adult magazine Archives - Desperate Living

A pictorial guide to the British origins of Bob Guccione’s glamour magazine.

Looking back at the glory days of the festive magazine and comic book cover.

A remarkable and lurid tale of prosthetics, photographic special effects, daredevil publishing and political scandal.

From the days before phone sex and cam girls, the pioneering efforts to bring aural sex to adult magazine readers.

The ambitious but under-achieving softcore video magazine series featuring Keith Allen.

Vintage advertisements for exotic drug paraphernalia aimed at people with more money than sense.

The notorious Screw Magazine publisher’s ill-fated attempt to do for death what he’d done for sex.

The kings of classic rock album cover art and their brief but creative time working for girly magazines.

An exhaustive gallery of covers from Britain’s oldest surviving adult magazine.