FabSwingers.com forum: who remembers the old contact mags

By *eaderswife_wyorks OP Man
over a year ago

bradford

we used to use rendezvous,and northern link.seem to take forever just to make contact with someone,lol.

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

We used Rendezvous. Remember the terms AC/DC, long stayer, quick repeater?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes, I guess the internet put paid to porno & contact magazines etc pretty much overnight

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes but so many more genuine folk the excitement of writing a letter and waiting for the mail and if you would get a reply and Polaroid snap and a phone number great times

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By *ongue in groveMan
over a year ago

Norwich

Haha it's how my first partner and I started. You had to wait two weeks for a reply

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By *ldbutrandyMan
over a year ago

West Midlands

"We used Rendezvous. Remember the terms AC/DC, long stayer, quick repeater?

I remember BEING a long stayer and repeater lol. now , not so much

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In a few in my teens, they were great fun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think adverts in Sunday sport and then New Direction were how we found out swinging was a thing back in 90s when we were at uni.

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

"Yes but so many more genuine folk the excitement of writing a letter and waiting for the mail and if you would get a reply and Polaroid snap and a phone number great times "

Yeah, but those prison inmates can be dirty fuckers!

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By *andJLondonCouple
over a year ago

London

Oh yes, we remember these. We were talking about it the other day 'remember when you would write a letter an exchange photos in the post' how things have moved on. Saying that, we had more success meeting people then. So many fake accounts online. But hey ho.

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By *elsh_naturist_coupleCouple
over a year ago

Newport

Contact mags ect were before my time.

But get the feeling the Internet has spoiled it for the genuine seingers.

To many wanting quick gratification.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Contact mags ect were before my time.

But get the feeling the Internet has spoiled it for the genuine seingers.

To many wanting quick gratification. "
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Yes very true

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By *heltenhamBiGuyMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham

"Forum" was a great magazine back in the day for the more discerning swinger with a great contacts section

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By *tuYorksMan
over a year ago

Barnsley

"we used to use rendezvous,and northern link.seem to take forever just to make contact with someone,lol."

Used to buy them for the pics ! Posed, professional pics have never attracted me so the "real" pics were (& still are) a huge turn on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"we used to use rendezvous,and northern link.seem to take forever just to make contact with someone,lol.

Used to buy them for the pics ! Posed, professional pics have never attracted me so the "real" pics were (& still are) a huge turn on."
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Did you ever meet any ladies or couples from them ?

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By *oodcontactukMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Not forgetting Loot newspaper with its premium rate ads at the back.

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By *tuYorksMan
over a year ago

Barnsley

"we used to use rendezvous,and northern link.seem to take forever just to make contact with someone,lol.

Used to buy them for the pics ! Posed, professional pics have never attracted me so the "real" pics were (& still are) a huge turn on..

Did you ever meet any ladies or couples from them ?"

Yes a couple of times. I was young & terrified ! All went well though !

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By *9alMan
over a year ago

Bridgend

I used to read forum , had most contacts from Phonex

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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago

Solihull and Brentwood

"Not forgetting Loot newspaper with its premium rate ads at the back. "

Used the midland equivalent of Loot. - Bargain Pages I think. All I can remember, it was yellow back in 1994 ish.

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By *adtaffladMan
over a year ago

Rhyl

Lol yes I remember them

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Experience and silk swingers.. New direction and others of the gold empire... Stamped addressed envelopes and dodgy pic developing

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By *urrey Dave 69Man
over a year ago

Epsom, Surrey

My first swinging experience was 40 years ago when Me + Girlfriend put an advert in Forum magazine. Used a box number and after a couple of weeks we when through replies and met a lovely couple of the same age for a fab play date.

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By *ubwife4uCouple
over a year ago

Kent

And the old 0898 numbers for contacts when I was a late teen. Used to dread my parents getting the phone bill! (Mr)

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By *ndiiiMan
over a year ago

Paisley Scotland

"And the old 0898 numbers for contacts when I was a late teen. Used to dread my parents getting the phone bill! (Mr)"

Haha yip me too x

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By *ldbutrandyMan
over a year ago

West Midlands

"Not forgetting Loot newspaper with its premium rate ads at the back.

Used the midland equivalent of Loot. - Bargain Pages I think. All I can remember, it was yellow back in 1994 ish."

I remember bargain pages. Came out twice a week i think. Sales offers , and contact requests at the back .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Matchmaker was our fave

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By *hisismeXXXMan
over a year ago

Welsh Wales

"we used to use rendezvous,and northern link.seem to take forever just to make contact with someone,lol."

Rendezvous ????

Would take a month to get a reply, if ever, and how chuffed would you be when the SAE dropped through the letter box.

Imagine that, sharing a picture and your address with someone who you had absolutely no idea who they were!

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

A couple of the leading contact mags of the 70s/80s were Experience, and The Journal of Love.

If truth be told, I found them a waste of time, effort and postage. It took three weeks to get a reply (if you were lucky enough to), and by that time, the usual reply was "fixed up - thanks".

Thank heavens for the internet and swingers clubs - the 90s really were a turning point for swingers!

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

There were also quite a lot of cranks and weirdos in those ads. In one example, I got a response from someone who I had contacted. There was a pic on the ad, but no pic in their reply, even though I was asked to send an erect pic of myself.

I thought it was too good to be true, and let it go. About two years later, a local North London newspaper posted a court story about a guy who posted a contact ad as a single female in a mag, and collected the pics he was sent! The address listed for him was the same as the address I had for him, and he even used the same surname that was given for him in the news coverage!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We only ever met one couple through a contact ad. Met for a social to see how we got on.The guy thought he was an authority on every subject and the woman didn't say a word all night. Very odd.Needless to say we didn't take things any further.

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By *nemichaelMan
over a year ago

kings lynn

I can remember them from the 70's. Me and my ex first replied to a few ads in 83, you had to pay a fee per letter then the letter was forwarded. We didn't get one reply, so we placed an ad in a mag and got 8 replies 6 from men and 2 from couples. We rang them both couples but never got to talk to the lady. We met with one couple that introduced us to parties and we made many friends. One one of the terms I remember was A & O levels.

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By *idsHornyCpl40Couple
over a year ago

West Mids area

When clearing a house last year, I found our old contacts mags with VHS porn films. At the time replied to some, but you had to give mainly your BT landline number. Not everyone had email or even knew what email was and mobile phones were very rare or just too expensive. Message if you want to see the type of content.

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By *idsHornyCpl40Couple
over a year ago

West Mids area

"we used to use rendezvous,and northern link.seem to take forever just to make contact with someone,lol."

Did try to PM you but we seem to be far to young bucks both at the age of 49, have to wait 4 months.

We found some Desire & Desire Contacts mags - it was at the start of us wanting to meet other couples. Mags from 2002 and 2007, I thought they were from earlier to be honest. Had our 1st home PC around 1996/7 and would have been on a 56k modem. I have always worked in IT & technology, so a geek/nerd.

Happy to share some content with you, PM us....

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By *lecom1Couple
over a year ago

Stornoway

Back in 1971 my girlfriend and I lived in Brighton and we used Experience and Vibrations. Took ages to sort things out but we did find quite a few meets through the mags and also through the naughty book shop owner where we bought the mags

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By *ornynwukCouple
over a year ago

blackpool

We used new direction the buzz of getting a letter with some pics we had some great meets if phil from Northampton is reading this get back in touch

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By *ddfellowMan
over a year ago

Newferry, wirral

I found my parents stash of contact mags in the 70's it was an eye opener for me, might have been the start of a slippery slope.

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By *assionatepoetsCouple
over a year ago

Highbridge

A beautiful stroll down memory lane this morning

Mmmmmmm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My late wife and I met our first swinging friends through Forum magazine.

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

I (Mr) first got into swinging in 1999 driven by the film Eyes Wide Shut and some websites that don’t exist anymore.

One of my first meets, with then girlfriend (not the future Mrs B), was with a couple in Brighton. When we were at their place they showed us a ring binder with letters and photos received via swinger contact magazines. The process of finding compatible people was long and convoluted!

The internet has certainly made finding likeminded people easier but it has also diluted the pool of real/genuine swingers with those just wanting a quick no strings shag.

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By *lim and louiseCouple
over a year ago

dromore

Yes ,I remember putting our details of myself and ex wife in the contacts part of a Whitehouse publication ,we received sack loads of post ,

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By *ornyj37Man
over a year ago

Devon

Yes I used to get a magazine callef Desire? Does anyone else remember it?

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By *arry monk40Man
over a year ago

Telford

I used rendezvous had some great fun

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By *ee1967Man
over a year ago

watford

Fuxk yes. We started to swing in 1996. Mags

Send q film away with 24 pics

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By *ee1967Man
over a year ago

watford

True

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By *aul_j80Man
over a year ago

Bloxwich

This is how I started swinging back in the 90's, took a lot of effort to get a reply, but had some success.

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By *sleWightCoupleCouple
over a year ago

Ryde

I worked in a high-end "paper-shop" for a number of years, and the only variety of contact mag they sold was Forum. The typical punter buying porn was always intimidated by purchasing from a woman (me!) but those picking up a copy of Forum were always much more causal about things, and - ironically - less likely to be the kind of person who needed contact mags.

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By *wixtMan
over a year ago

preston

So many contact mags back in the 1970s and 80s. I never used them to contact anyone but would wank over thoughts of meeting the people in the ads. One of my darker memories, with hindsight, was seeing the recurring ads by Rosemary West looking for men and women. They seemed to run for years.

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