discuss porn's "Golden Age" vs today?

I often hear my fellow pervs waxing nostalgic about porn's golden age, and I'm wondering how other people's opinions compare to mine. I became old enough to watch porn at the tail end of that "Golden Age", and while it was OK at the time because it's all we had, I think porn today is better than ever. I don't watch porn for a story, didn't then, don't now. I watch for the voyeuristic fun of seeing lucky guys fuck the shit out of pretty girls. And while there's a certain nostalgic charm in watching John Holmes as a detective taking the occasional break from his investigation to fuck some plain looking girl with a colorful scarf tied around her neck, I'll take today's "What's your name? How old are you? Where are you from? Turn around and bend over and pull your butt cheeks apart" brand of action any day of the week. It's more real and more honest. And don't get me started on the women themselves. There were so few gals entering porn back in the "Golden Age" that any woman who was even slightly attractive became a "star". Today, it's such a wonderful revolving door that every single day it seems there are half a dozen new babes, the least attractive of which would blow the best looking golden age star out of the water. Why waste time watching Annette Haven trying to act when we have Adrianna Chechik taking dicks and gargling semen like some sex droid from hell? Why settle for some homely gal like Georgina Spelvin when there are staggeringly beautiful women like Alexa Grace or Elena Koshka or Leah Lee or a hundred other gorgeous gals I could name who seem to be trying to outdo each other with how many cocks they can take up their ass or how much sperm they can wear on their face?

And that's not even factoring in today's amateur scene, where every Jack and Jill can film action with their phone and post the videos, giving the entire planet an HD eye on their bedroom fun!

As far as I'm concerned, you can keep the "Golden Age". We're living in the Platinum Age, baby, and it gets better every fucking day.

Hi bbthorne.

Welcome to the forum.

I agree with your assessment & articulate opinion on The "Golden Age of Porn", or "porno chic", which refers to a 15-year period (1969–1984) in commercial American pornography, in which sexually explicit films experienced positive attention from mainstream cinemas, movie critics, and the general public.
Those who produced, directed, acted, etc. during that period of time were the pioneers of the main stream porn industry that essentially paved the way for what porn has evolved into to this day.

As for those who "wax on" about certain preferences:
Some people get satisfied /stuck on / certain types of things in there lives that makes them happy like preferences of music, food, clothing styles, humor, entertainment, politics etc. and never have the desire to explore new ideas and remain content in doing so. Well,...good for them. Doesn't make any difference to me if they chose to remain constant & not evolve. I just accept there opinion & leave them to there own devices.

Imagine what the pioneers of porn could have, would have done if they had the tools we have today? High speed internet, 4K+ video, world wide interest & distribution with the tap of a keystroke?

Facialforum.net was only a pipe dream 20+ years ago. A few decades ago facial cum shots, blow bangs and bukkake action was almost non heard of or rarely produced. It was akin to finding hens teeth.
Sometimes these ideas / desires take time to manifest themselves. It's a well known fact that "What ever the mind of man can conceive & believe it can achieve.
I look forward to this continued progression.

PS: I got a chuckle of your description "Adrianna Chechik taking dicks and gargling semen like some sex droid from hell"
That's actually a pretty accurate description. She's one the the hottest porn whores in the world who is so over the top she may be from another planet.
In case you haven't seen it, do a search on " COCK POSSESSED 2 " from anatomikmedia.com. She & Hope Howell do a blow bang, bukkake, cum eating,cum swapping session that is one of best ever cum pig slut scenes I've found in quite some time. Porn on!

I have no interest in watching old porn. Today's professional and amateur content is hotter than ever, especially for me speaking as someone who cares about facials first and foremost.

This is an interesting subject.

I would say it depends on the way you look at it. I am quite a nostalgic guy, thinking back of the golden 1980s and 1990s when I was a teenager and a young man. I still marvel at the cars we had back then or the video games we played for days, saying that I miss the pureness, feeling and the scene. I remember meeting friends in person, no social media and smartphones.

Others tell me that this is old Man’s talk and that newer cars are much better, that the graphics of early video games were torture for our eyes and that we can get connected to the world with social media. Of course they are true.

In my opinion porn is a kind of art that can only be seen in the context of the time it was made.

I marvel at the sheer amount of fresh faces, especially with amateurs, and at the high quality of the material available today.
But I often feel flooded by this as well, too much input in too short intervals.

I can still remember some sets in the color magazines of the 1980s as if I’d seen them yesterday. And I have seen a few picture sets at the turn of the century that had a deep impact on me and that I still can remember and love and marvel about. A scene from Sexysettings/ClaudeChristain in the late 1990s where the amateur girl was tied fully naked standing, sitting and finally spread-eagle style on a bed, an amateur couple doing hardcore and the innocent looking girl receiving a facial on Paulmarkhamteens and the amateur-style stuff from Girlxpert or Athens-Girls. Often the girls were not the prettiest, but they made up for it with their innocence and enthusiasm. I also remember the early Private stuff that was and still is top-notch.

Thanks, Ron, for reminding me of Hope Howell, another of today's "too pretty for porn" gals. And I forgot to mention my latest favorite, Gia Derza, truly a gift to mankind. And although she's been around a while, I've just discovered Hannah Hays. Oh my god, she's the definition of the innocent girl next door you always wanted to ravage. That's the beauty of today's porn, so many gorgeous new faces it's impossible to keep track of them all. But I try, I really do try :p