One-Hit Wonder
If you have been following this blog you will have noticed the post on Model Contacts, in which I show it explicitly reveals it is not a sex-contact magazine, just in case the purchaser somehow got the wrong idea. On the other hand, sex-contact magazines did feature advertisements from ladies happy to have their picture taken. There were loads of them about, the earliest being the likes of Experience and Vibrations. But the most professional and reliable in the 1980s and 90s was Rendezvous, published out of Nottingham. It was fundamentally a swingers’ meeting place, but there were also sections for solo women and men. Of course, the latter paid for their ads, but the former didn’t, in case the lonely looking-for-love ladies or no-strings-attached relationship seekers might be seeking a financial reward (which most if not all did). I have it in my head this lady (name totally forgotten) came via such a magazine, but I apologise if I’ve had another senior moment. I do remember getting a train one Sunday afternoon to a suburb where East London merges into Essex. She lived in a block of flats and when I rang on the bell, the door was opened by a middle-aged man. She was in the front room wearing a dressing gown. I had to ask her to get dressed again. I shot some video and then a reel of film. Everything was rather matter-of-fact and strangely impersonal, though as you can she did engage with the camera very well. Her husband stayed in the background. I paid and left.