Fiesta (magazine)

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Fiesta was a British monthly magazine featuring softcore pornography which was published by Galaxy Publications. It was a sister publication of Knave magazine, launched two years later. Launched in 1966 by the British photographer Russell Gay, Fiesta called itself "the magazine for men which women love to read" and quickly became Britain's top-selling adult magazine. In the early 1970s it introduced Readers' Wives, a feature that has since been copied by a number of other pornographic magazines. This feature included a "Readers' Wives Striptease" section with photographs of a woman said to be a wife or girlfriend of a reader. The photographs, taken by the magazine, showed her undressing to full nudity, often out of everyday clothing. The Readers' Wives section was the subject of a song by John Cooper Clarke on his album Disguise in Love. As well as its Readers' Wives pictures and photographic sets of female models, Fiesta contained readers' letters from men and women. There were also male...

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