Are Magazines No Longer Whacking Off Material?

[+ Gar1eth]

I'm watching a murder mystery where some gay porno magazines are found at the crime scene. 
 

One of the police persons states that, "No one jacks off to magazines in modern society."

Would y'all agree or disagree with that statement?
 

 For me it would be true now and would also have been true back in the day. I've only bought one or two Playboys in my entire life (and I can't remember ever buying another porno magazine -straight or gay)-not that the female centerfolds would have done anything for me.
 

 I bought the Playboy Girls Of The Southwest Conference Issue from the early 1980's because I had been in a children's theater group with one of the models. We were in several shows together. The first one I remember was when I was in 6th grade. It was The Prince And The Pauper. I joined the group late with the rehearsals already in progress. She played one of the Ladies Of The Court. I played a pauper although not The Pauper.  The following year we did Tom Sawyer. I was Sid,  and she was Becky Thatcher.
 

In the Playboy Pictorial she wasn't completely nude as I recall. She had strategically placed bath bubbles. Not that her (or the other women's)  pictures did anything for me. But as a preteen to teenager  I had never really expected to ever see that much of her. Every time I hear the song "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band  I think about her. 🤭🤭🤭

 

But I digressed from my query-was the law officer character correct? Do people not jack off to magazines anymore? 

Edited yesterday at 08:41 AM by Gar1eth

[maninsoma]

I jerked off looking at magazines before I got my first VCR in the mid 1980s, but watching moving pictures is a lot better than magazine stills.

Does anyone still jerk off looking at magazines?  Maybe if he doesn't have internet access or the ability to play videos at home.

[jeezifonly]

I had a ton of gay magazines acquired in the late 70s-80's. Eventually cut out all my favorite photos and used them to make gift tags and xmas tree ornaments for family. 

[nate_sf]

I've been watching that show too (DTF St Louis) and took note of that line - particularly because print media was always my favorite form of porn, and in a way it still is. I think most guys prefer video or cam, but I still like the still images. 

When I was a teenager, and into my college years, I rented a post office box so I could subscribe to Playgirl and receive my issues there. This became more comical once I lived alone, but I was still afraid to have the issues arrive at my apartment. What if someone saw my mail?!? Now it all seems so ridiculous, but that was me then.

There was a thrill to visiting the post office box in those days. I'd open up the little door, and my heart would beat with excitement if I saw the magazine curled up in the box (I suppose my dick beat a bit with excitement too). Now with the internet, everything is available instantly, so that anticipation and excitement just isn't there.  

[CuriousByNature]

Does the Sears catalogue count? 😆

[+ azdr0710]

9 minutes ago, CuriousByNature said:

Does the Sears catalogue count? 😆

https://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/the_man_on_page_602

 

[+ Gar1eth]

6 hours ago, nate_sf said:

When I was a teenager, and into my college years, I rented a post office box so I could subscribe to Playgirl and receive my issues there. This became more comical once I lived alone, but I was still afraid to have the issues arrive at my apartment. What if someone saw my mail?!? Now it all seems so ridiculous, but that was me then

@nate_sf-you just reminded me of two things. 
 

1) My sister is 5 years or so older than I am. She went off to college at the University of Texas when I was about 13. She lived in a dorm where two rooms were connected by an in between bathroom. In the toilet stall they had put centerfold pinups from Playgirl. I have a vague memory of really liking those photos when I "had to go."  

2)  When I was away at school, my Dad (G-d rest his soul) wanted to subscribe to Playboy. But he had the same fear, you did @nate_sf, of being exposed. My Dad's solution-he subscribed to Playboy in my name. 🤣🤣🤣
I don't think I knew anything about it until I either came home for a holiday or for the summer. 

[+ sniper]

My earliest material was the underwear and swimwear ads in the Sunday papers. 

[mtaabq]

I don’t believe many of us use magazines anymore for “whacking material”. I do have an 80’s era “Playgirl” that I found at a vintage store in Palm Springs. It’s fun to take out occasionally and share with friends and comment on “beauty standards” of 40+ years ago. I also have a box of old gay rags, “Honcho”, “Inches”, “Playguy” and the like, that I discovered at a garage sale. Again, fun to take them out and remember who and what we thought was “hot” back in the day. And yes, as a young man I would get the Sears catalog and go right to the men’s underwear pages. (This was long before Calvin Klein told us it was all right to objectify the male body in white briefs.) But whacking? Thank you, no. I’ve got my memories and my phone. 

[jeezifonly]

I know that there are some LA readers here who, at least once, hooked up with somebody while cruising at the gay mag rack at Circus Of Books. 

[+ PhileasFogg]

In general, are magazines still a thing?