(Links in this post are not worksafe) A series of Taschen books on the photographic history of adult magazines continues with the recently-released Vol. 5: 1970s At the Newsstand, and Vol. 6: 1970s Under the Counter. Snip:
In Volume 5 we explore newsstand magazines gathered from around the world. See the effects of the Sexual Revolution in Germany, England, France, North and South America, Japan, Hong Kong, and Italy. (…) Volume 6, the final word in this encyclopedic series, is reserved for the most daring and extreme edges of the publishing field. In the late 1960s adult bookstores and sex shops spread across Northern Europe and North America to house an increasingly explicit crop of magazines resulting from the international sexual revolution. Magazines sold on the newsstand had to conform to mass taste and morality, but in the sex shops the only limits were imagination.
