The early years of Swank magazine are a little fuzzy with publication ceasing for several years and the direction of the content being confused.

Private grew an immediate domestic audience as well as internationally and has grown to become an important title in the adult market. Razzle Another publication that now exists only on the web, Gent was one of the founding ‘skin magazines’, starting up a few years after the launch of Modern Man. The first editor of the High Society magazine was former porn star, Gloria Leonard who is credited with creating the first phone sex lines. The format of girl-next-door, amateur style content is a popular one and includes features on reader’s wives and true confessions as well as glamour models.Escort is in the top ten adult magazines sold in the UK and has enjoyed a solid readership due to its widespread availability since 1980. Fiesta At the height of its success, the flagship magazine was selling around seven million copies each month. The magazine is produced by the UK powerhouse of porn publishing, Paul Raymond Productions who also distribute Razzle, Mayfair and Men Only.

At its peak, the magazine was selling around 150,000 copies with the success of the title owing largely to the fact that the models were regular women, often with more ample bodies. Designed to be a companion guide for pornographic movies (and mainstream releases), Adam Film World was considered to be one of the leading titles in the industry during the 1980s and 1990s.

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A niche fetish magazine aimed at those with a penchant for (you guessed it) legs, Leg Show was published in the USA from the 1980s and a German edition was produced in the 1990s. A British magazine celebrating well-known erotic and porn models, Men’s World is a softcore publication. Remaining in circulation for twenty years, Asian Babes was initially launched as an experiment. Depicting erotic images of women of Pakistani and Indian origin, the title later went on to include Thai, Korean, Chinese and Japanese models. Circulation for the new title proved a hit with 160,000 copies being sold. Though founded by American Bob Guccione, Penthouse is a British publication that features softcore pornography and lifestyle content.