It’s back more than fifty years for this exuberant shot from the April 1970 issue of Jaybird.
California based Jaybird magazines were first published in 1965 as hippy, nudist magazines. In 1958 American nudist magazines won the right to show pubic hair, differentiating themselves from pinup publications. This made them very popular and many were, of course, not really nudist magazines at all. Jaybird was set up in 1965 when another court ruling made it possible to send these magazines in the post. Jaybird pushed the envelope by including genitalia in their carefree pictorials but, of course, when pin-up magazines like Penthouse and Hustler began to ‘open up’ in the mid seventies magazines like Jaybird lost their market.
California based Jaybird magazines were first published in 1965 as hippy, nudist magazines. In 1958 American nudist magazines won the right to show pubic hair, differentiating themselves from pinup publications. This made them very popular and many were, of course, not really nudist magazines at all. Jaybird was set up in 1965 when another court ruling made it possible to send these magazines in the post. Jaybird pushed the envelope by including genitalia in their carefree pictorials but, of course, when pin-up magazines like Penthouse and Hustler began to ‘open up’ in the mid seventies magazines like Jaybird lost their market.
