![]() ![]() Partial exceptions include Penthouse and Mayfair, which – despite Hopkinsian nonsense along the lines of “sea-spangled, sun-stained, Suki steps in sand-summer silence”, etc – limit themselves to analyses of the playmates’ careers and keep-fit programmes, only rarely probing into their lifestyles (ie, sex lives).Ĭonversely, Paul Raymond’s booming monthlies, Club International and Men Only, revert to a sophisticated version of Soho’s hard sell. No less detumescing in its way is the house-style of the ritzier glossies. But he didn’t use a brush” – thus spake Zette, and thus speak most of her colleagues. In the current issue, the lovelies are asked to air their views on the dividing line between sex and art, a debate that naturally enough centres on the performances of their more creative boyfriends in bed: “He was the most wonderful artist I ever met. Girl Illustrated is fairly typical in this respect. Similarly, editorial pressure eases and the nymphs are allowed to speak for themselves, although one way or another they usually end up stressing their scorn for monogamy, their freedom from inhibition, their empiricism in matters sexual, their firm preference for men with a sense of humour – in short, their availability. A publication like New Chance, for example, will still gawp and gloat at its sitters but won’t actually caress itself with the deliciousness of it all. On the one hand, the nudes on the other, the husky, nudging captions: caught in that sensual music, presumably, the subscriber grinds himself empty.Īs the quality of the mags rises, the canvassers have less work to do. Perhaps it’s with this in mind that the pimp-like copywriters encourage you to make, as it were, the girls’ acquaintance. Now these girls are probably much on a par with some of our own imperfect consorts, and they might even prove endearing if more modestly presented. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance. ![]() If I was once so stirred by those reticent likenesses, how would I react in the era of the full-frontal and ice-hardened nipple, of the Tampax shot and the pubic close-up? Since my own early activities in the field were confined to nocturnal, torchlit perusals of household copies of Woman’s Realm (the underwear ads) and Littlewood’s Catalogues (surprisingly good value in this respect, actually), and since I had caught only the odd Titbits and Parade during my formative years, it was with some trepidation that I fanned out the glistening cache of masturbatory material assembled for the present report. Realistically considered, the nude magazine is a visual aid, designed (in Kurt Vonnegut’s phrase) for lonesome men “to jerk off to”. Amis would go on to work on the New Statesman’s books pages. In the second, he reported on the erotic bankruptcy of soft-core pornography. The first, “Fleshspots”, was a tour of Soho strip clubs of varying distinction. In 1973, following the publication of “The Rachel Papers”, Martin Amis wrote two columns for the New Statesman as the lusty “Bruno Holbrook”. ![]()
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