Older magazines?

[billTO]

Physique magazines paved the way for gay magazines and apparently at a price

Thank you, Charles. So interesting. I can remember guiltily buying the odd Physique Pictorial in my early teens ca. 1958-60

 

[engjock]

Thanks for sharing, Charles. Just hearing those stories resurrected the anger and rage that I felt in the late 70s and most of the 80s about the moral crusading bonfire lit by Thatcher’s government and fanned by the mainly tabloid right-wing press against any who wasn’t heterosexual, or appeared to be gay. While this was going on, the British Armed Forces were conducting a witch-hunt against personnel either perceived to be gay, or actually gay.
It was brilliantly captured by the singer Tom Robinson in his song ‘Glad To Be Gay’, sung here in 1979, with his trademark caustic venom he used for the song.

 

[Matros48]

Back in the day - 70s pre-internet - .book stores sold 3-packs of older issues of magazines wrapped in cellophane at a discounted price. You never knew what the middle mag was, but I bought my fair share!

 

[briefsguy773]

 

[briefsguy773]

 

[engjock]

That second magazine, briefsguy with the cover model of the guy sporting an armband marked MP, could describe the almost daily revelations of quite a few of the UK’s, mainly Tory, Members of Parliament (MPs) who have been exposed - in all senses of the word - inappropriately cavorting with young men in, as one of the more salacious tabloids put it, ‘kinky sex acts’, including gay orgies!

 

[BillyC]

That second magazine, briefsguy with the cover model of the guy sporting an armband marked MP, could describe the almost daily revelations of quite a few of the UK’s, mainly Tory, Members of Parliament (MPs) who have been exposed - in all senses of the word - inappropriately cavorting with young men in, as one of the more salacious tabloids put it, ‘kinky sex acts’, including gay orgies!

The tough part is in order to join in that fun, we need to win an election!

 

[engjock]

I’ll vote for you, BillyC if you vote for me. We could then form our own party called the Party Party and have as much fun as we want…

 

[BillyC]

I’ll vote for you, BillyC if you vote for me. We could then form our own party called the Party Party and have as much fun as we want…

You know (I hope) I’d always throw a vote your way (among other things ).

 

[briefsguy773]

 

[Opinionman]

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And yet also not amazing. It's themes testosterone-laden piece of clothing there is: It focuses on the very definition of manliness: your cock and balls. It's a way of showing off what a man you are by hefting up your equipment so the other men can see. It's used for athletics, the modern equivalent (in some ways ) of war, and a warrior is the most potent, sexual being there is. It was put on in the company of other men, a brotherhood of power. No wonder it was/is a sexual fetish.

* "It's themes testosterone-laden" == "It's the most testosterone-laden...

 

[Jake]

Hey all recently noticed on eBay listing for a magazine called The Jockey Club from what appears the late 80s, some seem to have guys in jock straps. I’ve not been in the skin mag environment much. Anyone else hear of these?

.....OH, YEAH!...I heard-of, and even joined the JOCKEY-CLUB...i think it was back in the 70`s, I`d just get a new little-book of guys-in-jockstraps each-month...and, you could make-comments to the guys in the pics, and they`d make comments back!...it wasn`t a "hook-up" mag or anything like that!...just something pretty-fun for any guys "into-jockstraps", like "I" am!...and, the many HOT young-guys who were willing to show-off in their young body and big-meat in their jockstraps!...at THAT time, I actually preferred the many small-scale (4x6") PHYSIQUE photo-mags available (showing many really "fit-n-hung" young-guys in their POSINF-STRAPS!...VERY-HOT-STUFF!...I`m even getting-hard thinking about-them!...many of those "posing-straps were "fish-net" and very "see-into" so, those super-hung, good-looking young-guys were able to show-you just-how-big their cocks and balls are, just by standing-there!...and, they were very-often either partially or fully-erect in their little pouch!...HOT!

 

[Jake]

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.....OH, YEAH!.....I`ve seen many of the gay "skin-mags" that were so prevalent in the 60`sand 70`s...there was one even called "UNZIPPED" that always featured many "really-HOT, HAIRY, MUSCULAR-N-HUNG, GREAT-LOOKING MEN!.....there was quite-a-nice-variety of magazines available back-then, and they may even still be-around!

 

[Wallyyyy]

My memory of vintage magazines goes back to my meekly going to the drugstore magazine rack to buy a magazine called Tomorrow’s Man. As a teen wanting to be around and see other muscle teens, it couldn’t have satisfied me more. I used to crave it almost daily. I would climb up into our garage upper rafters to be alone. I had so many wonderful afternoons jacking off to the pictures. It’s funny thinking about it now, but I would cum on a page and position it to dry out but not stick to any other page. I had a number of the magazines that had crinkled, swollen pages that got that way with my dried cum. And, yes, the man-smell was an encouraging factor. Interesting the things we did.