Growing up what images did you wank over?

Tom Selleck's chest. Any 70's bulge, like Robert Plant, Mick Jagger, DeDe Ramone, Bobby Sherman.

Is this a 70s bulge?

I'll try again with the 70s bugle pictorial reference inquiry.

Robert Conrad in his skin-tight outfits as "James West".

Sears catalogs that came in the mail. Back then they had photos of boys my age in underwear. Turning to those pages instead of the teen girls was part of when the light bulb went off in my head and think 'Oh shit, I'm fucked.' And yes, I'm a dinosaur.

I thank god for all the men's underwear ads in the magazine "GQ", which just anyone could buy.

Prime wanking material for a young lad.

Yes, those Jockey ads were wonderful: Jim Palmer, George Brett, Steve Garvey, Joe Montana and Bart Conner. I remember an interview with Jim Palmer where he credited the lighting guy with making him look so good.

Marky Mark

Yeah, little pre-teen me wanked off to the Sears Catalog too. I hated when they stopped using real live guys for the underwear shots.

International Male

New York Times men's fashion section

Any department store circular featuring men in very little clothing, swim suits, underwear.

I remember one local store featuring gorgeous men, with fabulous torsos with gold chains, ' bedecked and bedazzled' I wore that out!

Oh, and the obvious, girlie magazines with the men featured with the women. Obviously attracting the bisexual crowd.

Sears catalog, Sports Illustrated (NOT the swimsuit issue), baseball games on TV, the odd time Donahue would have Chippendale's strippers...

Aubrey Beardsley's drawings of big ass dicks;)

[quote]NOT the swimsuit issue

Lol

I hated the swimsuit issue, what a waste of ink!

I'm with R10--the International Male catalogue was a godsend.

Televised professional wresting matches (during the mid 1970s)

There was a 70s book called "Man Watching" but it wasn't about MEN but Human kind and behavioral science etc... well in the center of the book was a whole set of pictures... at the very center fo the book were the pictures of a naked man and a naked woman facing each other. It was not a complete profile but an angled one... so you saw the nude bodies. That was the first image I remember wanking to and cumming.

back in the early 70's, there was a poster of Burt Reynolds in a football jersey, looking over his shoulder, naked from the waist down. Got a LOT of mileage outta looking at his beautiful furry butt.

this

The Burt Reynolds spread in Playgirl.

R15 - Yes. Bob Backlund was a favorite.

Great answers

Robert Conrad on Friday night and Race Bannon on Saturday morning.

I can remember being 6 years old and feeling something every time James West was tied up- which was nearly every episode.

Shirtless OJ Simpson in the locker room

Pictures of River Phoenix, Edward Furlong and Jason James Richter from tv and film magazines, and a book with Caravaggio paintings.

[quote]The Burt Reynolds spread in Playgirl.

Except for the fact it was in Cosmo.

Oops, thanks R25.

"Why is he taking the encyclopedia into the bathroom again?"

My friend Jack Row came over often to jack off to my Playboys. Jack didn't know that I was jacking off to him. Sometimes he oiled my ass cheeks and humped my crack, shooting his sperm on my ass. No penetration

Working Out by Charles Hix. Gayest 'exercise' book ever published.

[quote] Sometimes he oiled my ass cheeks and humped my crack

[quote]Jack didn't know that I was jacking off to him

Yes he did.

Tom Selleck did some cigarette ads. His handsome face and the tufts of chest hair sticking out of his shirt was enough for me.

Absolutely International Male. The clothes were godawful but the underwear and swimsuit sections were superb.

Captain Kirk on the USS Enterprise; he was young and hot and all man back then.

I remember playboy would sometimes have pix of men. this was one of them (NSFW)

We had a magazine with this CK ad in it, and I could not stop staring at the guy's ass. Gave me all kinds of warm and tingly feelings.

Who were "we", R33?

It was on my family's coffee table. Some popular magazine, maybe TIME or something.

Baseball players. I wore out the NY Mets yaerbook, the Yankees yearbook too. I loved Tug McGraw,Wayne Garrett, Ron Swaboda... well you get the idea.

P.S. On the Yankees side special mention goes to Lou Pinella who was smoking hot back in the day

R30 Those Tom Selleck Salem cigarette ads! YES!!!!!

The Jack Scalia underwear ad.

Back in the day Jack Scalia was in a very short lived series with Rock Hudson called "THE DEVLIN CONNECTION" Jack was supposed to be Rock's son. I remember reading an interview with Jack Scalia in which he said he and Rock would spend huge amounts of time together to try and get that father-son dynamic going. Ummmm yeah!

There was a picture of model David White in nothing but his skivvies that I ripped out of one of my mom's catalogues (either Sears or Montgomery Ward), and kept under my mattress. He was the perfect man to me back in the late '70s-early '80s. Many years later, I discovered that he did a spread in Playgirl and desperately wanted to see it, but because this was pre-internet days, I never got to until just a few years ago.

The segments of Monty Python episodes that featured (almost) male nudity.

R38 Boy they did some job of transforming him every week to play Larry Tate. No wonder why Dick {the gay one}Never quit McMann and Tate.

Patrick Duffy " Man from Atlantis"

Cartoon Prince Nimrod Sub Mariner.

John James "Dynasty"

Stefan Edberg

My dad's porn stack. There was one magazine with a hot guy dressed as a sheik and some blond bimbo who presumably was part of his harem. The guy had a really big fat cock, and it was what I used to jack off for the very first time. I learned from one of dad's Penthouse Forum magazines that something other than piss could come out of one's cock. All I knew is that it would come out when one's dick was hard and that you were supposed to stroke it. When cum came out of me for the first time, I was shocked as shit. It felt like I was peeing, but it wasn't pee. And I was a shooter from the very first time, so it sure felt and looked like pee had gone flying all over the bathroom, but it was definitely not pee. Good times.

Did my High School obsession with Tom Selleck in those Salem ads have anything to do with my later cigarette smoking habit? Or was it just because I liked that Salem is an anagram for "males?"

Bobby Sherman poolside photos. He had a hard on.

Davy Jones shirtless pics

Fabian in Playgirl

Also Jim Brown, Christopher George, Don Stroud....just about ANY pictorial in Playgirl.

Ah yes! How could I forget Playboy's Sex in the Cinema features? Harry Reems!!!!!

After Dark entertainment magazine had some great wanking off black and white photos thanks to Kenn Duncan.

I used to like Ted Wass, first on Soap then as Blossom's dad.

Mm, I'd still do him.

Burt Ward in his little Robin tights. And when he was tied up? Mercy!

Harry Reems from Playboy magazine

Burt Reynolds from Cosmo

It was the first time I saw a naked hairy man!

The Sears Roebuck Catalog male underwear models. LoL.

LOL!!!

Some of my favorites were:

Andrew Stevens

Andy Gibb and his big brother Barry Gibb

Harry Casey from KC and the Sunshine Band

Randolph Mantooth

Dack Rambo

Ted McGinley

John Travolta

You get the idea... basically anybody! LOL

Robby Benson in 1978's "Ice Castles"

I can't tell you the effect this man had on my 17yo mind and body!

And to be perfectly candid...the effect still holds.

Can you blame me?

I used to cut out the men's underwear pages of mail order catalogues and other sexy pictures of men from newspapers and magazines and hide them in my room. Funnily enough I found some of those images a couple of years ago while clearing out my old wardrobe at my parents house. It made me feel very poignant to discover this stuff. I still remember the thrill when buying the Marcus Schenkenberg book or the excetiment when discovering the undergear catalogue in the mal box.

Guys I knew. Mind and memory were my only masturbation manual.

Shaun Cassidy, Ralph Macchio

Growing up, what images did you wank over?

Zac Efron

Dr Oz

International Male catalogue

My older brother kept a stash of Playboy and Penthouse magazines under his bed, and both magazines would put out fantasy sex scenes with women and men together, so those were one way. My parents signed off on an 'adult' library card for me (for my education, of course) and I repeatedly took out the same 'art book' on Andy Warhol for it's photos of Joe Dallesandro (still the sexiest man I've ever seen). And International Male, of course (especially with Bill Cable). The first Playgirl magazine I bought featured a sex scene with Bill Cable and Cassandra Peterson (Elvira).

BUMP.

A friend came over once and suggested we skim my mom's romance novels for the sex scenes and read them to each other. We didn't jerk off then but once he left, I sure did. Obviously the men painted on the covers were all super hot.

The first time was over the picture of a male Greek statue, and I'm a lesbian. Or rather, I believe that like most people, I am bisexual, but in my case I am definitely way more into women, and quasi-exclusively into women romantically. And since I can't really have sex unless there's romantic involvement... There you go.

My mom's Cosmopolitans and Us both would often feature shirtless pics of models and celebs. I remember a full page picture of Gregory Harrison in a speedo inspiring one of my first orgasms. I also remember the Sunday newspaper having a picture of shirtless Dolph Lungren from whatever Rocky movie also being very boner inducing for me. And the summer issues of GQ with the swimsuit pictorials were prime jack off material.

Porn on my laptop.

Humped my bed to this in my youth...

Thanks for your post, r62. I remember seeing pictures of Bill Cable but I never knew that was his name or anything about him.

R51 Andrew Stevens was one of my favs too. He starred in and produced a lot of low quality almost soft-core porn movies in the 90s that use to play late a night on tv.

The Chippendales calendars

[quote]Thanks for your post, [R62]. I remember seeing pictures of Bill Cable but I never knew that was his name or anything about him.

Gurl, he's been discussed ad infinitum on DL.

One of my personal 70s Playgurl faves >>

Gay pron Bill Cable?

This:

As a horny kid, I'd put my hands over Mark Spitz's Speedo in this picture and imagine him being totally nude.

GQ had a swim suit issue every spring. I'll never forget the day I worked up the courage to buy it at the supermarket.

When I see those pictures of Bill Cable, I wonder what's wrong with today's gaylings; they prefer Bieber and ben Barnes. I don't get it.

While I think it's unfair to put the delicious Ben Barnes in the same camp as Bieber, I'm relatively young (26) and prefer the 70's male aesthetic.

This photo of Robert Mitchum from Polly Bergen's book, Polly's Principles, which was supposed to be on the family's meager library shelf, but spent an inordinate amount of time in the bathroom with me.

I blame (and thank) it for my later predilection for rough sex.

Leigh McCloskey, whose turn as a gay hustler in "Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn" single-handedly rescued the made for tv movie.

Now Leigh is a New Age guru and artist

Finding your blossom with Leigh McCloskey

Why did your family have that picture on your library shelf, R80? lol!

Sneaking peeks at older female cousin's Playgirl mags, or tearing a page or 2 out of the older ones so she wouldn't notice.

Also, sometimes Playboy would feature nude dudes in the back section pages. Really small pics, but they did the trick. Mainly, strong imagination and fantasizing ability. My minds eye and creativity were more effective than secondary materials and half clothed bros.

The World Book Encyclopedia. This picture in particular.

The book was on the library shelf, r80. My family was not academic, as you might guess. When I say shelf, I mean one shelf was the extent of the family library.

Lots of what has been posted resonates with me.

There were Tiger Beat mags around, my sister and our friends had them. I liked Parker Stevenson a whole lot. Sears catalogs. Somehow I was getting the International Male catalog delivered at my parents' house at 17(!) probably because I had a subscription to GQ then--it was very homoerotic in the mid 80s.

Shamefully I remember thinking about shoplifting Playgirl from the bookstore in the mall but what I ended up doing was buying like four magazines together, including Playgirl, and hoping the cashier would let me. Of course the guy at Waldenbooks was cool with it. Looking back, I should have followed up on the little smirk.

[quote] Looking back, I should have followed up on the little smirk.

Life's full of lost opportunities, isn't it?

There is a same-sex fertility ritual among the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico where the 18 year olds are brought out, half dressed as women, and the ones dressed as women publicly fellate the others in front of the whole tribe and then spit the semen on the ground in order to encourage the crops to grow. There was a photo of one of these rituals in an otherwise generic travel photo book of Mexico where you could see the penis being serviced and I used to return to that book over and over and over and so it used to flop open to that page, so I cracked the binding on another page to hide what I was doing.

¿Qué Pasa USA? used to air at midnight on weekends where I lived, so I could watch it undisturbed as I was the only one left up at that hour.

Steven Bauer filled out jeans even better than the Duke boys.

R91 = Steven Bauer

The ones in my head.

[R30] - ditto

George...George...

"Exercise for Men Only" was gay in its title, so you couldn't be seen with it. Parents were hip to muscle mags being homoerotica. But almost as good was "Triathlete" and you didn't even have to be one to get the occasional copy.

My bad, R87, this thread has trained my eye to focus only on images on sexy men, no reading. I totally missed that the picture was from a book.

Text was big. Allen Drury, Gore Vidal, Alex Haley, Mary Renault also had homoerotica passages. And the Harvard Lampoon 'Cosmopolitan' parody introduced me to a whole new world of dirty talk with comic lines like "I wanna ram my roto-rooter up your sewer!"

I bought this in a bookshop along with a bunch of other books. Served me well.

Like others, the numerous men's exercise magazines. As for images, I remember an ad in the late 80s/early 90s that showed rows of men in speedos lying face down on chaises longues with one guy on his back in the middle of the group.

Mike Piazza was the stuff of many jerk off sessions. Baseball players wore much tighter uniforms then, and his butt drove me wild. Same with Troy Aikman and other football players.

Penthouse Forum often had "letters" from "readers," who had gay encounters. It provided great reading inspiration.

There were exercise shows on public television in the mornings. One featured a model from the International Male catalogue. As it was the late 80s/early 90s, the models were often in lycra.

Found this video. I remember lusting over Gilad!

The Lord Won't Mind, by Gordon Merrick. Bought with money from my first job, age 16, at the BDalton bookstore at Great Northern Mall

The only image was the super sexy cover illustration, which got my attention in the store. But the text was very hot. I had no idea about some of that stuff, which was not as explicit as stuff today, but I got the idea. Charlie and Peter, measuring for wearing each others' clothes

R1 you're grotesque

Shirts v. Skins in the high school yearbook.

Fleeting glimpses of male skin in "Love, American Style"

Batman and Robin. Duh.

Hubba hubba

Soloflex ads

funny I just saw Batman 1966 yesterday and Adam West is so handsome and Burt Ward adorable as fuck. They look awful in the suits which are beyond unflattering tough. R1 Jagger?? I just threw up all over

And free Solofex videotape mailed to your home, by filling out a form, r107.

In the early days of VCRs, that was unprecedented. I think I wore mine out.

Unusual Underthings ad

Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?

This made me want to start sucking cock.

[R62] amazing...by the way most people here on this site....are over 50? just wondering

R112 why is that? he has no cock

R113 50 is young for Data Lounge.

Tom Cruise in All the Right Moves. I know, I know.

[R115] damn

But the 40/50+ age range is what makes threads like this interesting. There's very little porn here because porn was not ubiquitous when we were growing up.

There is more innocence (of a sort) and imagination at work here.

That said, most of my adolescent wanking was done imagining various men from real life. I jerked off very occasionally to photos and very occasionally to television, but more often it was men who I had seen and heard and shared physical space with. That somehow seems hotter than porn because the fantasy is much closer.

You nailed it, R118. One of the images I jerked off a lot to was a photo of the swim team from my high school yearbook. When I saw that photo years later, I realized that the guys weren't really anything special but boy did they ever fuel some of my fantasies.

We had pube shaving parties like you wouldn't believe

That was definitely one of my fantasies, R120!

Yearbook photos were great material

This one

Great pic, R122. Look at that guy at the farthest right in the front row!

R124 He is cute. Is that you back in the day?

If only, R125!

Viva magazine which they sold in the grocery store, believe it or not.

Agree with Bobby Sherman, Robert Conrad, International Male, Sears and JCPenny catalogs.

But from my earliest pre-wank memories, it was all of the artwork from our family Bible. They were so proud that I had such an interest, but I was really looking at the nearly-naked men like this.

Waaay back in the day, maybe 1982 or so, my aunt decided my mother needed an "awakening" or something, so she sent her a stack of books from Doubleday book club. Most of them were your typical pop-culture feminism. And one was "Making Love:: How to be Your Own Sex Therapist" by Patrica E. Raley. My mother never looked at any of them, and just shoved them on a bookshelf in the rec room.

I stole it as soon as she did. It was the most fascinating book I had ever seen. Tons of pictures...straight, gay, lesbian. I jerked off to it a lot, but I also read it at least ten times, cover to cover. It fascinated me. I think I have a pretty healthy attitude toward sex now, and its probably because of that book.

[quote]Viva magazine which they sold in the grocery store, believe it or not.

Viva = hawt

Recall Viva was published by Penthouse's Bob Guccione as a rival to Playgirl. Viva featured up and coming young actors like Ben Murphy in erotic full frontal but not erect duos with girls. Yes you could by it at the local 7/11 where as young gayling I pinched many an issue.

Always looked forward to Playboy's Sex in the Cinema issues as that was the only time they showed dick.

In England we had Films & Filming. I even had it sent to me in boarding school.

I especially remember this issue >>

On the weekends, to give my Mom a break from a couple of rambunctious boys, my father used to take me and my brother to a grindhouse where you could watch all the B and C movies you'd ever want to see for a single admission or to the drive-in where they'd have dusk-to-dawn marathons, rewarding you for staying all night with a box of doughnuts as you left. When people ask me now why I don't keep up with the latest movies, I try to explain, "You have no idea how many thousands of bad movies I've watched." So lots of karate movies, badly dubbed European horror films, blaxploitation movies, and those specific made for drive-in sort of movies. So the first male actors I saw nude were Richard Roundtree and Fred Williamson. Tom Skerritt in 'Big Bad Mama' with Angie Dickinson. Some anonymous blonde stud seduced by Claudia Jennings in 'The Great Texas Dynamite Chase'. And most of those movies I ended up seeing several times, so my teenage mind desperately tried to memorize every frame of those scenes the second and third time I saw those films.

Like many of the posts above, International Male catalog was my main wanking material until I turned 18 and could buy gay porn magazines without fear.

But I clearly remember the time my 1st gay friend and I found a trove of Playboy and Penthouse magazines in the trash. we were maybe 14, we went through Playboy and tossed them all out because they had no dick. But Penthouse occasionally did have a semi-naked guy and also the forum was fun to read. we didn't understand a lot of the stuff we were reading but what we liked it anyway so we would jerked off together.

Also, we discovered at the local Walden's bookstore the magazine, "After Dark" ostensibility an "entertainment" periodical. However, it never failed to show gorgeous actor, models, and/or dancers semi to fully nude men. And so it being an "entertainment" magazine, I wasn't too embarrassed for my teen self to purchase it.

Every now and then, National Geographic would have pictures of naked natives and you'd sometimes get to see ass and cock.

[quote] But Penthouse occasionally did have a semi-naked guy

You've reminded me of 'Oui' which was mostly female nudes. My brother had a few around and they always had a'One For The Ladies' photo.

& some couples.

'Oui' again.

Very 70s speedo shot. Hawt.

>>>>

Afterwards >>

On very rare occasions, Life magazine would feature male nudity. I'd live for those issues.

When I was a freshman in high school in 1980 taking French I received a stack of French magazines for Christmas. Included was an issue of Paris Match with an article on the then-new American phenomenon of male strippers including a full page bare ass photo a guy doing his thing. There was also a great underwear ad in that issue of a dad casually lounging in his briefs around his family. Other than that it was recalling guys I'd seen in the locker room at school or scenes from HBO movies I'd caught late at night after my parents were in bed such as The Odd Angry Shot a 1979 Australian movie about Vietnam with a gratuitous full frontal scene of hot suntanned soldiers in the showers.

R139-R141 looks like Vanna White's late fiancé John Gibson who acted, posed in PLAYGIRL and was a Chippendale. He died in a 1986 plane crash.

That magazine photo shoot with actor Christopher George...I thought I'd died and went to heaven.

Does anyone remember that nude layout with 3 generations...a son, father and grandfather! Didn't care much for the son and grandfather, but the father was hot.

Jethro Bodine!

Swim team yearbook photos were hot.

As an 80's/90's kid, the internet was still not as common as it is now (in fact, I didn't really see porn until maybe my 9th or 10th grade year). I'd read up on what movies featured male nudity and rent them at my local mom and pop video store. I lived for Sam Elliot in The Legacy, Bruce Willis in Color of Night, Joe Dallesandro in anything, Rob Lowe in Bad Influence, Don Johnson in The Harrad Experiment, etc. You'd always have to pause at just the right moment on the VCR. Good times.

Mark-Paul Gossaaler. That is all.

Harrison Ford as Han Solo. Especially images from the scenes in "The Empire Strikes Back" where they have him in bondage being tortured and when they freeze him in carbonite. Still colors my kinks to this day. Also, certain images of Superman, where he looked particularly beefy. (NOT Christopher Reeve!)

Male model and Playgirl centerfold David White.

[R62] First time I saw him, jerked off then i saw wikipedia he is dead ..am i a bad person?..he was so hot

[quote] ..am i a bad person?

These things happen.

You can't tease us like that R151...you gotta deliver the pay off!

gorgeus

Like many of you I resorted to "emancipating" Playgirl magazines form Waldenbooks, B.Daltons and local grocery stores throughout my early adolescence. My biggest haul was at some second hand store that had stacks of old Playgirls and Playboys behind the counter. I waited until the owner left the building to help a customer and managed to stuff around 30-40 mags down my pants and inside my coat before running out the back door. Exhilarating! The only time I almost got caught was trying to sneak out with the issue with the photo of the guy I've included. When I took one look at him there was NO WAY it wasn't coming home with me and no suspicious, bitchy checker was gonna stop me!

Now....what to do with all this purloined porn?

Right now, (unless they've been discovered over the past 23 years) under the attic floorboards and hidden basement recesses of my childhood home are enough back issues of Playgirl to fill the bed of my truck!

There may still even be some torn out centerfolds placed between the pages of dusty old back issues of American Quilter magazine stored at the Monmouth,OR public library.

Scott Madsen and Soloflex ads.

hairy pubes and hairy bodies are amazing

I do not like hairy pubes or hairy bodies.

Also Matt Lattanzi in Rich and Famous and My Tutor.

[R160] hairy guys with beards and full bush and baby faces make them look more raw and hot, not hairy guys look like boys i prefer raw guys

Colton Haynes XY photos. I was in Boarders Books and found randomly found the magazine. They didn't have cameras in the back so I took it into the bathroom and tore out Colton's spread. I used to jerk off to those photos and almost cry afterwards because they were so beautiful and I didn't know if I could ever come out and be happy that happy. I was in middle school when I stole those pictures, I still have them!

Sorry it was Books-A-Million not Boarders.

Aidan Quinn in Reckless.

I remember when the 84 Olympics were in Los Angeles I would cut pics out of the paper. Most of them were the swimmers and divers in their speedos. And Life magazine had one shot of Steve Lundquist in a blue speedo that fueled many fantasies.

When I was in my early teens, the drugstore near where I lived had a big magazine display area, with multiple shelves displaying the standard stuff - Good Housekeeping, People, etc. The dirty magazines like Playboy and Penthouse were kept in a rack right by the cashier. Every once and while, though, one of the dirty magazines would find its way to the big display shelves. One day while I was browsing the shelves, I found a Playgirl magazine hidden inside an issue of Sports Illustrated.

The magazine featured this guy - David Peters - and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I carefully stuffed that issue under my shirt and walked out of the store, scared to death I'd get caught and be exposed as a thief AND a homosexual, but I was willing to risk it for the beauty of this guy. David Peters kept me happy many a lonely teenage night.

R145 Is this the one you're talking about?

Of course the Sunday department store ads, Jim's Jockey ads, and International Male. At some point I discovered Club magazine which features more couples. There was also Touch which was mostly text, but so hot!

One of my best memories was a couple - he was very hairy and she was covering him with shaving cream. So hot - what I wouldn't give to see that spread again.

R147 Oh, my God! What is this from? That's not your typical yearbook photo! That naked stud on the upper right! Whoa!

The local newsstand sold Athletic Model guide magazines I used to put them inside a large magazine and steal them. When I was at home I used to wonder who in my little town is buying these?

R163 -- Seriously? Boarders??

Another David White fan. A few years ago, I saw a current photo of him somewhere, still looking gorgeous in his middle years.

Christopher Atkins Playgirl issue was my # 1 companion in the summer of 1982.Stuck-together pages meant I had to buy-or was it shoplift?-a 2nd copy.Memories!I still have them.

The London Times published a pic of men in a Texas prison. I was shocked that one showed them showing and dicks were on display. I beat off to that many, many times.

Yes, Mama's mussy was raw like snail dragged over a hot pavement.

I just want to say, love the classy OP. Yes, Greek Nudes, still awesome 2500 years later.

Gallons of 14yr cum spilt.

Oceans of 15yr cum split ^^