Note: Not Safe For Work!
MP3:
High Society December 1982 - Busting My Cherry (6:27)
Set the Way Back Machine to 1982:
"Music Sharing" meant borrowing your brother's Rolling Stones albums. "Online Communities" meant people waiting to buy tickets to see "E.T. the Extra Terrestrial". And pornography was not available at the click of a button - especially not to a 16-year-old high school kid.
That's why when Mike S. started bringing in issues of "Penthouse", "Hustler", and "High Society", it blew our little minds. Sure, we'd seen nude models in "Playboy", but these other magazines were our first introduction to fetishes, costumes, non-white women, lesbians and, last but certainly not least, vaginas.
But all we ever had access to were magazines. Sure, you could see the occasional scrambled boob on Cinemax, but any sort of non-print media porn was out of the question. Until the fall of 1982.
Mike brought in the December 1982 issue of "High Society" with a cardboard record featuring the promised you'd "Hear the Sounds of a Virgin Losing Her Cherry!" with accompanying pictorial.
The scenario was simple. Some might say, classic. A teenage babysitter invites her boyfriend over, they start making out and then their hormones take over and she has sex for the first time. She does all the narration on the record. No male voice is heard, so you can pretend to be the boyfriend. It's pure male fantasy. At first she is adamant about staying a virgin, but lust takes over and she becomes an "INSATIABLE SEXPOT".
Looking back at this artifact from today's perspective, when you can see any sort of freaky sex on the internet, from bondage to clown sex, golden showers to lesbian cheerleaders, the vaginas of America's pop stars to granny's banging freakishly hung black dudes, this record seems rather tame in comparison.
Until you realize that the girl in question is clearly underage. Listen to her voice and cadence: she's at best supposed to be 16. Probably younger. That's a little creepy.
The recording you will hear is NOT the original record I got from Mike. S. I'm not that much of a maniac collector (or pervert). Instead it's from a pristine copy I purchased via Ebay. Ah, internet. If only we had you back in the 80s...
- Contributed by: Mr. Gorilla
Images: Magazine Cover
as much as i loved High Society(and who of our age back then didn't?), i would venture that Hustler topped this with their scratch'n'sniff pussy issue.
Posted by: DanO | June 03, 2007 at 03:41 AM
The main thing I loved about High Society was all of the Celebrity Nudes they showed. Many of which I'm sure are now plastered all over the internet.
Posted by: Dave | June 03, 2007 at 05:26 PM
I know I'm getting old when my only comment about those mags is about how poorly they were designed and printed. In the 80s Playboy had great photographers, writing and FANTASTIC illustrators on tap...Marshall Arisman, Braldt Bralds, Kinuko Craft, Anita Kunz etc. That kept me buying Playboy even though though the pictorials were pretty lame. Those other mags DID have the very young and very illegal Tracy Lords, however.
Posted by: Dale Hazelton | June 04, 2007 at 09:19 AM
Is that cover model Shauna Grant, AKA Colleen Applegate?
Posted by: Dean | June 04, 2007 at 11:12 AM
how much did you pay for this on ebay? did you get the mag with it?
i see that issue #1 from 1976 went for 41 bux-
i still have my larry flynt for president bumper sticker-maybe this year i'll
use it!
Posted by: davo | June 04, 2007 at 10:30 PM
I purchased the entire magazine on EBay, not just the record. I think I paid like $8 for it. Not more than $20, I am sure.
As for the cover model, I don't think it's Shauna Grant. I'll check when I get home. If it is, I will post.
Posted by: Mr. Gorilla | June 05, 2007 at 04:31 PM
Please, would someone duct tape that dumb chick's mouth shut? Talk about annoying!
Posted by: Screamin' Demon | June 19, 2007 at 06:37 PM
I don't think this issue was ever sold in Canada. I would have bought it fer sure!
Posted by: Visaman | August 05, 2007 at 07:52 AM
Ah,about porn such as High Society not being available to 16-year-old high school kids in 1982 & any sort of non-print media porn was out of the question until the fall of 1982. In 1982,I was nine and ten years old,and even before then I had access to porn. That's if I was into porn back then,which I wasn't. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I got into porn,after I turned 12. And at that time,High Society's December 1982 issue was my very first porn magazine and not even two months later Taboo II (1982) had became my very first pornograghic film. So it seems that the year 1982 made it's way back to one 12 year old kid. I can recap so much of my life in "82." I was a geeky 9 & 10 year old who loved MTV,I was a HUGE Star Wars fan waiting for the release Return of the Jedi,loved WWF wrestling and cried my eyes out at the end of E.T.
If only I could have added High Society & Taboo II to that list,but I was too young to really enjoy good porn. So needless to say,when I found your blog,it brought back real memories. A 12 yo kid buying his first porn mag from a garage sale for 25 cents. The cover,and some of the pages were missing. And I didn't get the record with it. But it was "What Is A New York Girl,Poppin'The Cherry,Kitty: Society's Child & a 20 yo Sylvia Benedict's pictorials that made me fall in love with that magazine. In fact,I still have that old torn up magazine packed away in a box somewhere. Thank you for posting such a great blog Mr. Gorilla,and you ever run across another good deal on that magazine & record then please let me know.
Or anyone runs across a deal on Taboo 1 to 4,and Hustler's scratch'n'sniff pussy issue. I've never seen the scratch'n'sniff pussy issue.
Posted by: Larry | August 27, 2009 at 11:13 AM