Have you ever brought some old porn – you know, the kind that’s printed or comes on a VHS tape – and not known how to get rid of it? Or even worse, tragically inherited it from a recently deceased relative? Well, thanks to London-based website webuyanyporn.com, you no longer have to.
A former Holloway sex shop businessman set up the porn buying site – and as the web address reads, they really do buy any porn (and from any era as well). According to the site, the business is happy to purchase your lightly jizz-splattered mags, DVDs, books, photos and even amateur and home movies. They say, "as long as it’s legal we’ll buy it".
The website launched nine months ago and has been on the rise since as more of the UK sell off their vintage erotica. Owner Dave, who also runs an erotic bookstore called Ram Books, says that business is booming.
“Everybody I’ve purchased books and magazines off goes away very happy. Some of the magazines are very collectable,” he told London24. “I’ve probably got stock from every era of porn from the 50s upwards. Some of the Harrison Marks stuff can fetch about £50 for one magazine.”
The offline porn industry may have seen a decline in sales since the internet took over, but that hasn’t stopped start-ups taking on the market. Last year, Dazed contributor Sarah Nicole Prickett created Adult, a female-led magazine.Other erotic magazines like TALC, ODISEO and Beauty Today are following suit, proving that print isn’t necessarily dead – at least, not when it comes to sex.
So, goodbye private browsing and Pornhub, hello (again) to buying porn mags incognito. Read our roundtable discussion with a new breed of sex-centric magazines here.
