I fully agree with Bob here when he says that the poor quality of the 8mm gay flicks went so well along with the expected sleaziness of the genre. I am actually not sure that I would want to view them in a sort of remastered version.
John has mentioned all the magazines with oiled, super-athletic bodies that embodied t the aesthetics of the 70's. The east Med got very few of those in our time and day. But the gay guys had some limited access to the throve of the pre-WWII porn which only sometimes showed a 'strappin' fellow' here and there.
Every dude I have ever talked to about the gay porn 'loved it'. But the porn was neither cheap nor universally and easily available. The societal environment was however, mostly very sexually positive and permissive. Nude beaches used to be an absolute default for ALL the young guys. Nightly skinny dipping was a most usual thing you and your buddies could do. You wear your best bud's shirt or underwear on all kinds of pretexts, and he wore yours.
KD
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