https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/pre-internet-pay-phones-digital-online-cellphones-vintage-nostalgia

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    A lot of stuff has been said so I won't repeat them, here's a weird one though - I don't know what americans experienced so this might be weird to those people but here on terf island a phenomenon that's not often discussed it that back in the day if you wanted to look at porn you could go for a walk in your local patch of woods. Pre-internet there were piles of porn mags in every patch of woods in the country.

    EDIT: Aww fuck "forest porn" is lower in the comments.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Generations of kids hiding them from their parents or something more sinister?

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        Yeah kids I assume that stole them from the local top shelf or found a stash at home to steal.

        Either way this is a serious thing that existed that everyone remembers when you remind them.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          I’m just imagining a sleazy porn producer doing his rounds. dropping off the weekly stack of playboys in each glade and copse to addict the local lads while they’re young.