{"id":1773,"date":"2014-03-10T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2015-06-05T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:38:26","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner’s Guide to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MaryExperience<\/em> magazine was a 1970s’ digest-sized, top-shelf publication, created as a cheeky competitor to the more intellectual Forum. <\/em>The latter title marketed itself as\u00a0Britain’s first ‘couples-friendly’ porn magazine and\u00a0boasted the rather grand strapline,\u00a0‘The International Journal of Human Relations’. Whereas Forum<\/em> was an offshoot from the mighty\u00a0Penthouse<\/em> publishing group, and could attract contributors as\u00a0highbrow as Molly Parkin, Lord Longford and Paul Tabori, Experience<\/em> magazine was distinctly downmarket fare, concentrating on ‘sexy party games’, blue films and\u00a0wife-swapping. The magazine also featured the infamous Girls of Experience – <\/em>nude models including Maureen Flanagan, Tara Lynn, Clyda Rosen and\u00a0Beryl Grant, who ‘wrote’ extensively about their sexual escapades. In fact, Tabor Publications, the publishers of Experience<\/em>, used the predictably false claim that their magazines were wholly staffed\u00a0by sexually-liberated females.\u00a0Experience<\/em> was boldly promoted as\u00a0the ‘original magazine written and edited by GIRLS!’<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Experience<\/em> brand was successful enough to produce several spin-off magazines, including Girls of Experience<\/em>, The Good Sex Diary<\/em>, The Guide to Erotic Loveplay<\/em>\u00a0and, in 1974, The Guide to Love Aids<\/em>. The\u00a064-page\u00a0sex toy\u00a0magazine featured extensive reviews of dildos, vibrators, sex creams and duo-balls and featured Mary Millington as the seductive cover girl. In the early 1970s Mary had worked extensively for Tabor Publications,\u00a0starring as ‘Sally Stevens’\u00a0the letters editor\u00a0in Experience<\/em>‘s\u00a0sister magazine Vibrations<\/em>, as well as being the main model in two volumes of Beryl Grant’s saucy story magazine Around the World in 80 Lays<\/em>. Although Mary sadly only appears on\u00a0one single page inside the Guide to Love Aids<\/em>, her uncredited cover-girl\u00a0status makes it one of the most collectable, and enduring, of all her magazine appearances. Some care was taken\u00a0by the\u00a0designer in creating\u00a0the cover too – I love the way the letter ‘A’ is subtly tucked into her knicker elastic…<\/span><\/p>\n

All words \u00a9 Simon Sheridan 2014-2015<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Experience magazine was a 1970s’ digest-sized, top-shelf publication, created as a cheeky competitor to the more intellectual Forum. The latter title marketed itself as\u00a0Britain’s first ‘couples-friendly’ porn magazine and\u00a0boasted the rather grand strapline,\u00a0‘The International Journal of Human Relations’. Whereas Forum … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,25,29,28,174],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aka-sally-stevens","tag-clyda-rosen","tag-experience-magazine","tag-maureen-flanagan","tag-vibrations-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}