Going Blind
It may be hard for you youngsters to believe, but not so long ago we didn't have digital cameras. Now, when you're young and frisky, there's a natural tendency to want to take pictures of an intimate nature... which is rather tricky when you then have to send them off to Boots to be developed!

So, when instant Polaroid cameras came out it was a godsend for the amateur auto-pornographer. And so it came to pass that I pitched up at the girlfriends house with a new Polaroid camera, a couple of packs of film and a cheesy grin.

The disaster came when I realised that the budget models couldn't focus objects less than five feet away. Which is rather a problem when your naughty bits are only about two and a half feet from your eyes. Thus I ended up with a pile of expensive photos of amorphous pink blobs and random shots of the flat with perhaps a foot in one corner, where I'd tried to hold the camera far enough away.

On the plus side, they were less likely to end up on the internet back then...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 17:10, 3 replies)

budget models ?
what were the ladies advertising, chicken drummers, primark clothes or something ??

joking, its a funny story. *click*
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Fri 24 Jun 2011, 19:11, closed)

My better half used to work in Supasnaps.
One customer was a girl she recognised from school, who handed over a roll of film that turned out to be her being done every way by her boyfriend. Brazen.

The staff made an extra copy, some of which were rather good.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 19:19, closed)

Ahhh, nostalgia
Found an ancient Polaroid of myself some years back, grinning and naked, taken by a boyfriend. I'd have been about 18. Embarrassed in case my kids found it, I hastily binned it, and I'm sorry now as I'd have been proud to see it on the Internet!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 25 Jun 2011, 13:43, closed)