813-816 Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy

[The Curious Sofa]

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).

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]

...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.