Before Internet

What did all the old timers do before the internet? I recall scouring our set of encyclopedias for images and info on med stuff and an old book on nursing that had illustrations. What did you do?

I can remember being amazed at medical encyclopedias in the library as a teen, motivated in part by my own experiences. Fascinated by the pictures and trying to imagine what it would have felt like to have been the subject.

As a juvenile, the rubbers goods section of Sears, wards catalogues.

Pepping into bathroom cabinets, trolling the enema bag sections of drugstores.

And, when old enough buying a magazine at the porn store!

At 13 back in the early 70's my anal eroticism came into focus and I started with enemas using my mother enema kit. My thirst for kink was well in place. Fast forward to 80's and the introduction of the VCR. I seem to remember porn was a key player in launching the VCR and getting it started. People realized they could now watch porn at home without having to go to a sketchy adult movie house. Porn mail order video services started popping up. I quickly became a customer now in my 20's and sporting a new VCR. I watched dozens if not hundreds of tapes.

Of course then that seemed so cool to be able to watch porn at home. Looking back it did take quite a bit of effort and cost compared to now when you have an infinite amount of free porn you can watch on your computer or phone with just a couple of clicks.

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

Before the internet there were sexy book stores, magazines, XXX stuff on cable tv, mail order dealers, 8 mm movies, and VHS tapes.

My horny parents had all those things (that my brother and I found and watched in the early 1980s) that taught me a lot and made my early teenage sexual encounters wonderful experiences. Thanks mom!

When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to have any porn around... Ah, but there was always the Sears Catalog Woman's Lingerie and Feminine Hygiene sections that I just about memorized! (Nylon Tricot Split Crotch)…

My Mom had a copy of a book called "My Secret Life" by Anonymous... it had a plethora of sexual content. That provided many of hours entertainment spent in the bathroom sneaking enemas, reading that book, looking at the Sears catalog and masturbating... Great memories of my prepubescent and early teen years.

I found my parents porn magazine stash when I was 9 years old. They made for some interesting reading and learning.

I guess my girl friends and I got curious when we were around 11-12 years old back in 1962-1963. My friend Ruth found magazines in here dad's hiding place. We would look at those. I snooped around my house but all I found were empty whiskey bottles. I know the boys liked the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs. I actually lived a very quiet and subdued life when I was a kid. My family was from Hungary and I spoke that language before I spoke English. I cleaned house and my parents both worked. So what ever was frisky out there I did not know about it at that time.

Someone once told me they had to put ads in the back of certain magazines, saying things rather coded, like "English teacher available for discipline" etc. He said it took a long time to connect with someone by mail and to eventually meet. But it seems when there is a will, there is a way.

It was always magazines. As a child I was intrigued by pictures of other children getting injections in the bottom, trying to convince myself that those getting them were younger than I for what I deemed childish treatment.

As I grew older and began studying foreign languages, I became turned on by pictures and cartoons (particularly in German illustrated magazines) of beautiful young ladies getting shots in their shapely bare bottoms.

Both gave me the satisfaction of confirming that I wasn't alone in getting such treatment.

As a kid I remember seeing my uncles copies of Playboy magazine. Even saw the original Marilyn Monroe issue. At home mom and dad had the Sex to Sixties (Sexties?) series of magazines and Eggbert which I always found interesting to read and look at. There were also some cheap magazines that had adult stories in them, I can't remember the titles but they were periodicals about the size of a TV Guide. They weren't hard core, more like skirts blown up at amusement parks and no underwear on. Mom also read some cheap dime store type books with some sex in it. As I got older in middle and high school, I went to the public library and went to the adult section where medical books were along with some psychological books on deviate (for that time) behavior. There were always some pictures included and that satisfied my libido. In high school there were lots of occasions to see naked women, but it really got fun after high school and especially in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war.

VHS and some magazines, I miss the videostores......

Encyclopedias, my dad's Playboy stash (always claimed her just bought them for the college football predictions) and the Yellow Pages. Yeah, I used to get turned on just looking at all the gynecology listings in th Yellow Pages.

My dad was into photography big time. He was in the camera club at work and had his own dark room in our basement to develop pictures himself. All his photos were the normal stuff - family, house, scenery, etc. that you could proudly hang on your living room wall. One day I realized he kept all his old copies of various photography magazines in the attic of our home. A lot of those magazines had pictures of nudes. None of them sexually suggestive, but, nudes nonetheless. I can't begin to guess how many times I ejaculated in our attic. I always went up there with Kleenex or toilet paper to catch it in. I'm guessing that probably started when I was about 13. Once I turned 18, I began buying various porn magazines from time to time. When I got out of the service in late 1969 I started buying a new (in the U.S.) porn magazine named Penthouse. Then they came out with their Forum publication which was nothing but article after article in the form of letters (likely staff writers with great imaginations). I believe the Forum magazine was my first introduction to the concept of anal sex.

I remember finding old Playboys in our basement, and a bunch of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, too. I think every friend's dad had a stash somewhere.

Many have mentioned the Sears and the Montgomery Wards catalogs with a great lingerie section, and their fascinating selection of enema and douche kits. My parents also had a huge home medical book with a great detail about various medical procedures and it was well illustrated. I remember being fascinated seeing one of the female models completely shaved, as a bi-modal anal/vaginal exam was explained in depth. My father had a fair collection of books, if I’m remembering correctly, one was a hard cover series called “Over Sexteen”, followed by “More Over Sexteen”, and so on, pretty risqué for the early 50s. Shortly after that, Penthouse with the Forum letters caught my interest, and there were other magazines with advertising sections that allowed one to make contact with enema nurses and various S and M practitioners.