Meet the Porn Collector Keeping Vintage Mags Alive in the Internet Age

6158989304_6606729f1e_mDave is a porn collector who started webuyanyporn.com to stock up on good ole fashioned smutty magazines that he hopes to sell in his vintage porn shop in London. Dave will literally buy any porn—the run of the mill kind people would just as soon recycle, to the supreme, grade-A collector’s kind (think mint condition Playboys from the ’50s). And as a vintage porn enthusiast in an internet age, he’s happy to take it where he can find it. So what does he consider really great porn?

The golden age of porn was in the 1950s, with photographers like Harrison Marks using great lighting to make the pics visually and technically superior. He says, “That’s where porn really started…it was used to get around the law. They sold it as art.” In fact, porn was illegal up until fairly recently, so Dave’s shop would be like walking into a sex shop in the 1980s! He caters to any kind of kink you might be hankering for (one magazine is entirely full of clits!), and what he likes about vintage mags opposed to internet porn is their allure and suggestiveness. He laments that with porn now “there’s no sense of imagination.” That’s why he’s keeping vintage porn alive—in all its nostalgic, titillating glory.

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