Vintage Men’s Mag Cover Scans
3 Comments Published by Joel December 21st, 2006 in Tonic, Women. Share This
Flickr user “bittercinema” has scanned an inspiring collection of men’s magazine covers from the ’50s and ’60s, the sort of proto-porn that our fathers and grandfathers used to spank it before Playboy made it okay to own pictures of actual breasts. While I can’t say I’ve ever really read any girly mags from this era (and how strange that polar terms “girly” and “men” can both describe this sort of cheesecake), I’m an unabashed sucker for the paintings that defined their scintillating! shocking! covers!
Men’s Mags photoset [Flickr] (Thanks, Brownlee!)
And, what, two decades later “actual breasts” were deemed outmoded and replaced with synthetic.
Yeah there’s something “classy” about old-school pinups. Probably partly due to the fact that they’re socially acceptable now, compared to the scandalous 50’s. I hope in 30-40 years we don’t have hardcore split-leg porn on t-shirts, painted on the noses of warplanes or anything like that. All bets are off in Japan though.
My own personal “collection” is limited to a couple faux-50s pinup paintings I bought at the open-air market in Havana a couple years ago. They’re slightly less tacky than a Budweiser poster in the “men’s room” where we drink beer and play Xbox, although one is an “ad” for Cristal Beer and the other for Havana Club rum (also available in said room) :)
These
kick
ass.