B&D Newspapers and Magazines

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The B&D Newspapers and Magazines

by TheGhostWhoWalks over 6 years ago

The genesis of the B&D newspaper is traceable back through the linage of B&D Magazine publishing to the 1930s. During the 1920s & 1930's " London Life" was published in England & distributed worldwide, while not specifically a B&D Fetish magazine, It was the first internationally distributed magazine to have a regular & sizeable B&D and fetish section. The artist & publisher John Coutts (aka John Willie) was a regular contributor.

In 1946 John Willie first published "Bizarre", considered to be the first dedicated B&D Fetish magazine. By the early 1950s (1951-55) Irving Klaw was publishing his Nutrix Booklets and by 1954/55 Lenny Burtman was publishing Exotica (1954) and Exotique (1955) magazine. With the advent of Lenny Burtman's publishing enterprises ( against a backdrop of obscenity cases ) the B&D / Fetish magazine market grew manifold and the demand seemed to grow year by year.

In 1968 a New York publisher by the name of Alvin "Al" Goldstein published Screw Magazine, a porn tabloid newspaper. Screw " Magazine" was published as a heterosexual tabloid newspaper for sound economic reasons. Star Publishing of Brooklyn, NY. (headed by Teddy "Roth" Rothstein) would charge two dollars to print a five-dollar magazine, two dollars to distribute, leaving you with one dollar income on each magazine. Star controlled all fetish / B&D magazines east of the Mississippi, while Mag Corp controlled all printing west of the Mississippi. The cost of producing a newspaper was significantly lower than the " glossy" B&D porn mags because a newspaper could be laid out at the office, instead of at the printers, this now meant fewer issues were needed to be sold to reach a " breakeven" point financially. Secondly, the cover price could be lower than the " traditional" mags and because of the newspaper format, issues could be produced on a more frequent basis.

Marvin X

One of the first, if not the first B&D/ Fetish newspaper produced, was Fetish Times in 1973. This newspaper was the brainchild of Marvin X, and was published once a month by B&D Publishing Co., 13234 Sherman Way, Suite 9, North Hollywood, Ca. 91605. What distinguished Fetish Times from any other B&D newspaper or magazine, was the fact that a person could place a direct contact ad instead of a coded ad, (coded ads being the common practice) - In early 1975, Mistress Michelle Peters was the first dominant to place a contact phone number in a Personal Ad within a national B&D publication, although not the first publication to have personal ads with mailing addresses, Fetish Times was the first to allow a contact phone number to appear in a personal ad. At the Mistress Michelle was told that she was crazy to publish her phone number, but, within a year, the majority of ads had followed her lead.

Below is , " The Chamber" the opening preface to each and every Fetish Times, this is from issue No. 1.

The Chamber

"All right, slaves, lick my editorial boots. God, are you a bunch of disgusting animals - unfit even to kiss my regal ass. Bow before me, you slobbering beasts, lest my anger with you becomes too great for simple mortals to withstand. Suffer.".... !

The above is typical of the horrid copy pushed onto fetish readers in the past. Pure fantasy-the sloppy writing of some hack with no feel or understanding of what the fetish reader really wants. FETISH TIMES is not going to insult you with crap like that. Unlike the other papers that pretend to treat fetish subjects, we're not in this game for the money. Every member of this paper^lives what we write about. We're telling you about our scenes and we hope that you'll let us into yours.

FETISH TIMES is a newspaper based on the concept that has a basic right to sexual expression. In each issue, we plan to explore, by both articles and fiction, the many facets of human sexuality. No matter how arcane the topic, no matter how esoteric the subject, we are going to write about it.

Over the years the fetish reader has become the least understood and most exploited person in the sex industry. How many times have you picked up a magazine in hopes it could do something for your interests and found it was just so much crap put together by someone who didn't care about your needs? How many times have you been ripped off with offers of excitement that turned out to be nothing but dullness?

We think you're a special person-you have special tastes and very special needs. We want to fulfill those needs for you-put you in contact with ideas, products, and other people you'll find interesting. We're real people, just like you, and we want to share our experiences.

Above all, FETISH TIMES is going to be an interesting publication. We plan to honestly treat such subjects as bestiality, sadism, erotomania, pederasty, urethamania, exhibitionism, homosexuality, masochism, and all those other Greek words for fun. We aren't going to tell you what you should and shouldn't do with your body and mind-we want you to have as much freedom in sex as you want. We're going to do our best to see that you get what you want on these pages.

A newspaper is only as good as its readers. We want you to write us and let us know what you think about our first issue. (All negative comments will be given to our staff masochist.) We've all worked long and hard to turn out what we feel is a damn fine product but only you can let us know how right we are.

So, no matter what interests you, you're going to be able to find it here on our pages. Let us know what turns you on, what you would like to see and read. We expect to hear from you. And now, enough of this chatter, we've got to get busy on issue #2. Copy slave, bring me my whip.

J.S.

By issue 8, Fetish Times` uncompromising attitude had become apparent in its editorial.

See also [ Fetish Times 08 ]

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