post an image of what got you off in the pre-internet days

Is that Greg Louganis?

This catalog.

"Exercise for Men Only" was my masturbation go-to.

Al Gore invented masturbation when he invented the internet.

R5 - I believe that was posted by BronzeAgeGay.

I remember when it came out - such a titter in EVERY cave across the land. Scandalous!

OP I don't blame you. Greg Louganis is definitely someone I would categorize as beautiful.

Scott Madsen from the Soloflex ads. They used to have some kind of infomercial that showed Scott exploiting the many beneficial exercises available on Soloflex. Watching it was mesmerizing.

I was coming in to say the Soloflex guy!

R8 here. Also, page 602 of a certain Sears catalog...the conceit was that the model's schlong was so long that it peeked out from the leg of his not-short boxer shorts. Even the straight guys were talking about this one.

The neighborhood teen boys compiled a treasure trove of porno mags & we took turns perusing. Of course it was all straight porn, but of course Hustler had plenty of cock in their sex pictorials.

The Jim Palmer Jockey ads

Mostly pics of celebrities and scenes from movies. I have never really been into porn.

This got me every time...

In my teen years, (late 70's, early 80's), it was pretty much any pic of an attractive, shirtless man. I recall an hairy chested man in a Solflex ad that really got me off, as well as Brian Buzzini, (Playgirl's, Man of the Year 1986).

A condom machine at a gas station had an image of a naked man and woman with some kind of sheer black fabric draped over them.

I would lock that door and spend some time in there.

I'll put this here -

This book

The neighbor lady's copy of "Playgirl" featuring Steve Rally as "Man of the Year" (1985) was accidentally delivered to our house, and I happened to pick up the mail that day.

I pretty much knew what was inside, because I'd seen the plastic wrapper that the magazine came in before.

Not telling anyone, I concluded that it was just FATE that this magazine fell into my teen-aged hands, so I kept it.

Yeah, I guess I was breaking one or more federal laws, but Steve's glorious, three-page, fold-out centerfold was worth it .. lol!

The hairdo in this says early 80's to me. What kind of magazine would this have been in back then? Poor Joseph never knew the digital age would hit and the ad would haunt him forever.

R7 Except for his outie.

Another Greg Louganis fan here.

Watching speedskater Eric Flaim's butt at the Olympics on TV. Just wish I could find a picture of it!

Eric Heiden's thighs. As a gayling I was flabbergasted.

Greg who?

I renewed by subscription some time ago but it still hasn't arrived.

This guy.

Laugh if you will, but Mike Tyson was one of my first gay crushes. I must have been in 7th or 8th grade. This picture was in Time or Life magazine in the school library. The muscles, the sweat had me feeling a certain way. I ripped the page out and took it home.

R25 Tom Daley has a diving video with Greg Louganis on his youtube channel. That's some internet age daddy material. Hubby DLB was there as the wet blanket too.

This 1984 Vanity Fair spread on sexy American swimmers from the recent summer Olympics. I just tried to block out Raquel.

Another vote for Madsen, who was exquisitely beautiful. He did a series of semi-nude art photos that I was obsessed with.

Speaking of which, the two-page ad for Calvin Klein's "Obsession" featured four chiseled nude men and only two nude women, with the clear implication being that some gay homosexual sex was about to occur.

Jim Palmer. Yes. I masturbated to his underwear photos many times.

In the 80’s it was Tony Danza in Who’s the Boss and Taxi, Lorenzo Llamas , Patrick Duffy , the Dukes of Hazzard and Ken Olin .

There's a reason why daytime soap operas were so popular with gay men. It was one place to see some shirtless prime beef, often parading around in Speedos.

It's too bad Shrine to the Soap Hunks went broke. There was so much history of hot men cataloged there. But here's one of the more famous Speedos of the era, John Wesley Shipp. (Kevin Bacon's character would put this 1980-81.)

R20 It's from the March 1980 issue of Playgirl, which had a feature photo spread on "blonds and hairy men galore."

R12 I still think those bikini briefs are sexy as hell.

R35 That's the issue from the month I was born!

Miles O'Keefe as Tarzan.

[35] and [37] I got caught shoplifting this issue when I was 15! And "banned" from the store for life. Not a proud moment. But in retrospect, pretty hilarious.

R[35] and R[37] [35] and [37] I got caught shoplifting this issue when I was 15! And "banned" from the store for life. Not a proud moment. But in retrospect, pretty hilarious.

[R35] and [R37] I got caught shoplifting this issue when I was 15! And "banned" from the store for life. Not a proud moment. But in retrospect, pretty hilarious. (SORRY for the triplicate post!)

Funny you say that r39. I tried to buy the Playboy that had Bo Derek in it because it had Miles O’Keere r38 also.

ads for blue lagoon; i wasn't old enough to go to the movie. but catching a glimpse of christopher atkins in rags was good enough at the time.

R35 - wow, I can't believe you knew that - bravo!

I’d reference my hidden Stackhouse of hot guy photo clippings from TV Guide, magazines, and newspapersand jerk off to them in the locked bathroom, slide them into the edge of the vanity mirror so they were at face height for easy viewing, and jerk off into the sink. Shout out to early 80s hunks like Tom Selleck, Nicholas Clay, and Miles O’Keefe. I still prefer dark haired men.

Straight women also masturbated to the Soloflex guy in the 80's.

R12 and R32... jim palmer! major sigh!... the photo that R12 posted is my favorite of his Ads... that soft bulge beautiful lit and photographed and you know hiding a thick forest of a sexy bush!....

of course "international male" and all the homoerotic workout magazines like "exercise for men only", "men's workout", and "men exercise"....

hustler magazine which used to have a number of handsome men in their photo spreads with women and some great (yes hetero) erotic fiction along with penthouse magazine letters....

of course much much much more visually (i.e. tv, movies, soap operas) but since this topic thread is ONLY about images i'll stop here..

Rock Pamplin.

[quote]Lorenzo Llamas

Oh, dear.

In the early '70s, any pic of Jan-Michael Vincent

R48.. oh yeah, all of those hot masculine sexy cigarette ADS men!....

back in the day, late 70's/early 80's i also used to love and get off on that handsome thick bearded "czar' in a vodka magazine ad! one of my first early "daddies"....

Mr. Eld.

And Toby. He could have been a movie star: he was more handsome than many of his era. That face, those eyes, that boxer's nose!

[Quote] Greg who?

The guy with four more gold medals than you have.

Jack Scalia's underwear ads.

bart conner's thighs

"How are your thighs?

"Are they strong? Because I want to drown in flesh. Hot, physical, naked, flesh."

[quote]There's a reason why daytime soap operas were so popular with gay men.

I have never in my life known a gay man who watched soaps.

[quote] I have never in my life known a gay man who watched soaps.

Then you haven’t lived. (You only have one life to live after all).

Seriously r58 I'm not the only one on DL who is surprised by all the endless soap threads. I'm in my forties and have never known anyone in my age group or younger who ever watched soaps.

I think R57 is being sarcastic, kids.

r60 no it's the truth. I've never known a gay man who watched soaps. DL is the only place in my entire life where I've seen soap fandom among gay men.

I watched Days. Why do you old women like Christopher Atkins? He is not cute looks like an okie, like Tanya Harding’s brother. I get the blond baby doll thing but he is not one of them.

R61 Pity.

The soap thing is one of the odd things about DL. I can't even imagine what these soap fans are like. I've certainly never met any gay men in my world who watch soaps.

R57.. may i ask how old you are? because EVERY gay man watched the soaps in the 80's and 90's.. it was THEE place to see male flesh in sex scenes, in speedos and bikini's and so on... besides the daytime talk shows of geraldo, donahue, sally jesse raphael, jenny jones, ricki lake who regularly showed male strippers, male centerfolds and male hunk/beauty contests nearly every week it seemed...

This. Once a week. At the 1:12 mark.

^^Sorry. I meant: This. Once a week. At the 30 SECOND mark.

I haven't watched a soap opera in years, decades probably, but I find some of DL's soap threads amusing.

Those Eric Heiden thighs.

R69 I forgot about him! God, yes, those thighs and that amazing muscle ass!

R24, everything about Eric Heiden was worth a look

Dan Jansen too

[quote]Then you haven’t lived. (You only have one life to live after all).

Which he chose not to live in another world.

R73 He needs a Guiding Light.

74 posts in and no one has mentioned Jeff Stryker?

eric heiden and dan jansen... oh heck yeah... too bad the speed skater suits now for men might as well be unisex as they are devoid of any homoerotic sex appeal...

[quote]may i ask how old you are? because EVERY gay man watched the soaps in the 80's and 90's..

I'm in my forties. I was a teen/twentysomething in the 90s and no gay guys I knew watched soaps. Soaps were for blue collar housewives.

R77 That explains a lot. The internet became a thing in the 90s and the gaylings suddenly had more options for entertainment and male flesh viewing. Plus, the "golden age" of soaps had already passed.

r78 - good point. I think soaps hit a peak in the early 80's. Everyone I knew as a teenager had a soap they watched - male and female. My very straight older brother even watched one.

But it seemed to die off by mid 80's.

We had Zipper, Mister and Him magazines over here in the UK.

As a young college student, I finally got the courage to go into the local newsstand and buy a porno magazine. Of course the guy behind the counter had to be another young guy who gave me a withering look. It was "Blueboy" with Tony Bravo in it.

Just turning 18, I also went into a Dalton's Bookstore and picked out the Advocate Classifieds. If I remember correctly, it was a big newspaper, separate from the Advocate magazine. Anyway, I was still living at home and had to read it behind my bed, I was so worried about being caught. I couldn't believe what I was seeing - nude guys, sex toys, escorts, I think I had a hard-on for four hours!

all i know is in regards to soaps, besides the daytime talk shows where else were you going to see handsome guys on a variety of shows in sex scenes and showing it all off in the 80s and 90s, that was on regular TV and before the internet and cable proliferation?...

i'm wondering for those of you (say those over 40) who claim you never watched the soaps and/or some who claim that they haven't watched them since the 80's or 90s, DO you mean you didn't watch them for the storylines OR you never watched them at all because you didn't know or care about the hunks on them?....

I'm 54 and I never watched soaps. I guess I knew they had a lot of handsome guys on them, but I didn't know they took their clothes off much. And I thought they were boring. They were something my grandmother always watched.

R84... well for the most part the soaps were boring and of course ridiculous stupid and unbelievable... but you missed countless hunks on them and in lovemaking scenes and shown off too....you missed alot!

along with the daytime talk shows that seemingly had male strippers and centerfold models and hunk contest nearly every week, the soaps were IT back then in the 80's and 90s like i said before the internet and hundreds of cable channels....

even now, i watch the very few remaining for NEVER the storyline but for the eye candy (i.e. paul telfer on days of our lives and before him shawn christian on the same show)...

When I was a kid, my nanny used to watch The Young & the Restless. I got into the plots and characters as well even though they were basic. When I was older I liked the guys on some soaps.

At home, my mother had Playgirl mags.

At my dad’s I found tranny porn under his mattress. (I don’t think all that make up in my dad’s bathroom was his girlfriend’s like he said it was.)

anyone remember that time/era where playgirl actually BANNED erections? WTF was that all about? eventually and shortly when they realized who their REAL customers were and having to fight hardcore companies like COLT studios and so on, they implemented erections again....

At 13...Grant Goodeve, who played the oldest brother on "Eight is Enough."

i tore this picture of brian bosworth from a “sports illustrated” at the barber shop

[quote]i'm wondering for those of you (say those over 40) who claim you never watched the soaps and/or some who claim that they haven't watched them since the 80's or 90s, DO you mean you didn't watch them for the storylines OR you never watched them at all because you didn't know or care about the hunks on them?....

We didn't watch them at all. They weren't part of our world. JFC the soap queens on DL are insane. Soaps were not a thing for anybody my age. Gay, straight, male or female.

I got my first VCR in 1983 when I was a teenager, and I curated a nice collection of spank material. Nothing too exciting--we didn't even have cable! One of my favorites was a Dukes of Hazzard rerun episode, "The Ghosts of the General Lee" which featured Bo and Luke "naked" throughout most of the episode.

Calendar Girl with Jason Priestley and School Ties with Matt Damon, both had nude scenes. I taped them off of HBO and when I was alone in the house I put the nude scenes on slo mo and went to town.

R90 - thanks for that, I'd never seen it before! Here, I fixed it up a little.

I'm not into armpits at all except for Prince apparently

Rolf =

Move over JFK Jr....

& finally

Along with swiping Playgirl mags (I was better at it than R40 etc. The trick is to shove them down the back of your pants under a coat), the week I got my driver's license, I drove Dad's car to a nearby truck stop store in upstate NY, where I'd seen a rack of mostly straight, but some gay pulp porn paperbacks. Even back then, I was into 'literature.'

When this scandalous picture showed up in squeaky clean Modern Screen magazine in 1985

R99 - some of those were actually surprisingly good!

David Lee Roth's circumcised dick

Mike Henry as Tarzan (much better than Ron Ely). There are so many shirtless pictures of him on Google, I thought I'd provide one of his butt crack instead.

I masturbated to Jordan Catalano as a mid 90's teen. The internet was in its most nascent form, and magazines were still hot and relevant.

Turbo (on the right with the VPL) from American Gladiators.

R105 - yes, American Gladiators! Watched them all the time. On a side note, I found a reference to Blade Thompson trying out for AG in 1992 in a Florida newspaper and it said there was a picture with the article. So I wrote them and paid and they sent me a copy of the pic!

There were so many images that got me off in the pre-internet days. On television there were countless images of football players (Jeez...Howie Long still makes me hard), tennis players (when the shorts were short and tight), Olympic swimmers and divers (both wore tiny speedos), baseball players (when the uniforms got tighter).

Soap operas: I was a fan of the actor Brian Patrick Clarke on "General Hospital."

In the Eighties through the Nineties...all those fitness magazines.

Does anyone remember the underwear ads (Jockey?) that featured four or five rows on men on chaises longues on their backs in underwear and when you turned the page there was the ad again -- but they were on their stomachs!

Omigod...Howie Long

This is going to sound like even more ancient than my post at R5. My first boyfriend, who was the archetypal bottom, used to like to gaze at pics of nude men and their dicks. So his fag hag, he and I would go to adult bookstores and buy a few mags for him, none of them too salacious. The fag hag and him would gaze at the pics and discuss them. He would then have me go to some relatively remote place and hide them so we could go retrieve them later. Typically the hiding place was under a large rock. One time we went to retrieve them and they were gone. He was so disappointed. Strange thing is that his parents had an extensive porn collection on VHS. So other than the fact that they were gay magazines, it wasn't as if there wasn't plenty of available porn in their house. I'm glad I wasn't into porn and didn't have to go to such lengths, so to speak, to find pics of guys I liked.

R107 Worked at Fox Sports with dear Howie. He's an absolute prick and I think homophobe (just got the vibe). He was hot in the day but once you meet him you go limp.

R109, what are your impressions of other athletes you've meet in person?

This picture of Marky Mark. I was in high school at the time and spanked out many a load to it.

This Calvin Klein ad from 1982 made quite an impression on me. I was 10 the year it came out. Google tells me the model is Tom Hintnaus

This blog has some good ones from the 80s and 90s.

Mel Gibson's ass in Lethal Weapon.

r114 Too soft and untoned. Doesn't meet 2020 gay fitness standards.

r111 Moi aussi. I thought Marky Mark was cheesy as fuck, but I still spanked it.

This thread is too funny, back in those pre-internet days we had to take what we could get. Now that porn is at our fingertips and we can watch it in two seconds, beating off to a photo of a man in his underwear seems prehistoric. But that was all we had back then if we couldn't get our hands on a Playgirl.

[quote] porn is at our fingertips

Our life is now glutted with porn-like images

This picture of Luke Perry from a Vanity Fair article did the trick many times.

I remember that pic, R119. Also pictured was Jason Priestley who I thought was the better looking of the two. Gaylings at the time had their favorites on 90210.

The sex scene in The Fly was the first thing I ever jerked off to. Lmao.

If you paused "Calendar Girl" just right you could see Jason Priestley's big cock flopping around. I fapped to this so many times as a horny teen.

Here's the pic at R119 with both Perry and Priestley.

[quote] If you paused "Calendar Girl" just right you could see Jason Priestley's big cock flopping around.

There was also a brief shot of his ass.

Oops. This is the ass shot from Calendar Girl.

the ass of jean claude van damme and gosh knows he LOVED LOVED to show it off!

So embarrassing.

He was so fine r127, it’s not embarrassing. I used to get hard just hearing his name.

R127 I stared at that picture in Life magazine as a kid for hours on end, imagining what he looked like without the Speedo.

This guy from Playgirl.

Weightlifters at the Olympics (this is one of my all-time ideal men).

Brian Dongzini

I can’t find the pic but Bruce Weber’s pic of a blond guy sitting on a chair draped in a leopard blanket / towel. Probably from Interview magazine.

Found it: Bruce Weber’s pic of David Boals.

He looks pretty hot today.

R135 he looks hotter today, I think.

This guy from Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom".

And, when I was VERY young, I had a big crush on Alejandro Rey in "The Flying Nun".

Leo and Lance.

Lance was the uncut one

The scene in Animal House where Tim Matheson removes his towel. I nearly passed out.

Pro wrestlers made my pecker stick out as a horny '80s teen.

R140 Oh, yeah. I watched the movie every time it aired on HBO just for that moment. That was back in the days before VCRs.

Two images come to mind all these years later.

1. Thom Bierdz’ Phillip Chancellor III (THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) in a speedo by the pool during the summer months.

2. The gay porn video BIG GUNS. It was the first porn video I ever saw and my mind was blown. I thought Mike Henson was gorgeous. Every scene sizzles and the seduction scenes between Mike Henson and Kevin Williams and then Jeff Quinn and John Rocklin were heart stopping.

R137, when I clicked on your link, I THANKED GOD that wasn’t Marlin Perkins.

R140 It's hard to believe Tim Matheson was actually 30 when Animal House was filmed. That ass is simply gorgeous, just like his face.

I had the advantage of sharing a room with my straight older brother growing up, so his straight porno mags were a primary source for me as a teenager. Playboy featured Bo Derek's 'Tarzan', which introduced me to Miles O'Keefe. I'd occasionally work up the nerve to buy 'Playgirl' or 'Viva' once I was old enough, but hard-core porn wasn't readily available in my Midwestern city. 'International Male' catalogues had to provide my wanking material.

I just looked up some pics of Tim Matheson when he was younger and DAMN I would've crawled though broken glass to hit that!

My mom got a copy of playgirl as a gag birthday gift. Christopher George got me thru junior high.

[quote] Thom Bierdz’ Phillip Chancellor III (THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) in a speedo by the pool during the summer months.

I concur. I also used to like Don Diamont. I'm still into dark guys like them.

Billy Idol

When I was a teen I had some porn mags with pics of John Davenport. He wasn't that handsome but he looked like a friend I grew up with. We played sports together and he was a nice guy, not too bright, very charming and had a big dick.

I like porn magazines and could build up fantasies because I didn't have access to any porn movies so you really didn't know anything about the guys, really. Didn't even know how they spoke or moved.

R151, that was one of the things that really was better in the old days. You saw a picture and built up whatever fantasy you wanted. Every session was perfect that way. Then video and internet porn hit, and you had to conform your fantasies to what happened on the screen...

[quote] I can’t find the pic but Bruce Weber’s pic of a blond guy sitting on a chair draped in a leopard blanket / towel. Probably from Interview magazine.

[quote] Found it: Bruce Weber’s pic of David Boals.

I hadn't seen/heard of David Boals, but he was (is?) a very good-looking guy.

David Boals

I could never get off to a still photo of a naked man anymore. Internet porn has changed all of us.

r154 Never heard his voice before but can see him as the hustler in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

That's a great observation, R133/R156.

R141 I agree.

1)i could and do still get off on a photo of a naked or gorgeous built man

2) i use my imagination greatly to "CREATE" a sexual scene... for instance, i can watch a soap opera or a tv show see a handsome man with a woman in a scene and visualize them having sex...i can and do create sexual tension and scenarios in scenes on soaps or movies or tv shows when they're is LITERALLY NOTHING sexual going on or if there is it's very mild...sometimes it's NOT all about full on hardcore nudity and actual sex on screen....the IMAGINATION IS A GREAT TOOL FOR EVERYONE TO USE....

3) DAVID BOALS was gorgeous alright... reminds me of a more "feminine" jon erik hexum?......

4) soap opera hunks of the 80's and 90's wearing speedos/bikini's! i think the actor who wore them the most was perhaps RONN MOSS of the bold and the beautiful? usually black, one time in blue and one time even in a leopard animal print! so kinky and erotic that was!....

don diamont of course and others, even hairy beefy built "daddy" actor michael swann i remember wearing a green bikini on that one soap! whew!....

When I was home sick, I might have looked at soap operas for the male flesh infusion, but none ever made me want to tune in tomorrow, storywise. And then I watched Another World in the summer of 1988, when they were doing the Cory/Frame version of Romeo and Juliet, and I was hooked in one episode.

Not one shirt was removed, IIRC, but I had to know what happened between those two families. Nothing else would do. And I had no idea of the subtext that underlay the story. How it paid off for me when they did their version of "The Necklace," which, thankfully, I had never read.

I don't remember my favorite porn actor that year. Jeff Stryker? Brian Maxon? But I sure do remember Matthew and Josie.

Every now and then Patrick Duffy (Bobby Ewing) would be shirtless in a scene or two on Friday nights on DALLAS.

Wednesday nights - Robert Urich as Dan Tanna on VEGA$. His investigations often led him to swimming pools, saunas and hot tubs.

ADVOCATE MEN magazine. In the back of a candy store / cigarette store on Seventh Avenue South, I found this magazine when I was 17 in my freshman year in college.

I thought Brad Vernon as Steve Fletcher on One Life To Live was SO hot. Sometimes he'd take his shirt off and his torso was hairy and ripped.

My neighbour across the street ran a beauty parlour in her basement and had a lot of soap opera magazines that always seemed to show these soap hunks shirtless and/or in speedos. I found some pics of him and brought the magazine home. Had that for years.

r155 I don't think internet porn changed that--home video did.

I used to go to our local bookstore and sneak up to the "Gay & Lesbian Studies" section to memorize each picture of this book.

I went into a bookstore and this book was on the counter. Being an ass fanatic already at age 14, I had to buy it. I told the older male clerk that it was going to be a present for my mom. And I told her in the car that it was a present for her so that I wouldn't have to show it to her. For some reason, she had to go back in the store and she told the clerk that her son had just been in and bought a present for her and he said, "He sure did!" Luckily, she forgot about it by the time Christmas came around. How I treasured this book!

Well weren't you the clever little one, r167!

R167 I forgot about this book! Yes, it was a favorite of my teen self.

William Hurt movies on my parents VHS player.

r103 Mike Henry is incredibly hot!

Even as a very young kid I was very attracted to older 40-plus men. My parents had taped "The Birds" and I knew even at that age that a man like Rod Taylor made me feel all warm and tingly.

I was also crazy about sports and my parents let me subscribe to sports magazines. This photo was in a Sports Illustrated Issue and I think I had my first erection looking at this guy. It started my lifelong fascination with chunky, middle-aged men with dad bods.

To R130 -

That issue of Playgirl (March, 1975) was the first time I saw a naked man; I was 10.

Too young to understand why, I remember just enjoying staring at the centerfold pic of the cover guy...

My god, you must all be so young. I come from a small town and had no access to any magazines like those above. I got off on the sight of hot farmers working with their shirts off in summer. This was in the late 50's.

R167.. i remember that BUNS book, a long ago memory

R171.......... MIKE HENRY WAS BEYOND MASCULINE MALE HOT HOT SEXY!... the most ripped muscular tarzan ever (yes, even of miles o'keefe) and the smallest loincloth of any tarzan ever AND he was hairy! i have all 3 of his tarzan movies on DVD and i regularly jack to them... the last movie he did "tarzan and the jungle boy" is RIFE with homoerotic undertones....the pantheon of muscle and maleness in his era was he, mike henry, and clint walker, reg park, steve reeves, and cal bolder...(also mexican film stud jorge rivero!)..

anyone remember the mall store "spencer's gifts"?... how as a youngster i would regularly browse there trying not to get "caught" as i checked out the male calendars and the nearly nude sexy postcards on the racks! laugh!...

[quote] anyone remember the mall store "spencer's gifts"?.

I sure do! I thought black light posters were so cool.

I also remember Walden Books. I'd spend hours in there, reading trashy novels. There always seemed to be a gay-sex scene in there somewhere I could read and reread while my mother was shopping elsewhere.

When it came time to meet her, I'd do my best to hide my boner and go out into the mall (thank god for tight Brittania jeans and Jockey shorts that held everything in place so no flopping around). Later those mental images would be j/o material. Why I just didn't buy the book and read it at home is one of my life's mysteries.

R174 on this site, “young means late baby boomer or early Gen X.

R172 - yes, Rod Taylor! I had a Syrian roommate in college and his sister came to stay. We watched "The Birds" and then all she wanted to see were Rod Taylor movies (she had good taste). I like this pic, because his package is showing.

Baywatch wasn’t just fap material for the straight boys.

That Mapplethorpe book. Even today I can remember some of those images....

For me, it was Battle of the Network Stars.

Robert Conrad, Tom Selleck, Gregory Harrison, Parker Stevenson, Lorenzo Lamas, et al., in SPEEDOS!

^^ Let's try that again.

We had a tenant in our upstairs flat who I am no convinced was gay. He was into porn in a big way. When he moved out, my mother sent me, a 14 yr old up to start cleaning up, bagging the trash, etc. And Gurl! I found a treasure trove of magazines, and mail order pamphlets advertising VHA tapes of porn. OMG. I was in heaven.

R176... i think you and I were separated at birth! laugh!

Polaroids taken with exes and hookups were always fun.

I think I still have a few old photos stored in a box somewhere.

Another vote for Grant Goodeve.

R186 Grant Goodeve was hot stuff. I also had a thing for Willie Aames who was his younger brother on Eight is Enough.

[R167] I fucking LOVED that book! It gave me permission to indulge my already raging butt fetish. Yeah that hasn’t changed.

Christopher Atkins. His Playgirl. A Night in Heaven. Yummy ass and cock!

Billy Zane, in everything, including as a homicidal maniac in Dead Calm. My God, he was so beautiful.

[quote] Baywatch wasn’t just fap material for the straight boys.

David Chokachicken.

OH YEAH, grant goodeve back in the day... HE did a couple soft porn cable movies too! and i always remember his episode of "murder she wrote" in season 1, where his character comes out of a pool in a black speedo to talk to jessica! yummy!..

Growing up in India, in the 80s there was very little access to porn or smut. But this ad, in print and on TV, did it for me! Dalip Tahil was the hottie in the undie!

The bound copies of After Dark magazine in my college library.

R189, here's Christoper Atkins' naked photo shoot:

I'm old.

This was found in People Magazine in '74, or '75.

I had a college summer job in dormitory maintenance. A big part of the job at the beginning of the summer was cleaning out the rooms after students had moved out. I learned pretty quickly to get assigned to the sorority quad. Those girls would always leave behind a treasure trove of Playgirls hidden under the mattress or whatever. I would have to hide out in some empty dorm room several times a day to jerk off.

I was in Jr. high I think

I used to look at The Joy of Gay Sex at Waldenbooks, stopping every few seconds to make sure nobody was coming around the aisle. One day my horniness got the best of me and I ended up stealing it. My heart nearly exploded from the combination of fright and excitement.

Playgirl magazine. I got up the courage to buy one of their "compilation" magazines, like "Centerfold Men" and "Athletes", in 1982. Once I crossed that bridge, I bought Playgirl every month for a good decade. You could count on the men having bush, and they freely showed it, not like today's models who think bush is something to be ashamed of.

The Salem Cigarettes publication ads' model men on the backs of magazines in the '70s. I couldn't wait for us to get our "TV Guide" home delivery or to buy it in the supermarket so that I could go with much anticipation to the back cover to see which hot smoking hunk with usually a great moustache and at least halfway-unbutton shirt, was appearing that particular week.

R201... so true about the salem cigarette ads occasionally featuring a young unknown tom selleck.... i remember one dark haired guy with a dark mustache wearing super snug powder blue jeans and always a flannel shirt with a bomber vest jacket on always showing a great bulge standing usually....not sure who this was?

R199.. i hear you about waldenbooks! remember the other great bookstore B.Dalton? both mall stores... i can do you one better though, i actualy ripped out the photos of the book DUO by herb ritts featuring gorgeous bodybuilder bob paris and his then husband... i feel bad now that i destroyed a book...

I have a feeling a lot of us ripped off a Playgirl, Blueboy, Numbers, etc. magazine, due to being closeted, in our youth.

It seems like a different world ago.

Back then we were seeking magazines with pictures naked men and now we can watch hours of hardcore porn in the comfort of our homes with just a mouse click...

[quote] The Salem Cigarettes publication ads' model men on the backs of magazines in the '70s

Oh yes, the Salem ads were great! I wonder if RJ Reynolds did market research showing more women smoked menthol cigarettes and therefore featured hunky men in their ads

I ripped off Playgirls as a teen. I cringe thinking about it now.

Some of the articles and classified ads in "The Advocate" - the "Newspaper of America's Homophile Community" - featured men in seductive poses showing skin.

In the early 70s, a teen-aged boy could find it in coin-operated newspaper stands in some cities, and for 50 cents, could buy a little escape.

movies were starting to be a thing

Intl Male, check, Jim Palmer, check, Mark Spitz, check

Did anyone mention Burt?

we wanted these guys to roll into town and carry us away in the 'vette

I was only a boy, but when my mother’s catalogues would arrive in the mail I’d always check the male swimsuit and underwear sections. You had to take what you could get.

Wow, R210 Those first two look like they're going to fuck at any moment.

Because they probably did fuck. Stache guy is bi porn stud Paul Baressi

Great catch, R212!

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r210 Was your mother really getting those kinds of catalogs? Those are like Ah Men or International Male.

This was the mid-70s, R215. I was still a boy.

I bring you tidings and joy, R201.

David White

see next photo......

David White in Playgirl...

Rock Pamplin in cigarette ad.

Rock Pamplin in Playgirl.

Who knew when we looked at those cigarette ads????

Now I'm full to bursting. Really! Bursting.

Could it be that Playgirl contacted them after these ads were printed?

R220 - When I was a young man I was going to hire him (He ran an ad in the Advocate Classifieds). When I called and asked for him the guy chuckled and said in a funny voice "Rock" it's for you. I suddenly felt very embarrassed and hung up.

They're all going to laugh at you! Yes... yes they did.

Sam Jones, in Playgirl, then in the movie "Flash Gordon", then in the TV series The Highwayman." Seeing any of these options made me rock hard.

Cum in 3 seconds flat

r218 You don't see epic tan lines like these anymore.

R225, nice big head on Sam Jones. Nice bush, too.

R228 OMG, I marveled at Sam's big cock head. It was beautiful.

R229, here's another one of Sam Jones:

Oh, yeah.

Zines in the late 80s and early 90s had some good "homocore queer punk grunge" content, Fanorama among them. A decade earlier in my mid-teens in LA there were some artsy gay bookstores that stocked a lot of erotica. And the kiosks off Hollywood Boulevard were full of Blueboy and Mandate and the like. Even mid-sized cities in California had the Advocate pink pages for sale in vending machines on street corners downtown for a few quarters in the slot. Polk and Castro neighborhood bookstores in SF also didn't seem to bat an eye if you were underage back then.

r232, you reminded me of Circus Magazine in the 80s. They had photos of rockers in provocative or skin-tight clothing that used to get me hot.

Topping, old chum!

r232 Now you are speaking my language.