'Vigilantes in Skirts'

Another long lived men's magazine that survived into the eighties by transforming, in the latter half of the sixties, into a 'girlie' mag with more obviously soft-core content.  This issue of Man to Man is from April 1961, when it was still a standard men's magazine with the typical cover painting and typical content.  While the cover has a strong S&M theme, for once it is a semi-naked guy being whipped by a group of women, a reversal of roles that occurred from time to time in the genre.  Unusually though, at least judging by the story it illustrates, 'Vigilantes in Skirts', for once the women aren't a bunch of sadistic Nazi or Commie vixens torturing some muscle bound GI, but a bunch of regular women punishing some kind of male miscreant.  Probably a rapist or other variety of sex offender.

Elsewhere in the issue, going by the story titles, it is business as usual with Commie sex traps, marriage brokers and women smugglers.  Not to mention 'Shackmate', which implies some kind of Pacific war/sex crossover.  All for only thirty five cents.  Man to Man would continue with these sorts of cover paintings, (albeit increasingly explicit in terms of nudity), and content until May 1965, when it switched to photo covers, always featuring semi clad young women in explicit poses and increasingly explicit content.  In this format it carried on until at least 1982, featuring content along the lines of 'My Kinkiest Act in Porno' and 'The Correct Technique for Kissing Great Tits'.  But back in 1961 things were still relatively innocent, all innuendo and titillation, only hinting at the kind of stuff it would deliver in the magazine's final form.