Canadian Censorship: Juggs magazine (Jan 1985)
When you collect vintage adult magazines and you live in Canada, one of the odd little things you notice pretty fast is that magazines from certain years that were circulated on Canadian newstands and in Canadian adult stores are jam-packed with censorship. The mid 1980s were *especially* bad, but things lightened up by the early to mid 90s, and nowadays there is no manipulating of content or censoring of mainstream American porn magazines in Canada whatsoever. Either they ban it from entering the country, or they don't. And they let most of it in.
If American magazines wanted to sell their publications on Canadian soil, they had to submit them to a censorship board, who then would censor certain images, or just delete them from the magazine wholesale. But more often what happened was that "international edition"s were produced, which were censored by the publishers themselves. The problem was that often it wasn't really made 100% clear what would fall afoul of the censor's peering eye, so anything that was questionable was culled just to play it safe.
So over the years I've seen a few that were pretty bad. Giant black circles over all the spread pussy, or any time that someone was touching someone's genitals. The words "anal", "assfuck", or "fisting" blacked out. Pretty typical.
But about a year ago I found what must be the holy grail of Canadian censored US magazines, the January 1985 issue of JUGGS magazine. Published by Hudson publications out of New York, and focused on pleasing big tit lovers, this magazine billed itself as "the world's dirtiest tit-mag", but it wasn't anything very filthy, to be honest. Regardless, this ol' thing has been absolutely MASSACRED! Large sections of text are gone, about half of the images are totally AWOL, and 75% of the remaining photos have a black circle over it, regardless if the groin in question is being touched, is a drawing, or whatever. Just totally over the top.
Here are three of my fave page spreads. They are glorious in their minimalism. They are beautiful in their overzealous repression. Noteworthy in their sterilized safeness.
Enjoy your porn, Canadians! hahahaa
I think most people would be pissed off to buy a magazine and find it in this state (and I would have too, if I was hoping to jerk off to it), but as a collector this thing is actually more collectable and interesting to me the way it is. It's actually a really cool and quirky little time capsule of a time gone by, I think. And you know what they say about the past: those who forget it are doomed to repeat it.
If American magazines wanted to sell their publications on Canadian soil, they had to submit them to a censorship board, who then would censor certain images, or just delete them from the magazine wholesale. But more often what happened was that "international edition"s were produced, which were censored by the publishers themselves. The problem was that often it wasn't really made 100% clear what would fall afoul of the censor's peering eye, so anything that was questionable was culled just to play it safe.
So over the years I've seen a few that were pretty bad. Giant black circles over all the spread pussy, or any time that someone was touching someone's genitals. The words "anal", "assfuck", or "fisting" blacked out. Pretty typical.
But about a year ago I found what must be the holy grail of Canadian censored US magazines, the January 1985 issue of JUGGS magazine. Published by Hudson publications out of New York, and focused on pleasing big tit lovers, this magazine billed itself as "the world's dirtiest tit-mag", but it wasn't anything very filthy, to be honest. Regardless, this ol' thing has been absolutely MASSACRED! Large sections of text are gone, about half of the images are totally AWOL, and 75% of the remaining photos have a black circle over it, regardless if the groin in question is being touched, is a drawing, or whatever. Just totally over the top.
Here are three of my fave page spreads. They are glorious in their minimalism. They are beautiful in their overzealous repression. Noteworthy in their sterilized safeness.
Enjoy your porn, Canadians! hahahaa
I think most people would be pissed off to buy a magazine and find it in this state (and I would have too, if I was hoping to jerk off to it), but as a collector this thing is actually more collectable and interesting to me the way it is. It's actually a really cool and quirky little time capsule of a time gone by, I think. And you know what they say about the past: those who forget it are doomed to repeat it.