I started my life as a fetish seller in 1979 by selling my worn, scented knickers via the ‘classified’ ads in the back of gentleman’s magazines new to the English market such as Parade, Amazons, Fiesta, Escort, Forum, 40 Plus and other esoteric titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men's hearts and other body parts - the undraped female form. This began in England after an explosion of new American men's magazines following the redefinition of US obscenity laws in the late fifties such as Hugh Hefner’s ‘Playboy’. Previously the only magazines available were mens general interest and titillation titles such as Swank, Debonair or Carnival.
Soon I was persuaded to start selling my big, worn brassieres as well. Soon I was getting asked for photos so started selling Polaroid instant print topless photographs which were new to the market with the innovative Polaroid Land camera. These were teasing Andy Warhol, Lumas and Araki styles photographs at first. These I sold in little sets of 5 tiny unique ‘one off’ print sets. I can still offer these to special custom order.
Soon I moved on to proper, explicit, 35mm photo sets, sets of 12 or 24 6x4 in prints. It was extremely difficult getting risqué photographs printed out in volume in those days, as you had to go to a seedy back street printer, rather than a high street shop, who either charged a fortune or just ripped you off and didn’t send your prints at all! In those days there were very strict obscenity laws - thank you Mary Whitehouse. You couldn’t legally show a vagina or erect penis, a cheeky nipple was just about ok, or if you pushed the envelope a little pubic hair. To ‘go pink’ was a no no, that was strictly for the Danes and Swedes! I’ll cover this self appointed guardian of our morality and more of that subject another day on my blog. The bonus of strict publishing rules was back street mail order or ‘under the counter’ pornography from Denmark such as ‘Private’ magazine was really booming. I couldn’t get my photo sets printed quick enough.
I dabbled in Cine film, but that was even more difficult to get developed. The advent of BetaMax and VHS and (relatively) affordable camcorders was a boon for me and the adult industry, as you could now film and duplicate at home. Soon I was walking down to the post office with huge piles of VHS tapes in plain brown wrappers. See ‘Pam and Tommy’ out now on Disney +.
Initially I used the classified ads and this resulted in loads of scribbled, hand written orders and postal orders and crumpled fivers in the post daily to my P.O. Box.
Next came the new fangled World Wide Web internet (it’ll never catch on) and soon after the new digital camera which was actually fun in the early days, even though one photo took 10 minutes to download sometimes on your ‘super fast’ 28k dial up line. My first online customers and fans were academics as it was universities who were the early adopters of the internet for the exchange of thoughts and ideas.
Posting photos on my own website was fun, especially the new digital, but was difficult to advertise and even harder to monetize, but the new Yahoo Groups was a real boon for ‘adult content’ which quickly led to a plethora of adult websites to post your films and photos. I settled on my own Chris44g.com website as part of the ‘Adult Coalition’ along with Grandma Libby and Momma Fran. I was a very early adopter of Facebook for promotion but was quickly and permanently banned for showing a, gulp, a nipple!
I ended up on lots of websites, both free and paid for subscription sites such as OnlyFans, TAC, xHamster, xHamster Premium, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Vimeo, Manyvids, Bentbox, Iwantclips, but these days I’m exclusive to chris44g.co.uk!
