But, you know, just stick to the cliches. A mainstream media job is waiting for you.

(that was just a mom joke, don’t get all crazy.)

Also, the talent is much better in modern porn. In the 70s, someone who acted in a pornographic movie gave up their place in mainstream society. It was a shameful thing to do, so actresses were only the poorest, most desperate women. Almost all of them were drug-addicted and diseased. Now, in the modern era, there is still quite a bit of drug use, but the women generally come from better situations, and are younger and healthier. In the 70s there were so few women willing to take their clothes off for the camera that producers would take anyone they could get – typically burned-out prostitutes. Today there are so many willing women that directors can choose the best. You may say that actors who use makeup to cover their herpes are “cheating”, but even that’s an improvement – in the 70s, people didn’t even try to hide it.

The reduction in stigma also makes modern actresses easier to watch. In the 70s, you’d see women who were miserable and ashamed – who wants to watch that? You feel a lot less guilty watching modern actresses who at least appear to be enthusiastic. Obviously not every modern actress is happy – I’ve seen women who clearly hated what they were doing, despised their co-stars and crew, and disrespected the viewers (asian Lucy Lee, I’m looking at you) but they are the exception to the rule.

The acting in modern porn is better, which is to say, there’s less of it. Any apologist for 70s porn should be willing to admit how cheesy the plotlines were. There are still some movies like Pirates XXX that have a story, but most directors have correctly recognized that story is not essential, and that they had been doing it badly, so they jettisoned it. It’s like how characters on cop shows don’t have home lives – sure, we know they must have a home, but it’s not central to the show, so we don’t need to see it. Likewise the music – you don’t need music to have sex, and you don’t need music to watch sex. No music is better than bad music.

If you think all modern porn is like Bangbus, I invite you to actually look at one of the popular tube aggregator sites – They’re posting 20 to 40 (pirated) videos a day, and only one or two of them are shot with some nobody off the street in a warehouse. Your assessment of old and new porn is precisely backwards.

I also miss the old films with atmosphere and a bit of acting. I have access to some classic porn, though I hardly watch everything I come across. However I accidentally saw some Marc Dorcel movies recently and I really enjoy them. Sure – they’re not great, but compared to the crap that bangbus or whatever’s hot now is making – they’re a blessing.

I am also looking forward on some title suggestions of something worth watching.

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