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History of Men's Magazines: v. 6 (History of Mens Magazines) (Hardcover)

by Dian Hanson (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 460 pages
  • Publisher: Taschen GmbH (16 Dec 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 3822836370
  • ISBN-13: 978-3822836378
  • Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.6 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,867 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you've ever experienced. You're about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men's magazines - not magazines about sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men's hearts and other body parts: the undraped female form. Former men's magazine editor Dian Hanson traces its development from 1900 to 1980 in six massive and informative volumes. Volume 6, the final word in this encyclopedic series, is reserved for the most daring and extreme edges of the publishing field. In the late 1960s adult bookstores and sex shops spread across Northern Europe and North America to house an increasingly explicit crop of magazines resulting from the international sexual revolution. Magazines sold on the newsstand had to conform to mass taste and morality, but in the sex shops the only limits were imagination. In the 1970s, drunk on freedom, editor's imaginations ran wild. Come peek inside the sex shops of Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Holland and the US to see what liberation really meant. Read about Berth Milton, the man who toppled Sweden's obscenity laws with his magazine "Private"; the Danish Theander brothers whose motto was, "The First, The Biggest, The Most Pornographic"; Reuben Sturman, founding father of Southern California's vast sex industry; John Sutcliffe, who made gasmasks sexy with his Atomage magazine; and worst film director Ed Wood Jr.'s secret and surprising men's magazines. Volume 6: 1970s Under the Counter contains 460 full color pages of covers and magazine interiors and 18 chapters of information-rich text. Together with Volume 5 it forms a complete overview of men's magazine publishing of the 1970s. With Volumes 1 through 4, these two books complete the six-volume set of Dian Hanson's: "The History of Men's Magazines".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good illustrated survey, 10 Jan 2006
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For students of the genre this book provides a good illustrated survey of what late 1960s and 1970s porn magazines were like and some insights into the industry. This volume begins just before the advent of the "hard core" era and then progresses into it. Even with its 460 pages it isn't comprehensive but does provide a good representation of the various magazines that appeared, both mainstream and "specialty", although the publisher has been undertandably selective about the latter. The majority of illustrations are of covers but there are internal pages also. With heavily made up models, the technical standard of print reproduction of the era and the general emphasis on debauchery, my guess is that normal people would be inclined to use adjectives like "amusing, crude, sleezy, eccentric" rather than "erotic" or even "artistic" for most of the images, but there are exceptions. There is an accompanying text about the industry, mainly in North Europe and the USA, which again isn't comprehensive; a shame as the history of the industry would have made good reading - if the space allocated to the French and German translations had been instead devoted to this, it could have been enough. It seems that today print pornography has been substantially displaced by the electonic variety so this is a worthy subject of historical interest.
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