Old porn movies

Does anyone like or collect old porn movies? I mean anything before 1985? I have a good collection and watch occasionally to remind myself how good and authentic porn actors were before Hollywood made porn mainstream. Real men and women with regular bodies, no collagen or silicone fake boobs and muscles, most of them hairy and not pretending to have the largest tools in the world (John Holmes is the exception). Even the music that often covered the voices had an appeal not found in modern theatrical "all out" productions. My favorite is The Opening of Misty Bethoven. For enema lovers, Water Power with Jamie Gillis is phenomenal. What do you all think?

I am in the midst of cleaning out an old house that an Aunt and Uncle lived in. They raised three children in that house to include my cousin who is now about 63 years old. Under some boards in the attic, I found several VHS tapes that were labeled as cartoons. Since these tapes had obviously been “hidden”, I set them aside and took two home with me to verify what I had thought about them containing porn. When I finally found a VHS player that worked, I found that the tapes contained vintage 70s style, big hair, thick bush, grainy porn. The two tapes that I brought home appeared to contain 4 different movies on each tape recorded on the slowest speed to allow for more video on the tape. I am looking forward to finding time to do than more than fast forwarding through them to see if there are any gems recorded on those tapes. They are certainly not today’s glorious 4K digital recordings of in your face genitalia.

So far, the movies have been straight sex, I will be curious to see if there is anything gay or bizarre on the other tapes and what my cousin says when I mention my thorough cleaning the attic.

Well, I prefere to see them smooth, but apart from that the old things were definitely more sexually arousingthat the modern Hollywood stuff.

But the modern stuff is not made to give you sexual pleasure. They are made to educate you into being a loyal consumer of and subject to all kind of artificial bodily modifications and outfits.

I too still have a whole collection of old VHS porn videos, including some really good classics like "Ransom of Eva". Unfortunately, the VHS player broke years ago and I still haven't bought a new one. What fascinates me about the old porn is the naturalness and the lack of sprayed lips and oversized silicone tits. But what now bothers me about the old films is the uncontrolled growth of pubic hair, which in some films was real jungles.

If you've ever played an old VHS tape in modern times, the quality is amazingly poor. Add to that the copies of copies that Porn circulated as in the 80s/90s and it's astonishing what it did for us all back then. But I suppose that's the downside of the ever increasing quality of visual images, like much else in life; it raises the bar and brings temporary delight, but creates dissatisfaction with the old in it's wake before it too is replaced and considered junk. But then that's basic the mechanism of capitalism I suppose.

I still kind of like watching vintage porn movies. I'm just about old enough to have been shown a couple of 8mm cine films but by my early 20s VHS was king. Always seemed to be someone at work loaning them out & I can remember the thrill of getting home, loading up the machine to fast forward & see what was on offer. Sometimes disappointed but there were some real gems out there as I recall German gyno / enema/ rubber were my favourite but hard to come by.

I really like the old material. Say from the 1920s or 30s if you can find it that is. Some sites have dedicated digitized uploads available and I have quite a number d/l and saved.

I really like the way they portrayed sexual activity as fun. Good clean hearty fun with men and ladies both lustful and willing. A fantasy of course, but at least a joyful and charitable fantasy. And thinking about it, the male actors were far better looking than what is used nowadays. No baseball caps on backwards, no tattooed emaciated bodies either. Just normal men, usually on the older side, real bourgeois to use a term suitable for the Interbellum or 1940-50s.

Even afterwards, by the 1970s when porn took off on tape, the actors often looked like normal people, the girl next door, an average Joe Normal. Nice hairstyles too.

The only thing that I don't care for is the pubic hair back then. My goodness, it is often a veritable jungle down between the legs and spreading out over thighs and bellies. And I am talking about ladies mind you. Of the men I often shudder at the amount of pubic and body hair. It seemed to grow like Kudzu, all over the place.

But otherwise, I do appreciate the old stuff. Often it should be described as almost innocent fun, sometimes instructional. The kind of stuff any normal person would like to get up to if given half the chance.

It was usually pretty vanilla on the whole though. Aside from some spanking stuff there wasn't a lot of fetish material it seems. Sometimes some scenes with nurses or in hospitals, even a few Danish (?) shorts of gyn exams that always ended with with the docs doing the old in-and-out. So no real real medfet either.

Even afterwards, by the 1970s when porn took off on tape, the actors often looked like normal people, the girl next door, an average Joe Normal. Nice hairstyles too.

But otherwise, I do appreciate the old stuff. Often it should be described as almost innocent fun, sometimes instructional. The kind of stuff any normal person would like to get up to if given half the chance.

It was usually pretty vanilla on the whole though. Aside from some spanking stuff there wasn't a lot of fetish material it seems. Sometimes some scenes with nurses or in hospitals, even a few Danish (?) shorts of gyn exams that always ended with with the docs doing the old in-and-out. So no real real medfet either.

Yes I think the race between porn studios to outdo each other, and overcome our ever dulling response to their product, made porn increasingly other worldly. Body builder physiques, often silicone implants for the women, ugly tattoos as you say and choking, slapping, spitting and general aggressive nastiness. It just doesn't reflect what most people like/want and may well have led to bad experiences for young women whose young male partners had seen a lot of that stuff. Likewise, most men ironically rate their penis size as 'below average' (statistically impossible) because average rarely gets hired for porn.

It was far easier in those VHS days to relate to comically bad plot lines, plumbers dropping their pants for bored housewives with shoulder pads and big hair, all played out to a sleazy soundtrack. I think this does explain the growth of amateur porn content whilst mainstream studios struggle, ultra high definition may look so much better than VHS but in most other ways content has suffered.

In my opinion, porn has lost, I hope not forever, its main function: to create sexual arousal in viewers.

There is no longer the psychological part (which is the one that activates the excitement function), there is no longer even the part attributable to the natural condition of those who attend the show.

I don't think viewers can reasonably identify physically with the actors, unless, today, men and women are all super-fitted, super-tattooed and super-rude. I'm not blind, I see very well and I see that most of the living humans are "normal" people.

In sex, even the more fetish or extravagant one, I still see a good common sense, a certain education, I don't see spitting, violent penetrations or cunnillinguus that last two minutes and then off we go. Similarly, I see normal, longed female orgasms, muscle stiffening or leg retraction, toe movements and some liberating scream at the end. Instead, in porn, everything is exaggerated, unreal, to the point of being annoying. I no longer watch porn, if not some niche productions, together with the partner of the moment, but more and more rarely. Could certainly be more exciting amateur video productions, as they are more realistic, 😃

The purpose of Porn is masturbatory fantasy, but when the major studios engaged in an arousal arms race, that went out of the window because the actors no longer looked or behaved in a way normal people could relate to. Give me mature, flabby, imperfect but interesting women having real orgasms any day of the week, these are the ones we meet daily and have our wicked thoughts about.

Back in the 1990s I was lent a friend's home made VHS sex tape. They kept having to stop having sex to readjust the camera position. Half way through they stopped again for a cigarette break, not pretty but funny. Later on, when he 'accidentally' slipped his cock down to the wrong hole, she sharply pulled it back up to where it belonged. This stuff never happens in porn, but it does in real life and I know which I can relate to so prefer.

The purpose of Porn is masturbatory fantasy, but when the major studios engaged in an arousal arms race, that went out of the window because the actors no longer looked or behaved in a way normal people could relate to. Give me mature, flabby, imperfect but interesting women having real orgasms any day of the week, these are the ones we meet daily and have our wicked thoughts about.

Back in the 1990s I was lent a friend's home made VHS sex tape. They kept having to stop having sex to readjust the camera position. Half way through they stopped again for a cigarette break, not pretty but funny. Later on, when he 'accidentally' slipped his cock down to the wrong hole, she sharply pulled it back up to where it belonged. This stuff never happens in porn, but it does in real life and I know which I can relate to so prefer.

that is my impression too, “BULGE”. The women in porn from years ago looked more like real women to me: older, heavier, and all sporting a healthy full bush. Now the women are much younger, or they’re made to appear that way: much slimmer except for the fake boobs, and a crotch that looks like it belongs to a 10-year old.

The purpose of Porn is masturbatory fantasy, but when the major studios engaged in an arousal arms race, that went out of the window because the actors no longer looked or behaved in a way normal people could relate to. Give me mature, flabby, imperfect but interesting women having real orgasms any day of the week, these are the ones we meet daily and have our wicked thoughts about

I wholeheartedly agree!

I have enjoyed porn for many years & much prefer the home made variety. Less than perfect bodies, dodgy camera work, doesn't matter a damn as long as the participants look like they are really enjoying themselves (I suppose the exception is BDSM where at least one participant is supposed to look like they are not enjoying themselves!) I also enjoy the occasional unintended humour that sometimes crops up - one I watched recently had a couple energetically fucking on the bed when a large tabby cat jumped up, gave the couple a look of complete & utter disdain along the lines of 'WTF are you doing?' before hopping onto the windowsill & having a wash while continuing to watch the proceedings. Any ideas I had of being turned on went out the window but it did make me laugh.

I totally agree with @alan20cm and I also have a nice collection of vintage porn movies of the 70's and 80's, downloaded from several sites where they were/are available digitalised.

I love the 'normality' of these actors - f and m - with natural bodies, natural behaviours and joy of what they really feel while pleasuring each other. The naturally grown 'bushes' of her and him, the real wet and nice pussies, the hard cocks which are gliding slow and deep into them. The dialogs and the background music are turning me on mostly, too and, last but not least, the orgasms are mostly intense and real, to me. I also like the 'shyness' of certain ladies when he sprays his huge load on the ladie's beautiful bellies or all over their bodies.

The scenes are sometimes really funny, too but that's exactly what makes the difference to the modern and brutal 'Matcho' content nowadays.

I'm standing for being more old school oriented and sometimes these movies reminds me of some of my sexual experiences.