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Sunday, February 27, 2022

Which is it?


There was a period of several years in from about 1962 to 1968 during which it wasn't really clear to what extent male frontal nudity was legal.  This was because various appeals courts in different regions of the USA had differing standards.  Walter Kundzicz of Champion Studio came up with a clever way around this by using a wide range of sheer and mesh undies to throw off the censors. 

 

6 comments:

  1. I like that grin...Yeah, you can see him, but he's covered, so what are you gonna do about it?

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    1. Right, and I just noticed that he's standing in a boat.

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  2. These briefs would be exclusively mail order, discreetly advertised in the classifieds usually at the back of publications and dispatched "under plain cover". Any number of these companies were operating in the 1960s, which only testifies to how popular their lines were. I remember there was a company which marketed out of the Channel Island of Guernsey, doubtless with a dispatch depot in England and regularly advertised in the Sunday Express, one of the most right wing newspapers in Britain, only proving that the more conservative people were, the kinkier they became.

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    1. Some of those ads were a hoot, and I may post a small series featuring some I have in my collection. Thanks for reminding me, Julian!

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  3. I remember reading many years ago that the legal standard at the time was that male genitals had to be "covered" but the law did not specify the type of covering - one of the photographers at the time got hauled in for see-thru covering and won his case because the genitals were indeed technically covered - thus the proliferation of mesh straps, clingly nylon and wet cotton as well as the occasional chiffon - we've fortunately come a long way

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