My Journey Begins!
I renewed my digital subscription to Hustler Magazine today. There are a few reasons why I like Hustler and this service -
- A past archive of each magazine, beginning with their July 1974 issue - allowing us a peek into the sexual attitudes and other aspects of the culture
- In-depth reporting of news that the government doesn't necessarily want to have exposed. From everything I can tell, they uphold journalistic integrity checking sources and portraying opinions as beliefs and not facts.
- Every issue has lots of cartoons! I mean, this is Sequential Sex, after all! That includes the Honey comic strips of the 1970s and 1980s.
- Adult Film Reviews! I make it no secret that my wife and I LOVE 70s porn. It's fun to get suggestions and lists for our search for the next classic movie!
- It's funny - they have always maintained that they are the most explicit, however I have seen them fall shorter than many other publications - mainly because Larry Flint was such a public target of the Obscenity Police!
To celebrate this renewal, I decided I'd reach every Hustler through the years, a month at a time. So with the release of the November 2023 issue yesterday, I'm reading all of the November issues! And I'll summarize my thoughts on this blog . . . which is kind of a vanity project, since I don't really see anybody reading any of these! (But if you do, welcome!)
The November 1974 cover (above) features a topless woman in a corset and stockings, pursing her lips while adjusting her bowler hat. It is a sexy boudoir style photo, and not at all explicit. Cover price = $1.25
Larry Flint's Op-Ed piece railed against anti-obscenity laws, including "Michigan recently passed an anti-obscenity law stating that the exposure of buttocks is offensive, even in baby powder ads!"
The first two advice letters were from women (?!) - the first about how she imagines her lover is a dog when he goes down on her, the other saying she gets turned on when she gives her fifth grade boys "a good whallop across the buttocks." To be fair, their advice was for the to seek psychiatric consultation.
First pictoral - a B/G pictoral "Really Getting Down . . . Cathy and Joe" saying that they met at the Toronto Hustler Club. Soft core, fully nude. Fairly non-descript models unknown to me. Fairly fun set, though.
Attempts to legitimize the magazine include a style section, showing various men's fashions worn by men draped with a naked woman.
This month's Hustler Honey appears next in a Solo Female pictorial: Lorraine, a "California lass" who "knows the way to blast you off to the outer limits" 
And after the centerfold, there is always a joke page! (Just like Playboy, but a little raunchier)
Best joke of November 1974:
Marriage Counselor: You say your husband is cheating on you?
Young Housewife: Yes, last week alone my husband committed adultery 6 times and I committed it only twice.
Next pictorial - young blonde flower child Robin. She seems like a sweet girl, but has a filthy mouth, lol! I doubt these models write their dialogue, but if they do then Robin loves "the filling feeling of sucking a man's big prick and working my tongue all around it especially on the shaft."
A brief story about Napoleon's sexual abberations is followed by another pictorial, Gail. I think I liked her layout the best, mainly because I found her the most attractive in this issue
Fiction is next - Love is Nothing But a 4 Letter Word, by Joseph Sander. I wasn't able to find anything about him or any other work of his. There's also a long-form article called "The Motown Story," telling you the history of the Barry Gordy enterprise, including the fact that Diana Ross started out as a secretary at Motown.
That's it! The history was high, the sexual content was there but not terribly arousing. On to next year!
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