In the 70's, you still had to go to theaters to see porn. 80's saw the advent of videos you could rent or buy. But the true golden age bloomed with access to the internet.
When did Pron start becoming popular/mainstream?
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Wasn't that what the old theater at Northgate was for?
With the advent of the interwebs?
Small popcorn, large butter plzFAT SEXY said:
Had no clue that going to the theater to watch the nasty is/was a thing.
Laughed way harder at this than it really deserved...EastSideAg2002 said:Small popcorn, large butter plzFAT SEXY said:
Had no clue that going to the theater to watch the nasty is/was a thing.
Mosaics of Ancient Rome?
Mid 90s, specifically with the release of Windows 95 when desktop computer sales skyrocketed. When people could buy porn in private without be judged by others, that's when the porn industry became huge.
wbt5845 said:
In the 70's, you still had to go to theaters to see porn. 80's saw the advent of videos you could rent or buy. But the true golden age bloomed with access to the internet.
I would say when it became ppv on cable and dish in the mid 1990s. You still had to pay for it, but you didn't risk bumping into neighbors and fellow Baptists in the store.
FAT SEXY said:THE_CHOSEN_ONE said:
Wasn't that what the old theater at Northgate was for?
Gonna need some old Ags to weigh in on this, because I have no clue
Yes - I saw Debbie Does Dallas there in early 80's.
Probably when SCOTUS ruled that obscenity wasn't necessarily an objective standard and that there were first amendment protections on artistic expression. Once it had a legal protection at least in milder form, it was free to proliferate.
Booma94 said:Laughed way harder at this than it really deserved...EastSideAg2002 said:Small popcorn, large butter plzFAT SEXY said:
Had no clue that going to the theater to watch the nasty is/was a thing.
Impossible. This was a perfect post
Based on all of the paintings, sculptures, pottery, ive seen in museums, I am going to guess it got popular sometime around the time that man figured out drawing on cave walls
End of Hays Code in 1968.
There was a drive-in outside of Austin when I was in high school.
The girls didn't seem to mind...
The girls didn't seem to mind...
1999 and P2P (Napster) along with T1 internet
Enviroag02 said:
T1 internet
FAT SEXY said:THE_CHOSEN_ONE said:
Wasn't that what the old theater at Northgate was for?
Gonna need some old Ags to weigh in on this, because I have no clue
I may or may not have seen something like that there. If I did see something like that there, let me tell you that the comments that were yelled out were pretty damned funny/imaginative. I believe there might have even been a harmonica in the audience.
I also saw DDD at the Campus Theater and it was the summer of 1980.
The Campus Theater mainly showed traditional movies. During the summer when the firemen came into town for training they would show grode flicks late at night. The drunken firemen always provided some interesting narration during the movie.
The Campus Theater mainly showed traditional movies. During the summer when the firemen came into town for training they would show grode flicks late at night. The drunken firemen always provided some interesting narration during the movie.
wbt5845 said:
In the 70's, you still had to go to theaters to see porn. 80's saw the advent of videos you could rent or buy. But the true golden age bloomed with access to the internet.
Pee-wee Herman was born too soon.
Grode Flicks, I was trying to think of the word my class of '76 dad uses for pron. The dorms frequented the Campus Theater back in the 70's. Most of the stories sound pretty homo erotic hearing them tell them.Sgt. Hartman said:
I also saw DDD at the Campus Theater and it was the summer of 1980.
The Campus Theater mainly showed traditional movies. During the summer when the firemen came into town for training they would show grode flicks late at night. The drunken firemen always provided some interesting narration during the movie.
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Except for the mentioned summer audience, and some midnight showings. Campus Theater had gone pretty much mainstream by late 70s. During the semester, Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight was a bigger draw for tickets than the grode flicks were and that kinda spelled the end of that era.
Greater love hath no man than this....
Duckhook said:FAT SEXY said:THE_CHOSEN_ONE said:
Wasn't that what the old theater at Northgate was for?
Gonna need some old Ags to weigh in on this, because I have no clue
I may or may not have seen something like that there. If I did see something like that there, let me tell you that the comments that were yelled out were pretty damned funny/imaginative. I believe there might have even been a harmonica in the audience.
Yep. I still remember some of the jokes.Duckhook said:FAT SEXY said:THE_CHOSEN_ONE said:
Wasn't that what the old theater at Northgate was for?
Gonna need some old Ags to weigh in on this, because I have no clue
If I did see something like that there, let me tell you that the comments that were yelled out were pretty damned funny/imaginative. I believe there might have even been a harmonica in the audience.
Bruce Almighty said:
Mid 90s, specifically with the release of Windows 95 when desktop computer sales skyrocketed. When people could buy porn in private without be judged by others, that's when the porn industry became huge.
This! If you are talking actual movies/videos. Thankfully with the internet, I didn't have to go through the expense of converting all my old VHS tapes, everything I had and much more is out there free!
I wish I would have seen the look on the garbage man's face if/when he opened the box full of tapes I left at the curb, at the top of the trashcan.
RealTalk said:wbt5845 said:
In the 70's, you still had to go to theaters to see porn. 80's saw the advent of videos you could rent or buy. But the true golden age bloomed with access to the internet.
Pee-wee Herman was born too soon.
Yep, Abraham Lincoln and the guy in front of Paul Ruebens both had something in common.
Shot in the back of the head in a theatre.
When Deep Throat was reviewed by the New York Times
What do you think the guy who played Pee Wee Herman got busted for?!FAT SEXY said:
Had no clue that going to the theater to watch the nasty is/was a thing.
wbt5845 said:
In the 70's, you still had to go to theaters to see porn. 80's saw the advent of videos you could rent or buy. But the true golden age bloomed with access to the internet.
Also in the 80s cable television delivered soft core on SCinemax, but there was also the Playboy channel that made a lot of money, but for most of us it was scrambled so you might have seen something, and then when things weren't so scrambled, nobody was allowed to breathe to disrupt the channel.
FAT SEXY said:
I wonder if they made porn on betamax
That industry got behind VHS which is one reason some people say it won out.
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