Surprisingly, vintage porn movies are seeing a pretty big comeback. People all over are getting tired of the same pornos being produced over and over again, where the plots are weak and the actresses all look the same. In the world of porn today, if you have seen one of them, you have seen all of them. This is not the case with vintage porn movies, however. Back then, the women all looked different, none of them had really fake bodies and the plot was just as important to the director as the money shot that came at the end.

Whether you are gay or straight, there are several vintage porn movies that every adult movie aficionado should put near the top of his or her to watch soon list. Although one could definitely go back further, most people consider vintage porn movies to have been created in the early 1970s or later. Although there was a significant amount of porn that was produced and peddled underground before the 1970s, much of it has been lost and the movies of note that did survive are few and far between.

The first gay vintage porn movie that really made a splash was Boys in the Sand. Directed by Wakefield Poole, the movie opened up to audiences in December of 1971 and broke all kinds of box office records. This was the film that got people to seriously take a look at the earnings potential of the adult movie market. Back then, many of the vintage porn movies were viewed in public, at adult movie theaters. Because the VCR had yet to be invented, there was not really another choice. As a result, many of the men who went to the public adult theater to watch vintage porn movies ended up having encounters of their own, right there in the theater.

If Boys in the Sand was a home run for vintage porn movies, then Deep Throat was an absolute grand slam. Because it came out right after Boys in the Sand and enjoyed even more success than its predecessor, the porn boom exploded. Anyone who is a fan of porn has seen this film at least once in their life. Although it was not a gay movie, it still helped to push forward more socially liberal attitudes about sex and pornography, something that has shaped the face of the pornos that are produced today.