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Mixed Wrestling was more exciting before internet. It had the fashination of the forbidden, the emotion of the discovery, the satisfaction given by a difficult achievement. It was like the quest of the holy Graal. You had to look carefully for advertisment in BB and Pro Wrestling magazine, or in S/M magazines. Then, if you were lucky and consistent enough, you could find the keys to enter in our marvellous word: AM/FEM with its advertisments (I wrote to dozeds of them, and most of them kept the money but didn't answer), the british magazine Amazon in Action. I bought the first super 8 films, then the first low quality videos . Then I was lucky to meet Beatrice Goffen, my first match ever, and Phil Barret and his girls of WISC (Sonia, Sharry, Georgina, Maggie). Now all is much easier, but as banal as shopping in a mall! And, of couse, I'm 30 years older!!!
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Amfem sent me their book every time I sent them money. Maybe the extra postage to italy threw them off, and that's too bad. They really should have sent you what you paid for (or, who knows, maybe it was customs). But my sense of them is that they were organized and responsible. One time I sent them a payment form an old magazine and they wrote me back saying I was 5 dollars short, so I sent them the 5 and they sent me the magazine. They did all the work themselves keeping the advertisements up to date and all that.
and I agree with the other poster above. Amfem was basically where it was at for sessions. There wasn't much else. Maybe a domination magazine if you got lucky or the back of the village voice.
And there was the occasional article or even letter to the editor. SPorts review wrestling, Nugget, Cavalier, Legshow & some other wrestling mags. I remember when DWW was featured in a wrestling mag and I was blown away. The ladies were so pretty and I was like 22 and horny and too poor for sessions. I was blown away.
A fun thing about early Amfem - you used to write the wrestlers letters some of the time. It was so different. E-mail changed everything.