Are we just naming awesome naked actresses and dropping the mic? Because Rene Russo, Thomas Crown Affair.
Ive always been sort of spoiled when it came to porn. During the tail end of the VHS era in the early 90's we had multiple VHSs in our house and we knew how to dub tapes. My dad would rent or borrow porn and dub it and then my older brother and I was raid his stash and dub our own. My brother used to sell bootlegs in middle school for like 25 bucks a pop (he probably could have asked anything). One of my friends whose family was an early adopter of CD burners did the same thing until they became widespread. By the time I took a big interest in porn in middle school the internet revolution was under way and there was gigs and gigs to be had. Sharon Stone did tantalize a Kubla. I was always partial to mid 90s erotic thrillers and skinemax series. There was a certain nostalgia for sneaking around, staying up late to catch them, and having to wait through the lame stories for some Red Shoe Dairies.
Am I the only one whose parents didn't get HBO or Skinemax, so I had to turn to the channel and try to see a scrambled boob? I didn't think so. Is that a boob or an elbow?
First one my friends and I got ahold of was almost porn: Spaced Out. Edit: Holy crap, there's a youtube clip! Can't believe I actually remembered the name of that movie. NSFW Then, first "real" porn VHS was Insatiable with Marilyn Chambers.
We had a black box that got all the channels. It lasted until everything went digital, at which point there was the internet. I pity you people.
I worked at Hollywood Video in highschool and lemme tell you, the Mystery/Suspense section was fertile ground for mid 90s jerkfests. That, and damn near anything from the Troma team. There was even some blatant softcore porn available, like Femalien. Mostly though, I knew where the VHS tapes were hidden in my parents closet. It was always a challenge to get the movie back to exactly where they had left it. Once, the tape got tangled up in the VCR. So that day, I learned how to take apart and put back together both VCRs and VHS tapes. When my Dad got caught cheating on my step-mom and we moved out, he told me, "No, we're not bringing any of Cherie's porn with us." I was floored. Thought I was so slick...
My friend's dad in New Jersey had what can only be described as the most prolific collection of porn I had ever seen. This was back in the mid 90's and it still holds true to this day. He had so many VHS tapes and they were all alphabetized on a bookcase. I thought it was kinda weird. A lot of people had a couple tapes or some magazines hid in a closet somewhere. This guy, who bore a striking resemblance to Ron Jeremy, had hundreds of tapes of everything. Every genre. And he also had all the tv channels as well. His kids were and still are so fucked up to this day. They were desensitized to porn when they were early teenagers. None of it was kept from them. His older son is gloriously incapable of maintaining a normal relationship with a woman. Just last year, very suddenly, the dad passed away from a heart attack. So compound that onto the problem and you get some alcohol related near death experiences.
Yeah we had a desrambler one of my dad's friends rigged for us. We had all the PPVs, HBO, etc all the time. Maybe they didn't provide the channel around us but the PPV porn was all softcore for us anyway but still usable material. When the cable guys came to replace the old box with key system my dad told them he wasn't interested. When they said there was no choice he decided we'd just get satellite and our descrambling days were numbered. I remember very clearly the last big move on PPV before we switched was Naked Gun 33 1/3rd. As for porn, like you said, was heading online by then anyway. Then came the quest to find gifs (the non moving type) in AOL chat rooms without getting beastiality or pedo shit sent to you by creepers. Once Kazaa hit it was all over. My dad was a huge porn collector. He must have had 30-40 tapes stashed away. One dude from his work had the audacity to call up and ask for the box of it after he died. Interesting side not to what xrayvision mentioned. Since my brother was 4 years older than I and his friends were always begging to watch something I was introduced to porn in elementary school. Im sure it has fucked me up and I too seem to be incapable of maintaining a normal relationship with women.......
Clown Girl update: She came over to my place and spent the night, if you know what I mean. Also, she's not really a clown; she doesn't wear any makeup, she just wears a colorful outfit. Gonna have to come up with a new name for her.
I feel like there is something to be said about discovering porn when you are a horny teenager or seeing a playboy or something when you are young and inadvertently being shown it before you know or are interested in women in that way. I found a couple of playboys that my dad had when I was probably about 10. It was at that point I made the connection between naked ladies and boners. Random boners always existed and were a source of scholastic anxiety but not until I saw that playboy did one cause the other. Now? Playboy doesn't even make a blip on radar. Oh Internet, how things have changed.
Of course, that doesn't make naked women any less awesome, but the thrill of the hunt is a lot more fun than an easy coup de gras. Now because of the Internet the bizarre is unlimited. Suddenly we got introduced to international porn. Messed-up porn. Gross porn. If penises could cry-- and I believe that they can-- then penises were crying all over North America the day scat was introduced to our continent.