Male Masturbation before internet/p*rn mags, using your imagination...what did you stroke/hump to?

Any port in a storm…

 

For me the main masturbation options are - just masturbating without any stimulus aid, masturbating with visual images (pictures or videos), masturbating with or after reading erotica, and masturbating whilst fantasising. There are others I am sure. Initially in my youth even soft porn was not available until I left home and for several years (like many men have testified here I used the pictures in clothing catalogues and magazines. Alternatively, I had a fairly active fantasy life though these (like soft porn) were pretty tame. I still have a preference for vintage soft porn - lots of underwear and stockings

 

In my years 12-20 (2008-2015) I only used porn once for a few months as a special treat. Otherwise imagination or nothing (I mean in that age I didn’t need to fantasise hard to masturbate).

 

Sears catalogue and sports illustrated swimsuit issue. Kathy Ireland for the win in 1993! Rebook was also surprisingly decent material. Oh the pre internet days!

 

Oh my gosh! I was hard team Ireland over Julia Roberts. So fucking gorgeous in every way. I masturbated to the Land's End catalog the most. Give me a break. It takes a young masturbator time to figure these things out. LOL!

I also remembered just yesterday that I masturbated to fashion magazines a lot 20 years ago when I was in my early 20s. Bought a lot of Vogue and this really high fashion one that had nudes called I-D. And always Paris Hilton. Any magazine she was on the cover of, I'd buy it. It was purely a physical attraction but with that sole criteria, she was so my type.

But what I specifically remembered that reminded me of all this is that my mother was always so flummoxed by my attraction to Paris Hilton. Anytime I'd buy a magazine with her in it when we were at the store (and she knew full well what I was doing with those magazines.) And every time she'd walk past my room while I was masturbating to the pictures, she'd roll her eyes and say things like, "I don't get it. You should enjoy yourself, of course. But, seriously??? You could do better." Even the women you rub one out to are never good enough in the eyes of a Jewish mother. Hahaha.

 

Lands End! Nice

 

Yep. The swimsuits of course.

 

Sisters' magazines were pretty good too. And MTV on the 90s!

 

Which magazines? Like Tiger Beat? I learned how to masturbate from a segment in an MTV Special News Series about "sex in the '90s." I don't mean that I masturbated for the first time to something on the show. I mean I actually learned about masturbation and how to do it.

One episode had a segment about the differing arguments over whether or not masturbation is moral/healthy and whatever it was they said about masturbation gave me just enough of a kernel of an idea of what it actually was to reverse engineer the mechanics of it and I decided I needed to try it to understand what this "good feeling" is.

 

Don't remember the names of the mags, but always looked forward to the swimsuit season and ads!

MTV had some great videos. Criminal from Fiona Apple was mind blowing.