Let’s looks back at the British saucy seaside postcard, including works by Phil Millar (Pedro) – he would have painted the pictures which then would become postcards – and artist Donald McGill, the artists whose work was banned by the Seaside Authorities for being ‘‘too suggestive”.
The more vulgar the smut– the more laden with double entendre and hideous the people featured; the more garish and rough the picture – the better. These postcards were created when sex was not a product of the corporate marketing department but something exotic other people did.
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