Dian Hanson

Dian Hanson's: The History of Men's Magazines. Vol. 3: 1960s at the Newsstand -- Dian Hanson, Hardcover

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Sexual revolution, civil rights, Flower Power, miniskirt, women's liberation, The Pill, Black Panthers, hippies; all these words and phrases entered our language in the turbulent 1960s. The decade started as an extension of the domestic '50s and ended with worldwide chaos as baby boomers reached sexual maturity. What a fun decade for men's magazines.

While Playboy's world dominance grew, with France, Germany, England, and Italy producing "men's lifestyle" titles, diversification spread in the U.S. The first big breast magazines debuted, with Fling, Gem and The Swinger; men's adventure titles - with nudes - provided nostalgia for mid-life veterans; humor magazines hung on - barely - while hippie nudist titles exploited a legal loophole allowing them to show pubic hair.

Italy finally joined the party with sexy fumetto photo comics and a hero named Supersex. Latin America clung to the old burlesque format, mired in religious restriction and political unrest. France retained post-war favorite Folies de Paris et de Hollywood for an older audience and launched elegant Playboy clone LUI for its sons. While the world donned miniskirts England did England, reveling in bloomer and petticoat fetishism with Spick and Span digests. But no one topped Germany, where Ulrike Meinhof edited Konkret in 1969, a magazine of sexual and political revolution, before forming Red Army Fraction with Andreas Baader to bomb, kidnap, and assassinate her way into domestic terror history.

Volume 3 contains over 650 groovy covers and photos from Argentina, England, France, Germany, Italy, and The U.S., plus text.

About the series

"Men's magazine" is a euphemism for "sex magazine," and this series traces its origins from 1900 to 1979, from the first coy French illustrations to the adult emporiums of Amsterdam, in six volumes, 2,760 pages, and nearly 4,000 full color covers and interior images. Dian Hanson produced men's magazines from 1976 to 2001, including Puritan, JUGGS, and Leg Show, before becoming TASCHEN's Sexy Book editor.



Author: Dian Hanson
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 02/06/2023
Pages: 460
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.60lbs
ISBN: 9783836592369

Product Tags:

Art, Dian Hanson, Erotica, Hardcover, Photography, Popular Culture, Subjects & Themes, Taschen

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