What was porn like before...porn...

Was watching a repeat of the Seinfeld where George tells how his mother caught him in the bathroom "treating his body like an amusement park" with a "glamour magazine".

The past is a different country, but when it comes to porn in Ireland, it really was.

I seem to remember the Sunday World being considered racy and having amazingly high sales in the early 80s, particularly amongst farmers who weren't that interested in Pub Spy.

I also remember everyone in class staying up for every Bond film in the hope of a fleeting glimpse of nudity.

There was also that famous scene in Penny's From Heaven which caused quite the commotion.

I also remember cine club films having a popularity that far exceeded the usual interest in foreign language films.

So what else passed for porn in the days before the www was available, and Playboy being something we'd heard of but was not really available in the local newsagents.

Ruu

Kays catalogue.

Gatling

It was hairier and i dont mean dodgy mustashes

dinorebel

Lambing Monthly was popular in rural areas.

Firewalkwithme

There have always been plenty of adult shops around selling hardcore porn, it's just been one of those things that have had a blind eye turned to them.

A lot of the stuff they sell is still illegal actually but wth...

The Moldy Gowl

Good housekeeping

the evasion_kid

The pictures of women on the old tennents lager cans

kneemos

Less was more and we were easily excitable.

Joe prim

The episode of Glenroe where Miley did the bold thing with Jacinta in the hayshed, watched that over and over in slow motion, thanks to being an early adapter of the VHS recorder, also ads for corsets in the Evening Press////phwoarrrrrr!

LadyAthame

L'Ecu d'Or ou la Bonne Auberge, the earliest surviving hardcore pornographic film.

Gatling

Cartoon_Head wrote: »

There have always been plenty of adult shops around selling hardcore porn, it's just been one of those things that have had a blind eye turned to them.

A lot of the stuff they sell is still illegal actually but wth...

Back in the day there was next to none here even when the original pamela anderson sex tape came out .
I was busing it to cork ,galway ,waterford fairly regularly selling the tapes .
you would have sworn lads hadnt even seen a page 3 the way it was selling .

My first [EMAIL="w@nk"]w@nk[/EMAIL] was while looking at Eva Herzogovina in a Wonder Bra advertisement in my sister's Cosmopolitan magazine. The pinnacle of sexiness for me.

Cosmo was as good as it got in my teenage years

Eutow

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So what else passed for porn in the days before the www was available, and Playboy being something we'd heard of but was not really available in the local newsagents.

Ibiza Uncovered on Sky 1

Jamaica Uncovered on Sky 1

Eurotrash

French films on that foreign channel

Abandoned porn mags in fields and bushes

Cartoon_Head

Cartoon_Head wrote: »

There have always been plenty of adult shops around selling hardcore porn, it's just been one of those things that have had a blind eye turned to them.

A lot of the stuff they sell is still illegal actually but wth...

Realistically, for us teenagers here in Kerry, there was no access to any shop selling hardcore hardcore porn. There was no softcore porn for that matter.

We had to rely on the kid that saw Porkys telling us what was in it, cos there was no way we were gonna be able to rent it and had to rely on some kid who nicked it from his much older brother.

Slicemeister

That Wonder Woman opening sequel, tits bouncing everywhere!!

enfant terrible

Beverly Hills Bordello

Eutow

Eutow wrote: »

Ibiza Uncovered on Sky 1

Jamaica Uncovered on Sky 1

Eurotrash

French films on that foreign channel

Abandoned porn mags in fields and bushes

Sky what now?

That was getting into the 1990s. By that stage we had all seen a hardcore mag, and Roadhouse had been pawed and rewound and played frame by frame by half the countryside.

Was really thinking of an earlier time.

2Bints1Joe

Only squirting back then was with a super soaker

Timberrrrrrrr

Lingerie section of the Littlewoods catalogue

superelliptic

There was feck all naughty stuff around on TV growing up. I remember in the mid '90's staying up to watch Euro trash cos that always had nudity in it and was also very weird/funny.

The only time I remember seeing reams of boobs on screen was when Sky Movies got launched here in '92 and our estate got a free 1 month subscription, so meself and a few of the lads stayed up to watch Basic Instinct

Oh yeah, there was also The Daily Sport which was a smut mag masquerading as a tabloid newspaper

But everything I've mentioned above was utterly tame, It didn't seem so at the time but it really was. Its actually sort of frightening to see what's around now on todays porn sites compared to the comparatively innocent martial that was around 20 years ago.

Fr_Dougal

Like hot apple pie...

Birneybau

Picking up/hoping someone's older brother picked up some mags in Holyhead.

Mister Vain

The pink Power Ranger.

crockholm

Deleted User wrote: »

Realistically, for us teenagers here in Kerry, there was no access to any shop selling hardcore hardcore porn. There was no softcore porn for that matter.

We had to rely on the kid that saw Porkys telling us what was in it, cos there was no way we were gonna be able to rent it and had to rely on some kid who nicked it from his much older brother.

Nah! Our "video libraries" (younger readers may need to consult wikipedia for them) all had the "top shelf" Movies,all lined up so you could only see the side of the cover.

Tried in vain to get a copy and say that "my father asked me to get it" but as with Life in a small Town,we were only told "shur,I'll ask him next time he comes in so".

Had to rent them from older lads with extortionary prices:mad:

Kids today will never know our (one handed ) struggles.

Geniass

Eutow wrote: »

Abandoned porn mags in fields and bushes

I didn't realise that was a thing. I remember finding a magazine in an envelope discarded in a ditch in an out of the way field. Was about 10.

The person that threw it away left his address on the envelope it came was wrapped in. :pac:

lertsnim

It was an exciting time when the school tour came back from Paris. You just knew someone brought back magazines. Also the same few VHS pornos being passed around. Youngsters today have no idea how easy they have it.

Mister Vain

Mister Vain wrote: »

The pink Power Ranger.

Eutow

Geniass wrote: »

I didn't realise that was a thing. I remember finding a magazine in an envelope discarded in a ditch in an out of the way field. Was about 10.

The person that threw it away left his address on the envelope it came was wrapped in. :pac:

It was a thing, probably people not wanting to chance throwing it out with the regular rubbish in case they were caught. Suprisingly a lot of them didn't have the pages stuck together. :pac:

Mister Vain

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I did a quick google. Her name is Amy Jo Johnson. She's an absolute ride.

Davys Fits

The 'Carry On' films were terrible carry on.

Mister Vain

Davys Fits wrote: »

The 'Carry On' films were terrible carry on.

That stroppy auld cow from Eastenders wasn't a bad looking bird back in the day.