The Open Bottom Top Shelf Famine of the 21st Century

As the availability of porn and erotica on the web exploded in the late 1990s, people in the erotica industry repeatedly said that there was still a market for magazine porn but it would be in specialist magazines: the fetish mags, the just-18 mags, the S&M mags, the Older Women mags, the Ethnic Girls mags.

These mags do stumble on in a fashion, in the few shops that sell top shelf magazines, but one speciality has almost entirely vanished - the bum mag.

Just look below at the variety of magazines available in the nineties, by no means every title available. You can tell by the various text teasers on the covers exactly what niche the magazines were serving.

"Jam-Packed With Browneye"

"Deliveries In The Rear"

"Poopshute Princess"

"Explicit Rear-End Action"

The Bum mag niche was big enough to have micro-niches within it, not just women showing off their bums but magazines specialising in black girls' bums, plump girls' bums, plump black girls' bums, and so on.

What I find physically attractive and sexy about a woman is a striking face, usually catlike, a small waist and big hips, bottom, and thighs. I'm far more interested in women's anuses than their genitals, and in porn, rather than a woman spreading her legs and holding open her vulva, I would rather see her standing with her back to me, looking over her shoulder while holding apart the cheeks of her bottom to show her anus.

These magazines served the niche market of which I'm a part, but except for the hard to find "Buttm@n" magazine, they no longer exist.

I'm baffled as to why

And Another Bone

Again, in the early hours, a full hard on.

This really must be fundamentally psychological

Cockwatch

Another boner last night, normal size and firmness - again, on the edge of sleep in the early hours.

Another sign that my impotence isn't physiological

Cockwatch continued...

I was woken up today by rolling onto a  healthy morning glory which deflated as soon as I realised it was there.

Baffling - as if something in my waking mind wants it not to work.

Who Cleared the Top Shelf?

Ever fewer newsagents in the UK stock porn, soft or hard. The only local shop that sells the stuff is offering much of its stock at half-price and still it doesn't sell.

A couple of weeks ago I found the newsagent re-tagging girlie mags at the counter while his little scots terrier dozed on the newspapers and asked him

"Does anyone still buy those?"

"Oh, there's still a few come shuffling in"

"I'd have thought that any one who wanted that stuff would get it from the Internet"

"Not this lot round here, the Internet's well beyond most of 'em"

I was one of "them" until a few years ago. I've always had a huge porn habit, largely because I had and have no other sexual, never mind romantic, outlet.

What I noticed in the last ten to fifteen years is this...

Until about 1992 the only places one could find strong soft or genuine hard porn was in the centre of big cities, and with hard porn one could even then only find it in backstreet illegal outlets often disguised as second hand bookshops with a secret room for "special customers".

The stuff in those back rooms was as extreme as the proprietor thought he could get away with - and in every case but one that I knew of, the proprietor was a man. And the prices were very high.

For a brief time in the late 70s hard core porn was available in small newagents, at least in the form of magazines from the Dav1d Sull1van and the G0ld Brothers stables, with vaginal and oral sex and female masturbation depicted. This time soon past and in most of the two following decades only soft porn was available in newsagents.

Then suddenly around 1997 some specialist North American magazines began to be available in some mainstream UK newsagents and in the hard core shops. I have always found pale-skinned oriental women very attractive so at the time I was buying a number of american "oriental" magazines, my favourite being "Shaved Orienttails"

The first sets I noticed were of japanese and other far eastern girls inserting small gourds and other oriental fruits up their cunts, then suddenly almost every american soft porn mag available in Britain was featuring women pissing, being fucked, sucking cock, dildos up the cunt and arse, gaping arseholes, the lot. And despite this, much of the material wasn't selling.

I had a number of magazines on standing order from a specialist shop in Shude Hill, Manchester, and by 2005 it became impossible for them to continue to supply them because the cost of shipping and not selling surplus copies was outstripping the profits they made.

In the last year the market seems to have collapsed entirely, shops that used to specialise have returned to being just news agents, specialist p0rn shops now mostly specialise in DVDs or rare collectors back issues.

And who can blame them? What punter would pay top dollar for stuff that isn't even that much to his taste when he can download high quality hi-def photos for free by the thousand, amateur or pirated, find treasure troves of classic sets online, and even subscribe to specific models and receive photos of the women he like doing exactly what he wishes.

I certainly wouldn't.

Ava Cade11

A fellow member of my favourite erotica archive solved a problem for me - the identity of one of the earliest glamour models whose photosets I still have This gorgeous young woman is Ava Cade11 and the more explicit photos are from Men Only 1976 41(12).

Here she is in a coy Page 3 pose, as most saw her


and here she is posed much more revealingly




I don't know how many times over the years I've wanked over that lovely face and body, and that inviting bum hole without even knowing her name.

Any way, my thanks to her for giving me a lot of pleasure over the decades.

Viagra #3

Another little blue pill failed to have any significant effect.

Lard-on

I tried another Viagra yesterday evening - it worked better than the first one in that with a little help from porn and a vicious fantasy on my part it provoked and sustained an erection for five or so minutes, not a long thick erection but enough of one to achieve an effective penetration, had I any one around to penetrate.

A positive result of sorts, but I had a better one spontaneously on the edge of sleep the other morning. I'm ever more convinced that the lack of sexual desire and excitement I now feel, and my perpetual anxiety and despair, play a big part in my inability to get erections.