Fleshbot: history

Internet Archaeology Unearths Ancient Adult Advertising

Ottimo Massimo — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:00:00 EST

The brilliant scholars of Internet Archaeology put together a collection of pornographic images from the early days of the world wide web. Let's boot up the modem, double-click Netscape Navigator, and wait an hour for the porn to load!

While the collection does contain a few legit porn pics from the early days, most of the files are graphic advertisements, both gif and jpeg. So instead of looking at some late 1990s beaver shots, we thought it'd be a hoot to reminisce about the flashy, alluring, and often disturbing pre-Y2K ads. We have to admit it, we definitely got tricked into clicking some of these.

· XXX Collection (internetarchaeology.org)

Own A Piece Of EroticBPM History!

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:30:01 EDT

Ten years ago, when EroticBPM was still known as RaverPorn, and Fleshbot was but a twinkle in an Englishman's eye, a young Killshot decided to buy a 10 gig hard drive to store all his photos of hot naked ravergirls.

Now, after ten years of continuous service, the drive is being retired—and you, yes you, could be its new owner. The drive is now up for auction on eBay, just waiting to be bought...and if an EroticBPM member happens to be the one who wins the auction, they'll get the bonus prize of some special, unpublished content pre-loaded on the drive for them to enjoy.

So, uh, what are you waiting for?

· Western Digital 10 GB Hard Drive WD Caviar 310200 IDE (ebay.com)
· Own a piece of ebpm history. (eroticbpm.com)

Barely Legal 2: Where Are They Now?

Lux Alptraum — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EDT

As "Barely Legal" celebrates its tenth anniversary—and approaches its 100th installment—we'd like to take a look back at the girls who made the series what it is today—and find out where they are now.

Anna

Stayed In Porn? Yes, though it's unclear for how long. IAFD reports just a mere two titles in Anna's filmography, while Adult Film Database places her credits in the dozens.

Still In Porn? No.

See More: IAFD, Adult Film Database

Blair Segal

Stayed In Porn? Yes. After "Barely Legal 2," young Blair (also known as Blair Adams and Blair La Femme) went on to shoot over a hundred titles, for a wide range or studios.

Still In Porn? Nope: Blair left the business a few years ago.

See More: KellyFind, IAFD

Cheyenne Silver

Stayed In Porn? Yes. Cheyenne's appeared in over 200 films, with career highlights including stints as a Vivid Girl and a Penthouse Pet.

Still In Porn? No. Cheyenne retired in 2004, and made the switch to mainstream film in 2005. She now acts under the name Cara Fawn.

See More: KellyFind, MySpace, GameLink, IAFD

Gia

Stayed In Porn? Yes. Gia appears in dozens of titles, including the first edition of "Young, Dumb, and Full of Cum."

Still In Porn? No. She retired a few years ago.

See More: IAFD

Jane Lixx

Stayed In Porn? Yes: Jane (also known as Katie, Jane Lixxx, Jayne Lixx, and Michelle) has appeared in quite a few porn productions—including not one, but two, appearances on "Mr. Marcus' Casting Couch."

Still In Porn? No. Despite her surplus of pseudonyms, Jane was only in the biz for a scant two years.

See More: IAFD

Jodi Roxx

Stayed In Porn? Yes—she even appeared in "Barely Legal 3" under the name Jodi Ryder.

Still In Porn? No. Jody left the industry a few years ago.

See More: KellyFind, IAFD

Kristi

Stayed In Porn? Yes. Kristi appears in a lucky 13 productions.

Still In Porn? No. Apparently, the thirteenth time is the charm.

See More: IAFD

Lindsey

Stayed In Porn? No. The cover girl for this edition of "Barely Legal" left the industry after just this film.

Still In Porn? No.

See More: IAFD

Teri Starr

Stayed In Porn? Yes. Terri had already been in porn for a few years before appearing in "Barely Legal," and has been in over 200 films total.

Still In Porn? No. At the beginning of the decade, Terri left the adult industry to pursue other interests.

See More: KellyFind, IAFD, Porn Star Mall

· Buy "Barely Legal 2" (gamelink.com)

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Previously: Barely Legal: Where Are They Now?

Barely Legal: Where Are They Now?

Lux Alptraum — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:15:00 EDT

For the past ten years, the "Barely Legal" DVD series has introduced us to some of the freshest faces in porn. But after they make their barely legal debut, where do these girls go?

We've dug through the archives and found the cast list for the very first installment of "Barely Legal," and sent our crack team of researchers to discover where they ended up. So, "Barely Legal 1"... where are they now?

Allysin Chaynes

Stayed In Porn? Yes. Allysin went on to appear in over three hundred titles, ranging from "Slutty Schoolgirls" to "Poon Raider."

Still In Porn? Sadly, no. Allysin's last title appears to have been in 2007, and her website seems to have passed away.

See More: KellyFind, IAFD

Anastasia Blue

Stayed In Porn? Yes. Anastasia has over 100 titles under her belt.

Still In Porn? Again, no. Anastasia retired in 2005.

See More: KellyFind, IAFD

Bobbie Adore

Stayed In Porn? Yes. Though the barely legal Bobbie Adore seemed to have a hard time settling on a name (she's been Annie Bunze, Paisley Adams, Paizley Adams, Bobbie, Bobbie Adore, Annie Bunz, and Cassidey), she nevertheless embraced the adult industry, going on to make many, many films.

Still In Porn? Yes—and a Ninn Worx contract star, to boot.

See More: MySpace, KellyFind, IAFD, Fleshbot Archive

Bunny Luv

Stayed In Porn? Yes. Bunny worked as a performer until 2005, and then switched into full time director mode.

Still In Porn? Yes, though strictly behind the camera. You may have heard of her—she works under the name Celeste, for a little studio known as Digital Playground.

See More: KellyFind, IAFD, Fleshbot Archive

Cherry Chase

Stayed In Porn? Only barely: 1999 was the year of Cherry's hardcore adventures. After shooting a mere nine titles she left the industry.

Still In Porn? Alas, no.

See More: KellyFind, IAFD

Dayton Rain

Stayed In Porn? And how! Dayton has appeared in over five hundred titles, under names including Dayton Rains/Raines, Reyna Via, and Ilana Lesa.

Still In Porn? The last title we found from her dates to 2008, so we're assuming she's still in the biz.

See More: KellyFind, IAFD

Gail Westyles

Stayed In Porn? Only for the briefest of moments: IAFD credits Gail with a mere 2 films, with "Naughty Little Nymphos 2" providing the cap on her all too brief porn career.

See More: IAFD

· Barely Legal 1 (iafd.com)

Vivid Video Through The Ages

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:30:01 EST

Hard is it may seem to believe, our little Vivid Video is all grown up and turning twenty-five this year—and in celebration, LA's World of Wonder Gallery will be showcasing Vivid's erotic photography.

And that's not all: LA Weekly has an interview with Vivid co-founder Steven Hirsch, as well as a gallery of box covers throughout the years. The more things change, the more they stay the same, right?

· Vivid Entertainment Celebrates 25th Anniversary: Co-Founder Steven Hirsch Talks All-American Porn (blogs.laweekly.com)

The Incredible Shrinking Playmate

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:30:01 EST

The elite team of researchers over at Wired have crunched the numbers and determined something astounding: over the past fifty-six years of Playboy history, Playmates have been shrinking—even as their boobs remain busty as ever.

While the average American BMI has increased over the years, the average Playmate BMI has actually decreased—except in the bust area, which has remained in the voluptuous C/D cup range. Has Playboy been hard at work in their labs, scientifically crafting the perfect Playmate? Or are they just magically good at finding tiny girls with huge boobs?

And does this mean that Gianna Michaels will never get to be in Playboy?

· Today's Playmates are More Like Anime Figures Than Real Humans (wired.com)
· Images via Playboy Playmate of the Month (freeweb.hu)

April Flores Makes History

Lux Alptraum — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:30:10 EST

April Flores: porn vampire, Crush Object extraordinaire, and model for the first ever plus-sized cyberskin pussy. Is there anything she can't do? (fattyd.com, via Baby Sinead)

Which President once said “Are you prepared...

Lux Alptraum — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:30:01 EDT

Which President once said “Are you prepared for the storm of lovemaking with which you will be assailed?” What did LBJ nickname his dick? Which president was photographed in a bathtub receiving oral sex from a partner who was not his wife? Playboy has the answers in their presidential sex quiz... which, as far as we're concerned, contains the most important info you'll ever need to know about the leaders of our country. (playboy.com, via nerve.com)

Playboy Playmate Archive Makes You Feel Young Again (Or Very Old)

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:00:27 EDT

Yes, plenty of websites with large collections of Playboy centerfolds have come and gone—but they're mostly gone, which is why we don't mind pointing you to a new one when we stumble across it. Every centerfold from Marilyn on down to 2004 (why it stops there is a mystery for the ages) and all one page so if you scroll very quickly, it's like your life flashing before your eyes. Or the life that began when you found that box your dad kept in the garage, anyway.

· Playboy Playmates of the Month (freeweb.hu)

Online Porn: Then Vs. Now

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:35:10 EDT

Shocking as it may seem, that spry online upstart Google is already ten years old. In addition to making us all feel old with that announcement, they've decided to celebrate their tenth birthday in the geekiest way possible: by giving us all a trip back in time with Google 2001, a modded version of the search index that only offers up pages that existed in the Google index back in January 2001.

In celebration of Google's milestone, we're taking a look at what porn was like way back in the day—after all, we can barely remember that long ago ourselves. After the jump, find out what the top five search results for "porn" were back then, and what they look like now. (And as an added bonus, we've enlisted the help of The Wayback Machine to show you how those sites looked like all those years ago. Can it be that it was all so simple then?)

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Top Five Search Results For "Porn" In January 2001
PornCity.Net — The First Free Adult Host (web.archive.org)
PornDirectory.Com - The Complete Free Porn Directory (web.archive.org)
mega porn links. complete listing of adult porn sites (web.archive.org)
Persian Kitty 's Adult Links - www.persiankitty.com (web.archive.org)
Free Porn List - porn XXX sex Link list and Porno Directory (web.archive.org)

Top Five Search Results For "Porn" In October 2008
Full Free Porn Videos & DVDs - Sex, Porno, Porn Tube, Free XXX Porn (pornhub.com)
Porn & Sex, Porn, Free Porn Videos & Movies, Teen Pussy Porn & Big ... (yobt.com)
Free Porn, Sex, Tube Videos, XXX Pics, Porno Movies - XNXX.COM (xnxx.com)
Free Porn Movies, Porn Tube Videos & XXX Porno Stars Having Sex (keezmovies.com)
BabesDosage.com - Your daily dosage of porn, 100% free porn (babesdosage.com)

(The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Though frankly, if we can't be there ourselves we think PornHub is a vast improvement over PornCity for top hit.)

· Google 2001 (google.com)

The University of Kansas students newspaper...

Dashiell Bennett — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:50:59 EDT

The University of Kansas students newspaper has published its annual "sex issue," complete with nude photos taken at the campus World War II memorial. Don't worry, their history class is next semester. (myfoxkc.com)

Live Nude Geeks! How Geek Porn Went Mainstream

Lux Alptraum — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:15:07 EDT

Our nerdy sibling site Kotaku has looked up from their XBox DSs or their Nintendo 360s or whatever it is that occupies most of their time and discovered that there's porn in them thar internets—and not just any porn, but geek-focused porn even! (Specifically, a babelog site called Gamer Fetish.) While they've gone all thinky about the topic, discussing the ways in which geek culture and porn culture overlap and crediting geek-themed porn with the future destigmatization of sexy pictures, we (with our extensive experience on the topic), would like to offer a slightly less highfalutin opinion on the "new" phenomenon of geek porn.

Geek porn came about in much in the same way that the pierced and tattooed girls of altporn did—in fact, back in the olden days (or at least the late '90s/early '00s), geek porn and good old fashioned altporn were pretty much both subsets of the same general amateur genre. Over time, though, both got co-opted by The Man: altporn became the province of such companies as VividAlt, and sexy geeks got such polished productions as ~~"Whores of Warcraft"~~ ~~"Whorecraft"~~ "Whorelore". If anything, the current incarnation of geek porn isn't so much a sign that geeks are making sex safe for work, or at least for dinner table conversation: it's more that Big Porn has recognized geekery as a mainstream (or mainstream enough) enough culture to eroticize, monetize, and cash in on.

But you don't really want a lecture on all that—you want pictures of naked geeky girls! Good thing we can provide that too.

· NSFW: Gamer Porn: Would You Pay for This? (kotaku.com)
· Thumbnail star: Ann Angel via Gamer Fetish (gamerfetish.com)

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Adult Industry (But Didn't Want To Have To Pay To Find Out)

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:45:14 EDT

An online venture called Carnal University has announced a new interactive web-based training module which promises to teach its students everything they need to know about the world of porn. (Take that, University of Phoenix!) For just a mere twenty bucks, you can sign up to learn the history of the adult industry, with special sections on porn pioneers as well as milestones in the skin business, some of its notable technological achievements, and memorable pop culture moments. Which sounds like a worthy course of study, to be sure—but why should you have to pay for something which is, after all, our collective borthright as proud porn-loving citizens? After the jump, let our own trained educational staff teach you everything you ever wanted to know about porn, except for maybe why melon-scented body spray is so popular on porn sets. And yes, there will be plenty of videos by way of illustration. (But no pop quizzes, we promise.)

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Industry Pioneers: Names To Know
John Holmes

Vintage Hardcore Sex (megarotic.com)

Ron Jeremy

Ron Jeremy and Amber Lynn (megarotic.com)

Jenna Jameson

Jenna Jameson Fuck (megarotic.com)

Tera Patrick

Tera Patrick fucked and facialized (megarotic.com)

Buck Angel

Buck Angel V For Vagina (xtube.com)

Joanna Angel

Hard Threesome (megarotic.com)

Milestones
Teagan Presley Becomes A Former Hardcore Pornstar
Saying Goodbye To All That: When Pornstars Quit The Business
Erica Campbell: From Nude Model To Model Christian
Welcome Back, Sara Stone
Bye Bye, Belladonna and Welcome Back, Belladonna

Technology
Teledildonics
iPhone Porn
Marital Aid Test Kitchen Archive

Pop Culture Moments
Justine Joli: From Girl On Girl To Girl On Game
Savanna Samson, Porn Pundit
Happy "Birthday," Sasha Grey!
Lisa Daniels: Heavy Metal, Major Boobage
Sasha Grey Is Our "Superchrist" (And The Smashing Pumpkins' Too!)
Joanna Angel Does LA Ink
Porn Valley Dispatch: Lexington Steele Smokes "Weeds"

· "Carnal University Launches First Online Course" (avn.com)
· Carnal University (carnaluniversity.com)
· Thumbmail via ultimateuniforms.com via Ask Jolene

Revenge Of The Sexy Magazine Covers

Dashiell Bennett — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:40:03 EDT

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"?

· Men's Magazine Covers (xpozio.com)

You crazy kids may think that you invented...

Jonnobot — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:45:17 EDT

You crazy kids may think that you invented the whole sexy zombie concept, but the truth is that the undead have been pawing at naked women for centuries now. OK, so we might prefer to fap to a reanimated Joanna Angel than over some dusty old etching but hey ... to each his own. Art historians deserve to get their kicks wherever they can, you know. (artfagcity.com)

"Eveready Harton" And The Birth Of Cartoon Smut

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:52:31 EDT

People are always asking if we know where to find the world's first porn movie or the world's first nude model or the name of the caveman who invented jerking off. Obviously, we are much too young and spry to be able to recall such ancient history, but there are folks out there who know where to find such hidden gems. These intrepid internet explorers have tracked down what is believed to be the first pornographic cartoon, "Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure." Made in the 1920s by (allegedly) the same animators who created family favorites for Max Fleischer and Walt Disney, it's the heartwarming tale of a man and his giant penis just looking for a little satisfaction in a harsh and cruel world. Who says cartoons are just childish fun?

· Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure, One of the First Pornographic Cartoons Ever Made (panopticist.com)

Even though this "blog" post is about the...

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:35:42 EDT

Even though this "blog" post is about the length of a novella, it does have some interesting stories from the glorious history of porn in San Diego. Is this why everyone is always reminding them to stay classy? (sandiegoreader.com, via adultfyi.com)

If you're a fan of Hustler, you'll enjoy...

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:44:17 EDT

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)

Sex And Videogames: An (Even Briefer!) History

Jonnobot — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:50:36 EDT

Anyone who's spent any amount of time reading Fleshbot over the years knows that the relationship between sex and videogames has always occupied a special place in our, uh, hearts (and we totally have the callouses on our thumbs to prove it!) If you want to school yourself on the illustrious (and not-so-illustrious) history of pixelated T&A and don't feel like browsing our entire archives, however, you could do a lot worse than watch this amusing and informative semi-animated documentary which packs a surprising amount of material into its nine minutes, and makes a strong case for exploring and celebrating sexuality in the development of gaming as an art form. (OK, so there's not much by way of actual pixelated T&A; afraid you'll have to dip into our archives for that after all.)

· Video Games and Sex (YouTube, via rockpapershotgun.com)

MILFs Through The Ages

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:03:46 EDT

Think yummy mummies are a just recent development? Think again. Babeland has a list of sexy moms from days of yore. Let's just say that today's moms have nothing on the MILFs of ancient Egypt. (blog.babeland.com; thumbnail from MILF Lessons via Ask Jolene)