Disposing of Men's Magazines

[crankyandtesty]

What do I do with Playboys and Penthouses from the 70s and 80s that I need to get rid of. Hate to just throw them away.

 

[Paul_Chance]

What do I do with Playboys and Penthouses from the 70s and 80s that I need to get rid of. Hate to just throw them away.

There is a collectors market in those old men's magazine - value determined on condition and who or what is in the magazine. Put them all up for sale online as a bundle, depending on how many you have, you might want to sort them out into years or some other such grouping...e.g. "Complete Set of 1971 Playboys" or "Complete Set of 1978 through 1982 Penthouses".

Take a look at Ebay or another online sellers market to get a sense for what they are worth.

You'll make more money piecing them out and offering them as individual magazines, but that's time and resource consuming.

Alternately, if there is an art school near you, reach out and see if they'll take them as a donation (where they're used for figure modeling props or in collages.

 

[davion2308]

Educational pieces

If you don't want to go through selling them, I'm with Paul on this one.

Art schools and educational institutions will always take Playboys for modelling purposes. Playboys, especially from the days of yore, aren't as pornographic as Hustler, etc, and provide models and bodies for students for practice. They'll cannibalize what they can use and they'll appreciate it.

Find out what local colleges or schools have art programs or departments and ask them. It's unlikely they'll decline and you'll know your stuff went to a good home.

 

[htester]

What do I do with Playboys and Penthouses from the 70s and 80s that I need to get rid of. Hate to just throw them away.

Um, if they're 'used,' burn them Otherwise, there's a vintage market out there that might be interested --

 

[pplwatching]

Twice, while helping friends clean up estates following a parent's death, I have looked into the value of collections of old "girly" magazines. One stack was particularly impressive in that it spanned decades.

I learned that there is a small number of issues that are actually valuable, depending on condition (etc). The rest aren't worth the paper that they're printed on, so to speak.

My suggestion is to identify the issues that collectors are paying for now, see if your collection has those issues, and drop the rest off for recycling rather than putting them in the trash.

 

[Hitchiker69]

Put them in an open topped box, and leave them along side a dumpster. They will be found and appreciated. I've seen this done at my storage unit's dumpster, and at the beach.

 

[jehoram]

Find out where the Boy Scouts are meeting, and pass them out as they leave. One per boy. Then they can trade.

But tell them to do what we used to do ...just read the articles, and not look at the pictures.

 

[ChristopherDB]

Even if you aren't up for the hassle of selling the whole collection, you should look through them and see if a few are collectable and worth the effort of making some extra money.

There were a few times long ago when I tossed out part of my collection and I always took them to a local recycle dumptser and left them in an open box or the stack otherwise in plain view when someone opened the lid. I always hoped they had found new homes.

 

[gxnn]

My teacher who studied in the US during 1980s brought back a lot of books that he said were uselss to the local public or school libraries any more and donated to him as reference books in future use, but to our disappointment we did not find any interesting picture books like the two Ps.

I suppose big libraries like Congress or Britain Museum will have some space for storing such time-honored magazines,but here in my country whether they have such a service, I need to check out, perhaps the libraries in our country can make themselves different by having some collection of such taboo materials, nowadays there is too much bullshit in the public libraries that has wasted the money of tax payers.

 

[wondering00]

Leave one or two at he doctors office.

 

[OneFineYoungCannibal]

I miss the old days of magazines. Being a teenage kid in the early nineties and coming across a bag of adult magazines in the woods was like finding treasure.

These days people just have to remember to delete their search history.

 

[pplwatching]

I miss the old days of magazines. Being a teenage kid in the early nineties and coming across a bag of adult magazines in the woods was like finding treasure.

These days people just have to remember to delete their search history.

When I was younger, I would hang out at a friend's house while his parents were at work. One afternoon, he pulled out his parent's stash from their room. This was around 1980 and it was a treasure trove for us and not yer every day basic playboy stash for sure. It was pretty hardcore stuff including group sex and cumshots. Some black and white, some color. In hindsight, I'd venture to guess that his parents were swingers. We spent quite a few afternoons checking those out. The best thing was that he didn't have to hide them, just put them back where he found them. I don't know if his parents ever figured out that he had found them.

 

[UnderMyKilt]

I miss the old days of magazines. Being a teenage kid in the early nineties and coming across a bag of adult magazines in the woods was like finding treasure.

....or, in a cave....in the early 70's.

Though my dad had a subscription to Playboy, and a "worldly uncle" often gave him his past issues of Penthouse, it really wasn't what I was looking for.

The first hardcore porn, and perhaps most importantly the first gay porn, that I ever saw, was in a box of hardcore magazines that some friends and I found while exploring a cave near our neighborhood.

There were probably thirty mags in the box, with about ten of them gay. Some of this was really old vintage stuff and it was a mix of glossy pages and the old flat newsprint type of paper. Of course, like the others, I feigned revulsion at the site of the gay action while secretly being turned on.

"We" decided to leave them there, but I had other plans and returned there with a backpack that night and brought them all home. The next time my friends and I returned to the cave, we were all "shocked" that someone would take them away. They became my "constant companions" with at least a few of them always stashed under the sink in my bathroom.

Now that I think of it, I can't even remember where they went or what I did with them.

 

[namron711]

What do I do with Playboys and Penthouses from the 70s/80s?
Not looking for a profit.
Hate to just throw them away.

 

[munch2much]

What do I do with Playboys and Penthouses from the 70s/80s?
Not looking for a profit.
Hate to just throw them away.

If in mint condition they may be collectible.
Someone sued their parents recently for throwing out their collection.
It was unclear whether they looked the worse for “wear” or not

 

[TheleHun]

If there are any funky vintage shops in your area, give them a call. They probably have know a collector or will just take them off your hands. Otherwise Facebook marketplace etc. That's how I've picked up large collections in the past.

 

[jehoram]

There was a thread on this subject last year. You could probably find it after a short search.

 

[pplwatching]

There was a thread on this subject last year. You could probably find it after a short search.

This sub has been so slow that's only been pushed down to Page 2 .

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1533128

 

[Traveler78]

Aren't all porn magazines supposed to be deposited in hidden caches in the woods for younger generations to find?

 

[namron711]

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Thank you all for your suggestions.

 

[namron711]

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This sub has been so slow that's only been pushed down to Page 2 .

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1533128

Thank you.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Aren't your supposed to pass them on to your son when he turns 18?

In lew of that you put them in a box and put them in the garage so when you sell your house the next occupant finds them or his/her kids find them.

Or you just put them in the trash and someone will find them either before they are collected or as they are being collected or after they are collected.