Old Porn Never Dies

...it just gets shuffled to the back of the drawer and forgotten.

As I mentioned last post, I recently gave away my waterbed. The bed frame doubled as my dresser (which means I'm currently looking for a cheap dresser), but had far more drawers than I needed for clothes. Naturally, I used the remaining drawers for porn. Some of it I'd been carrying around with me from one address to the next for the better part of 18 years.

That's right: '80s porn.

For those who have grown up with the spectre of AIDS their entire life, the concept of slick-produced, professional (as opposed to the current trend of all amateurs all the time) porn without condoms must be truly a novel one. But there they were: four or more tapes dating to the late '80s. These were after AIDS, of course, but before the porn industry got a sense of responsibility and started requiring condom use.

Oh, the names and the faces. The (mostly) natural breasts. Anyone remember Amber Lynn? What about Kristara Barrington or Angel Kelly? Linda Wong, Sheena Horne, Aja. The list goes on. Most of these haven't been heard from in over a decade (Amber Lynn still shows up on talk shows from time to time, and places like "The Man Show").

The men, some of them are still around. Apparently, as long as there has been porn, there has been Ron Jeremy. But others, like Tom Byron, seem to have moved on to other things. One face I could have done without seeing was Marc Wallice, who I do believe knowingly continued to work in the '90s after testing positive for HIV. I can't even stand to watch him in a scene, with or without condom.

But that all aside, those tapes brought back some memories, for certain. I remember when the first couple were the only video porn I owned. Watching thoses scenes again, after all this time, was like finding a long-believed-lost high school yearbook, only with breasts and money shots. Today's porn actors just don't do it for me the way the old school did. Maybe because you remember your first few so fondly, but I haven't really seen anyone in a film from the last 3-5 years who could match Amber Lynn for sheer voraciousness in appetite, or Kristara Barrington for natural good looks.

Come back, gals, we still love you.

Dausa

[Edit: I don't mean to suggest that those performers who have chosen to leave the industry and move on with their lives should return if they are no longer interested. I was trying to make the point that even though they may be in their late-30's to mid-40's, they're almost certainly still attractive. Not all porn stars have to be in the barely-legal bracket.]