Tag: Mayfair
Mayfair is a British adult magazine for men. Founded in 1965, it was designed as a response to U.S. magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse, which had recently launched in the UK. For many years it claimed the largest distribution of any men’s magazine in the UK.
Mayfair was launched by Fisk Publishing Ltd in 1966 with an August cover date. The company was controlled by Brian Fisk. Its first editor was David Campbell, and its first deputy editor was Graham Masterton. It second editor was “Woman’s Own” veteran Kenneth Bound. As well as nudes, Mayfair featured short stories and serious articles on such “male” interests as classic cars, trains and military history.
A regular feature for many years was Quest, “the laboratory of human response,” interviews purportedly with ordinary people (each issue featuring separate conversations with two women and one man, and occasionally couples) about sex matters, and graphic descriptions of sexual encounters. Graham Masterton has described how he…
