Bit Of History

Its 1978, you are 15 but look possibly 18 you want a pornographic magazine, of course you do  here do you go? Well there was a shop on the corner in Sunderland, buy broadsheet and mag put mag in broadsheet, job done. There was a shop in Hylton road had one of those revolving stacks, go there. Something slightly "harder" there was the "Speedy book shop" asecond hand book sho which ad an inner sanctum selling wrapped magazines so you could not see what you were buying. Strange shop, probaly known to the police and sold not terribly hard cpre stuff. There was a shop across the Wear where you could get say Whitehouse, bit of a trek and expensive. Sex shops, well expensive,very expensive, and again you could get say Radox or some other mag which might show actual penetration. Comments in 3 languages. There you have it. All terribly expensive and a ripoff to be fair. Remember a mag which seemed to have a stream of conscious sentence of Scandanivain wors which included Hasselblad. The ITV show "Budgie" had a man buying porn and Mr Kendle, Iain Cuthbertson, and the general sense that only those with mental health issues bought such material. In Brighton  there was a newsagents which worked; middle of nowhere, could monitor when nobody was going in or out. When left for University remember disposing of my stash of mags in a bin at the Civic Centre, probably seeing about my grant. It was wrapped in plastic bags and lived under my bed.