These little magazines, with titles like 'Lush', are delightful if you can track them down; bringing a nice sample of late 1950s erotica. They are Soho to the life, the Soho of pinball machines, men in grubby raincoats, hissing coffee machines and jazz down the basement steps...
Spick and Span two Harrison Marks publications guaranteed to turn a young man blind or put warts on the palm of his hand depending on which old wives tail you believe:
http://www.npl-york.co.uk/sitemap.html
This may interest some twisted deviants, Polaroid porno photos and every month a new amateur Super 8 porno movie, takes me back to unzipping my mate's dad's golf bag:
http://www.tickl-magazine.com/you
When I was a young trainee archivist working in the National Library of Wales, my desk was amongst the book stacks next to the personal collection of John Cowper Powys (a completely mental, and not very good Anglo-Welsh writer). Part of his collection included a good number of 'Spick and Span' and other late 50s early 60s, er, gentlemen's art publications. He must have been in his 70s-80s at the time - fair play, the randy old goat. Needless to say, I gave them a good perusal - air brushed pubes.... don't get that myself, but apparently pubes were illegal at the time.... on film, you understand.
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Indeed, an air of innocence abounded - big, healthy girls too - tastes, I suppose, have changed.