took over.

March 8th, 2019, 07:40 AM	#24
superscorer2003 Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 21 Thanks: 45 Thanked 72 Times in 9 Posts	I was brought up in a very strict home where sex was never mentioned and Benny Hill was banned! When I was 15 a friend showed me his huge stash of Mayfair magazines that his dad had brought home for him (he was a fireman); this friend's parents were very open minded and thought it was perfectly normal for boys like us to be interested. Anyway afterwards I went to WH Smith. The Mayfair on sale was the classic vol 11 no 10 with the amazing Lynne Davidson. http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t75...-davidson.html Unfortunately I was so nervous I could not pluck up courage to get it off the shelf and take it to the checkout, so I left it. A week later I returned with new resolve. But the magazines had gone and now on display was vol 11 no 11 with Elizabeth Frogmore on the cover (beautiful and sexy but not in the same league as Lynne Davidson). http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t97...-frogmore.html So that's the one I bought. I just remember my hand shaking as I took it to the middle aged woman on the checkout. (I suppose nowadays they would not sell it to someone obviously under 18). It was like entering a different world. In my real world sex was never mentioned but in the pages of Mayfair the whole thing was about sex. From then on I bought the mag on and off throughout the 80s and early 90s. I loved the girls and quest and the Carrie feature, the letters, the jokes, the sexually orientated film reviews etc. I really didn't appreciate the general interest stuff. Who wants to read about steam engines when you've just been wanking over these gorgeous naked women! It was wonderful when creamcheese appeared and it was possible to revisit those old mags from all those years ago. Sad that it has now gone. I have set up some pinterest pages with my favourite Mayfair models if anyone is interested. https://www.pinterest.com/superscore...mayfair-girls/ https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...22&FORM=HDRSC2

March 8th, 2019, 09:50 AM	#25
haroldeye Moderator Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Halfwitistan Posts: 5,715 Thanks: 113,498 Thanked 59,965 Times in 5,707 Posts	Interested! Excellent job sir, I see why you have the word 'super' in your nom de VEF.

March 8th, 2019, 09:26 PM	#26
Staffsyeoman Vintage Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2,269 Thanks: 34,178 Thanked 26,750 Times in 2,159 Posts	Don:t know what happened with the Bing links, but the pictures in over half of them don't match the names... Sure as heck isn't Corinne Russell...