tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884039681307088480.post7927568721575613041..comments2023-10-28T03:19:57.032-07:00Comments on weblog2011webnet: Mike Edison: How Sex Magazines Made The World A Better Place (PHOTOS)RAYLOKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756225493203293544noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884039681307088480.post-1017976466342414222011-12-08T09:08:31.341-08:002011-12-08T09:08:31.341-08:00These days you can push a button on your Internet ...These days you can push a button on your Internet machine and see the most pernicious smut ever foisted on human kind, and for free. I suppose for some this rates as some sort of victory, but I am not so sure. I think when it comes to sex, there should be more of a discovery process, and pictures of naked ladies need to be held in a more sacred light. In other words, boys need to steal them from their fathers and uncles and grandfathers as I did, and as has been happening for decades before me. Gone, I am afraid, is the magic of the centerfold, the sense of anything being risqué, or naughty, or even special. Everything now seems so lurid and tawdry. As I say in Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!, with all of this technological marvel at our disposal, what happened to the wonder?<br /><br />So right now I want to go back, way back, as they say, and so, for all of you freedom-of-speech-junkies, pop-culture vultures, and anyone interested in sex and policitcs in America -- because unfortunately they are hopelessly intertwined -- here's a slide show based on Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! and a time when men's magazines mattered.<br /><br />Even though I know you are only here to read the articles.RAYLOKEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06756225493203293544noreply@blogger.com