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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Ugly
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.023427.327@spdcc.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 02:34:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov24.023427.327
- References: <69872@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov21.160459.10467@spdcc.com> <70058@cup.portal.com>
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- Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
- >Bob Donahue writes:
- >>Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
- >>>This simply isn't true. _HONCHO_ has done a couple of "bear"
- >>>oriented issues [Oct. 1990 and Jul. 1992], and even in Twinkie
-
- >> I can't speak for the 7/92 issue but the 10/90 issue
- >>was more "faux-bear" than bear... The models had all the parts
- >>but just didn't "have it"...
-
- >We've discussed the fact previously that you and I define the
- >term "bear" differently.
-
- Even putting that in I think the Honcho models of late
- do not match very will with the Top 5 "bears" on anyone's list.
-
- >>who was about the best bear since the "Fur Trapper" spread in 1984
- >>(GDM - don't forget they had this guy AGAIN in 1985 in a really
- >>awful spread that had his CLOTHES on most of the time to hide
- >>his fur....).
-
- >True, but the letters complaining about *THAT* got us two more
- >full-page shots of him wearin' next to nuthin' in later issues,
- >both of which were clearer and better-lit than anything they'd
- >run previously....(!)
-
- TWO??? (u......) Oh - OK (whew!)
-
- I wonder what happened to him that he never posed for
- anyone else... I mean people up to a couple of years ago were saying
- that he was spotted at the FSF, etc...
-
- >> I subscribe to _Daddy_ and buy Bulk Male regularly.
- >>I usedf to get Bear but they got away from what I would call the
- >>"Classic" bear and more into the biker-bear look pretty much
-
- >Umm... *NOT*. Try looking through a copy of "In The Wind" if
- >you want to know what bikers look like.
-
- OK - "biker-bear" comparatively then. And even so,
- I did choose my words carefully.
-
- >>If you were to count the # of bear models in all of the
- >>mags out, I think you'd find there are more models than ever.
-
- >Well, yes -- if you include all the "specialty" magazines we've
- >been talking about. But *NONE* of them -- even _BEAR_ -- has the
- >kind of newsstand distribution that the Honcho/Mandate/&c.
- >skinrags get. If you're privileged to live in a major metro
- >area, you can find the "specialty" publications -- otherwise,
- >you don't see them.
-
- That's becoming less andless true - you *can* believe
- it or not now get Bear at Eros Books in Las Cruces NM, but
- not the others (last I checked, um last month...)
-
- And insofar as I do have some kind of outlet, albeit
- imperfect, the problem is becoming less of one with time.
- The fact that people *do* know about these alternative mags
- and aren't discounting them as readily as before is an indication of
- progress...
-
- BBC
-