How old were you when you first reached up for the top shelf?

[bga35]

I was 15 and at a bookstore

[greg7474]

14 and half, sneaky peaks in them before doing my paper round in morning

[DrFever]

12... I used to sneak a playboy or Hustler in between a regular magazine waiting for my dad at the barbershop and then used that method to slip top shelf mags into the lower shelf comics

[slowdiver]

I was 14, the month was August 1982 (just checked on Cream Cheese, to identify the exact mag - Mayfair Vol 17 No 8 )

We used to have a paper reserved at the local newsagents, and when I popped out to get it, I slid the magazine under it. The older lady behind the counter just assumed the magazine had been reserved with the paper, and let me take it no questions asked

[goonblart]

Back when I was 12(1995) I stole a pack of playing cards with naked ladies on them from a tourist shop in Honolulu. All the images were from the 60s and 70s, few Ginger Lynns and Kay Parker pics in there. Been hooked on the classics ever since.

[sailordave]

14/15 working as a newspaper boy in local paper shop, got a few fiestas from the stock room

[moogfooger]

I didn't muster the courage to try actually buying a jazz mag until I was 18, but I first had access to them at 13 via my brother who worked at the shop around the corner and would sometimes pinch a copy or two, and eventually accumulated more than two large printer paper boxes worth of mags. Then, in addition to that, between the ages of 14-16 a couple of mates and I would occasionally sneak out at night and sometimes stumble across bundles of magazines (of all types) left outside newsagents by the delivery drivers, during the early hours (this was before everyone had lock boxes). That'd often turn up 2 or 3 issues of Men Only, Mayfair, Men's World, or the like. Was like stealing treasure

Certainly not an activity I'd condone today, but it was a hell of a lot of fun at the time.

[TomLit]

Originally Posted by slowdiver

I was 14, the month was August 1982 (just checked on Cream Cheese, to identify the exact mag - Mayfair Vol 17 No 8 )

We used to have a paper reserved at the local newsagents, and when I popped out to get it, I slid the magazine under it. The older lady behind the counter just assumed the magazine had been reserved with the paper, and let me take it no questions asked

I was older than you then, but that Veronica Waters set... That cost me some cum lol.

[Greenman]

16 yrs old but always been tall so never found top shelf stuff a problem. I used to get two and quickly hide one in a newspaper so I only paid fir one, sneaky yes but in those days there was no cctv around and any mirrors the shopkeeper used had at least one blind spot. Problem was some of the mags that I didn't pay for turned out to be rubbish as like so many others I was suckered by the front cover promising a page 3 girl inside but 9/10 times there wasn't one😡

[Girlfan]

I was a late starter! Being (at the time) fairly reserved, I had relied on magazines I'd found before I finally stumped up the courage to buy my first magazine, aged 18, in October 1980. It was this copy of Fiesta:



I bought it from the John Menzies' bookstall on Liverpool Lime Street station, and I can even recall that I had to wait about five minutes to make my purchase whilst a group of elderly nuns (nuns!), moved away from the area. I can even, in my mind's eye, picture the girl who served me: tall, thin, shortish dark hair, big glasses (today we would call her Geeky), and two or three years older than me. That purchase changed my life, as it were: 37 years later (almost), I still have the magazine, and it was the first of hundreds I bought - until the (in my eyes) fall in magazine quality and the advent of shaved girls/tatoos/fake tits etc. in about 2000, and the rise of the internet ended my magazine buying days.