17 Golden Age Porn Films You Should Watch With Your Partner (or Alone)
Ask anyone “what did they do during the pandemic,” and they are likely to name a few hobbies or newly acquired interests. Maybe they really got into making their own kombucha, or they learned a new tool. Or, if they’re like me, they’ve put together some vintage pornographic posters.
My addiction to Golden Age pornography preceded the pandemic. I read Other Hollywood a couple of years ago and have been a fan of The Rialto Report podcast for at least that long, but it would be wrong to say that my interests are purely academic. The history of Golden Age pornography is fascinating, but I also prefer to watch this porn.
If you listen to Rialto’s report, you will notice a common theme: many actors started out as ambitious talents on stage, television or film and began performing in live sex shows, cycles and eventually feature films. pornographic materials for quick money. Many performers sincerely believed that dirty and “straight” cinema would eventually merge into one industry, but this (obviously) never happened. (This is tragic for several reasons, one of which is that a merger would make it much easier to unionize pornography – as Andrea Tru and Harry Reims tried to do – an industry that would benefit greatly from worker protection.)
Not all of the stars of the Golden Age were top-tier actors – Platinum Princess Seka openly admits she is more of an “artist” than an actor – but they all took their work seriously. This, combined with the legal requirement that pornography has “artistic merit,” has led to a boom in blue films with story and production value.
I have a lot of thoughts and opinions about these skin clicks, which means I have recommendations too. You won’t find Deep Throat , Debbie Does Dallas , Barbara Broadcast, or Behind the Green Door on this list. Not only do most people already know about it, I also think it’s boring behind the green door and I can’t get past the moment of salad dressing at Barbara Brodcas (I love both food and sex, but I don’t like mixing the two) …
If you’ve decided you want to watch any of these great movies, check out Vinegar Syndrome to see lovingly restored Blu-Rays. You can find many of these movies on various streaming porn sites (especially tubepornclassic.com), but they are rarely featured on the same site for long periods of time and are rarely listed by name. (You can sometimes find them by searching for the actors in the movie, but this is not a guarantee.) The quality on streaming sites can also be quite poor, which is a shame because these movies were shot on film, which gives them a smooth sheen. which you won’t find on Bang Bros.