Obsessions · May 1989
Leather trench coats, classic cars and phone-sex lines: Obsessions, May 1989, straight off Sunset Boulevard.
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Vintage is final sale. Every mark we mention is in the photos.
Condition report
Good. A glossy 1989 issue with normal rubbing on the cover and edges and clean color inside. Every mark is in the photos.
Flaws notedCover wear
PagesNot fully verified
The story
Obsessions came out of a Sunset Boulevard office in 1989 with Casey Lee Klinger's name stamped across everything, from the cover tagline to a full-page publisher's letter on the masthead. It went out nationally through Flynt Distributing in Beverly Hills, which tells you how far gay glossies had come from mail-order envelopes.
This is late-eighties Los Angeles gloss, all leather and chrome, with toll-free phone-sex lines advertised right down to the back cover. The masthead spells out that every model is 18 or older. It's the era just before the internet, when the magazine and the phone were how men found each other after hours.
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Why it matters
A late-eighties Los Angeles glossy from the phone-line era, with its nationwide distribution and phone-sex ads showing how big and how commercial the gay magazine market had become by 1989.
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What we checked before listing it.
Good. A glossy 1989 issue with normal rubbing on the cover and edges and clean color inside. Every mark is in the photos.
Visible in the photos.
Noted in the listing.
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