The pre-digital in the digital : Private’s online back catalogue

• This article addresses what happens to pornographic material during the transition from analogue to digital form. Started in Sweden in 1965, Private magazine is one of the oldest, still existing pornography companies, challenging the existing obscenity law in Sweden at the time of its first issue. Here, Private magazine and privateclassics.com function as a case study and point of departure for a discussion of materiality, nostalgia, and cultural memory, but more poignantly a changing legal context for pornography which, although called for, might also be an obstacle to research. Drawing on Whitney Strub’s idea of a ‘sanitation’ of the 1970s, a comparison of the physical issues of Private magazine and the scanned issues available (for a fee) on privateclassics.com shows that age indications in image captions in the magazine have been altered in order to concur with the legal situation of pornography today.

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