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OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Wasn't Big Peelers mom a vintage porn star?
Not sure if we ever saw pics.

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Curiously enough, it has not yet been mentioned that bigpeeler claimed to have found pictures of his mother while perusing antique porn on altbinaries. He posted a series of pictures of a woman from the 1950's era and swore they were his mother. Much of SA believed he had actually found his mom. Regardless of whether it was really his mother and the family drama it supposedly produced, the woman's tits were classic for any era.

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Zeniel
Oct 18, 2013

Beefed Owl posted:

80s porn really missed out on all the incest porn that now dominates Pornhub.

I wanna gently caress your mom not my mom

Jesus if she saw me naked now she would say, "drat it, you are your father's son"

You say that, but there was definitely that sort of incest porn made in the 80's.

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

Taboo 2 came out in 1982.

dsf
Jul 1, 2004
no fuckin way. give me short hair 80s fitness girls or give me death. bury me in neon spandex, sweatbands and leg warmers

naem
May 29, 2011

Bad Purchase posted:

this is the tape that you've waited for and heard about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGjSvlHgQgQ

one of the problems with the 80’s is that they had this short hand for what attractive was

like, do you have really really big froofy hair that makes you look like a poodle? Attractive!

is it dyed a really fake yellow instead of making it look like real blonde hair? Even attractive-r!!

ladies wear makeup right? so, really cram it on there, blue stuff near your eyeballs and smear some red on your narrow white lady lips yeah! that’s the ticket it’s about making the makeup obvious

now put on a BIKINI haha and HIGH HEELS

meanwhile actual attractive women do unattractive things to themselves until they look weird and unattractive women do the same things and say SEE?? IM ATTRACTIVE TOO LOOK AT MY BIKINI AND POODLE HAIR WE’RE ALL THE SAME

also no one is in very good shape

Indolent Bastard
Oct 26, 2007

I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!

Beefed Owl posted:

80s porn really missed out on all the incest porn that now dominates Pornhub.

I wanna gently caress your mom not my mom

Jesus if she saw me naked now she would say, "drat it, you are your father's son"

Taboo from 1980 would like to have a word with you about that, and Taboo II 1982, and Taboo III 1984, and Taboo IV 1985, and Taboo V 1986, (you get the idea).

Zeniel
Oct 18, 2013
The Taboo series in fact asymptotes the closer to 1990 the series got.

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

[snarky comment]

Bad Purchase posted:

this is the tape that you've waited for and heard about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGjSvlHgQgQ

Just a floozy with an Uzi
Just a girlie with a gun
When I could have been a model
And I should have been a nun

I'll lose my blues in some Jacuzzi
Life's just a lotta clean fun
For a floozy with an Uzi
For a girlie with a gun

Just what was it about that
Little Israeli machine
Play all day in the sand
Nothin' gets jammed
Understand what I mean?

So Mister, you can keep your lenses
And Sister, you can keep your beads
I'm ridin' in Mercedes Benzes
I'm taking care of all my needs

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

I couldn't read through the VAN magazine thread because of how weirdly horrific the 'porn' was.

Granted, it was low-brow even for the time, but the idealized biker chic even at the time was just flat out gross. I do not mean to demean anyone or anything close to that it's just a never ending stream of "holy poo poo, why?"

The Alchemist
Dec 12, 2010
We don't talk about 80's porn because one of the most popular porn in that decade featured a 16 year old Traci Lords :froggonk:

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


naem posted:

one of the problems with the 80’s is that they had this short hand for what attractive was

like, do you have really really big froofy hair that makes you look like a poodle? Attractive!

is it dyed a really fake yellow instead of making it look like real blonde hair? Even attractive-r!!

ladies wear makeup right? so, really cram it on there, blue stuff near your eyeballs and smear some red on your narrow white lady lips yeah! that’s the ticket it’s about making the makeup obvious

now put on a BIKINI haha and HIGH HEELS

meanwhile actual attractive women do unattractive things to themselves until they look weird and unattractive women do the same things and say SEE?? IM ATTRACTIVE TOO LOOK AT MY BIKINI AND POODLE HAIR WE’RE ALL THE SAME

also no one is in very good shape

I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that the 80s were the era where standard definition (color) television was THE absolute, uncontested dominant form of media. Performers shape their looks to present optimally for the media in which they will appear. (This is why Elvis dyed his hair black, so that it would photograph better in black-and-white.) People then model their looks on what they see in the media, and a feedback loop is launched. Movies and magazines had previously held more cultural sway, but by the 80s magazines held a fraction of their mid-century influence and home video had forced movies to take their televised appearance into consideration.

So, when the only things that a television audience can see about your hair (if you're not in a close-up) is its general shape and color, then it becomes more important to give it a distinctive shape and a bright color. That means that actresses start getting styled to optimize for that. And eventually, you end up with everyone in bleach-blonde poodle hair.

Same thing goes for makeup. When 99% of the people who see you are going to see your image in worse-than-480i resolution, you have to do more with the makeup to appear noticeable. I remember hearing about how, when the show Friends switched from standard- to high-definition, they actually brought on a whole new team of makeup artists so that things would look right.

EDIT:

Big Beef City posted:

I couldn't read through the VAN magazine thread because of how weirdly horrific the 'porn' was.

Granted, it was low-brow even for the time, but the idealized biker chic even at the time was just flat out gross. I do not mean to demean anyone or anything close to that it's just a never ending stream of "holy poo poo, why?"

Bikers were early innovators in meth consumption, which has an...effect on what one might consider sexually desirable.

kdrudy
Sep 19, 2009

Legin Noslen posted:

Thank you thread for reminding me of one of the greatest television shows of all time, Dave's Old Porn

I really need to track down episodes of that, it was great.

nvidiagouge
Sep 30, 2021

by Fluffdaddy
There was so much soft core on cable channels and titties in horror movies you didn't even have to stray into porn if you didn't want to. Also, to consume it you had to go into walled or roped off areas in the seedy local video store/magazine stand.

Mirage
Oct 27, 2000

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds
As someone who was 14 years old in 1980 ... eh, you took what you could get.

Plus every cute girl I knew during my adolescence had that same poofy hair, so there's an associative quality there.

The Modern Leper
Dec 25, 2008

You must be a masochist

naem posted:

now put on a BIKINI haha and HIGH HEELS

And make sure it's a high waisted thong so your rear end cheeks have absolutely no lift or definition. I wanna see that LONG back.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

The Modern Leper posted:

And make sure it's a high waisted thong so your rear end cheeks have absolutely no lift or definition. I wanna see that LONG back.

Those were the worst.

Women were hot in the 50s, 60s, 70s not 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s.

What happened?

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

naem posted:

one of the problems with the 80’s is that they had this short hand for what attractive was

like, do you have really really big froofy hair that makes you look like a poodle? Attractive!

is it dyed a really fake yellow instead of making it look like real blonde hair? Even attractive-r!!

ladies wear makeup right? so, really cram it on there, blue stuff near your eyeballs and smear some red on your narrow white lady lips yeah! that’s the ticket it’s about making the makeup obvious

now put on a BIKINI haha and HIGH HEELS

meanwhile actual attractive women do unattractive things to themselves until they look weird and unattractive women do the same things and say SEE?? IM ATTRACTIVE TOO LOOK AT MY BIKINI AND POODLE HAIR WE’RE ALL THE SAME

also no one is in very good shape

Chrs
Sep 21, 2015

I’d like to know who the gently caress first heard that wah-wah porn groove music and thought “yes this is pretty arousing, lets play it over people loving”

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

It slaps if you're naked and high on cocaine tbh

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

love bush

Doctor Dogballs
Apr 1, 2007

driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station


Mescal posted:

love bush

i dont love him, ever since the day he did too many nine elevens.

naem
May 29, 2011

The Modern Leper posted:

And make sure it's a high waisted thong so your rear end cheeks have absolutely no lift or definition. I wanna see that LONG back.

SHOW ME those hip sockets yeaaah

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer
just kind of an extension of how the 80's sorta sucked in general

if not for the 80's it could have been the 70's forever!!!

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Mescal posted:

love bush

glycerine is okay but only if you're old enough to have formative experiences built around it

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

my dog died im sad posted:

I wanna gently caress a Ghostbuster. Is that so wrong????

depends. is janine a ghostbuster? i mean, she didn't wear the suit, but she did work for the company

The Modern Leper
Dec 25, 2008

You must be a masochist

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Those were the worst.

Women were hot in the 50s, 60s, 70s not 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s.

What happened?

Serious answer: AIDS really set the sexual revolution back by decades. Not only did it introduce an unacceptable level of risk for most people, it "justified" all the old sexual repression, shame, and hosed up morality. That, plus yuppie culture sublimated all that sexual energy into (masculine-centered) androgyny and productivity.

Really effective AIDS treatments only became available in... 1996, 1997? Look at where adolescents and young adults are today when it comes to discussions of sex, sexuality, gender, etc. Absolutely, some of that comes from internalizing ideas of consent and self-protection in a context separated from the overwhelming fear of HIV. PREP was only approved in 2012, and I fully expect we'll see a further evolution as more kids reach sexual maturity in a world where that carries less fear than what I grew up with.

EDIT: That said, Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver were definitely exceptions that proved the rule. The key, it seems, was to ride out the decade with short hair.

The Modern Leper fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Dec 2, 2021

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

Chrs posted:

I’d like to know who the gently caress first heard that wah-wah porn groove music and thought “yes this is pretty arousing, lets play it over people loving”

Darrell Dunlop, inventor of the wah pedal

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Much like Trump turned all pornography into incest, Reagan turned everything into hyper generic corporate trash.

Conservatives just reflect the national id that deeply

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A Festivus Miracle
Dec 19, 2012

I have come to discourse on the profound inequities of the American political system.

80's porn is downright gross for a variety of reasons, but one I can see is how the cameras of the time took huge chunks out of the color palate of the film, then reduced it further to smush it on to a VHS. On top of this, the whole 'every color is beige' poo poo got rolling in the '80s, so you had tanned white people (because people did not wear sunscreen) having sex on tan beige furniture, beds, pool furniture in the amazing video quality of 240p, probably worse.

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