I Miss Retro Lesbians
Call me a product of my parent's porno stash (and who isn't?), but I miss the 70's porn. I'm not just saying this for the film quality (vs. video), or the full-length artistic film presentations (and the humor, which I love with all my heart), or even the natural look of men and women with (gasp!) pubic hair, but for the lovely, lingerie wearing, lipstick lesbians.
Like these two, from the Rodox classic gallery (via Sex-Kitten's forum):
Now, even "lesbian" films made for men (and straight women), have harsh looks -- more predatory & slick than soft and beguiling. Today, a faux lesbian flick says "lipstick lesbian" with an all nude babe with dragon-lady fingernails -- which just freak me and my pink parts out. (Even the way they hold their hands to spread labia is completely unnatural in its cautionary approach, almost surgical. :shudder:)
I know it's not particularly pc of me, a straight chick, to complain about lesbian porn -- and I do applaud real lesbian films made for lesbians, which are showing what that audience wants -- but I can't help but miss the old school girlie lipstick lesbians. They were entertaining fantasies for those of us who wanted to dream -- and let me tell you, plenty of women enjoy porn sans men because everything they see they can imagine being done to them. There's no need to service a dude. How relaxing.
And arousing.
It shouldn't be a surprise that a woman who enjoys vintage porn & pinups would feel this way. Not only about the prettiness of the female form, but the tease, including lingerie.
In the 80's, porn made a descent. And not just in terms of video quality and close-ups which (for many of us at least) seem foreign and, I'll say it, yucky for it's lack of mystery & tease (what some would call romance), but for the look and attitudes of the women in it.
In pornos, women stalked for sex. But it wasn't really in the name of "equality", for female viewers could see what was really going on...
She prowled for male and female victims to have her way with -- even her begging for it was a command -- but we women (and sex connoisseurs) know, that she was skipping most of the thrills, the chase and foreplay which gives chills. In short, she was acting out the quickest of male fantasies.
It wasn't purely the fault of porn makers; it was part of the times.
In the 80's the look became either big and predatory &/or cold and distant -- hard muscles, huge helmet hair (or slick 'sharp' hair), suits with shoulder pads to present the female form in the male linebacker triangle -- even the makeup was about looking cold and remote. What's feminine about that?
Sure, we women had to do battle with men in the workplace (and elsewhere), but did we have to look like football players to do it? (Me thinketh this is part of the problem we're still facing today.)
Those who didn't don the professional predator costume wore floral Laura Ashley dresses to match their drapes and tried to move back into the 50's suburbs. They didn't accept, let alone make, porn.
The closest they got to heating up the bedroom was bringing in those matching Laura Ashley sheets fresh from the dryer.
Yeah, most of this is nice, neat, generalizations.
But I don't really care today.
I just miss my lovely lipstick lesbians, with their soft hair, glossy lips, silky lingerie, and tender tease which worked its way to a hardcore frenzy.
Like these two, from the Rodox classic gallery (via Sex-Kitten's forum):
Now, even "lesbian" films made for men (and straight women), have harsh looks -- more predatory & slick than soft and beguiling. Today, a faux lesbian flick says "lipstick lesbian" with an all nude babe with dragon-lady fingernails -- which just freak me and my pink parts out. (Even the way they hold their hands to spread labia is completely unnatural in its cautionary approach, almost surgical. :shudder:)
I know it's not particularly pc of me, a straight chick, to complain about lesbian porn -- and I do applaud real lesbian films made for lesbians, which are showing what that audience wants -- but I can't help but miss the old school girlie lipstick lesbians. They were entertaining fantasies for those of us who wanted to dream -- and let me tell you, plenty of women enjoy porn sans men because everything they see they can imagine being done to them. There's no need to service a dude. How relaxing.
And arousing.
It shouldn't be a surprise that a woman who enjoys vintage porn & pinups would feel this way. Not only about the prettiness of the female form, but the tease, including lingerie.
In the 80's, porn made a descent. And not just in terms of video quality and close-ups which (for many of us at least) seem foreign and, I'll say it, yucky for it's lack of mystery & tease (what some would call romance), but for the look and attitudes of the women in it.
In pornos, women stalked for sex. But it wasn't really in the name of "equality", for female viewers could see what was really going on...
She prowled for male and female victims to have her way with -- even her begging for it was a command -- but we women (and sex connoisseurs) know, that she was skipping most of the thrills, the chase and foreplay which gives chills. In short, she was acting out the quickest of male fantasies.
It wasn't purely the fault of porn makers; it was part of the times.
In the 80's the look became either big and predatory &/or cold and distant -- hard muscles, huge helmet hair (or slick 'sharp' hair), suits with shoulder pads to present the female form in the male linebacker triangle -- even the makeup was about looking cold and remote. What's feminine about that?
Sure, we women had to do battle with men in the workplace (and elsewhere), but did we have to look like football players to do it? (Me thinketh this is part of the problem we're still facing today.)
Those who didn't don the professional predator costume wore floral Laura Ashley dresses to match their drapes and tried to move back into the 50's suburbs. They didn't accept, let alone make, porn.
The closest they got to heating up the bedroom was bringing in those matching Laura Ashley sheets fresh from the dryer.
Yeah, most of this is nice, neat, generalizations.
But I don't really care today.
I just miss my lovely lipstick lesbians, with their soft hair, glossy lips, silky lingerie, and tender tease which worked its way to a hardcore frenzy.
Labels: Essays, Images, Lesbian, Sex History
posted by Silent-Porn-Star at
4:53 PM
2 Comments:
I'd expand your post to include the loss of the softcore Penthouse aesthetic in general. Or maybe the softcore aesthetic has moved into/been assimilated by the mainstream of TV shows, fashion shoots and music videos. Softcore porn barely qualifies as porn anymore.
And today porn is a cold hearted freak show which seemed to be peopled only by the deranged.
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