Stag magazine began in 1951 as a 25-cent, 82-page men’s adventure publication. By the 1970s, Stag became a pornographic magazine. And when Richard Milner joined Stag as managing editor in the late 1970s, he brought a new area of focus: the burgeoning adult film industry in New York, including interviews, picture spreads, and gossipy articles about the XXX scene.
Stag magazine became a journal of sorts for the sex film business and hired a number of adult industry stalwarts to lend their names to the publication. One such adult film regular was Kandi Barbour who, under the name Nora, penned a monthly column in the magazine’s 1981 editions. (It was actually written by Milner himself.)
We have republished all 1981 issues, which include articles featuring Marc Stevens, Sue Nero, and Lisa de Leeuw, and pictorials of Hillary Summers, Tiffany Clark and Lysa Thatcher, and much more. We republished all 1980 issues in 2020.
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Stag: The Complete 1981 Issues
January 1981
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| -Stag picks the flicks: sneak preview -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) –Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Stag swings in the nude year -The Calgary Stampede -The battle for his bulge -Party with the stars -Introducing Stag’s sex squad -Two hookers in a hotel room -Pick up poetry -Readers talk about their sex lives |
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February 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -Stag picks the flicks: sneak preview -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Stag swings at a swank party -Casino Royale –Seka and Serena in sexual competition –The Glaser Brothers -Bar Barella -Party with the stars -Stag’s angels: stood up in Santa Fe |
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March 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -Stag picks the flicks: sneak preview -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider –Sue Nero profile –Jill Monro profile -Stag’s angels -Stag talks to the Ayatollah –Veri Knotty photo feature -The Cutthroats –Vanessa del Rio profile |
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April 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Stag picks the flicks: sneak preview -Stag swings at a Screw party -Stag visits The Chicken Ranch -Times Square vice cop -Stag’s rear door report -The goddesses of ninth avenue -Woman to woman pictorial |
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May 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Stag picks the flicks: sneak preview -Stag swings at Ramblewood -The tart of Toronto -Stag’s angels crash Cheater’s Tavern -Confessions of a fluffer -Stag party girls -Stag parties at Fantasy Manor -Seka in 3D –Hillary Summers pictorial |
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June 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Stag picks the flicks: sneak preview -Stag’s angels shake San Francisco -How to be a slob and score –Johnny Paycheck -Red, rough, and ready -The wacky ways of whacking off -Scenes at a western porno shoot |
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July 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Stag picks the flicks: sneak preview -Stag’s angels crash The Chateau -On the set of Centerfold Fever -Confessions of a pimp -Striptease in a sleaze city –Lysa Thatcher pictorial -Cycle sex |
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August 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Stag picks the flicks: sneak preview -Making it at Mardi Gras -Stag visits the Goo Girls -How the Love Family built an at-home erotic empire –Annie Sprinkle pictorial |
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September 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Riding with The Monks -Stag looks at the illustrated men –Beate Uhse: the dildo queen of Europe -Fuck film funnies –Lisa de Leeuw interview -Stag swings at a sprint spree -Ten ways to dump a bad hump |
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October 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Girls in glass cages -Stag’s angels with San Diego’s sexiest swing club –Svetlana interview -Houston honky-tonking -Stag presents a taste of Screw -Stag’s paint-a-pussy -Boobs: the biggest, the best, the bounciest |
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November 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Jill Monro: kinky sex confessions -Annie Sprinkle strips -The best bash Stag every whipped up -Pussy portraits -Larry Schwab: porn’s professor at a school for sex stars -Bustin’ loose in Bullhead City -Stag peeks at porn’s fresh faces |
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December 1981
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| -Opening up with Nora (aka Kandi Barbour) -The Stag Rag -Jill Monro: kinky sex confessions -Marc Stevens: the ultimate insider -Porn’s princesses peel it: Juliette Anderson, Merle Michaels, Samanta Fox, Desireé Cousteau –Erotica Awards 1981 -Kinky Christmas with Tiffany Clark -Stag’s angels visit inkers |
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Don’t know how I’d live with this site…. hours and hours of unadulterated pleasure and enlightnment.
Always something new, and always intelligently curated.
I don’t often leave comments – but thanks for all the hard work!
Thank you so much Marcel – we really appreciate it!
Gotta love Kandi.
I’d love the Rialto to do something on her. Only the Rialto would do her justice.
Yes. I agree.
Awesome Stag Magazine From 1981 Thanks Awesome Article Keep Up Good Work
AMAZING! STAG 1981 comes alive in a vibrant, seamlessly digitized format. I forgot all about the “Hot Numbers!” ads… beats the hell out of TINDER. Love, Love, Love (especially July 1981).
Thanks again Rialto Report.
Nicole Black was stunning!
Just staggering, RR!
A few observations about these NYC-based mags:
– they seem stuck on imitating ‘Hustler’ with a “funny” news section. The ads are FAR funnier!
– most of their model layouts are from the West Coast or the UK.
– they’re obsessed with ‘swinging’. Blecchh! 😉
The 9/81 issue…Kandi Barbour worked a week at The Show World Center and untypically for a “star act” she did a penetrative sex show with her boyfriend. It was different, but not that great. Her boyfriend got heckled; he said “Hey, why don’t YOU get up here and come three times day with an audience?”. I was also at the TSWC when Lisa DeLeeuw did the week shown in the magazine…I interviewed her. It was one of the few times ever for me that I was so overcome by my attraction to a star that I had to read out my questions…I couldn’t concentrate with her half/fully naked, just the two of us, in the dressing room. Later during the stage show she came over and asked me to remove her garter belt, which I did with my teeth. I was really proud of myself for doing that! Lisa was incredible; I didn’t realize until afterwards how she worked me using the lower register of her voice. She really had me on the hook that night.