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H & E, Parade, Spick and Span – you’d probably need to be a man of my age to remember them. They were what passed for top-shelf “porn” when l was a lad. (It helped to be tall).  They were called “men’s glamour magazines”.

By today’s standards they were tame indeed, the sort of stuff you might have seen on page 3 of The Sun.  “Top shots” certainly but below the waist?  Nada.  By an early version of photo-shop editing nether regions were touched up to show nothing; it was as though a wound had been healed by the hand of Jesus.

It wasn’t the best sex education for 11 year olds.

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John Coopey

Tue 29th Aug 2023 22:00

Thankyou, Graham, Kevin and MC for your thoughts.

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 29th Aug 2023 15:16

Aha...a chance to recall many a distant morn
In a newsagent shop with its palest "porn".
Reveille, Tit-Bits and, if you sought real sparks,
The top shelf and the likes of Harrison Marks!
With glimpses no lad thought "obscene"
Of busty wife and model - Pamela Green. 😎

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kJ Walker

Sun 27th Aug 2023 19:53

Great poem John.
It nearly moved me to tears.
You handle the subject with a sensitivity which really tugs on the heartstrings.

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Graham Sherwood

Sun 27th Aug 2023 00:05

I’m finding it very difficult to understand what this observation of early pornography has to commend itself to remain on the poetry blog section.
Judging by your previous (recent entries) it falls very short indeed.
Can you reconsider?

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