Retro Porn Archive

I’m not ashamed to admit that I love looking at vintage erotica, from time to time, such as that found on this site. The women were curvier, the underwear was bigger and more complicated, the hairstyles were wacky, and the bushes were mostly unshaved. There’s just something fascinating about seeing old black & white stag films from almost a century ago, and learning things about our culture that they never taught in school (unless you attended the Kinsey Institute). The pictures here date back to the invention of the camera in 1826 and the video camera in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and include footage shot all the way into the 60s or 70s.

Pornography has existed since the dawn of civilization, so you’ll find naughty cave drawings and prehistoric sex toys if you dig around enough in our historical texts. However, modern porn is a product of the inventions of the camera and the video camera, and is barely a century old. We’ve come a long way from the secretive, underground porn of the past to the massive, big budget films openly distributed around the world today. Still, many people still look down on pornography, so it’s nice to have a site like Retro Porn Archive to show that porn has always existed and will always exist despite whatever laws or taboos society places upon it. Man will not be denied his right to enjoy adult erotica in the privacy of his own home.

The members area of this site is broken down into four sections, hardcore videos, softcore videos, hardcore photos, and softcore photos. The softcore photo section is by far the largest but there’s plenty of content in the other sections as well. The most fascinating section to me is probably the hardcore video section. It’s interesting to see that the external cumshot ending was around at the dawn of porn, probably a necessity to avoid pregnancy more than for visual effect though.

The videos on this site feature curvy ladies, BBWs, and also many women that aren’t that attractive. My guess is that the taboo of being in a porn film meant that in the early days you didn’t get the kind of quality actresses we do today. I doubt that women were any less attractive back then than they are today, and in fact there are plenty of attractive women in these videos, but there are many unattractive women as well. As for the content of the movies, you’ll see masturbation, lesbian pussy licking, threesomes, blowjobs, hardcore sex, cartoons, interracial, and much more. Most of the videos are in black & white and don’t feature sound, although some have music and a few do have sound. Guys who like hairy women will get a kick out of the fact that pretty much every model on this site has a big hairy bush, and the men are all quite hairy as well.

The thousands of photos on this site are mostly black & white and feature everything from dirty Victorian French postcards to more modern magazine shoots. Most of the ladies featured in these photos are amateurs with hairy pussies, and many of the really old photos are probably of prostitutes as very few proper ladies posed for nude photos back in those days. You’ll see blowjobs, facials, fucking in a variety of positions, toys, strange insertions such as wine bottles, bondage, interracial, masturbation, and much more. Just about anything you’d find in modern porn you’ll learn was around long before our generation from looking at these photos and videos. My favorite photos are those of the naturally busty ladies of yesteryear, who prove that women did have great curves long before the invention of cosmetic surgery.

My one complaint with this site is that there’s so much content here it would be nice if it were categorized somehow. For example, it would be convenient to have all the bondage photos is a section, all the big tit photos together, all the ethnic models in one section, etc. As it is, you have to wade through hundreds of pages of photos to find what you’re looking for.