Sometimes, it’s not what you watch. It’s how you watch it.
Back in the old days (and for me, that was the late 1970s and early 1980s), if you wanted to see a porn movie, you basically had three choices: 1.) Go to a peep show emporium; 2.) Set up your 8mm projector in your basement, watch one of those old Swedish Erotica reels and hope the sprockets didn’t break; 3.) Go to an adult theater.
I don’t know about you, but I usually opted for No. 3., which entailed the following: 1.) Finding a seat as far from another person as possible (for obvious reasons); and then 2.) Sitting there and watching the entire movie (or movies, usually) from beginning to end, meaning all the sex and all the plot/acting in-between, hoping and waiting for something good to happen. And if it did, I’d have to wait another few hours if I wanted to see it again. Watching a porn movie was a very frustrating, very linear experience.
Of course, all that changed with videos and, then, DVDs, and, now, high-speed streaming videos online. You know, there are times when I pine for the days when I’d go to the adult theaters in Bay Shore, New York and Syracuse (the Westcott) and sit there for hours watching Desiree Cousteau and Seka. And then I come to my senses and think, “Idiot, those might have been the old days, but they definitely weren’t the good old days.”
Now, we watch what we want when we want it and in total privacy. We used to have to sit through a half-hour of Jamie Gillis making believe he was acting before getting what we paid our five bucks to see. Now, if I want to see Kelly Christiansen giving a blow job and not watch the setup, I can be there in seconds. Cum shot? No problem. I’m there. Instant gratification, and if I want to watch something again, I do it. No waiting. And no creepy seatmates, either. (One time at the “Triple Treat Theater” in Show World on Eighth Avenue in NYC, I noticed that the guy two seats down had his cock out and was jacking wildly; I moved just in time.)
Which brings me to the point of today’s Blog: How do you watch hardcore (or even solo) videos, either on SCORELAND or on DVD?
I’m guessing that a lot of you watch a scene straight-through (meaning from start to finish) the first time, then for all subsequent viewings, you jump right to your favorite moment or moments. But maybe some of you NEVER watch a scene from start to finsh. Maybe you’re always fast-forwarding and jumping around until you get to the key (jackable) moment. Of course, if you never watch a scene from start to finish, you might be missing out on some good stuff.
What’s your adult video viewing technique?
Tags: adult theaters, big tits, blonde, Desiree Cousteau, hardcore, Jamie Gillis, Kelly Christiansen, porn, SCORELAND, Seka, viewing habits, watching porn, XXX
Categories: Deep Inside Scoreland, DVD, The Life of an Editor
@LarryG,, remember the film cant remember the scene as havent seen it since it came out…
I should clearify i wasnt a mop guy at a porn theater
but at the college dorm.
I remember when I first started working there
I was told that I had to clean the lexi-glass glass of a telephone booth outside
in the parking lot.I notice that there was some kind
of dried liquid smeared on the plastic plexi-glass at about waist level .
I thught it was urine,but looking back it was probably someother
bodily fluid.I had to pick up condoms in the parking lot
with a stick with a nail on the front too.
hey CA,if you remember the 1981 movie
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON,
there is a scene where the guys goes into
an adult’s only cinema at Picadilly Circus.
I dont know how accurate it was but it looked pretty
accurate to me,especial the British”Bird”in the movie they were showing.She had a nice pair,at least a D cup and natural too.
I think she was a famous page three girl at the time,the actress who was in that scene.
Can I imagine being the mop guy?
I was the mop guy!
after I didnt graduate from HS in 1978.
Almost as bad as when I use to
clean out the bathrooms
at the junior college.
I have to get up at 4 am to go over there do the dorm
before anyone woke up.
The sight of nappy nut hairs in a otherwise unused sink
still gets me depressed almost 35 years later!
later that afternoon I would go over to the strip club and help prepare the lunch time buffet dinner.That was a lot nicer job.
That’s how the movie Diner with Mickey Rourke got that popcorn bit.
@larry g,, ha ha the old poporn trick did people really do that????
The odd thing about those olde peep show/adult bookstores
and porno cinema houses was imop they had a strane feeling
about them,maybe collective vibe of all the patrons
who had previously visted,stragely quiet.
almost felt like an ante-chamber to Hell or something.
Larry G.: I think guys tend to be quiet when they’re horny and expecting. My favorite thing about Show World on 42nd Street in Manhattan was the mop guy. After a guy would do a private booth with a girl, the guy would leave, then seconds later the girl would come out and say, “Need a mop!” But the girls were always careful to make sure the guy was out of sight before they asked for the mop. Talk about a walk of shame! And can you imagine being the mop guy?–Dave
I start attempting to view the whole video first, then I start getting a case of the blue balls and fast forward a bit, reach a good scene, then take care of business. I will then rewind and attempt to view the whole video again…but then girls get me so damn horny again I just explode. So I rewind, and repeat endlessly. It’s a glorious, deliciously exhausting cycle.
Oh yeah that’s true.
She is just very very nice.
I remeber a guy sat down next to my gf one time(even tho there was only about 20 people if that in entire theatre,
he had a popcorn box,which turned out to have had a hole in the bottom and his erected schmendrick sticking up,
asking her if she like some popcorn.
she said “No thanks” of course.
and can u imagine watching a movie starring John Holmes on the big screen that wasnt on video-tape but on 35mm maybe it was on 70mm
film with a big budget(for the time)?I saw one in 1980.
and it wasnt even at a sleazy porn theatre(The Chelsea).
Hey Dave,Im 51 years old and i remember too
the last days of the old porn arcades of the late 1970’s and early
1980’s before the video boom pretty much put them out of buisness.
U go into a booth and put a quarter in a a reel would play for about a minute or so,and then if u wanna coninute watching u put in another quarter to see the other reel,some were a number of reels long.Check out the movie THE HOWLING(1979)that give some people how it was like back then,also there is a funny scene in the movie KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE(1977) that gives an idea how the porn movie thetres were like.LMFAO.
by the way think we may have a new recruit to score,, i recently showed my sisters hubby some terri jane pics and he was very impressed… yesterday i loaned him the 20th anniversary issue and the jan2010 Annina/shane issue to look at…
I watch DVD’s, at first, with a lot of jumps- wanna see who all the stars involved are! After 2 or 3 times watching with jumps, I will look at most of each opening scene… and the entirety of the ending scenes. I averages me about 8-9 times before I have seen a DVD completely, which I never mind.
But I must admit, some scenes get my complete stamina and attention- Namely Lana Ivans, Kelly Christiansen, and Hitomi. PPPUUUURRRRR!
try looking it up Dave its a great scene,, they really put Nikki to work…
one of my favourite video scenes from the early 90s didnt even feature big tits… its an early but man film were 3 guys are porking Nikki Sterling in a hair salon here in the UK… ITS A GREAT SCENE THAT I STILL WATCH TODAY….
ha ha god the old 8mm projector,, what a mess that was i used to regularly visit a freind in the mid 70s who would set up the projector and we would watch porn on the wall believe it or not… not even a screen because hed broken it… true story… i would often visit a cinema in the late 70s very early 80s but here we only got soft porn and i always remember the cinema being very empty (maybe 20-30 guys all spread about and often a few jacking off) serious… when video came along it was the greatest thing ever and i gradualy built up a decent porn collection but man were they expensive up to £40 for a single video which was a fucking weeks wages back then ha ha… Desirae Cousteau yes deep inside desirae was a favourite of mine and if my memory serves she did a great scene with john holmes on a boat??? now its dvd and easy as pie i love to watch start to end never flick but will rewind a good scene again and again before i get through the whole movie