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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Aside from this, Paul's from a country where 'real' porn was not even legal till about a decade ago. The magazines he's talking about were very soft core.
And while there were probably many smelly, sticky sex shops in London selling nasty shit under the counter, the situation in the UK was probably worse than the US. No adult bookstores of any kind outside of cities, and even in cities they sold hardcore porn with all the porn censored or cut. 
I believe some guy in the UK actually took a sex shop to court over false advertising. They scammed customers by promising hardcore porn, presumably on the basis that people would be too ashamed to complain about being ripped off.
The only way people saw real porn was though Nth generation copies from friends - free 'pirated' porn - because it was not legal in the UK to show even a hard on or any kind of penetration, let alone anything more.
To exploit this ban, companies like Your Choice appeared; based in Holland but (illegally) duplicating and mailing porn from within the UK to avoid the British customs. AFAIK Your Choice licensed the porn they sold, but it's extremely unlikely that all the copycat rivals did. More porn piracy. All before the internet. |
I grew up in a small town about 30 miles outside of Portland. There was no porn available in that town. When I was bout 15 or 16 there was a small convenience store that came under new ownership. The new owners started selling a few porn mags behind the counter. For a few weeks after this was discovered a few of the local churches actually picketed the store. Eventually they gave up and the store went on selling the magazines. A few months after that the town's one and only video store started renting porn movies. They had about a dozen videos behind the counter.
Aside from those two places if you wanted porn you had to drive at least 20 miles to the next big town. This nation is peppered with places exactly like this only now they can just jump online and get all the porn they want.