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Just_A_Guy_You_Know
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I was just thinking about early experiences with 'porn,' that seem really ridiculous now.

1. The lingerie section of the Sears catalog.
2. Stealing Playboy magazines
3. Trying to watch adult movies on scrambled cable channels.
4. Patiently waiting for naked pictures to download over a modem connection.
5. Having that connection fail whenever anyone picked up the phone somewhere else in the house.

What else?

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HeraTeleia
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Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
I was just thinking about early experiences with 'porn,' that seem really ridiculous now.

1. The lingerie section of the Sears catalog.
2. Stealing Playboy magazines
3. Trying to watch adult movies on scrambled cable channels.
4. Patiently waiting for naked pictures to download over a modem connection.
5. Having that connection fail whenever anyone picked up the phone somewhere else in the house.

What else?


I actually have had a Playboy magazine subscription for some 20-odd years now. Yes, I do read it for the articles; many brilliant authors have written for the magazine over its history, but the real point is that I never made it a "secret". It's right there in the magazine basket next to the sofa, with Glamour and Woman's Day and the assorted nursing journals.

Nor did I make Lush a "secret"; pretty sure the two youngest don't know I'm here but the oldest figured it out pretty fast. Actually, I think the openness sort of messed him up, with regards to porn consumption. No posters of nearly naked models draped over expensive cars on his walls in his bedroom in HS (nor now, at university); he had world maps and, uh, vintage USGS rock maps on the walls instead.

He never did anything with regards to porn (and I'm the sort to trust but verify) except tell me, often, that porn is denigrating to women. And take my Lush bookmarks off my computer. Repeatedly.

I don't know, J., you're spot on with this generation never knowing the challenges of obtaining porn our generation experienced, but I think that the millennial generation is doing fine.
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Just_A_Guy_You_Know
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I actually have had a Playboy magazine subscription for some 20-odd years now. Yes, I do read it for the articles; many brilliant authors have written for the magazine over its history, but the real point is that I never made it a "secret". It's right there in the magazine basket next to the sofa, with Glamour and Woman's Day and the assorted nursing journals.


Subscribing to Playboy is one thing, but it's not even close to the thrill of discovering a stash belonging to your dad (or a sibling or a friend's dad or sibling, or whoever etc.), and sneaking them away for your own personal use... And it certainly wasn't to read the articles lol.

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Subscribing to Playboy is one thing, but it's not even close to the thrill of discovering a stash belonging to your dad


I was five or six when I found my dad's stash. Perhaps that warped me...
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I was just thinking about early experiences with 'porn,' that seem really ridiculous now.

1. The lingerie section of the Sears catalog.
2. Stealing Playboy magazines
3. Trying to watch adult movies on scrambled cable channels.
4. Patiently waiting for naked pictures to download over a modem connection.
5. Having that connection fail whenever anyone picked up the phone somewhere else in the house.

What else?


Sounds about right. We must be from the same generation. Some others that come to mind:

Mom's Cosmos got used at times, too.

Playing virtual strip poker on a Commodore 64.

Watching softcore Italian movies late at night on the Toronto multicultural channel when babysitting (the CRTC eventually made them stop).

On the Playboy front, the couple I used to sit for had a massive stack of Playboys in their furnace room as well as a current sub. The articles and stories did get read but much time was spent perusing the more visual parts.

My story "Soft as Fur She Was" actually hearkens to that period and particularly that couple. Though most of the events in the story are fictional, the bit early on about masturbating on their fur rug is basically from life.
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Watching softcore Italian movies late at night on the Toronto multicultural channel when babysitting (the CRTC eventually made them stop).



Yet City TV's Baby Blue was allowed to persist until the early 2000s. I watched a *lot* of those as a lad.
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Yet City TV's Baby Blue was allowed to persist until the early 2000s. I watched a *lot* of those as a lad.


I thought they got discontinued in the nineties and then brought back in the noughties? But, yeah, there was some ... stimulating material there, too.smvaQMxRWvNSeCsZ
Just_A_Guy_You_Know
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Yet City TV's Baby Blue was allowed to persist until the early 2000s. I watched a *lot* of those as a lad.


Yep, watched my fair share of those, too - with my finger on the 'recall' button of the remote, ready to flip to something less sexy at any moment in case my parents walked in.

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You know, I had completely forgotten my dad's 8mm porn movies. There was nothing remotely tittilating on tv when I was a girl. CBC, CTV, NBC, ABC and CBS were clean as clean could be. Not only did married couples have to be on seperate beds, one of them had to have a foot on the floor. Color Climax was a bit of a change.

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You know, I had completely forgotten my dad's 8mm porn movies. There was nothing remotely tittilating on tv when I was a girl. CBC, CTV, NBC, ABC and CBS were clean as clean could be. Not only did married couples have to be on seperate beds, one of them had to have a foot on the floor. Color Climax was a bit of a change.


That was mostly the case for us, too. City-TV and the multilingual channel I am talking about were local indie channels. City's founder in particular was a grown-up hippy prone to doing things a little different. He also started Canada's first music video channel and currently runs a lifestyle magazine and channel for boomers (called Zoomer) that he started with the money he made from selling City and its various affiliates.

Oh, and I missed a source of "stimulation" - sex scenes in novels. Not romance stuff, but thrillers. Ken Follett's Triple was one. I think there was one or two in Steve Shagan's The Formula that, um, stirred things up, too.
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Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
I was just thinking about early experiences with 'porn,' that seem really ridiculous now.

1. The lingerie section of the Sears catalog.
2. Stealing Playboy magazines
3. Trying to watch adult movies on scrambled cable channels.
4. Patiently waiting for naked pictures to download over a modem connection.
5. Having that connection fail whenever anyone picked up the phone somewhere else in the house.

What else?



for me it was

1. Stealing my dads Hustlers out of his closet and having to wait until he was gone to work again to return them
2. Waiting until everyone was gone so I could get in the porno Vhs and hope for some Nina Hartley and hopefully no Ron Jeremy ( good luck in that endeavor apparently he was in every fucking 80s porno )
3. Scrambled up crappy porn pictures on the net
4. Clicking what you think is a hot porn vid on the net and it turns out to be the last thing you want to see...
5. No Pornhub ( Pornhub is the god of porn, its a total gift lol )
6. And yes the fucking dial up connection taking an age..
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"Jeremy was ranked by AVN at No. 1 in their "50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list." WTF?


There's no accounting for taste. I can't think of a single guy in straight porn who turned my crank, else I might have come out as bi a lot earlier in life. Fortunately, the women were usually distracting me from the general ugliness of the men.

First full porn movie (vs. those softcore Italian things):

The X-rated Alice in Wonderland. We were too young to rent porn (under 18, probably 16 or 17) but a friend's mother (yes, really) picked it up for him. I rewatched it not long ago and it actually holds up fairly well. The woman who played Alice was cute and sexy, there were some nice scenes. The songs ... well, it was porn, not a serious musical.
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Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
I was just thinking about early experiences with 'porn,' that seem really ridiculous now.

1. The lingerie section of the Sears catalog.
2. Stealing Playboy magazines
3. Trying to watch adult movies on scrambled cable channels.
4. Patiently waiting for naked pictures to download over a modem connection.
5. Having that connection fail whenever anyone picked up the phone somewhere else in the house.

What else?



Did ya forget about sneaking away to the attic with your chums while your parents were away, trying to figure out the 8mm projector, floppy frame-rate with garbled sound, und sometime melting film just when it was getting good?...lol

I read that in my brother's old Playboys...smiles

The first porn film I remember was VHS?...Named "Little Orphan Dusty".
It was kind of a non-consent, American biker gangbang, lesbian fistfuck, und a hero who comes to her rescue but also takes advantage of her.
It had terrible story-line und music und it didn't seem to play right for some reason either,
but it was my first time seeing a girl fistfuck another.
Thought that was hot...
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"Jeremy was ranked by AVN at No. 1 in their "50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list." WTF?


Honestly I am not sure how I am not a full on lesbian after having to suffer through some of his stuff because I didn't want to find the remote
How is Julia Ann or Nina Hartley not number 1 or Ava Adams Or Brandi Love, Anyone but Ron Jeremy.
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There's no accounting for taste. I can't think of a single guy in straight porn who turned my crank, else I might have come out as bi a lot earlier in life. Fortunately, the women were usually distracting me from the general ugliness of the men.

First full porn movie (vs. those softcore Italian things):

The X-rated Alice in Wonderland. We were too young to rent porn (under 18, probably 16 or 17) but a friend's mother (yes, really) picked it up for him. I rewatched it not long ago and it actually holds up fairly well. The woman who played Alice was cute and sexy, there were some nice scenes. The songs ... well, it was porn, not a serious musical.


The straight guys in porn aren't generally hot I have noticed but they also get paid less so there is also less of them, Plus who really watches full on straight porn? ( not me )
Give me 2 bi chicks and a guy, Or give me 2 bi guys and a girl, But never straight.


I think my first porn was Firestorm 3, It was full of plot and I seriously watched it like I would a regular movie, Just super into it trying to figure out the fuck was going on because I hadn't seen the other 2, Dug around in my dads porn vhs stash, and to my disappointment he didn't have them just something called the love hammer, and bamboo paradise, and unlabeled things I took gambles on later ( Firestorm 2 and 3 were never found in those lol )
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Intercepting, opening and stashing anything labelled "Sexually Oriented Advertising" out of the mail before my Dad ever saw it.
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Plus who really watches full on straight porn? ( not me )


Straight, and some bi, males, I assume. I certainly have been known to do so, though I'm watching more gay porn now.
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I stole my friend's dad's playboys, later he gifted me them. I made it no secret about me reading, writing and watching smut and porn. I don't know how the toddler is going to feel once she gets older, though

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I was just thinking about early experiences with 'porn,' that seem really ridiculous now.

1. The lingerie section of the Sears catalog.
2. Stealing Playboy magazines
3. Trying to watch adult movies on scrambled cable channels.
4. Patiently waiting for naked pictures to download over a modem connection.
5. Having that connection fail whenever anyone picked up the phone somewhere else in the house.

What else?



We never had it so good them days!
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Well growing up we didn't have the Internet up here, hell we had just barely got cable TV! So my youth was spent in finding and stashing my collection of "dirty magazines" (which my mother had a nasty habit of finding and disposing of!), looking through the Sears and JCPenny catalogs for the lingerie and women's underwear sections, and that program on cable TV with the hot girls in leotards exercising while the camera rotated around them!

Maybe that's why my imagination is always in high gear - because it got such a workout when I was younger!
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I stole my Dad's Hustler magazine.
The lingerie section of the Argos catalogue my mum got every quarter!
Rewinding VHS tapes to Hollywood sex scenes.
Late night Channel 4 (including Eurotrash).