Gay Skin Mags

Disgusting. This type of pornography needs to be banned. It's no different than necrophilia.

I used to buy the 3 for 9.99 package of old issues at the porn store. Used them to jerk off when I was a teenager and then hide the mags in a secret place my bedroom closet.

In the pages of the Blueboy magazine!

Instinct and XY.

Cock magazine.

Do we have a pic of R1? Why yes, here it is:

Honcho. And it was one issue at the tender age of either 16 or 18. ((There was a piece of fiction, story that I really liked.)

Inches, occasionally Black Inches, Playgirl, and a few others I can't remember. Maybe All Man? X rated porn was banned in my state so I made do with the only local gay gift shop in the lobby of a sleazy motel. Every 3 months or so I'd go back and load up again (no pun intended).

I spent my youth jerking off to porn mags.

Inches and Mandate. I lived in Podunk, Pennsylvania and had to drive 30 miles to a college town to buy them.

I liked one from the late 80s/early 90s that covered the gay porn movies and stars. Called Manshots.

Actually covered porn model deaths on the last page, carrying obituaries of those that had died (mostly of AIDS)

Any magazine, like Mandate, that carried more than just photo spreads of nude models was pretty decent. Mandate had some fun articles and features.

Honcho for sure. There was a thicker, more expensive and much more hard core magazine that I liked too. Name escapes me. I lived for the magazines.

Inches and Black Inches were my favorites.

Agree with R11. Manshots had interviews, detailed reviews of various movies, and (very sad) obituaries for porn performers who had passed away, with their real names and stories of their lives.

Black Inches, Advocate Men, Manshots.

Wasn't there also Latino Inches?

Exactly, R15!

I read Mandate for articles.

Torso

Was there also Asian Inches?

Yes, R20 - but it was called "Asian Inch".

"Stroke"

Does anybody else remember "In Touch for Men"?

It was the first gay magazine I read in college.

It combined naked guys with good pop culture writing. Sort of like the Entertainment Weekly of gay porn.

I still remember the first issue I bought and hid in my dorm room - it had Lance on the cover.

Torso. Rump.

R23 I too enjoyed In Touch For Men. I also recall that they had a good web site with a lot of free content.

Another favourite is Adam Gay XXX Showcase with stills from the videos. I actually prefer looking at the stills than the movies themselves. I still have a box full of them.

R22, Stroke was the best. And most expensive.

Torso was the other one I was trying to think of. Had some hot pics. At some point they just became "whatever free photos the porn studios will send us" though.

I used to love "Latino Inches." Those inches seemed much longer than the other inches.

In Europe, was "Inches" sold as "increments of 2.54 Centimetres?"

All of the above, plus of course Colt magazines.

Torso and Stroke for me. I also liked the 3-packs of the smaller mags with mostly reader stories and a few photos, like FirstHand.

It was Freshman Magazine for me.

"Bound & Gagged" let me know that I wasn't the only gay guy who liked tie up games!!

The stories in "First Hand" were often hotter than the photo magazines.

R25 - or anyone else who may know - was Adam Gay XXX Showcase the one which was very glossy and the size about two or three regular mags? I remember a mag, which sounds the same as described, which featured primarily studio releases and actors including new videos and ones in production. It never featured models in layouts as far as I remember.

I bought the Adam Gay Video annual review magazine every year they did one, I think they did about 15 of them. Reviews and photos of all the videos released that year, performer profiles, director profiles, theme/fetish index, etc. Like an encyclopedia of gay porn.

"I actually prefer looking at the still."

Me too. I think it's something to do with focus, fantasy, and multi-tasking.

R33 I liked B&G, don't forget Drummer Magazine my partner had a subscription.

Mandate and Adam Gay Video annual review.

R34 I agree

I also like "Jock" and "Bear." I like many types.

This site has an enormous collection of photos from hundreds of Gay Skin Mags of the 70s and 80s and a few 90s.

Is there a similar site that focuses on 90s Gay Skin Mags?

Mandate, Jock, Blueboy

Magazines are the first place I found out about the existence of places called bathhouses where gay men went to have sex with each other.

There was a magazine published by Latino Fan Club. I think it was called Machismo?

Advocate Men had some of the most beautifully photographed guys.

Drummer ran a comic serial called Harry Chess, a sexy spoof of spy thrillers. There were three heroes, dark-haired, implausibly handsome Harry, his younger sidekick Mickey Muscle, and a big blond boy named Rancid Agnew (after the son of Spiro T.).

As the series ran, the artist, Al Shapiro, made Harry and his pals bigger and bigger, till they were larger than Tom of Finland archetypes. The humor was infantile, but the art was very appealing.

Mine are gone but I had a collection at one time, late '80s and early '90s. Whichever ran those hot comic strips by "Nico" was my favorite. The one where the college gymnast seduces his coach!

Also, believe it or not, but some gay mags I got my hands on high school, which may or may not have been shoplifted from a mall bookstore, had early AIDS warnings and might just have saved my life. Plus hot pics and stories.

Honcho

Some of you guys are lucky, I had to settle for the gay ads in the back of the Adam & Eve catalogs my parents got.

Romero Davis in 'Advocate Men'.

Dayum, R49, that is one sexy man! Also, a grown man with a full bush, JFC, that is hot.

BlueBoy and Torso were early favorites, replaced later on by MEN and Freshmen.

Skinflicks - first time I picked a copy up, it had Doug Niles and Neil Thomas on the cover. I was hooked from that moment.

Does the underwear section of the JC Penney catalog count?

The underwear section of the Sears catalog was better.

There was always these............

Several years ago, I started buying 1980s issues of Stroke from ebay. The editors had impeccable taste and put together an amazingly hot magazine. It declined in the 1990s, tho.

R48 Romero was one of my all-time favorites. He eventually did a (solo-only) video called Blacklode, with all black models (including straight porn star F.M. Bradlee.)

This ad always put a tickle in my pickle.

That's Travolta-outer Paul Barresi.

Stroke was the best in the 80s. I also liked Jock, Honcho and Mandate. In the 90s, Advocate Men was pretty good

Bear, Daddy and Handjobs were my favorites, but I bought whatever was available at Jay Book Stall in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh or at St. Elmo's books on the South Side,

Several of the magazines -- Inches, Honcho, Torso, Stallion, Machismo, etc -- were published by the Matvey Media, which primarily published heterosexual pornography. The publisher, Glenn Matvey (I might have spelled his name incorrectly), died before the rise of the Internet, which killed off skin magazines

Unzipped was a fun one.

[quote]Matvey Media

I believe it was MAVETY.

It's not hardcore porn at all, but during my coming of age, XY was the magazine that mattered. I was fixated on model Ethan Reynolds for a decade. Some people I knew thought that the bleached hair and frosted pink lips were just *too much* but I thought ir worked on him. Then he dated a porn star, Benjamin Bradley (who now has cancer and is raising money online), and became a model for Ginch Gonch underwear, which didn't last long presumably because of it's horrible name. Then eventually there was some bizarre scandal, and it turned out that he was kind of insane, his manager ghostwrote his blog, and now it's evident on Instagram that he can't accept that he's 40ish and bloated and longs for his old twinkdom. So the marching on of time is a little depressing with respect to this guy.

No one asked, but I'm hijacking this thread with a few posts to show the crashing and burning of a gay model. Enjoy! Here's a video Ethan Reynolds posted to the Webz because it carries a profound message.

R37 Adam Gay Video Showcase always had nice sharply focused images and I found the descriptions of the action arousing too.

Wait, so The Advocate--a political/civil rights magazine--published a porn magazine? That seems so bizarre to me, like Ms. Magazine publishing Penthouse. Am I the only one who finds that a little unsettling? (I know people will call me prude. When you do, could you please convince me that publishing hardcore gay porn advances or doesn't undermine a civil rights movement?)

R67, Because there used to be a lot of money to be made from gays with 'adult material'. 'Advocate Men' was a way to keep the smut off the pages of the original magazine. You could subscribe to one, or the other, or both, but that was then two income streams, and the people who only read 'The Advocate' for the political/social stuff may not have even known about 'Advocate Men'. There was also 'FreshMen', which focused on younger models. I remember, back in the day, there were only a handful of magazine stores that kept their 'adult material' in a separate section. You could purchase 'The Advocate' in the front section, but you'd have to go to a separate section to look at 'Advocate Men'. So there were plenty of people who never knew of the existence of the other magazine. I got cruised by Edward Albee many years ago while paging through adult magazines.

R67 "Hardcore" means showing sex with penetration. Nudes are not hardcore.

Machismo! I remember the mag. it was from LFC

Men magazine.

"It's not hardcore porn at all, but during my coming of age, XY was the magazine that mattered."

Umm, can we please refrain from discussing XY magazine!!!!

Or as I call it, "Career Ruiner" magazine.

ADVOCATE MEN

I was in high school in the early 90s and would drive downtown to a small independent gay bookstore and get Adam Gay Magazine. My mind was blown by the still images of the XXX films. This was the era of Chase Hunter. I wanted so badly to see the actual films themselves but had to make do with the magazines which, in hindsight, had a really great production quality. I wound up accumulating about 5 or so.

HANDJOBS magazine which actually was more like a small book then a magazine... dirty stories with dirty artwork.... i believe published in canada and extinct for just a few years now....

LIFE

Collier's

Weren’t most of them published by the same company?

Does anyone remember a mag called [2]? Just "[2]"

Who can remember Casey Lee Klinger?

[2] Mag

Some of the photos and men featured in [2] were beautiful.

"Frehsmen" was my go to... "Men" was second.

Does anyone remember which magazine carried the cartoon adventures of Batboy and Throbbin? Sample dialogue:

“Throbbin, it’s time for you to ride the bat pole!”

BAM! BOFF! URNGH!

r24 = stealth Trump response.

The Mandate magazine with Ken Ryker. I beat off to that photo spread so many times.