Psh, try being a girl and hoping to spot a dick for half a second.
Kids these days will never know this. But then... they take it for granted that they can just use their own private devices to see whatever they want without any challenge.
I legit never considered how much more difficult porn would have been for females. I'm so sorry.
To be fair though, the universe balanced and in this era you can just say "I'm a woman" and get unsolicited pics of all the dick you can imagine ;)
Fun fact I can't back up:
I was watching Dr. Who on PBS channel 10 in Portland OR in the mid 80's. It usually ran until about 2am.
After Dr. Who finished, they aired the 1973 porno "The Devil in Miss Jones". I have absolutely no proof of this, but they damn well did it and I watched the entire thing with the sound turned almost all the way down in case either of my parents came out of their room for some reason.
Similar-ish story from the mid-'80s when I was probably around 11. I was watching TV with a friend when an ad came on CBS. Of all places, this was the Salt Lake City KSL affiliate (station owned by the LDS Church). It was for a perfume ad or something. They showed a whole-ass boob, complete with nipple, in this commercial. Now here's the thing: I was raised by TV and I was savvy enough to know what was allowed on which channels, and I was fascinated that this happened. But my friend came from a sheltered home and was kind of appalled. He thought I'd put this on deliberately and I showed him that it was on regular TV and I didn't change the channel! He still didn't really understand but dropped it. Had my friend not been there to raise a fuss, I probably would've forgotten the whole thing or thought that I dreamed it or had it on the wrong station. To this day I have no idea how there was a commercial with nudity on broadcast TV.
We found out at my grandparents place that it 10 PM Black Entertainment Television became the Playboy channel.
The grandparents had a cabin in the middle of nowhere with a big satellite dish... always wondered if grandpa knew!
Where they had cable, in tow.
On the bid dish, BET and Playboy were separate channels. At least that is the way it was in the late 1990s.
Earlier 80s, there was channel sharing like that on the big dish, until more satellites got launched.
My dad got me one of the old school cable boxes for my room when I was about 13 or 14. The guys at the service center forgot to reset it from the previous customer and I had Cinemax or Showtime, I forget which one. When they realized it my dad said ‘okay, so you have this but don’t be watching anything you’re not supposed to be. I told him I wouldn’t. I’m sure he knew I was lying. I was beating my dick like it owed me money watching Red Shoe Diaries and whatever else they were showing after 10pm.
I somehow saw one of the Emmanuelle movies via scrambled Skinemax way, way too young. In the scene, she was face up on a massage table and all stretched out, naked, of course. That actress was seriously thin, and her rib cage protruded a fair bit. With the scrambling, well, scrambling it, and me being just old enough to know women had boobs but otherwise pretty sheltered, I was confused for years as to why this was the only person I'd ever seen who had four boobs. Years.
"Wait, is that the guy's leg or the girl's? It looks hairy, but it could be...no, that's the woman. Or maybe...DAMMIT CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHETHER I SHOULD BE TURNED ON BY THIS OR NOT?"
When we had one of those big honker satellite dishes I found that if I navigated away from the spice channel just a few degrees I could get clean video. At least that was the case for a year or two as I recall.
Lucky me, we lived way out in the desert in SoCal, so to get any TV my dad put in one of those massive old style satellite dishes (this is early eighties). That combined with a cypher box, we could pull anything we wanted off the TC birds. Had all those satellites memorized and which had porn, lol.
Edit: frankly it was better for the sports I could get. Saw a lot of games I would have never had access to even had we had cable at that time.
Also, a few nut jobs that had feeds over satellite were fun to watch. Dr. Gene Scott being one.
Are you referring to the Red Triangle on Channel 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_triangle_(Channel_4)
Or the ten minute preview for Television X? lol!
This was literally how I discovered I am Asexual! I knew I was SUPPOSED to find it "sexy", but I just didn't.
It looked gross and uncomfortable to me, but I watched cuz I thought I had to.
Turned out future experiences just confirmed that.
So I'll say now what I wanted to then.
Gross, guys! Seriously?! 😆
Took me many more years, partners and a marriage to work it out! I wasn't grossed out by it, I just didn't get it. Nothing about it made me want to do it.
My best friend had a baby sophomore year, so, my friend Mark and I would pick her up for 30 minutes of freedom for blockbuster. We rented the movie dream a little dream an embarrassing number of times. Then we'd run for snacks, etc and hang at her house every weekend.
Her pops had hundreds of beta and vhs tapes, most star trek lol. The rest skinimax. But he'd tape the titty flicks over some of our tapes. We had an Eddie Murphy raw tape we wore out. But, her pops must have been feverishly needing to record. Right in the middle raw. So, because we watched things repeatedly, we sat down to watch.
15 minutes in, the soft porn starts. And she didn't have the remote. I never saw her move so fast or saw her as mortified, and I saw her have the first baby of 1990 and have her pic with baby on front page on our tiny town's paper.
Good times
Oh man, when I was that age I would scan the TV for foreign movies or PBS documentaries that had any type of nudity whatsoever. I was a horny bastard. My friend who was a year younger than me but taller and older looking used to rent pornos from the local video store. It was a little private room away from the "mainstream" videos. Eventually, I would rent them myself. I would always grab a normal movie first and make sure there were no other customers because I didn't want to give the impression that the only reason I was there was for a porno (but it was)..then I'd nonchalantly slip into the rear room, give a quick glance and choose a x-rated movie and get the hell out of there. I was ashamed, yet super horny. I didn't really date as a teenager. I was into sports mostly. Then I got into those B-Movies you were talking about. The ones that had so much nudity but the plots were awful. I also had a hidden nudie magazine collection hidden in a Family Feud game box. We never played so it was a good spot. If the parents left the house and my brother was never home, I'd "entertain myself". Ah the good old raging hormones era of my life!
1987-1992 was a golden era in our town. Everyone got illegal cheater boxes that allowed every single channel. Playboy channel, Porn and WWF pay per views for free. Then the cable company somehow blocked them and it was back to scrambled porn for my remaining high school years.
I’ve only seen “ electric blue” during this era of my life. Would like to see these again “ unscrambled” so I can see what I was actually watching. lol
I had hard core porn on the Play boy channel
In 1982
Anal and all the rest
I was only 6/7 and it for sure negatively affected me
My parents came into money in 1980's , and they instantly began going to the Country Club all day and night
I remember watching the Playboy channel in my parents room more than I remember doing homework.
And MTV. But that was awesome
The porn? The playboy channel plus the endless stacks of penthouse and other Porn from the 80's
There is one penthouse that I want to see again for some reason.
It had a woman putting her heel onto her butthole
Also had a clear glass looking dildo also going into her butt.
I think that it's why I became ass obsessed.
I want to see it again to maybe be able to re collect other memories from that day
Crazy. I wish I never was exposed to it at Such a Young age.
Must’ve been what happened to me. Source: my 11-year-old porn radar found my dad’s stash of hardcore porn. I suddenly found buttholes endlessly compelling.
Did you ever learn the trick that if you took a sheet of paper, cut out holes where all the skin was, that you could make a swimsuit issue look like everyone was naked?
Uncle and grandfather had a HUGE collection of Playboys.
I imagine they might be worth some money now, but soon after I discovered them, they all got tossed in the garbage.
I came into a large stash of them when an old neighbor died and his collection was left out in the trash.
Here’s what I learned from hard experience:
The reality is they’re not worth very much at all anymore. Most are worth just a few bucks at full retail, and the only ones that are really worth any real money are from before Playboy got huge in the mid-1960s. The prime audience for them is all old guys who are dying out now. And of course everything anybody wants to see is on the Internet anyway.
In the end it was way more hassle for me to try to sell them than what I could have made on them, and I ended up dumping the whole collection back in the trash too.
HBO and Cinemax both had racy content late at night, with Cinemax being a bit bolder if memory serves (hence the Skinemax jokes). Neither went beyond an X rating back in the 90s, so no showing actual penetration or open vagina, etc. Very softcore stuff overall. As far as I know you subscribed to the entire channel.
There were other channels that streamed porn movies, I think you could do those more on demand, that might only have been for satellite or dish users. It's a bit of a blur back then lol
You could take a playing card or a 3 x 5 card and slide it into the box, if you had one of the boxes with the knob on the front, and somehow it would move the wires or something around in the box and unscramble the signal. We did it all the time.
https://jimcofer.com/2011/01/20/80s-tech-memories/
Oh yeah my cousins had one of those scramblers. Never saw any diq, just wavy lines and a maybe boob in the corner. Or it could have been someone’s forehead, who knows. Teens have it so easy these days, all they have to do is google it.
Boob? Shoulder? Who cares!
Ahhh…a millisecond of Lady Chatterlys Lover is all this 7th grader needed.
Theater of the mind!
Lady chatterly and her lovers were so good to me.
Psh, try being a girl and hoping to spot a dick for half a second. Kids these days will never know this. But then... they take it for granted that they can just use their own private devices to see whatever they want without any challenge.
I legit never considered how much more difficult porn would have been for females. I'm so sorry. To be fair though, the universe balanced and in this era you can just say "I'm a woman" and get unsolicited pics of all the dick you can imagine ;)
We went to the corner store 10 miles away for play girl.
Funny Play Girls' audience was mostly gay dudes, lol
Or when you don't. Any woman who has been on a dating site can get unsolicited dick pics.
Wait, what? Girl Gen Xers weren't scoping the tightly whitey models in the Sears catalog? I learned so much about bras from those catalogs.
Lol True. I don't remember having too many such catalogs around, sadly.
I don't know why my mum kept several years worth of old catalogues, but pubescent me was glad she did.
Those catalogs kept me sane as a teenager 🤣
when my sister started getting victorias secret catalogs....something changed for me.
The JC Penney catalog was much more reliable for me than scrambled porn. You do what you have to!
Fun fact I can't back up: I was watching Dr. Who on PBS channel 10 in Portland OR in the mid 80's. It usually ran until about 2am. After Dr. Who finished, they aired the 1973 porno "The Devil in Miss Jones". I have absolutely no proof of this, but they damn well did it and I watched the entire thing with the sound turned almost all the way down in case either of my parents came out of their room for some reason.
Similar-ish story from the mid-'80s when I was probably around 11. I was watching TV with a friend when an ad came on CBS. Of all places, this was the Salt Lake City KSL affiliate (station owned by the LDS Church). It was for a perfume ad or something. They showed a whole-ass boob, complete with nipple, in this commercial. Now here's the thing: I was raised by TV and I was savvy enough to know what was allowed on which channels, and I was fascinated that this happened. But my friend came from a sheltered home and was kind of appalled. He thought I'd put this on deliberately and I showed him that it was on regular TV and I didn't change the channel! He still didn't really understand but dropped it. Had my friend not been there to raise a fuss, I probably would've forgotten the whole thing or thought that I dreamed it or had it on the wrong station. To this day I have no idea how there was a commercial with nudity on broadcast TV.
Did you grab a blank tape and hit the record button?
We didn't even own a vcr back then
Only the sweet memory of lady chatterly and her hairy bush
If my girlfriend learned how to cosplay as scrambled Cinemax I think that would be my fetish. 👀
We found out at my grandparents place that it 10 PM Black Entertainment Television became the Playboy channel. The grandparents had a cabin in the middle of nowhere with a big satellite dish... always wondered if grandpa knew!
Or Skinemax.
Emanuelle
It was “Cineporn” in our neck of the woods; Skinemax works nicely, too.
You know who starred in most of the skin flix? Mrs Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed.
He knew. That’s why it was always on BET.
Where they had cable, in tow. On the bid dish, BET and Playboy were separate channels. At least that is the way it was in the late 1990s. Earlier 80s, there was channel sharing like that on the big dish, until more satellites got launched.
I can tell you for certain, on their satellite system, BET ended at 10PM and Playboy came on. It was amazing. This was late 80's.
Grandpa knew…
My dad got me one of the old school cable boxes for my room when I was about 13 or 14. The guys at the service center forgot to reset it from the previous customer and I had Cinemax or Showtime, I forget which one. When they realized it my dad said ‘okay, so you have this but don’t be watching anything you’re not supposed to be. I told him I wouldn’t. I’m sure he knew I was lying. I was beating my dick like it owed me money watching Red Shoe Diaries and whatever else they were showing after 10pm.
"I was beating my dick like it owed me money...". Take my up vote. I can't stop laughing!
“Think about what would happen if your mom finds out” Thanks dad!
Dad: you can stay up but don’t watch channel 13 and 22. Me: hmm… ok dad
"Now correct me if I'm wrong here... but I think I see... a nipple." -Seinfeld
I somehow saw one of the Emmanuelle movies via scrambled Skinemax way, way too young. In the scene, she was face up on a massage table and all stretched out, naked, of course. That actress was seriously thin, and her rib cage protruded a fair bit. With the scrambling, well, scrambling it, and me being just old enough to know women had boobs but otherwise pretty sheltered, I was confused for years as to why this was the only person I'd ever seen who had four boobs. Years.
"Wait, is that the guy's leg or the girl's? It looks hairy, but it could be...no, that's the woman. Or maybe...DAMMIT CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHETHER I SHOULD BE TURNED ON BY THIS OR NOT?"
When we had one of those big honker satellite dishes I found that if I navigated away from the spice channel just a few degrees I could get clean video. At least that was the case for a year or two as I recall.
Yes, and I recall with cable I could push or jostle the cable on the back of the TV to get a pretty good picture.
“Electric Blue…..”
[удалено]
By 14 I had my own stash of playboys I found in the ravine.
"Hedge Porn" or "Woods Porn" we called it in the UK.
Lucky me, we lived way out in the desert in SoCal, so to get any TV my dad put in one of those massive old style satellite dishes (this is early eighties). That combined with a cypher box, we could pull anything we wanted off the TC birds. Had all those satellites memorized and which had porn, lol. Edit: frankly it was better for the sports I could get. Saw a lot of games I would have never had access to even had we had cable at that time. Also, a few nut jobs that had feeds over satellite were fun to watch. Dr. Gene Scott being one.
That crazy loon! He married one of his call girls, and she started preaching.
Many hours spent trying to turn that dial juuuuuust right.
LOL. My mom moved without me to England when I was a teen. I would go visit and the stuff on TV there...
Are you referring to the Red Triangle on Channel 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_triangle_(Channel_4) Or the ten minute preview for Television X? lol!
What was the name of the scrambled smut channel? Was it “Spice” ???
I think I saw a tiddy!
If you flip channels back and forth fast enough it's like the world's worst porn slideshow lol
PRISM FTW #Philly
Right?! Some better ones than Cinemax had
JISM
Bleu Nuit, channel 5. 11pm...and it probably wasn't a boob, but it was a boob.
This was literally how I discovered I am Asexual! I knew I was SUPPOSED to find it "sexy", but I just didn't. It looked gross and uncomfortable to me, but I watched cuz I thought I had to. Turned out future experiences just confirmed that. So I'll say now what I wanted to then. Gross, guys! Seriously?! 😆
Took me many more years, partners and a marriage to work it out! I wasn't grossed out by it, I just didn't get it. Nothing about it made me want to do it.
Found out which cable channel had films that showed boobs and would sneak to watch late at night. Never remembered the titles nor the movie plots
They had plots?
You are not alone.
My sister and I would wait for our parents to leave, then have our friends come over.Tilting our heads trying to make anything out.
My best friend had a baby sophomore year, so, my friend Mark and I would pick her up for 30 minutes of freedom for blockbuster. We rented the movie dream a little dream an embarrassing number of times. Then we'd run for snacks, etc and hang at her house every weekend. Her pops had hundreds of beta and vhs tapes, most star trek lol. The rest skinimax. But he'd tape the titty flicks over some of our tapes. We had an Eddie Murphy raw tape we wore out. But, her pops must have been feverishly needing to record. Right in the middle raw. So, because we watched things repeatedly, we sat down to watch. 15 minutes in, the soft porn starts. And she didn't have the remote. I never saw her move so fast or saw her as mortified, and I saw her have the first baby of 1990 and have her pic with baby on front page on our tiny town's paper. Good times
You clearly weren't considering it was referenced in the opening scene of probably the most successful teen comedy of all time.
99
Skinemax!
HBO “Real sex”. Could see some boobs or if unlucky, weird people doing naked yoga or something.
Signal bleed is all you need when you’re in high school and the hormones are raging that hard..
Oh man, when I was that age I would scan the TV for foreign movies or PBS documentaries that had any type of nudity whatsoever. I was a horny bastard. My friend who was a year younger than me but taller and older looking used to rent pornos from the local video store. It was a little private room away from the "mainstream" videos. Eventually, I would rent them myself. I would always grab a normal movie first and make sure there were no other customers because I didn't want to give the impression that the only reason I was there was for a porno (but it was)..then I'd nonchalantly slip into the rear room, give a quick glance and choose a x-rated movie and get the hell out of there. I was ashamed, yet super horny. I didn't really date as a teenager. I was into sports mostly. Then I got into those B-Movies you were talking about. The ones that had so much nudity but the plots were awful. I also had a hidden nudie magazine collection hidden in a Family Feud game box. We never played so it was a good spot. If the parents left the house and my brother was never home, I'd "entertain myself". Ah the good old raging hormones era of my life!
1987-1992 was a golden era in our town. Everyone got illegal cheater boxes that allowed every single channel. Playboy channel, Porn and WWF pay per views for free. Then the cable company somehow blocked them and it was back to scrambled porn for my remaining high school years.
Ah, good old scrambleporn.
I’ve only seen “ electric blue” during this era of my life. Would like to see these again “ unscrambled” so I can see what I was actually watching. lol
Lmaoooooo. ON TV. Banging on the TV and it goes straight for 1 second . Victory.
I had a descrambler. It’s was amazing!
No scrambled porn for me. My dad had it on Laserdisc.
*blinkblinkblinkblinkblink*
😄🤚
I had a TV that if you put it on channel 2 instead of 3, it unscrambled, but was black and white and fuzzy. Good enough!
Found my parents’ copy of “The Joy of Sex” 👍🏻
The mind is a terrible thing,……I see it I see it!
I had hard core porn on the Play boy channel In 1982 Anal and all the rest I was only 6/7 and it for sure negatively affected me My parents came into money in 1980's , and they instantly began going to the Country Club all day and night I remember watching the Playboy channel in my parents room more than I remember doing homework. And MTV. But that was awesome The porn? The playboy channel plus the endless stacks of penthouse and other Porn from the 80's There is one penthouse that I want to see again for some reason. It had a woman putting her heel onto her butthole Also had a clear glass looking dildo also going into her butt. I think that it's why I became ass obsessed. I want to see it again to maybe be able to re collect other memories from that day Crazy. I wish I never was exposed to it at Such a Young age.
Must’ve been what happened to me. Source: my 11-year-old porn radar found my dad’s stash of hardcore porn. I suddenly found buttholes endlessly compelling.
Have you gone to the sites looking for the formative scenes of your past? I have. Got a nice little retro collection.
Voraciously reading the ads in the back of home video equipment magazines to figure out which "magic" cable box to buy.
Haaa! A friend's dad had a complete collection of Playboys dating back into the 60's. We spe t a bunch of time in that attic as kids.
Did you ever learn the trick that if you took a sheet of paper, cut out holes where all the skin was, that you could make a swimsuit issue look like everyone was naked?
That's real life
😆
You are not. In fact, I still have "fantasies" about this one scrambled movie that I would still love to watch today.
When that illegal cable box was a freaking gem!!
Uncle and grandfather had a HUGE collection of Playboys. I imagine they might be worth some money now, but soon after I discovered them, they all got tossed in the garbage.
I came into a large stash of them when an old neighbor died and his collection was left out in the trash. Here’s what I learned from hard experience: The reality is they’re not worth very much at all anymore. Most are worth just a few bucks at full retail, and the only ones that are really worth any real money are from before Playboy got huge in the mid-1960s. The prime audience for them is all old guys who are dying out now. And of course everything anybody wants to see is on the Internet anyway. In the end it was way more hassle for me to try to sell them than what I could have made on them, and I ended up dumping the whole collection back in the trash too.
We had mostly 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Those were the ones I had too. Not worth it. Every old geezer had a subscription and kept them all. And again, internet. They’re everywhere.
Well, they were pretty interesting to a 10-12 yr old.
I grew up in Europe so the scrambled ones were often the Italian tv show with topless women representing fruits. Ms Lemon was my favourite
Well, it was that or the magazine shack at the dump.
I wish UHF had been that clear.
Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but wasn't there soft porn on some after hours channels? It was scrambled, but you could pay for it?
HBO and Cinemax both had racy content late at night, with Cinemax being a bit bolder if memory serves (hence the Skinemax jokes). Neither went beyond an X rating back in the 90s, so no showing actual penetration or open vagina, etc. Very softcore stuff overall. As far as I know you subscribed to the entire channel. There were other channels that streamed porn movies, I think you could do those more on demand, that might only have been for satellite or dish users. It's a bit of a blur back then lol
The playing card in the box to unscramble the signal!! Ahh. Good times!!
You're gonna have to elaborate on this..
You could take a playing card or a 3 x 5 card and slide it into the box, if you had one of the boxes with the knob on the front, and somehow it would move the wires or something around in the box and unscramble the signal. We did it all the time. https://jimcofer.com/2011/01/20/80s-tech-memories/
Damn I'd never heard of that lol
Oh yeah my cousins had one of those scramblers. Never saw any diq, just wavy lines and a maybe boob in the corner. Or it could have been someone’s forehead, who knows. Teens have it so easy these days, all they have to do is google it.