Untamed!

 

A short lived men's magazine which published eight issues between 1959 and 1960, Untamed often featured content with historical settings, but with the emphasis always firmly on sex.  The cover story of this issue (from April 1959) - 'The Cowboy and the Dance Hall Floozie' - is a pretty typical example, with the cover painting featuring plenty of cleavage, while the belt brandished by the cowboy and the girl's shocked/surprised expression hinting at all kinds of kinky business.  Elsewhere, it's men's magazine business as usual, with the promise of 'Terror at the Burlesque' in 'The Naked and the Deadly', and a visit to the 'Lusty Island of Lost Women'.  There are also the usual 'True Sex' features - 'How to Make a Girl Say Yes!' ('Lively Photos' included, apparently) and 'a Doctor's Shocking Expose' about 'Substitutes For Sex' - which are presumably like sugar substitutes: never as sweet and satisfying as the real thing.

I suppose that it depends upon how widely one defines sex as to what these substitutes for it might be.  If you confine the definition to the purely physical act of intercourse between two people, then masturbation, pornography, voyeurism, underwear sniffing or even mechanical stimulation devices might be included under the rubric of 'sex substitutes'.  While I hope that the story was about elaborate home made mechanical sex machines, powered by the user pedaling a modified exercise bike, which give you a good spanking while increasing your fitness, I suspect that it is actually about the sort of very mild pornography of he era.  Doubtless accompanied by warnings that widespread porn addiction amongst America's youth threatened to end sex as we know it and herald the end of the human race amid falling birth rates.  Lest you think that Untamed lacked any class at all, at least one issue featured, among the house names, a story by Algis Budrys, later to find fame as a writer of upmarket science fiction.  Of course, all manner of other recognisable writers might have lurked behind the house names - Robert Silverberg and Harlan Ellision, for instance, turned out vast numbers of pseudonymous stories for pulps like Untamed during the fifties and early sixties.