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"For Men Only" is a silly and confusing slice of late-sixties sexploitation.

Sillyness we don't mind, but confusion can become tedious, and you find yourself only watching when there is someone naked on screen, and that is, admittedly, often.

The plot is something to do with a young man who gets a job at a religious magazine, only to find out that this is a cover for a porno mag. He encounters a bunch of naked women at the magazine's headquarters while his paranoid girlfriend tries to track him down to ensure he's not cheating on her.

Meanwhile, in a bizarre and incongruous sub-plot, two evil henchmen from a rival magazine attempt to kidnap the girls, and possibly to beat and rape them. They tie them up, naked, in a barn.

"For Men Only" is very confusingly plotted. It exists for one reason only, and that's to show "hot girls" in the nude. Even people who hate this movie, and I wouldn't blame them for hating it, would have to concede that in regards to nudity, "For Men Only" delivers.

Just watched this 1968 film a London independent one from Paul Walker "For Men Only" and it's a little tease of skin and sex. It features plenty of hot girls to look at. The story is simple a London fashion columnist leaves a model fashion company only to take a job with a small town publisher, yet the company is not what it seems or advertised as! Soon it's a showcase for the best and most hot and young beautiful women around in lingerie and sexy hot swimsuits! Overall it's a nice tease that shows skin and leather and lace only to take somewhat of a surprise twist in the end! Only 40 minutes so it's a sexy short that's some candy on the eyes!

Would anyone stumbling out of For Men Only in 1967, ever imagine that Pete Walker would amount to something as a film director, let alone become a bona fide auteur of 1970s British horror cinema?, propably not. Walker's early films tend to look like something Harrison Marks would have made on a really off-day...from a script he'd found in Talbot Rothwell's dustbin. Although there are a couple of Walker traits present and correct here, ineffectual male characters, hypocritical authority figures and (in the long version) crime elements and bondage, it wouldn't be until 1970 that Walker really got it together and made one of his best films 'Cool it Carol'.

A featurette length, Eady cash grab in the UK, Walker was obliged to shoot additional sleaze footage for the US release (as 'Hot Girls for Men Only') which brought the running time to just over an hour and introduced a gangster subplot to the film that makes it slightly more bearable. The Hot Girls for Men Only version was also shown in UK membership only sex cinemas, and the additional footage released by Walker himself on the 8mm market as two short films 'The Round-Up' and 'Planned Seduction'.

Teri Martine, who was in the background for a couple of scenes in For Men Only, told me she eventually stopped working for Walker, due to the behaviour of his over possessive glamour model girlfriend Donna Marlowe (later Donna Reading) who'd get jealous of the other models that worked for him and give them earache because of it. So this story of a henpecked playboy with a possessive girlfriend is propably autobiographical.