What you know about UK Porn?

It's like Eastenders to your Aaron Spelling soaps.

Thank you for being the sole answerer, Mr. Dastooroyer, you are a consistently rugged man......haha the rest of you brits acting like you never seen a strokebook in your life.......will you answer if I make this a Search & Destroy? Holly McGuire got a badooga-doonk!

As you say it appears to have a lot more of a jokey vibe, and as a result seems a lot less sleazy.

best ever porn mags are my '69 [teeheehee] and '70 Australian ones. they were an xmas present, apparently procured from a churce fete.

the basic premise is thus: pretty, homely lasses [one of the cover models has unshaved legs and li'l tummy rolls. wahey!] sitting around in their underwear, next to franky terrible poetry. And the ads are all for mail-order brides and spot-creams.

They sound ace! Scan 'em up! I wanna see

Britporn humour can be traced back at least as far as eccentric UK smut peddlar Harrison Marks, who made early UK nudist films w/ his 'star' Pamela Green, shot loads of mucky pics for most of the early 'glam' mags, and became one of the first UK bondage/spanking 'auteurs' (he started Janus, the UK's longest-running fetish mag.) Marks in turn took his lead from the 'pioneering' nudie-cuties of American filmmakers like Russ Meyer, Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman, adding UK picture postcard humour and the stand-up smut/vulgarity of people like Max Miller and even Benny Hill. As in America, I suspect that the humour was a way of softening the smut, making it seem less like saddo solo masto material and more like good 'healthy' fun. By the late sixties, most of the UK's softcore smut movies were basically 'blue' comedies, and you can spot loads of British comedy 'greats' in the 'Confessions...' series, or David Sullivan's 'Playbirds'. Sullivan's early 70s mags - like 'Playbirds' - were usually at the 'rough' end of the market, and often featured Mary Millington inserting 'foreign' objects into various orifices. These kind of pics were found NOT to be 'obscene' in a mid-seventies court case, but Sullivan still toned down the content of his stroke bks, particularly after Millington died in a sordid overdose scenario (it kind of took the shine off the 'ordinary girl-next-door' image pushed by Sullivan in his jazz mags.)Linzi Drew - who appeared naked on the front cover of 'The Pros and Cons of Hitchiking' by Roger Waters! - 'inherited' Millington's status as UK porn queen, and went on to edit UK Penthouse. She's married to Lindsey Honey aka Ben Dover, the UK's current leading producer of hardcore porn flicks; he bases his act on the work of similarly '(un)funny' US porn king John 'Buttman' Stagliano...

Or so people tell me, anyway...

Now that's what I'm talkin bout.

I wasn't really satisfied the first time around.

All I know about UK porn I learned from Mona Lisa.

Ramosi: that's the problem with uk porn, maybe?