StinkyLulu: "If You're A Man Who Doesn't Mind Drawing a Crowd" (Homo Heritage Fridays)

1.26.2007

from NUMBERS
November 1981, page 84.
For details, click the image; then click again to magnify.

mistyh92104 said...: Hi Lulu,

I've been meaning to tell you (and unless I did it at some really drunk stage, I still haven't) how much I love these ads from "back in the day".

Either you and I are contemporaries or you have simply rediscovered these wonderful artifacts, but I was 18 years old in November of 1981 and had been purchasing a few of these mags in an out-of-the-way neighborhood in my PA hometown occasionally since I was 16.

I pored over every inch of those magazines back then and so when I see an ad like this one (for the "Arab Strap"!), it is like looking at an old family picture. (Wow, what a crappy analogy).

Regardless, thank you for keepin' it alive and bringing it to new generations. For all the raunch and sleaze, it was still (if only for a few seconds more) such an innocent age...; 1:16 AM
StinkyLulu said...: Misty!

Thanks so much for your words of appreciation. You have a handful of years on me (I was 13 in November of 1981) but you totally "get" my instinct behind this series -- both as a nostalgia exercise and as a something of a historical portrait of a bygone era. It's just amazing to me how long ago it seems...

And the "research" for this series is -- of course -- lotsa fun...; 9:51 PM