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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 02:20 PM
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What magazines were under your mattress as a teenager?
I had a couple trans-worlds skate/snowboarding, snowboard Canada, And...some other stuff :-)
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 02:24 PM
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1. National Lampoon.
Subversive. Sick. Funny.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 03:04 PM
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8. I still have most of mine!
Really beat up, though, not worth anything, except for the High School Yearbook. Great fun to read them occasionally.

As for my mattress, it was the usual Playboy/Penthouse stuff. I found out recently that my mom knew they were there, but was cool about it.
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 02:26 PM
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2. Journal of the American Rocket Society.
The really good stuff had not yet been invented.

180
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Rashind Donating Member (221 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 02:26 PM
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3. Hmmm
A hustler(I hate that magazine, btw, it just had one particular very pretty girl in it), 900,000 back issues(okay, only about 140) of Nintendo Power, and some Club magazines(yeah, that's porn. I actually like that one)
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populistmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 02:39 PM
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4. Any women here between the ages ages of say 28 and 34 remember Sassy?
It was published only about 3 years and it was sort of the alternative chick's version to Seventeen in the late 80's. Kind of sexy, but more self-empowered and much less commercial. That was my favorite. I remember getting Spin on occasion also. And my diary was always kept way under my mattress as to not get me into any trouble.

Sarah
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 02:39 PM
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5. Valley of the Dolls.....I read it staying up for 2 days as
it was a very long book. In the summers of my youth I would purchase 1/2 dozen lemons and eat the ENTIRE lemon, including the skins while reading books that would sizzle some people's hair!

My father had a collection of very good paperbacks that I read cover to cover overnight while they slept..cause I was on summer vacation and could sleep all the next day.

Talk about an education...ever hear of 'bennie (sp?) boys'? In the Middle East? I had not before and have never since...but they (did or do) exist!!
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 02:41 PM
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6. When I was a teen ager, a few hundred years ago...
(OK, it was actually in the 1950's) Most magaizines were carved in stone tablets or rolled up on parchment scrolls.

Seriously: Popular Mechanics, every SciFi mag in the world (Analog, F&SF, Amazing, Astounding, etc.) and one treasured copy of Playboy.
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 02:42 PM
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7. Under the mattress???
Lots of porn, obviously.. all the non-porn mags like "Guitar for the Practicing Musician" and "Hockey Digest" were up on the bookshelf.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 03:08 PM
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9. OMNI
Gods, I miss that magazine!
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 07:19 PM
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25. Me to Kef
I loved OMNI nothing out there like it now!!
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 03:17 PM
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10. True crime.
Not one word you guys.
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Throckmorton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 03:19 PM
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11. Ones with pages stuck together
I use to pass thru a gay cruising area delivering papers each morning. Ah yes, BlueBoy.
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darknemus Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 03:23 PM
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12. A few..
'Get Kinky' - a Fetish / BDSM magazine. Mostly Female Dominant content.

'Skin Two' - a Fetish fashion magazine, also more Female Dominant type content

'Penthouse Variations' - a Penthouse publication focusing on, again, Fetish type content. Gee, I'm beginning to sense a pattern here :)

-darknemus
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Sephirstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 07:31 PM
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27. hehe...
Join the club...

non-Repukes who get off on dominant women.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 03:43 PM
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13. Scientific American
for the centrefold
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 04:01 PM
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14. The McGuffey Reader
Signed:
Old Fart
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 04:04 PM
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15. Playboy
For the crossword
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Laughing Mirror Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 04:09 PM
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16. TV Guide and Reader's Digest
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 05:20 PM
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17. Playboy and Penthouse!
I was about 10 when a neighbor got married and was forced to dispose of his collection. My brother and I saw them at the roadside in boxes waiting for the trashman. Got the wagon out and toted them home. We stacked them in our shared bedroom in plain site. About a week later, dear old Dad said "you know boys, if there would be something in your room that would embaress your mother, I think you should do something about it." Out to the road the magazines went.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 05:20 PM
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18. haha
Every kid seems to find a sogy half torn up nudie book somewhere eh?
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 06:55 PM
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22. This was the mother lode of porn- at least 80 mags! n/t
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NaMeaHou Donating Member (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 05:21 PM
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19. Sears-Roebuck
Granny had an outhouse.
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 05:22 PM
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20. Mad Magazine.
I went to boarding school so I had to hide it between the mattress and springs. The nuns didn't approve. I wonder what hissy fit they would have had if the National Lampoon had been available then?
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 06:14 PM
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21. Smithsonian, Scientific American, Omni, National Geographic (n/t)
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 06:55 PM
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23. None. My parents were real cool as long as I kept my copies...
of "Penthouse", "Oui", "National Lampoon", and "High Times" in my room (and out of the den)
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 07:08 PM
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24. Swank, Club, Barely Legal
Edited on Sun Oct-12-03 07:10 PM by JVS
Didn't keep it under the matress though, The closet of my room adjoined the stairs to the attic. I hid it under a loose step.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 07:28 PM
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26. I didn't have a mattress you insensitive clod!!
Really, I kept Mad magazine, and various Hot Rod magazines under my bed.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-03 07:35 PM
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28. Model Railroader, MAD, Computer magazines of various types
That was about it when I was a kid, I guess. Had a subscription to OMNI and some photo magazines when I was in college.

I think the only time I've ever bought a porn mag was the Playboy with the woman from Wheel of Fortune, can't think of her name now, and that was when I was in college. Bought it at the college bookstore, too! HA HA!
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