Films and Filming had the reputation of serving a second purpose as a closet gay magazine, regularely featuring nude or nearly nude male actors on its covers and inside.MichaelB wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 4:57 pm Oh, and this was the cover of the May 1977 of Films and Filming—and that's not a strategically placed sausage that the woman's reaching for. Which was a perfectly respectable magazine on open display in newsagents up and down the country (and indeed my school library), and this cover was by no means the only example I could have picked. In fact, here's another, which had to be censored by the eBay seller, so you'll have to use your imagination (but it'll probably be pretty accurate).
813-816 Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy
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...and necessarily euphemistic personal ads inside, as they started running them before male homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967.
It's a fascinating repository of mid-20th century British social history.
It's a fascinating repository of mid-20th century British social history.
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Hammer's When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth has a fairly explicit nude scene (removed from the US version) and that film was passed 'A' in the UK.MichaelB wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 4:57 pm Way back in 1964, Old Shatterhand, the third Winnetou western, featured a shot of a full-frontally naked woman (pubic hair clearly visible) diving into a waterfall. True, it was a very brief shot, but this was in a completely routine mainstream feature passed as suitable for children in Germany (and indeed filmed in 70mm for maximum detail!).