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Originally Posted by helloitsyou
A lot of the regular models in H&E during the 80s and early 90s tended to be glamour or soft-porn models. You mentioned Vida Garman, and I think I referred to a number of others in an earlier post. Alison Brown was probably the best-known face (and figure) in H&E during the early 90s and she appeared numerous times in (what Newman and Baddiel affectionately referred to as "builders' porn") magazines like Razzle.
Starting with the editorship of Mark Nisbet, the magazine became less "glam" and attempted to pass itself off as a "genuine" naturist magazine (whatever that is) with more words and less photography. It's pretty obvious that the magazine was bought by both naturists and non-naturists for the same reason - for the sexy pictures. Saying that naturism had absolutely nothing to do with sex always has seemed a little disingenuous to me. Charlie Simonds may be a naturist, but he has always been a glamour photographer and I'm sure he was under no illusions as to what the purpose of his pictures were.
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By way of illustration, here's a shot of Charlie with one of his models. I think her name was Davina something. Appeared in H&E in 1987 or 88. They both seem to be enjoying themselves and Charlie looks a little... excited...