The pre-digital in the digital: <i>Private</i>’s online back catalogue

This article addresses what happens to pornographic material during the transition from analogue digital form. Started in Sweden 1965, Private magazine is one of oldest, still existing pornography companies, challenging obscenity law at time its first issue. Here, and privateclassics.com function as a case study point departure for discussion materiality, nostalgia, cultural memory, but more poignantly changing legal context which, although called for, might also be an obstacle research. Drawing on Whitney Strub’s idea ‘sanitation’ 1970s, comparison physical issues scanned available (for fee) shows that age indications image captions have been altered order concur with situation today.