Shirley Wood Shines "Vista Valley PTA"

If we ever needed a reminder of why the Golden Age of porn was truly golden, a peek at "Vista Valley PTA" is more than enough. Come on...it's porn with the word PTA in the title. More »

Autographed Nude Photo Of Jackie O Discovered

...in the archives of Andy Warhol, of all places. Other things found in the archives? A piece of cake from Caroline Kennedy's 1986 wedding, a mummifed human foot, and $17,000 in cash. More »

They Just Don't Make Them Like Roberta Pedon Anymore

After they made Roberta Pedon, they broke the mold. Then they set it on fire, stomped out the fire, swept up the ashes, and threw them into the abyss. At least, that's our explanation for why she's one of a kind. More »

The Wild, Wild Orgies Of Days Of Yore

There are many reasons why we're glad we don't live in the seventies (like, uh, the clothes). But there are quite a few why we wish we still did. Like, uh, the orgies. More »

RetroNudity: "Immoral Tales"

You know when they say "They don't make 'em like they used to"? We're pretty sure they're referring to movies like "Immoral Tales," a French flick from the 1970s that seems to have more nudity than plot. More »

The Golden Age: John Holmes Gives Us The Business

They sure don't make them like they used to... if by "them" you mean "male pornstars" and "they used to" you mean "John Holmes," that is. More »

Vintage Erotica Takes Us On A Walk Down Porn Memory Lane

Like all artforms, pornography has evolved over time—and this trailer for VintageErotica.com is a really great way to appreciate and understand that evolution. More »

"American Swing" Pages Through The Sexy, Seedy History Of Plato's Retreat

Some thirty years ago, a magical place existed on the Upper West Side of New York. A place where all your sexual fantasies could be fulfilled, in one single night. A place called Plato's Retreat. More »

Spend Your December With Centerfolds

Is your December passing ever so slowly? Are you dying to wake up on Christmas morn—or to party your way into 2009? Well, we can't make time pass any faster, but we can make the wait more enjoyable: sail through December in the arms of centerfolds. Specifically, Playboy's 31 Centerfolds of December. Every day, a new Miss December... it's almost enough to make us wish December would never end. (playboy.com)

Black Emanuelle Gets Her Man (Or Woman)

We've previously professed our admiration for Laura Gemser and her many, many turns as Black Emanuelle, but while re-organizing our uh ... "media collection," we just had to revisit her wild international exploits. The amazing thing about Black Emanuelle is that whether she's on safari, or exploring ancient ruins, or battling a global white slave conspiracy, she still finds time to get it on with just about everyone she meets. Then she brings down their criminal enterprise. More »

Vintage Sex Ed Booklet Is Hilariously Well Informed

We were all set to rail against this 1970s sex education manual, because old people are funny and confused. It's called "A Boy Today ... A Man Tomorrow"—which we think is also the title of a DVD we saw over here one day—and it's the story behind those strange things that are happening to your testicles when you're a teenager. Since it's from 1972 we just assumed that it gives a lot of hilariously outdated advice about sperm counts and masturbation and such, except that ... it doesn't! It actually dispels the myths that jerking off (it actually says "jerking off"!) makes you insane, that penis size doesn't matter, and that "experimenting" with other boys at camp won't damn you to hell. Why, that's not funny at all! That kids today can get a better sex education from a 30-year-old pamphlet (that also reminds them to trust in God) than they can from our government is actually kind of depressing. Maybe they have a chapter on that too! More »

Tell Them Johnny Wadd Is Here

That's right, an original unsullied film print of "Johnny Wadd"—the first movie in the classic John Holmes series—was recently discovered in a storage locker and will soon be released on DVD. (It was never even released on VHS.) We hope collectors don't blow their ... you know. (avn.com)

Latex Clothing Takes You Back To The Future Of Fetish

Using creative and visually stimulating marketing practices to sell your latex clothing is all the rage these days—but did you know that this practice has been around for years? Decades, even! A curious fetishist has uncovered an old catalog dating from (defunct?) Canadian fashion outlet Inn Skin, dating back to what looks like the late 1970s and shot in what looks like our parents' rec room. It's safe to say that the latex fetishist of that era may have found themselves severely disappointed in the styles of the time. A loose flowing latex bikini is probably not what they have in mind when you think of that fabric—but then again those full-length pajamas look mighty comfortable. Check out a few more pages below and you'll see the one thing that hasn't changed—flashy advertising and some hilariously dated pictures can sell anything! More »

This Week On The Fleshbot Calendar: How To Relive Your Misspent Youth

Next week, the Clinton Street Theater in Portland will be hosting a special screening of two hardcore porn classics from the '70s and '80s on the big screen ... and on real film! (Afterward, you can head across town and catch "The Dark Cock.") How would you know about this? Because it's on the Fleshbot Calendar, of course! More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: Russ Meyer's "Cherry, Harry & Raquel"

For this week's clip we take a dip back into the Russ Meyer catalog for a movie that we think artfully demonstrates the skill and vision that made him such a great director. The teaser is a little long, but it does provide a tidy synopsis of the entire story and all the characters, so you really do come to understand the themes and symbolism of the film as a whole. However, if you look beneath the surface and carefully examine the subtext, you can get an even deeper sense of the true message of this saga: It's about boobs. Lots and lots of giant boobs. The man was subtle, but trust us, it's there. More »

Revenge Of The Sexy Magazine Covers

Since we studied history at our liberal elitist college, we always enjoy looking through dusty archives for relics of bygone eras. We also learned where to find all the dirty Victorian picture books at the research library. Maybe that's where the folks at Xpozio went to find all those sexy old magazine covers they keep posting? We've linked to a couple of their galleries in the past, but the collection has exploded to include pretty much every Playboy cover in every international edition ever as well as most of the covers from the illustrious history of Penthouse, Hustler, High Society, Juggs (yes, Juggs) and other classic spank mags. So in how many different languages can you say "Pamela Anderson Naked"? More »

When you're done looking through those Lui covers, you might want to take a peek at High Society through the ages. You might just learn a thing or two about moving on up in the world — or at least getting something to help you, uh, move up. (xpozio.com)

If we had to describe French men's magazine Lui by its covers—and there are a ton to choose from in this gallery that spans three decades worth—we'd say it's a sexy European answer to Playboy and Penthouse. It's in French, though, so we can't even pretend that we want to read it for the articles. (livejournal.com, via Otomano)

If you're a fan of Hustler, you'll enjoy this collection of dozens of the magazine's covers from the last four decades. You'll enjoy it even more if you're a fan of gratuitous pubic hair. (xpozio.com)

An angry "Swingtown" viewer wants to sue CBS because he used to work at notorious New York City sex palace Plato's Retreat and he totally had an idea for a TV show about swingers, like ... 20 years ago. It's just like that time we said that it would be cool if dinosaurs still existed and then "Jurassic Park" ripped us off! (nypost.com)

"Swingtown": Primetime Television Now Overrun With Sexy Bikini-Clad Swingers

Have you watched the "hit" new show "Swingtown"? It's about how everyone in the 1970s used to do nothing but fuck each other on shag carpeting (and not about the music our grandparents used to listen to during WW2 as we were previously led to believe). Groovy! We didn't see it because we were too busy hooking up a disco ball to our lava lamp, but if the video below is to be trusted, the only costumes available to female members were bikinis. Don't worry though: since it airs on CBS, you can always call your grandmother to see what you missed since she was probably tuned in. If she wasn't listening to big band music at the time, that is. More »

How Hippies Uncovered The Human Body (Including The Odors)

Did you watch Part One of VH1's "Sex: The Revolution" documentary last night? Or are you simply relying on us to feed you bite-sized clips that will allow you to somehow absorb the meaning and context of the 20th century's sexual revolution all your own? (Hey, it's worth a shot.) If you watch tonight, you'll get more insight into the swinging single lifestyle, how birth control forever changed the landscape of wild, unprotected fucking, and how the dirty, smelly hippies are responsible for the whole thing. We just knew that somehow we'd be able to blame everything on them. More »

Studio 54: Looking Back At Sex, Drugs, And Disco

The days of disco were a wild time, full of dancing, drugs, and — of course — lots of sex. Or at least, that's what we've heard. We're a little too young to actually remember the heady days of Studio 54, but lucky for us VH1's Rock Doc "Sex: The Revolution" (finally) premieres tonight and for the next four days, we'll be sure to get our fill of all the sleazy hot history we can handle. Below, find out why people are still talking about New York's legendary nightclub thirty years later. More »

Hey kids, come gather round the hearth, because we want to tell you about those old timey days when music was not downloaded for free off BitTorrent, but was instead sold on big round black discs. And those discs were kept in giant packages that we called "record covers." And those covers ... were totally perverted and fucked up. Us old folk don't know what we were thinking back then. (blackbookmag.com)

We've blogged this sort of thing before, but you can never have enough sites that have centerfold scans of every Playboy Playmate from the '50s, '60s and '70s. Seriously, you can never have enough because they tend to get shut down pretty quickly, so grab 'em while you can. (fishki.net, via thighswideshut.org)

Beware Of "The Beast In Space!"

In 1975, European movie audiences were enthralled by "The Beast," an erotic horror film about a young woman ravished by a mysterious cloven footed manimal. Then a few years later, "Star Wars" came out and someone had the genius-level brainstorm, "What if The Beast ... was in space?" That's how you end up with this sci-fi erotic adventure, just re-released on DVD by Severin Films (the fine folks who brought you "Malabimba" and "The Sister of Ursula.") We'll have a full review of the film for you soon, but for now here's a little taste of what happens when Italian "spaghetti sci-fi" meets lurid French hardcore. With evil, mineral-hoarding robots! More »

Three years after we first posted something about it, it's nice to know that Tom Brinkmann's "Bad Mags" survey of pulp periodicals will finally be available next month. Hey, we've waited this long for a full-size reproduction of that "Weird Sex" alien abduction cover; what's another couple of weeks? (badmags.com + headpress.com, via Gawker)

No matter how many collections of vintage dirty movie posters we come across, the great thing about them is that there are always tons more out there than we ever expected. Oh, Easy Alice, where are you now? (Flickr, via sex-and-blogs.com + papelcontinuo.net)

The Opening Of "The Opening Of Misty Beethoven"

Taking a trip down porn memory lane to watch the opening credits of groundbreaking 1970s epic "The Opening Of Misty Beethoven" can help teach us why it was so groundbreaking in the first place. For starters, it actually has opening credits, which was a lot rarer than you might imagine for porn flicks in 1975. It may also be one of the first instances of the popular "straight-buttoned man strolling through the red light district" montage: this announces to the audience that they are about to enter a gritty, grimy underworld of carnal pleasures. Finally, the young man writhing in ecstasy under the names of the art director and his assistant pretty much defines the term "porn mustache." If all that doesn't make the viewer want to stick around and see what happens next, we don't know what would. More »

"The Sister Of Ursula": And You Thought Malabimba Was Bad?

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We worked in a library in a previous life, but no one ever walked out of that place with "complete satisfaction" for just $10. At those prices, Eliot Spitzer must be kicking himself. (Yes, we're afraid these jokes will continue for quite some time. Sorry.) (Copyranter)

Some people might laugh at this ad, but Marilyn Chambers would not endorse just any sensual love oil. She's even giving you a personal guarantee of satisfaction and when did Marilyn ever not leave you satisfied? (livejournal.com)