Anyone remember finding Playboy magazine as a child?

I was a "confused" youngster who tagged along with older boys. A Playboy find seemed like a big deal to them. I could appreciate a woman's beauty. But one day someone brought a Hustler magazine. I still suffer ptsd from those pictures. So disgusting.

by Anonymousreply 55September 2, 2022 2:41 AM

Yes, I remember finding my oldest brother's stash of dirty girly magazines under his bed. Didn't get what the big deal was then and still don't. ;)

by Anonymousreply 1August 28, 2022 7:30 PM

Everyone finds these. It’s almost a staple of American childhood.

by Anonymousreply 2August 28, 2022 7:34 PM

[quote]Everyone finds these. It’s almost a staple of American childhood.

Once upon a time. Who buys magazines anymore? Kids today have access to hardcore porn on their phones. That's their staple.

by Anonymousreply 3August 28, 2022 7:39 PM

My neighborhood friends and I were about 9 years old and one of them found one in a vacant lot and picked it up and started thumbing through it.

The other guys gathered around in a way that I couldn’t see what they were looking at.

When I asked what it was, the one holding the magazine said, “Nah, you wouldn’t like it.”.

I didn’t know what he meant, but the rest of them all seemed to.

I remember feeling bad and left out.

I guess they were right, but was never sure how they knew.

by Anonymousreply 4August 28, 2022 7:41 PM

This is an Eldergay poll.

by Anonymousreply 5August 28, 2022 7:42 PM

R5 Shoo, Zoomer. Your mother left a bowl of tide pods for you in the fridge.

by Anonymousreply 7August 28, 2022 8:02 PM

[quote]Anyone remember finding Playboy magazine as a child?

an english teacher would copy articles for the class to discuss in High School

by Anonymousreply 8August 28, 2022 8:07 PM

I found two playgirl magazines in the garage when I was around 13

by Anonymousreply 9August 28, 2022 8:40 PM

R9, were they your dad's?

by Anonymousreply 10August 28, 2022 8:42 PM

We’d all gather around porn videos and wank

by Anonymousreply 11August 28, 2022 8:42 PM

Playboy magazines were always around our house, my uncle's place and our family's shared vacation home. I was probably 6 or so when I started looking at them and my parents were cool with it. This would have been 1966-73.

I never saw any hetero hard-core until a schoolmate discovered some porno mags that had been thrown out. I was probably 14 or 15 before I ever saw a close-up pic of female genitalia. I actually saw gay porn a few years before that when I discovered my older brother's stash.

by Anonymousreply 12August 28, 2022 8:42 PM

My parents found a Playgirl under my mattress. Will never forget that!

by Anonymousreply 13August 28, 2022 8:43 PM

^ My mom found a stash of mine in a box in my closet.

by Anonymousreply 14August 28, 2022 8:56 PM

R10, I don't know. One day they just vanished.

by Anonymousreply 15August 28, 2022 9:04 PM

Your parents were nosey so-and-sos

by Anonymousreply 16August 28, 2022 9:13 PM

R17 It's called a typo asshole.

by Anonymousreply 18August 29, 2022 12:56 AM

My parents found my Playgirl when I was 14 or 15. I was so embarrassed but my mother said “it’s ok to be curious, son”. My father just smiled and patted my back.

It is now a good memory.

by Anonymousreply 19August 29, 2022 2:14 AM

I'm gay but as a teen I was closeted and wanted to be straight so bad. I stupidly thought I could will myself to be straight. So, I had a collection of Playboys, Penthouses and Hustlers that I assembled. I used to share them with male friends and relatives as a way to avoid suspicion. I tried to stare as hard as possible at the female nudity to be aroused, didn't work. Hustler though had actual fucking in it. So, I'd just get aroused by the hot guys and their big dicks. Just like I could watch straight porn but be bored by lesbian porn. I liked all of the articles, politics, reviews, grooming and style tips, photography, cartoons and the humorous stories. Some of the Penthouse forum stories were arousing. I had a bunch of Maxims too which I similarly just kept for the articles. The women looked nice and I could appreciate their beauty but did nothing for me sexually. I don't get the queens who act like the female body is so gross. It's not.

by Anonymousreply 20August 29, 2022 2:39 AM

Yes, hustle magazine eventually had hard cocks in it, so that was certainly an improvement over playboy and penthouse.

And you could buy it right on the news stand! Or flip through it when no one was looking lol.

by Anonymousreply 21August 29, 2022 3:35 AM

I remember a friend bringing home something called Puritan. Despite the title, it was the most salacious hardcore porn I had ever seen. It was hetero, but lots of giant cocks being slammed into mouths and vaginas. He wasn't even 15, but the perv who ran the Leo bookstore didn't give a shit and sold it to him.

by Anonymousreply 22August 29, 2022 8:45 AM

[Quote]This is an Eldergay poll.

This is an eldergay forum.

by Anonymousreply 23August 29, 2022 8:48 AM

My dad had a subscription to playboy - he kept a stack of them on the top shelf of the den closet. As little kids we’d look at them in front of my parents. I once naively asked my mom if she was jealous of the women dad was seeing in the magazine and she just laughed and said “don’t be ridiculous!”

by Anonymousreply 25August 30, 2022 3:52 AM

I grew up in the early 60s. I’d find my uncle’s stash of Playboys when we visited on vacations. There was no pubic hair shown at the time. Then Playboy and Penthouse started the “pubic wars”. Penthouse was always ahead of Playboy, first pubic hair, then vagina lips, then open-legged spread.

When I saw my first Playgirl, I wasn’t expecting to see cock and balls. I was over the moon when I found the good-looking models displaying their full-frontal goods surrounded by the thick bushes popular in the era. I thought they were so bold to do this. Totally stimulating.

by Anonymousreply 26August 30, 2022 4:08 AM

This is called "woods porn" because it's often hidden somewhere outside. There were a few locations when I was a kid, and if you were a gay kid, you definitely wanted to stumble upon a Hustler! Lots of boners shown back in the 80s. There was a black garbage bag full of magazines under the porch of an old house down the street. There was another place in my neighborhood that was an abandoned garage, and you could sneak in and climb some stairs to a loft space that had a milk crate of magazines (and one time, a VHS porn video with "FREE" written on the cover in black marker.

by Anonymousreply 27August 30, 2022 4:39 AM

I didn't mind Playboy. You couldn't really see anything in the 80s - bush and landing strips. When I finally saw a raw, used, set of saloon doors, I almost puked in my mouth though.

by Anonymousreply 28August 30, 2022 5:11 AM

Are those magazines worth any money? I found a pile of them in my brother's garage

by Anonymousreply 29August 30, 2022 5:26 AM

Oui! Does anyone remember that mag? I found it in my older brothers treehouse it was a straight porn but more "European" and had close up of cocks going in the vagina, so I was fascinated by that whole dynamic. Later I realized I was only looking at the cock.

by Anonymousreply 30August 30, 2022 5:38 AM

Perv Thread. OP wants you discuss your teen BOY sexual memories. No thank you.

by Anonymousreply 31August 30, 2022 5:38 AM

I remember thinking the girls in Playboy looked impossibly pretty and polished. It seemed like such a wide gulf between me and what men wanted.

It was like, “Well, even if you changed your sex, how do you pull off THAT??”

It only later occurred to me that not everyone settles down with a centerfold. Or a woman at all.

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by Anonymousreply 32August 30, 2022 6:59 AM

For a gay boy I ended up purchasing a lot of Playboys. I think it was the kitsch/culture aspect for me. I loved the celebrity layouts back in the day, like Joan Collins, Suzanne Somers, Farrah Fawcett, Bo Derek etc. Oh and the “articles” lol.

by Anonymousreply 33August 30, 2022 9:33 AM

R32 I remember when news hit of her death. It was truly shocking.

by Anonymousreply 34August 30, 2022 9:36 AM

I found hardcore straight porn under my brothers bed when i was about 8 or 9, and was completely grossed out by female sexuality, splayed legs and hairy vaginas with lips....first and only time I've seen female genitalia and have no wish to see it again.

by Anonymousreply 35August 30, 2022 10:23 AM

I saw my first hustler in the 1970s

It had a spread that had a nude man with a hairy chest

I ignored the naked woman

by Anonymousreply 36August 30, 2022 1:24 PM

[quote]But one day someone brought a Hustler magazine. I still suffer ptsd from those pictures.

Pussy.

by Anonymousreply 37August 30, 2022 3:04 PM

When I was 10, in the early 90’s, I was sledding at a neighbor’s house with my best friend (11) and my brother (12). My friend went to go pee in the woods and didn’t come back for like 10 minutes. My brother went to find him and he didn’t come back for a bit. So I went, and I found them sitting in a burned out VW bug with a stack of playboys between them and a few more in the backseat.

They decided to take them all back to my house ( we had plastic toboggan sleds that could hold a lot of playboys) and hide them in my brother’s room. These magazines were from the 70’s- there was a lot of bush, tube socks, and roller skates on the women. I looked at a few because every so often there’d be a good dick visible and that was exciting. I also liked the joke page even though I only understood about 50% of them. I wasn’t traumatized by the women but I knew I wasn’t interested in them.

My bro had those magazines until he moved out at 17. Then he put them in a box and left them in the woods for some other little kid to find.

by Anonymousreply 38August 30, 2022 4:28 PM

Saw one belong to an uncle.

Two fingers with long pink nails pry open the labia revealing the slimy pink center very much the reason why I'm hopelessly homo today.

by Anonymousreply 39August 30, 2022 4:46 PM

I remember a Playboy or two, in pretty bad condition, that had been stuffed into my father's wardrobe. There were far more copies of a certain nudist magazine. The women in that one were far from model-like - though they tended to be better than the men - but I have wondered whether that might have been my father's only way of accessing pictures of naked men. Might help explain his hatred of homosexuality.

by Anonymousreply 40August 30, 2022 4:56 PM

My friend offered to show me his dad's stash, saying, "Wanna see some bare ladies?" I remember thinking it meant ladies dressed up in bear costumes. Imagine my surprise.

by Anonymousreply 41September 1, 2022 4:03 AM

[quote]Once upon a time. Who buys magazines anymore? Kids today have access to hardcore porn on their phones. That's their staple.

God, how old are kids the first time they come across hardcore porn these days on the internet? I was barely a teen when I got my first computer in the late 90s. I looked at porn right away. Today, you can barely look at a site without coming across some ad for a gangbang. No wonder Zoomers aren’t interested in sex. There’s no mystery anymore.

by Anonymousreply 42September 1, 2022 4:16 AM

lol @ r41.

Of course, his daddy could have been into furries had it been today.

by Anonymousreply 43September 1, 2022 4:16 AM

I much preferred finding Hustlers because there was always at least photo essay with a guy showing his weiner in it!

by Anonymousreply 44September 1, 2022 4:18 AM

My friend, a girl, her mother, straight, not married, had stacks of Playboy out in the open in the bathroom on top of the tank. I still never understood that one. I guess she really did read it for the articles. I never got a lesbian vibe from her mom, even today.

by Anonymousreply 45September 1, 2022 4:18 AM

I came across Playgirl in a book store as a kid, open on the floor with a spread of a nude man. I wasn’t even 10. I kept walking back to the spot where it lay. Hardly anyone was there that day.

by Anonymousreply 46September 1, 2022 4:20 AM

We found a bunch of vintage dirty magazines in the study of my friend's dad. I'll never forget close-ups of those curly 70s vaginas for as long as I live.

by Anonymousreply 47September 1, 2022 4:23 AM

When I was a kid, we found boxes of my cousin's porn mags- Hustler, High Society, OUI, Gallery..etc. Of course, being a hormonal 13 year old, I stole a few and jerked off to them daily.

by Anonymousreply 48September 1, 2022 4:37 AM

[quote] But one day someone brought a Hustler magazine. I still suffer ptsd from those pictures. So disgusting.

I remember the first time I saw a Hustler. It was when I figured out I liked both. I hadn't seen a naked grown man in all his glory before.

by Anonymousreply 49September 1, 2022 4:39 AM

I remember some of the more sleazy girlie mags having ads for other porn, including gay porn. I remember frequently jacking off to ad with a postage stamp sized picture from Preppy Summer.

by Anonymousreply 50September 1, 2022 8:05 AM

"I don't get the queens who act like the female body is so gross. It's not."

Pussy is gross, has nothing to do with being a queen. Plenty of masc men do not like the female form, esp the vagina, stop repeating those conversion therapy talking points. You to stop shaming other gay men, homophobic fags like you are the reason the community is so fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 51September 1, 2022 10:23 AM

R51 Agreed. I've known plenty of women who think pussies, even their own, are gross. Just as there are exclusively homosexual men that find ass or even dick gross. I don't understand it, but it occurs. Finding a body part gross should not be shamed, and has nothing to do with sexuality, it is just an individual trait. And, you are right there are an awful lot of straight masc men who find pussy disgusting. That is why so many do not reciprocate with oral sex with their female partners, and as someone who enjoys performing oral on both sexes, I do not mind they feel this way. Thanks to their aversion to pussy it provides me with an easy way to please and impress women. Also, the men. Since one major reason for women not sucking off guys is because the guys never eat them out. So some end up looking for guys to suck them.

by Anonymousreply 52September 1, 2022 1:31 PM

Gash is smelly and gross.

by Anonymousreply 53September 1, 2022 2:46 PM

Pussies ARE disgusting. They look like ax wounds.

by Anonymousreply 54September 2, 2022 2:33 AM

My father had a collection in his clothes closet. It turns out my grandmother got the subscription for my grandfather who would then pass them onto my father. I found them when I was around 11. I would look at the centerfolds after school when my parents were at work. I loved those girls and was envious of their lives.

by Anonymousreply 55September 2, 2022 2:41 AM

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