Creating an Archive of Important Porn

[pornofan]

Like many or even most opinions about this site and its contents, my concern is likely to be pretty much a minority view, but if no one knows what it is, there is no way to be sure that I'm off in fantasy land again. So here goes.

I think one of the many, many valuable functions of gaytorrents.ru is that it preserves a lot of important stuff that otherwise would be lost. The Kinsey Institute has an archive of porn, and the original Gay and Lesbian archive in Los Angeles had a big selection as well. Masses of original, vintage muscle man photos from Bob Mizner's Athletic Model Guild (AMG) and other astonishingly good photographers of the (naked or nearly naked) male form.

These are not just fap matter, but played an important role in allowing a community of like-minded horndogs to coalesce into what became societies and movements and now worldwide anti-bigotry, anti-bullying, and pro-sex progress.

Reclaiming our history is not just a matter of knowing about the trials of Oscar or the cross-dressing mayor of Nieuw Amsterdam, what sailors got up to on long voyages without women, or how cowboys and prisoners get along in "the childless lands" without women.

It is also knowing that from ancient Roman and Greek times there was a general celebration of the phallus (search online for images of today's Bhutan's lack of shame in exaltating the male creative principle as expressed and enjoyed via the divine vehicle for the spreading of seed).

Lots of antique imagery of the dick in action doing what Evolution requires to perpetuate the species has continued through the invention of movable type (used in its earliest days to produce copies of one explicitly filthy warmongering volume of sex and violence that you may have heard of) and image reproduction that included not just "French postcards," but naked people "doing it" on film.

Edweard Muybridge essentially invented the "flip book" and motion picture with his scientifically designed motion studies, often of naked dudes in singles and pairs, but never seems to have gotten around to what some of us would consider "the good stuff." Ah, well….

(Suddenly, it seems like flip books would have been a wildly popular accompaniment to Tijuana Bibles. Maybe still would be worth creating, the printed paper version of .gifs. Now there is a topic. Those little badly drawn eight-pages were crude in every way, overwhelmingly filthy in conception and execution, and oddly not one bit of an actual turn-on except maybe for teenagers, who would spring a hardon in a breeze-- even if they were covered up in bed and only knew about the stimulation by looking out a window, lol.)

Explicit depiction of penetrative sex, shown in close up and uncensored detail, may pretty much be what promoted videotapes, DVDs, and the Internet. Now, it is making handheld phones and photo devices an integral part of societal connectivity. All hail porn, driving force for technological innovation and progress!

Which does, at last, bring me to my point-- that preserving an archive of porn is important for history, sociology, psychology, and of course funfunfun. How else are we to know what other people are doing when they frolic unless it is documented in cams of solosex, masses of data as nudity goes mainstream on television and on the silver screen, and the ego trips of selfies made and shared by the dude next door, your kid recording himself in a bathroom mirror down the hall, and hormone-addled celebrity musicians, actors, jocks... basically anyone who is proud of getting it up and wants to save his pleasure for himself and others.

Again, totally apart from the stimulation (the more widespread the better to end repression and promote the quality of orgasms that Wilhelm Reich said were a weapon against Fascism and violence), having so much... um... Raw material in one place where it can be viewed, enjoyed, and studied by the popular "compare and contrast" method schoolteachers foster in other areas, the more data available the more useful it will become over time.

And yet...

Personally, it's shocking to me that not every video of Jeff Stryker is available somewhere on line. And he is hardly the only founding porn star to be sliding into oblivion. Actual US Marine Sergeant Swann, who was there before horny enlisted men beat a path from Pendleton to cinema verite cameras. Harry Reems, who made blowjobs mainstream, is missing more than present, even on strait sites.

This hairy-chested, big-dicked hunk pioneered the way to powerful fucking on the silver screen, but is missing much of his record. Stars like Casey Donovan, Peter Berlin, Jack Wrangler had an enormous impact at one time, some of had documentaries about them, but want to review their body of work? Good luck with that.

Think of the wealth of information that would be lost without torrent sites like this one. And think how important a role the free leech function provides in keeping up ratios, spreading news of options otherwise likely to be overlooked, keeping the archive intact as a reference as well as, what has gone without saying because it does go without saying, the Entertainment value of these artworks, documentations, glimpses into our past and into the lives and behaviors of others.

Look at all the early Brad Posey jackoff videos in the old "Hot Sessions" and "Young, Hard, and Solo" releases -- individual scenes of buff young SoCal surfer/skater teens enthusiastically wanking. Thick unshaved bush. Creative positions and variations they have learned in their few short years of spewing sperm. If Posey did not invent the genre, he certainly perfected it. Similarly, the early work of such studios as Catalina and Bijou is hardly completely available anywhere. Where would the industry be without Joe Gage?

Is all of the recorded work by and about these people somewhere in some torrent form? Then that is a shame and free leech facilitation and promotion is one way to keep alive at least what is already here. And maybe that will even bring more additions to the record that will make this site even more valuable-- and, not so incidentally, draw in fresh, new material as well as older items that might otherwise be lost.

A while ago someone put up Honesty, an incredibly rare SF film from the days when condoms were only beginning to become a part of the action. The people behind it, however unofficially, were also some of the moving and shaking genius activists of the poster group Akimbo. The movie turns me on, so I figure there must be others who find it hot. But how many find it at all? Not anywhere else, and not until it appeared here after all those years in hiding.

The most many of us feel able to do is call attention to the usefulness of completion, of keeping hope alive, promoting access to what is still really obscure material not always or generally acceptable even for discussion. By seeding even in the absence of apparent demand, by promoting free leech to spread interest and access, you are not only promoting individual sex events, personal wanking ("practicing at home alone," Woody Allen called it, in explaining -- in character -- how he was good at pleasing his girlfriend), and so on, you are contributing to Knowledge and Scholarship.

And so I call attention to a few of the performers and producers of porn that are not entirely covered even in strait sites. Me, I have no special interest in whether anyone amasses a complete set of Ginger Lynn loops or the movies of Jenna Jameson, Marilyn Chambers, and their on-screen successors, valuable as that may be. But The people and series named above are of interest and are not complete.

If not here, where? Is there some other site that has a wider or more varied collection of such material online? Or where the members are better informed and more helpful? Doesn't it seem likely that a place that can get so many prompt and good answers about identifying performers and titles implies an ocean of potential torrents to fill in these gaps.

Of course, all this is based on my limited imagination and knowledge. Perhaps there are Tom Byron fans from his boyish days looking barely legal, even though he was only slipping it to females. Or Kurt Lockwood, tattooed but shaved, as a popular professional ass bandit known for breaking in butt virgins. The longer anyone waits to fulfill these interests and fill in the gaps, the harder it will be to dig up the missing material.

Forget my fanboy drooling over this or that person or type of torrent. Think about what you have that you like that you could take charge of making more complete.
Right now there is probably every video ever made by Rafael Alencar, Johnny Rapid,
Colby Jansen, and other performers still working. But that won't go on forever so if they have fans, or people pay particular attention to someone at Shawn Codie or some other favorite site, maybe they can track and promote accessibility now and in the future.

Everyone can join in the archive game if they want to, if only by seeding. Guess it just depends on whether anyone else things there is a value to completeness.

[xavrin]

Lee Ryder, Aiden Shaw, all the big Chads…

[cannonmc]

Interesting proposition but sadly I fear it would take too much organising.

Meanwhile I do what I can to fill in gaps on another site