Sex and Money: How I Lived, Breathed, Read, Wrote, Loved, by Mark Dapin

By Mark Dapin

The beer-sodden reminiscences of the previous editor-in-chief of Ralph provide a bawdy insider's inspect the area of men's magazines. The historical past of men's magazines in Australia, from Playboy, Penthouse, and The Picture to FHM, Ralph, and Men's Health is explored. How ladies develop into disguise ladies, and the way hide ladies turn into excellent girls utilizing Photoshop, airbrushes, and an artwork director's mind's eye can also be revealed.

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I rang D from Bangkok, after two and a half months touring Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. She said she was trying not to hate me, but she didn’t want to see me again for a long time. She was casually dismissive. She no longer felt bound by her promise. In the last ten weeks, her career had jumped ahead ten years. She had found a job as a staff journalist, then another as a magazine editor. She would not suffer on her own, trying to sustain a relationship with somebody who was on the other side of the world with his wife.

From the beginning, the magazine embraced the proposition that very fat people are very funny indeed. In the first nine weeks of its history, it published a story about the Fat Pride Conference in San Francisco; a 394 kilogram German who once ate fourteen chickens in a single sitting (‘How Fat Albert Ate A Farm’); a 152 kilogram English woman who claimed she did not eat much but drank a lot (‘Sponge Woman Gets Fat On Water’); and a 380 kilogram American who had gone on a diet in the hope of finding a girlfriend (‘World’s Biggest Fatso Slims For Sex’).

Thanks to David Naylor, we know Rule Number Two: Crashing Aeroplanes Do Not Sell Magazines. The Picture number four had a cover showing two aeroplanes colliding in an air show disaster, and circulation nosedived by fifty per cent. The Picture never again ran a cover that did not feature a woman – or, at least, part of one. mark dapin 33 Sex&Money24-5-04 13/7/04 3:51 PM Page 34 On 1 April 1989, The Picture carried the ‘Astounding Triple Exclusive’ of ‘My Three Boobs’. The cover showed a three-breasted model taking off her three-cup bra.

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