People say that porn has desensitized us because of its ready availability online and the increasingly creepy horrors brought to us by Rule 34. But weird-ass porn is not exactly a new phenomenon: Even before the Internet, our fathers and grandfathers were well-versed in the art of finding different ways to give themselves new and interesting boners. And, in their own way, they were just as depraved as we are -- and then some.
Just take a look at these creepy old-timey porn magazines, featuring themes as diverse and disgusting as ...
Warning: Fairly NSFW Images Ahead
Man's Book Periodical
We assume a trained sexologist could literally spend years studying that magazine cover alone, without even realizing that "busty woman getting tortured by Nazis" was a whole genre of porn through the 1950s and '60s.
Man's Adventure
"And I thought these heels would be the most painful part of my day."
We can ... sort of understand it. Many sexual fantasies involve elements of control, and who better to control than someone you hate? But the strange thing is that this isn't like Raiders of the Lost Ark turning Nazis into cartoonish enemies in 1981; these magazines came right after the war, when veterans were still nursing wounds. We don't know, it kind of seems too soon to be turning Hitler into a wank fetish. Yet, when Grandpa wanted to get freaky, Nazis were the port of call. They were essentially the era's equivalent of BDSM, commonly indulging in torturous shit you'd be hard-pressed to find in modern porn. Here's some swastika branding:
World of Men
"10 Ways to Tell if You're Sexually Maladjusted: 1-10, you paid money for this fucking magazine."