Retro Raunch is a weekly back at the vintage smut from which we all came… and come… and come again. Updates on classic XXX stars, skintastic celebrations of barrier-busting bodies of work, unearthed eyefuls of pioneering porn, and more. Send your suggestions to natural-knocker-proponent and '70s-muff lover McBeardo.
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Inside Seka Comes All the Way Out
Dorothiea Patton, the boobacious platinum blonde fornication artist perpetually known as X-rated super-goddess Seka, spreads wide and reveals all on her signature website, Seka.com, and even more skintillating, her no-holes-barred autobiography, Inside Seka. Dive into Dorotheia via Twitter and don't come up until you've made every one of her book's pages stick together.
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Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story Up Front at Cleveland Film Fest
Michael Lee Nirenberg's long lusted-for documentary Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story is set to premiere Friday, March 28th at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Yes, the funny, ferocious, profoundly probing chronicle of America's Magazine will debut in Hustler's very own hometown. Be on the lookout for stellar Q&A footage with ex-Hustler Entertainment Editor, Mike "McBeardo" McPadden.
In the meantime, warm up with this countdown of Hustler's Top 10 Most Controversial Covers.
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Rialto Report Rules With Rick Savage
The Rialto Report, Ashley West's skindespensible podcast that presses the flesh with triple-X legends, has dropped another incandescent earful.Tune in and turn for a sextensive chat with Rick Savage, billed as "the last New York porn star." The Rialto Report rocks. Hard. Every time.
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Doing The Pornographer's Daughter
Luminous blonde Liberty Bradford Mitchell is the actual flesh-and-blood offspring of Artie Mitchell, the deceased-by-his-sibling's-rifle half of pioneering porn filmmakers, The Mitchell Brothers. Now in her (robustly youthful) 40s, Liberty recently mounted a one-woman show, The Pornographer's Daughter, that ran to packed houses in the Mitchell's home turf of San Francisco.
Accompanied on-stage by house band The Fluffers, Liberty takes audiences on a multimedia tour of her decidedly countercultural childhood and reveals from a perspective that only she can have what it was like to experience the revolutionary innovations of the Mitchell Brothers creating their all-time XXX classic Behind the Green Door and the establishing the still-thriving O'Farrell Street Theater.
Artie Mitchell's story ended tragically when he was shot to death in 1991, but Liberty's has continued on into the triumph of this show. Here's pulling for The Pornographer's Daughter to take its act on the road—now!
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Cinema Sewer: Vintage Nudie Biker Magazine Scans
Cinema Sewer is the brilliant, life-changing sleaze 'zine of Canadian madman Robin Bougie. Recently, we highlighted Bougie's must-have-immediately hardcover compendium of vintage X-rated movie posters, Graphic Thrills.
Ever the master of multiple media, the crazed Canuck utilizes his Bougieman blog to post uncovered wonders such as a three-part treasure trove of naked motorcycle mamas in vintage '70s and '80s biker magazines. Vroom-vroom!
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Lisa DeLeeuw, flame-flued monster-boobed bombshell. Just because.
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Paul Johnson's Fantasy Comes Real
Paul's Fantasy is the online outlet of groundbreaking photographer Paul Johnson, who documented a galaxy of legendary XXX greats throughout the Golden Age of theatrical hardcore cinema. Check out his lustful, loving homage to the late Juliet Anderson—the porn star renowned worldwide as Aunt Peg and Johnson's erotic muse, on and off camera (and in and out of clothes).
Image: Paul's Fantasy
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Jill Monro, first post-op transsexual porn star
Yes, more Rialto Report. Hop in and get off on this in-depth celebration and revelation of Jill Monro, mainstream porn's first male-to-female post-op transsexual superstar.
Although Sulka scored XXX fame for keeping her penis, Jill exploded as a straight up smut goddess who starred in a number of early '80s big-screen classics and became the face (and other, more intimate organs) of Cheri magazine. Tragically, Jill died from a drug overdose in 1982.
The RR piece centers on a long, fascinating Q&A with David Rice who was Jill's romantic partner off-screen and who occasionally performed with her in the dirty pictures as Jack Monro.
As both a window back into X-rated New York's most gloriously glamorous era and a simple human saga, the article is a must read. Go do it. Now.
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Richard Pacheco: Schlong Scribe
Another vintage XXX star of legendary loins status, another must-get memoir. The great Richard Pacheco has penned a terrific look back on his long, loud life in adult entertainment titled Hindsight: True Love and Mischief in the Golden Age of Porn.
The star of classics on the order of Randy the Electric Lady (1980), Bad Girls (1981), and Talk Dirty to Me (1982), the supremely personable Pacheco writes about his life, his loves, and what it was like to bang on camera with the superhuman sexbomb likes of
Marilyn Chambers, Kay Parker, Seka, Annette Haven, Georgina Spelvin, and many more. It's a great book. Weirdest and maybe even coolest of all: there's a foreward written by Whoopi Goldberg.
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Again: mountain-mammaried redhead übervixen Lisa DeLeeuw. And again: just because.
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