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Fiesta (magazine)
''Fiesta'' was a British softcore pornography, softcore adult magazine published monthly by Galaxy Publications, Galaxy Publications Limited. It was a sister publication of ''Knave (British magazine), Knave'' magazine, launched two years later. Launched in 1966 by the British photographer Russell Gay, ''Fiesta'' quickly became Britain's top-selling adult magazine. Dubbed "the magazine for men which women love to read", the monthly magazine's readers were responsible, in the early 1970s, for creating a feature that has been adopted in magazines worldwide: Readers' Wives. Central to this theme was the monthly "Readers' Wives Striptease" section, which shows a set of photos of a supposed wife or girlfriend of a reader being photographed by ''Fiesta'' undressing (often, but not always out of everyday clothing) to full nudity. The Readers' Wives section was the subject of a song by John Cooper Clarke on his album ''Disguise in Love''. As well as its Readers' Wives and photographic gi ...
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Pornographic Magazine
Pornographic magazines or erotic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines or sex magazines, are magazines that contain content of an explicitly sexual nature. Publications of this kind may contain images of attractive naked subjects, as is the case in softcore pornography, and, in the usual case of hardcore pornography, depictions of masturbation, Oral sex, oral, Non-penetrative sex#Manual sex, manual, Sexual intercourse, vaginal, or anal sex. They primarily serve to stimulate sexual arousal and are often used as an aid to masturbation. Some magazines are general in their content, while others may be more specific and focus on a particular pornographic niche, part of the anatomy, or model characteristics. Examples include ''Asian Babes'' which focuses on Asian women, or ''Leg Show'' which concentrates on women's legs. Well-known adult magazines include ''Playboy'', ''Penthouse (magazine), Penthouse'', ''Playgirl'', and ''Hustler (magazine), Hustler''. Magazines may also car ...
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Nicholas Whittaker
Nicholas Whittaker (born 1953) is a British writer of non-fiction books on popular culture, often incorporating autobiographical extracts from his own life. He was born in Shrewsbury and lived in Burton upon Trent until 1975. Whittaker has worked as a freelance journalist for pornographic magazines, interviewing figures such as Ray Cooney, Divine, Donald Sinden, Steve Harley, Justin de Villeneuve, Uri Geller and Kingsley Amis for '' Club International''. Books Whittaker’s first book was ''Platform Souls'', published in 1995 on the subject of the British hobby of trainspotting. It follows his progress from the dying days of the steam locomotive in Britain (1964-1968), through the so-called Rail Blue diesel era of the 1970s, and his travels around Britain and Europe, by rail. The book ends with his failed attempts to interest his young sons in what was once a common hobby for a majority of British boys. ''Blue Period'' (1997) was an autobiographical piece about Whittaker� ...
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1966 Establishments In The United Kingdom
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** Georgia House of Representatives, The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. * January 15 – 1966 Nigerian coup d'état: A bloody military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. * January 17 ** The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the ...
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Magazines Disestablished In 2020
A magazine is a periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content forms. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event. Term origin and definition Origin The etymology of the word "magazine" suggests derivation from the Arabic (), the broken plural of () meaning "depot, storehouse" (originally military storehouse); that comes to English via Middle French and Italian . ...
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Pornographic Magazines Published In The United Kingdom
Pornography (colloquially called porn or porno) is sexually suggestive material, such as a picture, video, text, or audio, intended for sexual arousal. Made for consumption by adults, pornographic depictions have evolved from cave paintings, some forty millennia ago, to modern-day virtual reality presentations. A general distinction of adults-only sexual content is made, classifying it as pornography or erotica. The oldest artifacts considered pornographic were discovered in Germany in 2008 and are dated to be at least 35,000 years old. Human enchantment with sexual imagery representations has been a constant throughout history. However, the reception of such imagery varied according to the historical, cultural, and national contexts. The Indian Sanskrit text ''Kama Sutra'' (3rd century CE) contained prose, poetry, and illustrations regarding sexual behavior, and the book was celebrated; while the British English text ''Fanny Hill'' (1748), considered "the first original En ...
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European Journal Of Cultural Studies
The ''European Journal of Cultural Studies'' is a major international, peer-reviewed academic journal originally founded in Europe by Pertti Alasuutari, Ann Gray and Joke Hermes. It adopts a broad-ranging view of cultural studies, charting new questions and new research, and mapping the transformations of cultural studies. The journal publishes well theorized empirically grounded work from a variety of locations and disciplinary backgrounds. It engages in critical discussions on power relations concerning gender, class, sexual preference, ethnicity and other macro or micro sites of political struggle. It also includes a ‘Cultural Commons’ section publishing short-form articles including interviews and ‘rapid response' pieces. The journal's current editors-in-chief are Yiu Fai Chow (Hong Kong Baptist University), Jilly Kay (Loughborough University), Jo Littler (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anamik Saha (University of Leeds). It was established in 1998 and is published by ...
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Pornography In The United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, pornography is regulated by a variety of laws, regulations, judicial processes and voluntary schemes. Pornographic material generally has to be assessed by regulators or courts to determine its legality. British censorship laws with regard to pornography have often been some of the most restrictive in Western Europe. The Victorian pornographic tradition included French photographs, erotic prints and printed literature. As technology has advanced, pornography has taken diverse forms and become more widespread in society. In the twentieth century the production of pornographic magazines and films developed, and by the twenty-first century pornography was available by telephone, on television and via the internet. By 2006, the UK pornography industry was estimated to be worth about  billion, compared to  billion worldwide. Legal situation The UK has a markedly different tradition of pornography regulation from that found in most other Western countrie ...
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Outline Of British Pornography
This is a list of topics related to pornography in the United Kingdom. Legislation * Obscene Publications Acts * Video Recordings Act 1984 * Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 * Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 * Digital Economy Act 2017 * Online Safety Act 2023 Regulation * British Board of Film Classification ** X-rated ** R18 certificate * Phone-paid Services Authority (formerly PhonepayPlus) Pornography channels * The Adult Channel * Babestation * Babeworld * GAYtv * Playboy One * Television X Television shows * Babestation * Babeworld * Electric Blue (TV series) * Sex Station * TVX Callgirls Live Pornographic actors Film directors * Anna Span * Ben Dover * Jasper Duncombe, 7th Baron Feversham * John Jesnor Lindsay * Keiran Lee * Mark Davis * Taylor Wane * Viv Thomas Awards * Sexual Freedom Awards * SHAFTA Awards * UK Adult Film and Television Awards Magazine publishers * Paul Raymond * David Sullivan * Rich ...
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Razzle (magazine)
''Razzle'' is a British softcore pornographic magazine published monthly by Paul Raymond Publications. It was founded in 1983 and is currently focused on girl-next-door style pornography, offering cash for any photos of "readers' wives" printed; in the past, however, several notable glamour models were featured, including minor celebrity Jo Guest. It also includes the traditional feature of sexual fantasy tales presented as "true" stories. There was an earlier UK men's magazine of the same title, published by Ritz Publishing Co., that dates from the 1930s to the late 1950s. This was a pocket format title, which featured a colour centre spread by the illustrator George Davies. This magazine was banned by the Censorship of Publications Board of the Irish Free State in 1935; the ban carried over to the later title and was lifted in 2011. Despite the market for softcore pornography decreasing in the UK, ''Razzle'' is still successful, having launched some spin-off titles including ...
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Paul Raymond Publications
Paul Raymond Publications is a British publisher of softcore monthly pornographic magazine titles, including '' Escort'', '' Club International'', ''Mayfair'', '' Men Only'', '' Men's World'' and '' Razzle''. The company's lawyers scrutinise the magazine content before publication to ensure that it is likely to comply with the Obscene Publications Act 1959 since UK law does not allow hardcore R18 imagery to be sold on newsstands. The magazines are generally available in most newsagents, although some larger retailers require them to be sold in bags to protect minors from seeing the cover photographs. The magazines have also been published in digital format since 2013. They were initially available from the dedicated Paul Raymond digital newsstand, but since that closed they have been sold via the publisher's main website which contains both softcore and hardcore pornography. Blue Active Media Ltd. is the parent company. History Paul Raymond (1925–2008) began his publication ...
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