Edwige Fenech. French/Italian actress. Best known for her roles in sex comedies or giallo style movies. On the cover of the rather fine Italian men's magazine Playmen. From August 1981.

Another classic Mayfair cover. This one from July 1971. German actress/model Andrea Rau gracing the front.

The Fog. Published 1975. James Herbert’s second novel. A strange fog drives those who come into contact with it insane. Full of Herbert’s trademark violence. And a good smattering of smut. Marvellous stuff.

Corinne Russell, 1988 Panini Soccer Superstars style.

June Palmer, 1970-71 Topps/O-Pee-Chee Hockey style.

Happy birthday to Jane Seymour

Come Play With Me. Astonishingly successful British sex comedy from 1977. Mainstream actors from film and TV along with a bevy of glamour models and adult actresses (including Mary Millington) in a woeful movie. Well worth a watch. Supposedly some hardcore scenes were shot. Now missing.....

Catherine Bach

Anulka Dziubinska. Impossibly cute English model and actress. Playmate of the Month for May 1973. Starred in the cult lesbian vampire romp Vampyres. I remember her in the film version of The Likely Lads.

Emmanuelle. Naughty French literature. Published in France in 1967. Then translated into English in 1971. Tells of the sexual adventures of the young wife of a diplomat in Thailand. Film adaptation released in 1974 starring Sylvia Kristel.

Jennifer Jackson. Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1965 issue. She was the first black Playmate of the Month. Had previously worked at the Chicago Playboy Club alongside her identical twin as a bunny.

Page Three. Short lived 70s band of (left to right) Stephanie Marrian, Clare Russell and Felicity Buirski. All page 3 models. Had one minor hit (Hold On to Love) which got them a slot on Top of the Pops. Ms Buirski would have a later career as a folk singer. Image from Italian Playboy October 1978.

Gillian Duxbury. Page 3 Girl and glamour model. Penthouse Pet of the Month March 1972 (working as Billie Deane). Did a bit of TV work. Beautiful.

Brigitte Lahaie

Hinckley, Leicestershire. My hometown. Smack in the middle of England. Possibly the most boring place in the country. But this is the programme for Hinckley cinema 50 years ago today. On a Sunday. Unbelievable. I caught the showing of Rollerball. My first ever AA. Never been so proud of the place...

So I understand it's The Superbowl today. Enjoy if that's your thing. Jane Lubeck was a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders when she appeared in Playboy. September 1974. Really, really cute. She looks even better naked. Great bush.

Paula Ann Bland. Another great Mayfair cover. Volume 23, number 3. March 1988. Paula played Claire Scott in Grange Hill. Kids TV to the top shelf. She only went topless in her set. Bit disappointing really. Though she looks good in stockings and suspenders.

James Hadley Chase. This guy’s books were everywhere in the late 70s/early 80s. Usually with a scantily clad Page 3 girl on the cover. Carolyn Evans in this case (she is well worth checking out!). Apparently he published over 90 books between 1939 and 1984. Not read any of them. Good covers though.

Fabulous album from a wonderful band. UFO’s 1975 release Force It (faucet….get it? Actually took me years to twig). Highly recommended. The models on the rather risqué cover were Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti of the industrial band Throbbing Gristle. You have to give this a listen.

Gail Thackray. Born 1964 in Yorkshire, England. Page 3 and top shelf glamour model. Went to the States. Had a career as a B movie actress. Got interested in spiritually, wrote some books on the subject. Amassed a huge collection of softcore porn images. Made a fortune selling these on to magazines.

Cyndi Wood. Playboy’s Playmate of the Month for February 1973. And the 1974 Playmate of the Year. Appearing as one of the Playmate dancers in Apocalypse Now (1979). Not one of my favourite films. But she is lovely.

Mirella D'Angelo on the cover of the May 1980 edition of Penthouse. A tie in with Caligula…..the Citizen Kane of porn. Or maybe not. Released in 1979, it’s a strange combination of A List British acting talent, Penthouse Pets and cocks. I love it.

Confessions of a Driving Instructor. By Timothy Lea (okay…..Christopher Wood). The second book in the series, published in 1972. The film adaptation was released in 1976 (actually the third film….don’t know why). The only Confessions book I have actually read.

Mary & Madeleine Collinson, 1972 Topps Baseball style.

Couple Cherche Esclaves Sexuels (Couple Searching for a Sex Slave I think?). My favourite ever adult film. Brigitte Lahaie is a delight. Fucking her husband, sucking the butler's cock or playing with her pussy. Special mention for Marie-Claude Viollet who plays a sexually repressed secretary.

Presently doing a rewatch of some Alistair MacLean film adaptations. Now on Where Eagles Dare. So it would be wrong not to recognise Ingrid Pitt’s outstanding contribution to this movie. Her amazing cleavage really should have its own credit.

Mary and Madeleine Collinson. On the cover of the October 1970 issue of Playboy. They were also that month’s centrefolds…..the first identical twins to appear as Playmates. Went on to star in the wonderful Hammer horror Twins of Evil. Essential viewing.

Bunny Yeager. Pinup model and photographer. Self portrait.

Porky's. Early 80s Canadian sex comedy. Ridiculously successful, it was the 6th highest grossing film of 1982 (E.T. was number one). Great shower scene. And Kim Cattrall gets a sex scene. Look VERY carefully and you see a flash of her bush. Which is nice.

Paperback smut. By Harold Robbins, the King of Paperback Smut. Read this when I was about 14. Had to dash to the loo after every sex scene for some 'relief'.

Pretty sure this is Playboy's Candy Loving. Playmate of the Month for January 1979. Filling a yellow bikini to perfection.

Madelaine Burton. Mayfair Volume 17, number 4. Magnificent.

Lesley Chisholm. On the cover of Mayfair from December 1976. I love the covers of old top shelf magazines. Warm colours with a slightly grainy look. And young ladies bursting out of highly impractical clothing.

Confessions of a Night Nurse from 1974. Written by Confessions of a Window Cleaner author Christopher Wood (under the pseudonym Rosie Dixon). Filmed in 1978 as Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse. Innocent trainee nurse Rosie Dixon attempts (and fails on several occasions) to hang onto her virginity.