tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post8483425997452942347..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Playgirl Is Zipping UpDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-46107271937067554942008-11-17T14:00:00.000-08:002008-11-17T14:00:00.000-08:00Nevermind, somebody already posted that video.Nevermind, somebody already posted that video.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-13941311893009851182008-11-17T13:49:00.000-08:002008-11-17T13:49:00.000-08:00I suppose now is a good time to trot out a YouTube...I suppose now is a good time to trot out a YouTube video that I've had favorited forever. It's a 1960s anti-porn propaganda film. Pretty funny. It talks about the "muscle magazines" that were really used for homoerotica back in the 50s and 60s.<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WojmnD7KhL8Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-70378361751299934482008-11-17T13:45:00.000-08:002008-11-17T13:45:00.000-08:00Maybe the Feds should bail out CSM and Playgirl wh...Maybe the Feds should bail out CSM and Playgirl while they're at it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-45638787426397353202008-11-16T17:39:00.000-08:002008-11-16T17:39:00.000-08:00Citizens for Decent Literature Presents. . .BTW, i...Citizens for Decent Literature Presents. . .<BR/><BR/>BTW, in the You Tube "Great Pink Scare" trailer,<BR/>there are excerpts from a film that was produced<BR/>by none other than Charles Keating, "Perversion<BR/>for Profit", which is now part of the Rick Prelinger<BR/>archive of ephemeral films.<BR/><BR/>It's available for viewing in its entirety here:<BR/>http://www.outzonetv.com/video/outthen.php<BR/><BR/>("Boys Beware" is also worth a watch. Great idea<BR/>for a theme party -- watching high-school<BR/>guidance films from the 50s.)jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-18573973334975584492008-11-15T19:41:00.000-08:002008-11-15T19:41:00.000-08:00BTW, I actually remember buying a few issues of Pl...BTW, I actually remember buying a few issues of Playgirl<BR/>when it first came out in '73. I was in college at the<BR/>time, but still living at home during part of that year.<BR/>I had to bear the humiliation of **buying** them at the<BR/>Newark (Delaware) Newsstand, at a cash register operated<BR/>either by an unpleasant older guy with a cigar, or by<BR/>a rather hunky guy who drove a jeep (and who might possibly<BR/>have been gay himself, it seems to me in retrospect).<BR/>There was another soft gay porn magazine from around the<BR/>same time -- After Dark (which was ostensibly an<BR/>"entertainment" magazine, but which was rather heavy<BR/>on the homoerotic imagery).<BR/><BR/>I seem to recall that Playgirl originally eschewed<BR/>full nudity -- there'd be, e.g., a photo with a hint of the<BR/>inner fold of a buttock visible up the leg of a guy's<BR/>shorts.<BR/><BR/>And then, after they got rid of clothes, they'd print<BR/>letters from (or ostensibly from, ostensibly female)<BR/>readers begging them to show a guy fully aroused.<BR/>Which they always politely declined to do.<BR/>I can't remember when **that** particular<BR/>milestone was reached, sometime late in the 70's -- it<BR/>may in fact have been when Playgirl (whose editors<BR/>still claimed at that time to be producing a magazine<BR/>for women -- give me a break!) was superseded by<BR/>frankly-gay (but still intended for the newsstand,<BR/>not for the adult bookstore on the highway) glossies<BR/>like Mandate.<BR/><BR/>My father never had a Playboy subscription, but he<BR/>**did** have a collection, from before he was married,<BR/>of issues of the muscle magazine Strength & Health.<BR/>My favorite of these was the April, 1951 issue with<BR/>a cover pic of a guy named James Park, which got me<BR/>all hot and bothered before I knew what that meant.<BR/>http://www.musclememory.com/magCover.php?sh;195104;Strength+and+Health<BR/><BR/>Only 13 years before Playgirl went on sale, possession<BR/>of the kind of "beefcake" magazines that circulated in<BR/>the 50's cost 3 Smith College professors their jobs:<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/obituaries/20dorius.html<BR/>-----------------------------------------<BR/>"Joel Dorius [was] one of three gay professors of literature<BR/>caught in a pornography scandal and forced out by Smith College<BR/>in 1960. . . in a celebrated case of sexual McCarthyism. . .<BR/><BR/>[H]is life at Smith, in Northampton, Mass., crashed on<BR/>Sept. 2, 1960, when three state troopers, a local police officer<BR/>and a United States postal inspector raided the home of a<BR/>colleague, Newton Arvin, 60, and found boxes of "beefcake" magazines<BR/>and pictures of men — illegal pornography then, but much of it<BR/>like today's Calvin Klein underwear ads — and diaries detailing<BR/>20 years of his closeted gay life.<BR/><BR/>Under interrogation, Mr. Arvin — a professor of American literature<BR/>at Smith, winner of the 1951 National Book Award for his biography<BR/>of Herman Melville, a friend of the critics Edmund Wilson and<BR/>Malcolm Crowley and a former lover of Truman Capote — named names,<BR/>including those of Mr. Dorius and Edward Spofford, both untenured<BR/>Smith professors. Their homes were raided, too — Mr. Dorius was<BR/>away at the time — and more materials deemed pornographic were found.<BR/><BR/>. . .<BR/><BR/>In an era when homosexuality was widely viewed as an abomination —<BR/>criminal, sinful and a mental disease — but accepted on many college<BR/>campuses as long as it did not surface publicly, the arrests crossed<BR/>the line, and Smith suspended the three professors. Mr. Arvin was<BR/>later allowed to retire at half-pay, but, despite faculty protests,<BR/>the contracts of Mr. Dorius and Mr. Spofford were not renewed.<BR/>-----------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22The+Great+Pink+Scare%22&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-33178476074538646192008-11-15T16:48:00.000-08:002008-11-15T16:48:00.000-08:00> [M]y mother. . . subscribed to the publicatio...> [M]y mother. . . subscribed to the publication for<BR/>> roughly three of the four years I was in high school<BR/>> as a protest against my Dad's Playboy subscription. . .<BR/><BR/>I'm speechless!<BR/><BR/>> Mom's trashed Playgirls under my mattress. . .<BR/><BR/>I can just imagine you staking out the trash,<BR/>making sure you didn't miss one. And then, of course,<BR/>sneaking out at 1 in the morning to "sort" the<BR/>garbage. What must the neighbors have thought?<BR/><BR/>;->jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com