Submitted by DasherPack t3_ynww49 in todayilearned
Reply to comment by Gemmabeta in TIL about "The Pearl": An underground pornographic magazine issued monthly between 1879 and 1880. Its contents were three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest, and flagellation. It was shut down by the British authorities for violating standards of obscenity. by DasherPack
The joke used to be "I only read Playboy for the articles", but in reality it had tons of great journalism, short fiction and very few pages of nudes. People were interspersing their wanks with political commentary with Playboy.
Basically. I mean, you had pulitzer/Nobel winners writing essays, and showing some bush.
Then Larry Flynt shows up with people pounding it out, showing clits & what not
> you had pulitzer/Nobel winners writing essays, and showing some bush.
You wouldn't think to look at him, but Norman Mailer had an incredible set of gams.
You're not wrong.
Hugh Hefner was generally trash person, & likely abuser. But that dude had great taste in authors/contributors
It's always weird to me because it's difficult to know how to feel about it, but yeah. The publisher Hugh Hefner did some amazing work, even though as a boss and a person he apparently was an utter asshole from all I can find on it.
And spread open pussies.
Penthouse mag too, iirc. Then Hustler arrived on the scene and it was all about the wanking from there on out.
Penthouse seemed to straddle the line with journalism but more nudes, more explicit nudes and "Penthouse Letters". Hustler leaned fully into porn and taboo humor.
Gotta have some good material when the post nut clarity kicks in
Also, for literally decades, they only showed bare breasts.
Turns out post nut clarity is amazing for reading about politics and understanding social commentary
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