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My peers often talk about how difficult it was to find porno back in the day. You could steal a peek at someone’s hidden stash, try to decipher scrambled cable stations, find magazines in the woods, or watch the local multicultural channel after midnight for some Nunspolitation. At the time, when I heard of the days of stag reels and recordings I felt sad for those early pioneers who had such limited access to pornography. Now, with the internet, I realize I was closer to those dinosaurs than I could have initially imagined.
Mom and Pop video stores provided the Trojan horse of pornography. An otherwise innocuous b-movie could often give up the goods without our parents ever knowing. Possibly the most notorious of such films among my friends is She-Devils of the SS. In it, a group of WW II soldiers raid a Nazi bunker that turns out to be a brothel, and quickly escalates into the greatest Nazi clown foot fetish porno ever made.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Y’know, I was just talking with some guys about this.
I was saying how tough it was finding porn as a youth. This one Aussie guy just looked blankly and said “What’s so tough about it? I just went online as a kid”. That’s when I asked his age. “I’m 21. Why?”. Wow.
I never really though about it, but the internet really didn’t become what it was until I was around 16. Being 26 now, I realize that my age group may be the last youth to search the forests and video stores for such treasures. How sad. The end of such beauty.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I can’t believe the post just ends there. More details about this movie, please. Incidentally, although I’m female, my first early exposure to porn came from tagging along at the barbershop with my Dad. Those were the only magazines they had.