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Old 04-09-2016, 02:15 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by SteveHardeman View Post
Actually, I'm interested in hearing more stories about the old days from a guy who lived it. Keep going, please.
Trying to explain to how it worked then is easy. Customers came to us with very little prompting. We were selling a drug they demanded. Boys would jerk off for years to the underwear section of a Sears catalogue because no one would sell them porn. Once they looked old enough they would spend money to buy porn. No matter how soft, even topless was good enough. A magazine like Escort sold 100,000 a month in the UK only, Hustler close to a million in the US only. Doing no more than putting it on a shelf.

Marketing wasn't required. The consumer was hooked.
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