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Originally Posted by KewlDewd66
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.
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When watching the early gay porn movies the "dirtiness" was part of the fun - the "clean" sex was M/F - when you see those old gay movies it is sneaking out into the woods - doing it in a bathroom - it had the added element of being "bad boys" and doing something that is "wrong". Which just added to the fantasy because as kids we would sneak into the woods....
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Originally Posted by KewlDewd66
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.
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I don't know much history of gay porn - but looking at old magazines on line, in adult bookstores and the like you can see that suddenly in the 70's there was a breakthrough - they changed from guys posing - dicks soft or covered - to full on porn. So I am assuming some "decency" law here in the US was struck down and the publishers were no longer in fear of arrest just for distributing the magazine. Many of the old posing magazines would also have a section where you could buy "20 naked photographs of Steve for only $10 - sold as collector to collector only" - so they had used that to sidestep the law for awhile.