I live in Germany, and before I first went "online" (around 1994 via Compuserve) I used to be a regular buyer of hardcore porn mags here. I also used to buy the occasional bit of softcore such as "Leg Show" (legs / stockings / lingerie being my particular thing).
Since then however, my mag-buying activities have steadily declined to the point where I now can't remember the last time I bought a porn mag of any description, the main reasons for this being
(a) my regular "fix" is readily available on the Web and ...
just as importantly...
(b) the continued decline in the quality of the mags in question, in terms of both content and the quality of the paper used etc. (the prices have of course risen though!)
Who's still buying top-shelf mags?
Re: Who's still buying top-shelf mags?
In this country probably the photographers to use as proof of publication to get paid. Which gives you an indication on the state of some of them.
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planeterotica
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Re: Who's still buying top-shelf mags?
There seems to be more topshelf mags for sale now than before the internet took off, its difficult to see how they can all be making money in what is supposed to be a shrinking market.
Re: Who's still buying top-shelf mags?
Yes, I virtually never buy them.
I did when I was offline for a while - seems obvious why.
I did find some of the teen lesbian sets very nice, they had considerably improved since the days before I went online. And something about them seemed better...online I only tend to bother looking at the more extreme ones, whereas the slightly softer ones in the magazines 'worked' for me more than the net equivalent.
that said, been back online for a while, so haven't bothered to buy magazines - I just do sometimes in Soho (which I go to about once every year or two these days).
I did when I was offline for a while - seems obvious why.
I did find some of the teen lesbian sets very nice, they had considerably improved since the days before I went online. And something about them seemed better...online I only tend to bother looking at the more extreme ones, whereas the slightly softer ones in the magazines 'worked' for me more than the net equivalent.
that said, been back online for a while, so haven't bothered to buy magazines - I just do sometimes in Soho (which I go to about once every year or two these days).
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Re: Who's still buying top-shelf mags?
It's fair to say the Internet has all but murdered the good ol' jazzmag. Even the 'portability' of paperbound pussy-prose has been undone by the boom of the laptop.
Even we, in the UK, got all the crap stuff in it's heyday (blue dots covering up the action? I'm an adult, I can handle it, WTF????) and only now when the internet has trivialised hardcore porn does the UK relax it's previously-repressed laws when (in mag terms, not for movies) it just doesn't matter anymore.
One word in the defence of the modern-day UK scuddy: LaraLee (one word, see? !wink!).
Is it now a case of the cliched argument of porn becoming 'mainstream'? Even the likes of Loaded, FHM, Nuts et al (even Men's Health is doing features on the relative merits/ pitfalls of visiting brothels as a part of the modern, high-paced lifestyle of the career man for goodness sakes) can certainly be branded on the saucier end of softcore, bordering on hard- teenage lads have got it good these days, having the luxury of legally and unashamedly buying that!
Anyone here read a copy of 'Bizarre' magazine??
Even we, in the UK, got all the crap stuff in it's heyday (blue dots covering up the action? I'm an adult, I can handle it, WTF????) and only now when the internet has trivialised hardcore porn does the UK relax it's previously-repressed laws when (in mag terms, not for movies) it just doesn't matter anymore.
One word in the defence of the modern-day UK scuddy: LaraLee (one word, see? !wink!).
Is it now a case of the cliched argument of porn becoming 'mainstream'? Even the likes of Loaded, FHM, Nuts et al (even Men's Health is doing features on the relative merits/ pitfalls of visiting brothels as a part of the modern, high-paced lifestyle of the career man for goodness sakes) can certainly be branded on the saucier end of softcore, bordering on hard- teenage lads have got it good these days, having the luxury of legally and unashamedly buying that!
Anyone here read a copy of 'Bizarre' magazine??
Re: Who's still buying top-shelf mags?
It does seem ridiculous that films are still subject to censorship over here when anyone can go online and see what the hell they like...
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planeterotica
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Re: Who's still buying top-shelf mags?
I found a bag full of wank mags the other day all recent ones and the totty in them was all first class and the pix of a very high standard maybe the mags are fighting back!love!