When I was a kid, then neighbors dad had subscription to playboy / penthouse / hustler (etc) sent to his office.

There were a half dozen female secretaries in the office. The porn mags would get sorted as usual and put in people's inboxes and circulate through the inter office mail and eventually make its way to the neighborhood kids.

This was the 80s, early 90s.

1. Anybody else remember porn mags being common in the workplace even with women present in the office?

2. What year did it become generally frowned upon to have porn mags laying around the office?

3. Can you imagine the absolute **** storm it would cause your office in 2019 if there were porn mags being routed through the interoffice mail.

Does this cultural shift mean that we are becoming more conservative or more liberal?

(as a society / nation)

i used to beat off to magazines. really makes you think.

the internet happened...

My agency used to issue ash trays to each employee. So no, the fact that people used to have personal and inappropriate mail sent to the office doesn't surprise me.

Yeah. As has been stated porn and smoking became a much more personal issue.

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i used to beat off to magazines. really makes you think.

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Why nobody has starred you yet, I don't know.

Fonzie Scheme said:

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Yeah. As has been stated porn and smoking became a much more personal issue.

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My hands smoked a few times while looking at the mags. So there's that.

Also a meme I find funny.

somehow, playboy sent me a postcard asking if i wanted a subscription when i was only 15. first use i ever got out of my checking account.

Barber shops use to regularly keep Playboys on the table with the other magazines. Was just like sports illustrated.

Imagine having to jerk off while holding a magazine

Man I feel like finding a stash of playboys (or worse if you're lucky) at either your house or a friends house was a rite of passage into adulthood back then. There really isn't a modern day equivalent of it.

Man, one good friend, we found a few copies of 'juggs' in his parents' bedroom. Thinking back, the mom was kinda flat hah. Wonder how that went over if she ever found out.

I just read the articles.

Cactus Jack said:

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I just read the articles.

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you always hear that cliche - I just have playboy for the articles - yet the women wore very few if any articles of clothing.

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somehow, playboy sent me a postcard asking if i wanted a subscription when i was only 15. first use i ever got out of my checking account.

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I used to complete the Publisher's Clearinghouse sweepstakes for our family. They knew it was a waste of time but I was a youngster (12-14). They used to come with a ton of magazine stamps where you could order magazine subscriptions for cheap. One year I told my mom I was going to order a magazine with the sweepstakes submission and I need her to write me a check for it in exchange for my cash. She wrote the check out to what the Playboy subscription stated to do as "PEI" which stood for Playboy Enterprises Inc. And there I had it. A Playboy subscription in my Mom's name coming to my house. Luckily our postman didn't come until after school. Every day after school around the time the magazine would come, I'd keep a look out for the postman and be the first one out to the mailbox. I got about 8 of the 12 from that yearly subscription. When my mom intercepted the mail with the Playboys, she was so bewildered and just thought it was a joke from a friend. Years later I fessed up and we still joke about it today. Kids these days don't have stories like that. The best they have is when they got caught looking a porn on the internet with only one hand above the desk.

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Imagine having to jerk off while holding a magazine

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Here.

jwoodmd said:

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Barber shops use to regularly keep Playboys on the table with the other magazines. Was just like sports illustrated.

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My father's barber in Stafford did in the 70's

The barber shop at the El Cortez casino in Las Vegas had some old playboys out for the customers. Been a while so I am not sure if that barber shop is still there anymore.

The barber shop in my hood was a great source of playboys when I was a kid.
And the True Detective mags at the drug store down the street.

Hell yeah, I'll go get a haircut if I can look at titties.

azulAg said:

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I used to be a pro

My Dad had a subscription. Me and my brother got whipped after stealing a few from his closet.

I found dad's subscription when emptying out their attic last year. They bought the place in 1976 and it was all of them from about 1966 to 1973.

"Idunno where those came from!"

At work there used to be all kinds of stuff that wouldn't be allowed now on people's toolboxes. The last of the Snap On and Mac calendars disappeared around 2008 I think.

Speaking of these mags in the workplace, I was a court clerk in a Harris County misdemeanor criminal courtroom in Houston. The elected judge would often read his porn behind the bench during a trial.

Circa 1992.

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azulAg said:

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I used to be a pro

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I recommend falling back to magazines when you start getting so jaded you have to find precisely the one thing on the 'hub that'll still get any reaction out of you. For Extreme mode, you should try using your imagination. Cuz sometimes that's all you had--just a collection of mental pictures you took at school or whatnot. Volleyball uniforms were just b**** shorts and shirts back then, if you are trying to think of shortcuts.

If you think getting hold of porn was difficult, the idea that chicks that YOU KNEW would a) take nekkid pictures of themselves and b) send you those pics [by mail? fax? hand them to you in an envelope?] was unthinkable.

I don't ever remember them being common place in offices like that (but I wasn't old enough to be in too many professional offices that had secretaries).

My parents owned their own tile business and when I would work with them in the summer, I remember one of the places we bought tile from had a stack of hustlers, penthouses, etc in the mens bathroom, but that was essentially a warehouse filled with blue collar workers.

I started working in the oil business in the 70's. Never heard or seen such a thing.
There might be some geek that brought a playboy from home. But office mail , would not have happened where I worked. 70's-90's mid majors.

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Imagine having to jerk off while holding a magazine

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I used to be a pro

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I recommend falling back to magazines when you start getting so jaded you have to find precisely the one thing on the 'hub that'll still get any reaction out of you. For Extreme mode, you should try using your imagination. Cuz sometimes that's all you had--just a collection of mental pictures you took at school or whatnot. Volleyball uniforms were just b**** shorts and shirts back then, if you are trying to think of shortcuts.

If you think getting hold of porn was difficult, the idea that chicks that YOU KNEW would a) take nekkid pictures of themselves and b) send you those pics [by mail? fax? hand them to you in an envelope?] was unthinkable.

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Wait----- you invented the "spank bank"? God bless you sir.

Nooooo, I think cavemen probably invented that. But these kids that have had pron-on-demand since they were aware of an Internet may never have had to use the spank bank for reference.

azulAg said:

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And who says the olds can't multi-task.

I remember most of my parents' friends had them in the guest bathroom as reading material and that's the first place I ever saw one.

Now my parents will deny it to this day, but I found a stack of National Lampoons from the 70's in their bookcase back in the day. There was some dirty stuff in there and bizarrely more educational than Playboy for its reality.

National Lampoon magazines were the teets.

I remember finding porn in the woods. Either someone has stolen it from their dad's stash and told everyone, or you found th treasure yourself. If someone had a tree house, it was guaranteed to have a porn stash.

azulAg said:

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Didn't necessarily have to hold the magazine.

Lay it out on the bed in front of you.
Prop it up on the toilet paper holder.
Prop it up against the wall.
Clothespins

The real trick was keeping the pages from getting torn up or sticky.

As some of the older guys nearing retirement here say...work was better in the 70's when the office smelled of smoke, alcohol, and sexual harassment.