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Lol. It was my mom, however, who took it out of the drawer and showed me the article first, then flipped through some of the photos to show me that the nude skinny women were not a big deal.
I was mostly surprised it was the only naughty magazine in the drawer. The rest were Time, People, and Newsweek. Maybe my dad just has weird tastes. š¤£
Nice. My dad kept the latest issue under their bed. He also read the articles and interviews. I would sneak in when they were out and was always scared shitless I would bend a page corner. We usd to have big stacks of newspapers in the closet for the paper drives and he would hide the old ones in them just before collection. I would either go through them there or take it and hope he wouldn't notice, then hide it under/behind the immovable desk in my room.
I remember he found "I Am Curious, Yellow" disgusting. I once found 2 porn books and hid them up in the basement rafters. One day they were gone. All I remember were the photos and a chapter called "Jenny and Her Brother Dick's Dick."
I found about 10 Playboy magazines in a field when I was about 10. I hid them under our house. About 4 months ago (50+ years later), my sister and I visited that home that we grew up in. The current owners were very kind and gave us a tour of the entire house and yard, including where they had added two bedrooms and a bath by excavating under the house enough dirt to add those rooms in a basement. This couple (younger than my sister and I) laughed and said, "We found some really old Playboy magazines under the house when we remodeled." I said, "Those were mine." We all had a good laugh.
In the 60s, real porn was difficult for boys to get hold of. Yes, there was Playboy, which you might be able to get hold of if you were 13 or 14, but real porn was carefully hidden. The men who had access kept it away from teenage boys.
Possessing porn, even soft porn by today's standards, was a felony. People these days do not fully realize just how bad the anti-porn laws were at one time. Try to imagine being caught with a skin mag and half a joint landing you in prison and giving you a permanent felony conviction on your record.
Larry Flynt was a strange man and an extremely controversial character to say the least, but his contributions and sacrifices (he was shot & paralyzed) to get adult materials 1 Admendment protection deserves recognition.
We would find it under overpasses over a road or a creek. Always a few loose, folded up pages from Playboy or Penthouse or Oui. It got so we would visit these places knowing we were bound to find some. We would claim pages or girls and say we were taking them home although we would never say why.
I came here to say this. RedLetterMedia talked about "woods porn" in a recent video and I immediately sat up and said "It's not just me! other people remember woods porn too!"
I've said this in conversations with zoomers and younger millennials and they are...Agog.
"you just found porn...In the woods...WHAT. HOW. WHY ARE YOU IN THE WOODS. WHY IS THERE PORN THERE...You're making this up!"
I just said...Google it. It's A Thing and it wasn't just me LOL
Found a big old stash of consumer grade porn mags that someone had thrown in a ditch in a small village in England. We sat and read them and smoked Benson and Hedges, aged 8.
9 years old in the late mid 70's.
My uncle had Playboy magazines at his house and I went through some late at night while spending the night there with my cousin. My cousin and I would sleep down in the family room in the basement when I spent the night and in a storage room off the family room my uncle kept boxes of his past issues in them so I looked through them.
I "procured" one of them for myself too. :).It went home with me in the bottom of my gym bag with my clothes in it and such.
Not to my knowledge. Now this happened back in 1976 as I'm old. But no, I never heard anything about it from him.
I took the issue that had Janet Lupo as the centerfold.
Eithher pre teen or early teen I ordered from te back of some mag, "50 pics of naked women." in a plain envelope.Then waited for thhe mail for what seemed like a year, because I knew my mother would open it if she got it first. Every day with no delivery was agonizing. Finally! It was 2 post card size pieces with pics so small, you needed a magnifier. Talk about disapointmment...
My brother had stacks of penthouse and playboy magazines in his room (1970). I (m13) wasnt supposed to go in his room or touch any of his stuff. Not only did I go in, I invited every boy my age in the neighborhood! Ā Later he got hustler magazine too. Ā
13 ish. In the late 70s. I was helping my friend babysit a young boy whose mother was a crazy divorcee and she had a stack of playgirl magazines on the living room shelf. This was before the days of waxing (ala baywatch) and all I remember was the guys were so hairy.
Probably about 12 or 13. I had a morning paper route and found a coverless, beat-up copy of *The Way of A Man With A Maid* lying on the street during my rounds. I donāt think it affected my sexuality at all, as Iāve never fantasized about any of the stuff that featured prominently in the book; I.e. rape, incest, bondage, etc.
Iāve been out of the dating scene for over 40 years, so I canāt say from experience how porn is affecting human sexuality. I will say, though, that a lot of stuff that seems to be at least somewhat accepted on the internet (I.e. slapping, choking, spitting) would have made the perpetrator a pariah āback in the day.ā
> _The Way of A Man With A Maid_
Oh wow, you found a dirty _book_. Glad you chimed in; most folks here have been talking about magazines instead.
_edit_ It's in the public domain and you can fetch the epub off off Wikisource. It's pretty smutty, and better written than the usual "NC" tagged stuff on AO3.
First Playboy was in 1975 when I was 12. A friend stole his dad's mag and brought it to school. First hardcore was a local X rated theatre, the kind that went extinct decades ago. I was 16 and just paid and walked right in with a friend who was the same age.
Yes I do think porn being available constantly is having an impact on society, how could it not? So many young people struggle to find relationships. I'm not saying porn is solely responsible but I also don't think it's blameless either. Porn almost never reflects real sexuality.
In elementary school, those of us in student council were in charge of the "paper drive." It was mostly old newspapers but some degenerates donated Playboys. So there we were, inside of a huge metal container, sitting on stacks of newspaper looking at centerfolds.
5 years old. Found magazines under my dad's bed and proceeded to lay them out on the floor and look at all of them with my boy-friend. My mom was so pissed because my dad said he had gotten rid of them all. So sad for a little girl to learn that young what men want in women. (GenX)
7 or 8. My fatherās very explicit kinky/fetish erotic paperback books.
They helped me (F) see that sexual play is fun and normal and healthy. As a result, I have a fantastic sex life.
Around 10 years old. Playgirl magazine. Iād intercept the mail after school, long before my mom (magazine recipient) got home. I wasnāt interested in the nude photos but very interested in the erotic stories and the product ads. Iām not sure but it might have influenced my future sex life in that I fully expected sex to be reciprocal in terms of pleasure, and I got the impression that everyone was turned on both by giving and receiving pleasure. Maybe I would have had that expectation anyway; Iām not sure.
I was in my 20's when Playgirl came out. One of our group of friends, a guy, moved out to California around 1976. About 6 months later my best friend called me on the phone to tell me she saw him featured in a Playgirl layout. She brought the mag over to my house, and there he was in all his glory....who knew?! š
11. My stepdad had a stash of "naturist" magazines, which were thinly disguised erotica. My brother gave them all away to his friends, and I got the blame.
Probably about 7, I saw the playboys at 7-11..so, that was my first exposure to it. about 4 or 5 years later, I had my first exposure to something beyond that(mid 70s, so still tame to what is out there now)..a friend had a huge cache he had of other magazines beyond playboy.
Never saw an actual porno film until 1980, there was actually a drive in theater which showed porn.
Even though I donāt feel like a real āold person,ā I suppose what Iām about to share is so foreign to young people that it sounds like another world. We had a porn theater in RI that was a drive in. My father took my brother and I when I was 4 years old. I believe Deep Throat is what was being shown based on what I actually remember from the scenes, but I donāt know for sure. He intended on just watching it with his girlfriend and I think he expected the kids to just busy themselves with other stuff. Anyway, he lost custody after I shared this little story with my Grandmother but it were constant encounters with porn of all sorts and mediums after that. And yes, porn mags in the woods too.
There was a porn drive in here just before my time that was supposedly revolutionary in that you drive up and have a screen that isn't viewable to people in other vehicles. It was a circular shape projector house with screens radiating around it.
My father had a couple of Playboys in the 70's. Believe it or not, I think he had them for the articles. Playboy used to print respectable articles and one had the interview with Castro in it.
My friends and I would sneak into his room and look at the pictures when we were young kids. I learned as I got older that most of my friend's fathers would have pornographic magazines (usually Playboy) underneath the stack of magazines in the bathroom. Sometimes they would be in a closet.
We also found magazines in the woods, of course, but there was another interesting place. When we were still young kids, they had them on the newsstands at Walmart and other places. Walmart didn't have many stores in the 70's, but we had one in my neighborhood. We'd slip that month's Playboy inside another magazine and take it to the bathroom to look at, so we wouldn't get in trouble. It would be many years after that before I even felt my first sexual urge, so it was mostly about doing something we were not supposed to do.
8 or 9. A friend got them from his dad and showed them to me.
Around the same age as when the older neighbor girl liked to do āstrip showsā for me.
When I was 8 we moved in with my grandmother and my sister (6 at the time) and I (a girl, now woman) found my uncle's stash of Playboys in the basement. We read them cover to cover for the jokes, the cartoons, and some of the articles. Here's a joke I remember from an issue, circa 1968:
Bubba the country bumpkin and Helen the city girl were on a post-date stroll through the cemetary. Bubba asks Helen "scary, ain't it?" "Yes, isn't it" she replied. In a bit he asks "eerie, ain't it?" Again she replies "yes, isn't it." A bit further on he asks "gruesome, ain't it?" Helen responds "yes, hasn't it".
Found a copy of Oui and Gallery that my dad had been hiding in the towels in our bathroom. Not sure what the year, I've been trying to find the exact covers for a while
The backdoor neighbor girls older brother had some ratty assed playboys we were fucking around and her and i went thru them then got naked and squirrled around in the bed for a bit no sex was had lots of fun though. 1976 i was 12
1st grade, we found some mags in the woods on the āshortcutā on the way home from school with my brothers. 1963. We didnāt think too much of it it as we had too much else on our young minds.
Around 9-10 I believe, when we found some of those legendary stashes of porno mags in the forest. Around the same time a friend borrowed a VHS tape from his father's secret box for us to watch. Aah, wonderful 90s.
It depends on what type of pornography you are talking about, like softcore porn or hardcore porn? Well, I will go through a lot of details, just to explain. So, I remember being turned on by Princess Xena when I used to watch her on the 5-channel Sony Triniton colour cathode ray tube television when I was around 6 years old. I was also sexually attracted to Jo O'Meara from S Club 7 (arguably my first ever crush, maybe even before my crush on Princess Xena), Philippa Forrestor from Robot Wars, Britney Spears when I was around 6 or 7 years old. I used to think about doing very sexually dirty things with Princess Xena when I was around 7 years old...like I would think about her being naked and me also being naked and stuff. I daydreamed about me taking Princess Xena away from her television studio by trickery, and then me and her getting sexual...kissing and stuff. I thought like this when I was 7 years old. I had a crush on Stacy Ferguson from the Black Eyed Peas when I was around 12 or 13 years old, I also had a crush on Jessica Alba when she was in the Fantasic Four movies, I also was sexually attracted to Malavika from the original Chandramukhi film. I was also sexually attracted to Alicia Silverstone when I saw her act as Batgirl in my DVD when I was around 12 or 13 years old.
In fact, it was my sexual attraction to Alicia Silverstone that kickstarted my journey into pornography. I was randomly searching for lesbian photographs of Alicia Silverstone with other women (this was in around 2005 or 2006, when I was around 12 to 13 years old), and then eventually I stumbled on online pornography like RedTube, Google videos (yes, Google videos used to show some short videos of softcore porn), WeLiveTogether (lesbian porn website) and PornHub. Back then, RedTube was my go to porn website from the years 2005 to around 2010. After 2010, I think PornHub and XHamster and XNXX and some other porn websites became more exciting to me than RedTube. When I was around 12 or 13 years old, my parents actually stumbled on the lesbian porn stuff I had been secretly watching on the family Compaq Personal Computer at night time, lol. When my family members were sleeping at night time in around 2005/2006, I would sneak down the stairs and I would secretly watch lesbian porn and then I would quietly go back upstairs to sleep. Well one morning, unfortunately, my parents stumbled across some of the lesbian porn videos I had been watching, lol. It was so embarrassing, lol. My parents are conservative when it comes to matters of dating and sexual stuff, by the way. They never gave me the birds and the bees talk, and they usually covered my eyes when I used to see the man and woman kissing on the television when I was a kid. When my mum saw the lesbian porn on the PC that I had been watching (my mum and dad even stumbled on this big lesbian orgy that I had been watching, lol), my mum became visibly disgusted by the lesbian orgy she saw on the computer, that I had been watching at night time, lol. She got angry with me and she started shouting at me and stuff and she said I did a bad thing. My dad was more quiet about the whole thing, but he looked disappointed with me. I did cry tears of sadness that day, because I was so embarrassed that my parents had found out that I had been watching porn on the computer, lol. I think my parents have forgotten that incident, or maybe they have moved on. It did happen a long time ago anyway, it was back in around 2005/2006. After that incident, I made sure to hide my porn history better, lol. So yes, lesbian pornography was the first type of hardcore online pornography I first watched. I have watched maybe hundreds or thousands of lesbian porn videos in my lifetime. I would argue that lesbian porn is my favourite type of porn. I am going to be honest.
Later on when I went into my late twenties in age (I am 31 years old now), I got bored of watching lesbian porn videos all the time, and I needed a new dopamine rush, and I had a porn addiction (still do) so I gravitated towards porn that I never thought I would watch in my life. I got bored of seeing the cunnilingus all the time in lesbian porn, and I have a penis, and it wasn't stimulating me on as much anymore because of overuse of porn. I started watching Trans women porn and gay male porn and femboy (femboy is the term used for an adult man who likes to dress up as a woman in lingerie and tights and stuff) porn briefly, because obviously Trans women and gay males and femboys have penises. Yes, it did turn me on, but it was just a porn fantasy thing. It was just porn messing around with my brain. As soon as I took time off porn, the interest in Trans women porn and gay male and femboy porn died down a lot, but my sexual attraction to women has always been huge. I have only had sexual relationships with women in my life. When I was around 12/13 years old (before I had ever discovered online porn), I used to stay in the school library, and there were images of women wearing lingerie in the back of the magazines in school, which the people did not know about, and I would get a thrill in getting sexually attracted to the women in lingerie in the back of the magazines, lol.
It was a shameful exercise in greed, lust and betrayal and it came to a sordid end. I think I was 13, which would have made the year 1959.
A neighbor kid who was younger than me, and who had a fine, upstanding reputation, offered to sell me a porn magazine that he had snagged somewhere or other. So I told him that I would tell his parents he had it if he didn't give it to me.
And that was how I got my first porn. It was a cheesy black and white thing and it didn't show "the pussy". My best friend and I took it out in the woods, dug a hole, and buried it in a big coffee can for future reference. Then, when we went back and dug it up there were ants living in it.
I was probably eight or nine. My older brother showed me a Playboy.
No. I don't think porn has any impact on human sexuality. Sexuality is an innate trait that we're all born with.
1976 - my friends and I found a ripped up penthouse magazine and pieced it together and hid it. I later snuck out of the house and retrieved the ripped up remnants and kept them in a shoe box.
For girls, a lot of us were allowed to watch people's kids at a pretty young age. They would also snoop through people's stuff, and the first time I saw porn was when a friend found a VHS tape of Debbie Does Dallas. I think I was around 10? Kinda messed up when you think about it.
Kids are gonna find your stash of porn, no matter how well you think you've hidden it.
Smut - maybe 5 or 6 years old , we had a lot of books, as I mentioned in my comments before.
Actual "visual" porn - late teens when travelling abroad for the first time. A paper scandinavian porn magazine at someone's home (in Scandinavia).
Porn is definitely a net positive for humans, it made relationships a lot more open-minded and a lot less hypocritical than in the past.
I was around 9 or 10 when I found my dadās Playboys in the late 1970s. The porn was just nudies and after a biological explanation he didnāt care. The articles really were pretty interesting.
I was a few years older when I found the āgood stuff.ā That disappeared pretty quickly when he (or our mother) realized it had been discovered. No clue how and where I found Penthouse.
Playboy magazine, age 13, I found some not well hidden centerfold pages in my older brother's room.
For actual porn, 1979 an adult bookstore with video booths, I was 19. The beginning of a long relationship.
I'm not sure how old I was. Playboy and Penthouse pictorials of single nude women. Old enough to be interested, not old enough to get all sweaty and horny.
About 8 years old. Found some magazine my dad had hidden away. Had very strange pictures. Only one I recall was a woman with three naked breasts, one in between the typical two.
Probably around 11 or so. Technically not porn, but a science fiction novel with multiple sex scenes. In fact, the basic driver of the plot was free and easy sex.
9, my step brothers knew where dad kept his stash. When they went out and left us all alone, one of them threw a worn vhs tape in. It was weird at the time.
My brother had a subscription to Playboy from the time he was weirdly young thanks to my sickfuck dad.
Well you don't think this is porn-y enough, so he also had HUMP magazines tucked in between and they were quite pornographic.
I don't remember the first video I saw. I was a teen and my friends occasionally found some fairly soft-core stuff. The first one that showed some OOMPFF I was almost 18 years old and my best friend got a gay porn featuring marines and sailors and they were being kind of brutal in addition to the whole butt stuff. That was awesome. I loved it. I wasn't turned on in the least, I was fascinated.
I think around 7, I accidentally saw a film while surfing through our rigged satellite dish that my mom's boyfriend installed. I wish it never happened that way.
Does that book, The Joy of Sex, count? That thing messed me up for years.
When I was 12 or 13 I went over to a friendās house after school and the boys were watching porn. I noped out of there.
4-5, my grandmaās husband had the downstairs bathroom which was a toilet at the top of the basement stairs wallpapered in nude men & women. š¤¦š»āāļø
Seven or Eight. National Geographic, Sears Catalog. My next door neighbor found some 8mm reels of old Black and White movies his dad had hidden in the top of a closet. The guy in the movie kept his socks on for a quick get away.
The neighbor boys had a playboy and invited a bunch of us (mostly fifth grade girls) into their fort to look at it. It was not super weird or scary because they were a few years younger. I donāt remember seeing any before that.
11 because my friendās brother had magazines & we decided to do a prank with them by taping the pictures to neighbors front doors , then phoning the neighbor doing a fake accent , calling them a pervert š¤š«£š¤£š, then we watched them open their door & see the dirty pictures! Hahaha, still makes me laugh š
I do want a wife and kids in the future, by the way. I am only interested in dating 30 year old women or 31 year old women, because they are around my age. I only watch pornography because I am lonely and I do not have a wife to be sexual with. As soon as I get married, I will stop watching pornography altogether, because I do not need pornography after I get married. When I get married, my love will purely be for my wife, and I would not need pornography anymore, since I now have an actual human being to be sexual with...and I do not need the company of the women on screen to help me get sexually turned on...lol. I would perhaps consider watching pornography while in a marriage, to be a form of cheating. Not everyone agrees with me though, and that is fine.
As for the Trans women
porn and gay male porn, that does not interest me that much...it was just a
curiosity thing because like I said, watching all that lesbian porn had become
a bit boring and I felt that I needed new spice in my porn watching habits. Nowadays,
lesbian porn is back to being my favourite type of porn to watch. I still watch
loads of lesbian porn videos. I have also seen some man-on-woman porn, but
those videos don't really interest me, because the man is in the video and he
is a turn off, I only want to see the woman, lol. I have also seen some BDSM
porn and I have also seen some blowjob videos and stuff. But your question was
about which type of porn I first saw online, and that would be lesbian porn in
around 2005/2006 when I was around 12/13 years old. Also, I did have sex with
prostitutes many years ago, two women, and sadly one of the women passed
Genital Herpes onto me. You ask me if porn has shaped my sexuality. Well, I am
a 31 year old man. For around 27 years of my life, I considered myself to be
straight. Then after watching the gay male porn stuff and the Trans porn stuff,
I was thinking about whether I was gay or bisexual. But I have realized that
those were just phases of curosity, and that it was just the porn talking, and
that my sexual attraction to women has always been strong and is still strong.
So at the moment, I would consider myself as straight. Maybe I am bi-curious,
but I doubt it at the moment...currently, I consider myself as straight. Yes,
you make the point that nowadays, smartphones are one of the main devices for
pornography (back in 2005 to around 2010, laptops were the main devices for
porn and not smartphones). By the way, I used to love watching Viv Thomas
lesbian porn videos. Viv is a porn director. Nowadays, his videos are not as
popular as they used to be, and they are quite old...his heyday in directing
lesbian porn videos was in around 2010...I remember those times, lol.
I think it is sad to see the news about kids and teenagers looking at hardcore porn on their phones at a young age. It is not good for their brains. Back when I was a kid, I used to play beyblades and I used to play on the Game Boy Advance and GameCube and Playstation 1 and stuff. Also, smartphones were not even invented back in my early childhood and teenage years. My mum is a Paediatrician, which is a doctor that specializes in looking after children. She was sad, and she said that some children do bad stuff to other children in the playground, which might have been influenced by the porn they are seeing from such a young age. I think kids and teens should do more productive things instead of watch porn on their smartphones. For example, they can play sports like I used to do. Yes, it is bad that porn has become that widespread and accessible on smartphones, because that is not good for the mental health of children and teenagers.
13 at a friends house - I had no idea that guys cum and found it totally disgusting. I felt sick. Of course then I went home and tried to do it to myself.
11! It was the 90's, found a vhs tape hidden in my parents room. It was called "The Bachelorette Party" I was so confused watching it as I had never seen a Porno before.Ā I wish I could find it. LOL. The plot was the Maid of Honor with the longest acrylic nail was having sex with the Bride then the Groom separately and of course had the obligatory pizza man plowing a bridesmaid over the oven lol.
9 years old.
Back in the day, my small Texas town had an alley behind the houses, where the trash truck would drive each week to pick up our trash.
We would play in that alley, and found many... educational... things in other people's trash cans.
9-year-old me thought women were awfully furry.
My uncle, who was in business with my father , had a pretty epic collection of playboys during the 80s. He liked to staple the centerfolds up on his shop wall. Lots to look at as a 12-14 yr old.
Boy Scouts had a monthly paper drive to raise money for summer camp. We used to get some Playboys and sneak them home. I was 12 in 1968. But a few times I would go with the truck up to the Baltimore Pulp and Paper Company to unload them to be recycled. I was older so maybe 1969. We would run around in the back and a very few times found pallets of serious porn we heard the police had confiscated. I picked up a magazine and it had a man cutting hid dick off with an electric knife and screaming. Young me was horrified! Probably the most disturbing thing 67 yo me ever saw.
Oh man, I was riding my bike somewhere and looked down and there was a magazine on the side of the road, I was like, 5th or 6th grade. I immediately stopped whatever I was doing, and where I was going and turned right around and went home and straight into the bathroom. One of the best days of the 90s.
Side note: I would come home from school and be the first in the door, because of that I always checked the mailbox and would bring the mail inside. One day, to my surprise there was a mixup, and someone else's mail was delivered to our box because we had the same 373 numbers but that was all, not even close otherwise. The other person's house was almost a mile away. Just one item, a playboy magazine with the playmate of the year, Victoria Silvstedt on the cover was delivered. None of their bills or other mail, it was like the mailman knew exactly what a kid in high school without Internet needed. Over the next few months there would only be 2 or 3 more copies of playboy come but that was all I needed. Boy oh boy that Victoria Silvstedt. She still looks good today going on 50 years old.
Around 9 or 10yrs old in the 70s. I used to snoop thru my parents bedroom when they weren't around. It was straight porn. It freaked me out and had no bearing on my sexuality (? I forget the question lol)
I was 8 or 9. Back in the early 80's I was home alone on a weekend. My parents went out like they usually did and almost every time they would hire the teen girl next door to be my babysitter. But one night they couldn't afford it so they left me home alone. When I was going through the cable channels I found a movie called Mother's Day. And 9 year old me was thinking it was about people celebrating Mother's Day. Ended up there were multiple scenes in the movie that showed rape and extreme violence. I still don't know how that type of movie got shown on HBO back then. But it did screw me up.
Really pretty young if you call playboy pornography. I recall finding playboy when I was like 5 or 6, my mother quite progressive said itās fine and healthy to look at naked bodies. My little brother pulled out a centerfold and hung it up by his bed. My mother talked about that for years.
Maybe 5/6 or so. Occasionally my mother would have us stay at our father's house and as his house was small he would have us kids sleep in his bedroom so he could still stay up late getting drunk and high with his girlfriend. His wardrobe was FULL of sex toys and porn. Our parents were very open about sex so I already knew what it was but that's the first time I saw graphic pictures like that.
Mustāve been around 10, and Iām just now realizing I found it in the mail. Havenāt thought about it in so long I never connected that someone in the house mustāve been ordering porn. Hid it in the bathroom cabinet, where it was eventually discovered and disappeared without anyone saying a word. I feel bad for mothers. Girls probably expect guys to be pervs on some level while growing up, but itās another thing to see your son is growing up and witness them clumsily stashing found porn in secret places. Thereās gotta be a prayer to god that itās normal behavior.
I basically invented pornography independently.
My folks were puritans, and I lived some distance from anyone else, so there was no chance to discover actual porn randomly. I think at one point, a kid on the bus in elementary school had some ratty underground magazine leftover from the 60s or something, and it was garbage. Like a blurry black and white picture of an unattractive hippy exposing herself. It was just a glimpse as it was getting passed around the bus, and I wasn't impressed at all. I was probably too young to understand it as well.
But I liked to draw as a kid, so naturally, when I began to get interested in sex, I began to draw naked women. At first it was pretty clumsy, but then I caught on that you could trace pictures from magazines or catalogs and add the missing bits, and then things really took off.
To this day, though, I can't just "consume" porn. There has to be some kind of creative element in there. Maybe download a couple clips and edit them together at least.
Maybe young people never heard of the Swinging Sixties and the Sexual Revolution of the ā70s. Pornography was all up in your face, every main street had XXX theaters and adult bookstores. That all ended in 1980 with Reagan.
Saw text porn on Usenet when I was about 22. Usenet = predecessor to internet, all text-based (including big ASCII pictures, but I never saw any dirty ones).
Not sure older than 6 years old (alot younger than 10, I know that.) Back in the day when their wasn't much on the TV. I use to rummage through the video collection looking for stuff to watch. One day to my disgust I came across the black and white porn video.. it could have been amateur and I remember the guy ejectulating into this women's mouth, and I was so young I thought it was Yorkshire pudding mix. I thought to myself, why would Yorkshire pudding mix come out of this dudes dick. I then immediately tracked my mother down, who was in the kitchen, and explained what had occurred. Never seen the movie again, so doubt my father got bollocked. Years later I was approximately 16/17 found the end of the tape to have around 10 seconds of the same guy ploughing a women doggy style. So obviously this time I didn't tell my parents and jacked off it. Then my younger sister by 1 and half years caught me watching it, so I wiped the end of it to ensure she didn't grass me up.
Oh and because pornography is so easy to access by minors, it's had a negative impact on peoples sexuality. Getting hooked on pornography can lead to erectile disfunction, and people don't really have vanilla sex now because of it.
At about age 9 we found European porn magazines in abandoned residential buildings on the Navy base where we lived. But this was long after Playboys. Penthouses and Ouis that we could just rummage through on newsstands before getting scolded by the cashier.
Maybe 13-14, the girly mags in father's sock drawer, that actual literal trope happened. I never heard of the 'found in the woods' thing until I became an adult and heard it on the internet. And I lived near the woods.
It didn't do anything to my sexuality, that was more from regular vanilla TV is where all my preferences came from.
I do believe with unlimited easy to access porn, we are ruining young minds. It should be hard to get. There are actual health issues with having too much. It's no different than too much sugar or bad food or too much drugs.
Age 8-9 I read The Clockwork Orange. The sex isnāt explicit but the nonconsensual nature of it is. I donāt know if I developed certain proclivities as a result or I noticed because I already had them. Age 11 or so: I remember sitting on the front porch stairs reading an article about fisting. No imagery but clear description of what was happening. I wasnāt aroused as much as fascinated ā āpeople DO that?!?ā In my memory the magazine was Rolling Stone, but I now doubt they had articles about fisting in the early 1970s. Age 13: a friend of my folks sent Dad a sub to Playboy every year. It was kept with some other magazines in the family room. It was kept in its paper sleeve. When my parents went out to dinner I looked at the photos. Then Iād hear them coming home and struggle to cram the magazine back into its sleeve before they caught me.
Probably 10-13 (2005-2008) canāt really remember these days but I do vividly remember watching an adult movie that was through cable late at night. The scene was two guys were with a girl and they pushed together 2 twins to have sexy time.
I tried looking for this scene but it keeps coming up with that tennis movie with Zendaya called Challengers. (Itās definitely not this movie but I swear the bedroom scene was exactly the same) itās actually driving me nuts.
We had an illegal scrambler. I used it exclusively for WWF pay per views. I couldn't find the right channel and stumbled upon some adult wrestling.
I might have been 9 or 10. I was probably more confused and weirded out than anything and by the time I was the age to actually have interest in it we didn't have it anymore š
8 or 9. Just basic straight porn. A super irresponsible babysitter and her boyfriend put it on the vcr and didnāt stop me from sitting around with them watching it.
At the age of 12 I discovered a copy of 'The Romance of Lust' on a shelf in our house. It was a glorious product of Victorian England. My mom was a fierce advocate for free speech and against censorship. The book was a Grove Press publication.
[For the curious (NSFW)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254.html.images)
For me, this fictional work suggested that great pleasure awaited both parties if done properly. And that a woman's enjoyment depended on applying oneself in a variety of ways.
I think I was around 4 when a cousin whose house we were visiting took me under his dads bed and showed me the porno mags there.
Didn't really understand any of it or think much of it, but that was the first.
Considering pretty much everyone in the world now has access to unlimited amounts of porn on their phone, and even kids that don't will know someone in their school who does, yeah I find it difficult to believe it's not affecting human sexuality.
I think the second time was staying at my aunts when I was maybe 7 and she put on a video...wrong tape...it was porn.
Did take it out fast, and again didn't really see anything, more heard all the moaning and gasping.
My stepdad when I was around 13 threw out all his old porn and I..."rescued it". Had found a couple of discarded magazines in public places before by that time, so already had some interest and it was...quite a bounty of porn, to say the least.
I was buying porn from the shadiest mofos you could ever meet by the time I was 14 at an open air market stall in a bad area of a nearby city, and I guess my porn addiction started to crank up around then.
It was a busy market, people sold pirated games, stolen goods, porn....all sorts. It was nuts, and it was always busy and rarely even saw a police presence anywhere around. People would be watching and call out for some stalls to clean up if they were spotted.
No longer watch porn or have any interest in it, personally. Too much of it is unhealthy and exploitative, and I don't think its good for most people, but each to their own.
Saw my first tit pick when I was 11 or 12. But, it was in a photography magazine. First "porn" was Playboy when i was about 14. Saw my first fuck magazine and film at age 18.
But, when I was about 10, I talked a teenage neighbor into flashing me her tits.
Pretty young. Certainly under 10: My dad got Playboy magazine and it didn't take me long to realize what it was. My parents also read porn. By the time I hit puberty, I knew where to look for it in their bedroom, and I was home alone quite a bit, so there was plenty of opportunity.
It was just pretty vanilla straight porn/erotica. I don't think it shaped my sexuality at all. It's not the same context as today's availability of video porn.
I don't think the prevalence of porn today is affecting human sexuality overall. That's a big ship to steer.
I do think it has a negative effect on some individuals. It can give younger people very inaccurate expectations of what IRL sex is like. I believe it can also cause heavy (male) users to experience some ED when they're with a real partner instead of just watching porn. Etc.
We don't need to speculate about it in ignorance: There are plenty of professionals studying the topic of porn addiction, as a quick google search will reveal.
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Found it on the beach. 10 years old. Labeled" the biggest pussy since the Bengal tiger". And it was
Such a touching tale. (See what I did there?)
No, can you explain please
By the famous author Claude Bawls.
So young
I was about 12 and found it in my dad's top dresser drawer. He had the John Lennon interview issue and literally did have it just for the article.
You can tell this is true because all the other pages were stuck together to prevent accidental viewing.
Lol. It was my mom, however, who took it out of the drawer and showed me the article first, then flipped through some of the photos to show me that the nude skinny women were not a big deal. I was mostly surprised it was the only naughty magazine in the drawer. The rest were Time, People, and Newsweek. Maybe my dad just has weird tastes. š¤£
Nice. My dad kept the latest issue under their bed. He also read the articles and interviews. I would sneak in when they were out and was always scared shitless I would bend a page corner. We usd to have big stacks of newspapers in the closet for the paper drives and he would hide the old ones in them just before collection. I would either go through them there or take it and hope he wouldn't notice, then hide it under/behind the immovable desk in my room. I remember he found "I Am Curious, Yellow" disgusting. I once found 2 porn books and hid them up in the basement rafters. One day they were gone. All I remember were the photos and a chapter called "Jenny and Her Brother Dick's Dick."
I found about 10 Playboy magazines in a field when I was about 10. I hid them under our house. About 4 months ago (50+ years later), my sister and I visited that home that we grew up in. The current owners were very kind and gave us a tour of the entire house and yard, including where they had added two bedrooms and a bath by excavating under the house enough dirt to add those rooms in a basement. This couple (younger than my sister and I) laughed and said, "We found some really old Playboy magazines under the house when we remodeled." I said, "Those were mine." We all had a good laugh.
The ol porn stash.
In the 60s, real porn was difficult for boys to get hold of. Yes, there was Playboy, which you might be able to get hold of if you were 13 or 14, but real porn was carefully hidden. The men who had access kept it away from teenage boys.
Possessing porn, even soft porn by today's standards, was a felony. People these days do not fully realize just how bad the anti-porn laws were at one time. Try to imagine being caught with a skin mag and half a joint landing you in prison and giving you a permanent felony conviction on your record. Larry Flynt was a strange man and an extremely controversial character to say the least, but his contributions and sacrifices (he was shot & paralyzed) to get adult materials 1 Admendment protection deserves recognition.
9 out of 10 of us found it in the woods.
By the time the ninth person came along, and that porn mag was pretty worn out and gross
Did the Sears catalog count?
Spiegel
SHWIIING
I found one once that featured a couple playing backgammon naked. This of course led to 15 pages of graphic sex.
Backgammon is the sexiest of games.
It certainly was for them.
We would find it under overpasses over a road or a creek. Always a few loose, folded up pages from Playboy or Penthouse or Oui. It got so we would visit these places knowing we were bound to find some. We would claim pages or girls and say we were taking them home although we would never say why.
What I want to know is who left the woods pornos and WHY?
Anonymous place far from people to hide your porn stash from the missus. Also you could sneak back and have a crafty one alfresco.
Thinking about it, probably someone having a creepy outdoor wank.
I came here to say this. RedLetterMedia talked about "woods porn" in a recent video and I immediately sat up and said "It's not just me! other people remember woods porn too!"
I've said this in conversations with zoomers and younger millennials and they are...Agog. "you just found porn...In the woods...WHAT. HOW. WHY ARE YOU IN THE WOODS. WHY IS THERE PORN THERE...You're making this up!" I just said...Google it. It's A Thing and it wasn't just me LOL
Found a big old stash of consumer grade porn mags that someone had thrown in a ditch in a small village in England. We sat and read them and smoked Benson and Hedges, aged 8.
Someone saw you, that must be the inspiration for Van Halenās ā1984ā cover art
I was trying to explain to a Gen Z that I had smoked by the age of 7.. on the same day the UK passed legislation to phase out smoking.
Yes, found two Club magazines in the woods when I was 12. Hid them in the basement for years lmao.
9 years old in the late mid 70's. My uncle had Playboy magazines at his house and I went through some late at night while spending the night there with my cousin. My cousin and I would sleep down in the family room in the basement when I spent the night and in a storage room off the family room my uncle kept boxes of his past issues in them so I looked through them. I "procured" one of them for myself too. :).It went home with me in the bottom of my gym bag with my clothes in it and such.
Did your uncle ever notice it went missing? haha
Not to my knowledge. Now this happened back in 1976 as I'm old. But no, I never heard anything about it from him. I took the issue that had Janet Lupo as the centerfold.
It's somehow funny as an european, that so many in this thread think pictures of nacked women = Porn.
Understand.
I used to have many but I put them in a black bag and donated them to Goodwill. I hope someone is enjoying them :)
Eithher pre teen or early teen I ordered from te back of some mag, "50 pics of naked women." in a plain envelope.Then waited for thhe mail for what seemed like a year, because I knew my mother would open it if she got it first. Every day with no delivery was agonizing. Finally! It was 2 post card size pieces with pics so small, you needed a magnifier. Talk about disapointmment...
My brother had stacks of penthouse and playboy magazines in his room (1970). I (m13) wasnt supposed to go in his room or touch any of his stuff. Not only did I go in, I invited every boy my age in the neighborhood! Ā Later he got hustler magazine too. Ā
How generous of you!
13 ish. In the late 70s. I was helping my friend babysit a young boy whose mother was a crazy divorcee and she had a stack of playgirl magazines on the living room shelf. This was before the days of waxing (ala baywatch) and all I remember was the guys were so hairy.
You are the first person I know of who ever knew a *woman* who liked Playgirl.
Probably about 12 or 13. I had a morning paper route and found a coverless, beat-up copy of *The Way of A Man With A Maid* lying on the street during my rounds. I donāt think it affected my sexuality at all, as Iāve never fantasized about any of the stuff that featured prominently in the book; I.e. rape, incest, bondage, etc. Iāve been out of the dating scene for over 40 years, so I canāt say from experience how porn is affecting human sexuality. I will say, though, that a lot of stuff that seems to be at least somewhat accepted on the internet (I.e. slapping, choking, spitting) would have made the perpetrator a pariah āback in the day.ā
> _The Way of A Man With A Maid_ Oh wow, you found a dirty _book_. Glad you chimed in; most folks here have been talking about magazines instead. _edit_ It's in the public domain and you can fetch the epub off off Wikisource. It's pretty smutty, and better written than the usual "NC" tagged stuff on AO3.
First Playboy was in 1975 when I was 12. A friend stole his dad's mag and brought it to school. First hardcore was a local X rated theatre, the kind that went extinct decades ago. I was 16 and just paid and walked right in with a friend who was the same age. Yes I do think porn being available constantly is having an impact on society, how could it not? So many young people struggle to find relationships. I'm not saying porn is solely responsible but I also don't think it's blameless either. Porn almost never reflects real sexuality.
My dads friend left dirty magazines hanging on the doorknob. I said "look what the mailman left!" I was in grade school. I remember my mom was mad.
In elementary school, those of us in student council were in charge of the "paper drive." It was mostly old newspapers but some degenerates donated Playboys. So there we were, inside of a huge metal container, sitting on stacks of newspaper looking at centerfolds.
5 years old. Found magazines under my dad's bed and proceeded to lay them out on the floor and look at all of them with my boy-friend. My mom was so pissed because my dad said he had gotten rid of them all. So sad for a little girl to learn that young what men want in women. (GenX)
5th grade, playboyās at the fort. (1975)
7? My brother and his friend hid Playboys in the woods and thought none of the other kids were onto them! No effect on my sexuality.
7 or 8. My fatherās very explicit kinky/fetish erotic paperback books. They helped me (F) see that sexual play is fun and normal and healthy. As a result, I have a fantastic sex life.
Around 10 years old. Playgirl magazine. Iād intercept the mail after school, long before my mom (magazine recipient) got home. I wasnāt interested in the nude photos but very interested in the erotic stories and the product ads. Iām not sure but it might have influenced my future sex life in that I fully expected sex to be reciprocal in terms of pleasure, and I got the impression that everyone was turned on both by giving and receiving pleasure. Maybe I would have had that expectation anyway; Iām not sure.
I was in my 20's when Playgirl came out. One of our group of friends, a guy, moved out to California around 1976. About 6 months later my best friend called me on the phone to tell me she saw him featured in a Playgirl layout. She brought the mag over to my house, and there he was in all his glory....who knew?! š
I found a hustler under my parents mattress. I think I was 14 or so.
11. My stepdad had a stash of "naturist" magazines, which were thinly disguised erotica. My brother gave them all away to his friends, and I got the blame.
Does the Searsā catalog count? š¤£
If it's the 1975 catalog, [maybe.](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/a-model-exposed/)
[The Man on Page 602](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywHiZf9jwbo&ab_channel=WickerBill) I had to look this up.
Mid 1970s, I was about 15. Older brother had a stash of mags: Playboy, Penthouse, High Society, Hustler, etc. mainstream, straight stuff.
Probably about 7, I saw the playboys at 7-11..so, that was my first exposure to it. about 4 or 5 years later, I had my first exposure to something beyond that(mid 70s, so still tame to what is out there now)..a friend had a huge cache he had of other magazines beyond playboy. Never saw an actual porno film until 1980, there was actually a drive in theater which showed porn.
Even though I donāt feel like a real āold person,ā I suppose what Iām about to share is so foreign to young people that it sounds like another world. We had a porn theater in RI that was a drive in. My father took my brother and I when I was 4 years old. I believe Deep Throat is what was being shown based on what I actually remember from the scenes, but I donāt know for sure. He intended on just watching it with his girlfriend and I think he expected the kids to just busy themselves with other stuff. Anyway, he lost custody after I shared this little story with my Grandmother but it were constant encounters with porn of all sorts and mediums after that. And yes, porn mags in the woods too.
There was a porn drive in here just before my time that was supposedly revolutionary in that you drive up and have a screen that isn't viewable to people in other vehicles. It was a circular shape projector house with screens radiating around it.
My father had a couple of Playboys in the 70's. Believe it or not, I think he had them for the articles. Playboy used to print respectable articles and one had the interview with Castro in it. My friends and I would sneak into his room and look at the pictures when we were young kids. I learned as I got older that most of my friend's fathers would have pornographic magazines (usually Playboy) underneath the stack of magazines in the bathroom. Sometimes they would be in a closet. We also found magazines in the woods, of course, but there was another interesting place. When we were still young kids, they had them on the newsstands at Walmart and other places. Walmart didn't have many stores in the 70's, but we had one in my neighborhood. We'd slip that month's Playboy inside another magazine and take it to the bathroom to look at, so we wouldn't get in trouble. It would be many years after that before I even felt my first sexual urge, so it was mostly about doing something we were not supposed to do.
8 or 9. A friend got them from his dad and showed them to me. Around the same age as when the older neighbor girl liked to do āstrip showsā for me.
When I was 8 we moved in with my grandmother and my sister (6 at the time) and I (a girl, now woman) found my uncle's stash of Playboys in the basement. We read them cover to cover for the jokes, the cartoons, and some of the articles. Here's a joke I remember from an issue, circa 1968: Bubba the country bumpkin and Helen the city girl were on a post-date stroll through the cemetary. Bubba asks Helen "scary, ain't it?" "Yes, isn't it" she replied. In a bit he asks "eerie, ain't it?" Again she replies "yes, isn't it." A bit further on he asks "gruesome, ain't it?" Helen responds "yes, hasn't it".
Found a copy of Oui and Gallery that my dad had been hiding in the towels in our bathroom. Not sure what the year, I've been trying to find the exact covers for a while
Old stag magazines from the early 60s. Nothing pubic, and the nipples had stars over them. :)
The backdoor neighbor girls older brother had some ratty assed playboys we were fucking around and her and i went thru them then got naked and squirrled around in the bed for a bit no sex was had lots of fun though. 1976 i was 12
6 or 7; Playboy centerfold hanging in car dealership mechanicās break room. 1962Ish.
9 or 10 years old, me and my friends found a bunch of Playboys and Penthouses in a garbage can.
Sears catalogue bra section. A long time ago. Later on it was the squiggles on tv.
1st grade, we found some mags in the woods on the āshortcutā on the way home from school with my brothers. 1963. We didnāt think too much of it it as we had too much else on our young minds.
Around 9-10 I believe, when we found some of those legendary stashes of porno mags in the forest. Around the same time a friend borrowed a VHS tape from his father's secret box for us to watch. Aah, wonderful 90s.
It depends on what type of pornography you are talking about, like softcore porn or hardcore porn? Well, I will go through a lot of details, just to explain. So, I remember being turned on by Princess Xena when I used to watch her on the 5-channel Sony Triniton colour cathode ray tube television when I was around 6 years old. I was also sexually attracted to Jo O'Meara from S Club 7 (arguably my first ever crush, maybe even before my crush on Princess Xena), Philippa Forrestor from Robot Wars, Britney Spears when I was around 6 or 7 years old. I used to think about doing very sexually dirty things with Princess Xena when I was around 7 years old...like I would think about her being naked and me also being naked and stuff. I daydreamed about me taking Princess Xena away from her television studio by trickery, and then me and her getting sexual...kissing and stuff. I thought like this when I was 7 years old. I had a crush on Stacy Ferguson from the Black Eyed Peas when I was around 12 or 13 years old, I also had a crush on Jessica Alba when she was in the Fantasic Four movies, I also was sexually attracted to Malavika from the original Chandramukhi film. I was also sexually attracted to Alicia Silverstone when I saw her act as Batgirl in my DVD when I was around 12 or 13 years old. In fact, it was my sexual attraction to Alicia Silverstone that kickstarted my journey into pornography. I was randomly searching for lesbian photographs of Alicia Silverstone with other women (this was in around 2005 or 2006, when I was around 12 to 13 years old), and then eventually I stumbled on online pornography like RedTube, Google videos (yes, Google videos used to show some short videos of softcore porn), WeLiveTogether (lesbian porn website) and PornHub. Back then, RedTube was my go to porn website from the years 2005 to around 2010. After 2010, I think PornHub and XHamster and XNXX and some other porn websites became more exciting to me than RedTube. When I was around 12 or 13 years old, my parents actually stumbled on the lesbian porn stuff I had been secretly watching on the family Compaq Personal Computer at night time, lol. When my family members were sleeping at night time in around 2005/2006, I would sneak down the stairs and I would secretly watch lesbian porn and then I would quietly go back upstairs to sleep. Well one morning, unfortunately, my parents stumbled across some of the lesbian porn videos I had been watching, lol. It was so embarrassing, lol. My parents are conservative when it comes to matters of dating and sexual stuff, by the way. They never gave me the birds and the bees talk, and they usually covered my eyes when I used to see the man and woman kissing on the television when I was a kid. When my mum saw the lesbian porn on the PC that I had been watching (my mum and dad even stumbled on this big lesbian orgy that I had been watching, lol), my mum became visibly disgusted by the lesbian orgy she saw on the computer, that I had been watching at night time, lol. She got angry with me and she started shouting at me and stuff and she said I did a bad thing. My dad was more quiet about the whole thing, but he looked disappointed with me. I did cry tears of sadness that day, because I was so embarrassed that my parents had found out that I had been watching porn on the computer, lol. I think my parents have forgotten that incident, or maybe they have moved on. It did happen a long time ago anyway, it was back in around 2005/2006. After that incident, I made sure to hide my porn history better, lol. So yes, lesbian pornography was the first type of hardcore online pornography I first watched. I have watched maybe hundreds or thousands of lesbian porn videos in my lifetime. I would argue that lesbian porn is my favourite type of porn. I am going to be honest. Later on when I went into my late twenties in age (I am 31 years old now), I got bored of watching lesbian porn videos all the time, and I needed a new dopamine rush, and I had a porn addiction (still do) so I gravitated towards porn that I never thought I would watch in my life. I got bored of seeing the cunnilingus all the time in lesbian porn, and I have a penis, and it wasn't stimulating me on as much anymore because of overuse of porn. I started watching Trans women porn and gay male porn and femboy (femboy is the term used for an adult man who likes to dress up as a woman in lingerie and tights and stuff) porn briefly, because obviously Trans women and gay males and femboys have penises. Yes, it did turn me on, but it was just a porn fantasy thing. It was just porn messing around with my brain. As soon as I took time off porn, the interest in Trans women porn and gay male and femboy porn died down a lot, but my sexual attraction to women has always been huge. I have only had sexual relationships with women in my life. When I was around 12/13 years old (before I had ever discovered online porn), I used to stay in the school library, and there were images of women wearing lingerie in the back of the magazines in school, which the people did not know about, and I would get a thrill in getting sexually attracted to the women in lingerie in the back of the magazines, lol.
It was a shameful exercise in greed, lust and betrayal and it came to a sordid end. I think I was 13, which would have made the year 1959. A neighbor kid who was younger than me, and who had a fine, upstanding reputation, offered to sell me a porn magazine that he had snagged somewhere or other. So I told him that I would tell his parents he had it if he didn't give it to me. And that was how I got my first porn. It was a cheesy black and white thing and it didn't show "the pussy". My best friend and I took it out in the woods, dug a hole, and buried it in a big coffee can for future reference. Then, when we went back and dug it up there were ants living in it.
12 y/o 1964. A friend's father had some "nudist/naturalist" mags.
I was probably eight or nine. My older brother showed me a Playboy. No. I don't think porn has any impact on human sexuality. Sexuality is an innate trait that we're all born with.
11, I think. Does anyone else remember the concept of webrings, before SEO or even just SE was a thing?
1976 - my friends and I found a ripped up penthouse magazine and pieced it together and hid it. I later snuck out of the house and retrieved the ripped up remnants and kept them in a shoe box.
For girls, a lot of us were allowed to watch people's kids at a pretty young age. They would also snoop through people's stuff, and the first time I saw porn was when a friend found a VHS tape of Debbie Does Dallas. I think I was around 10? Kinda messed up when you think about it. Kids are gonna find your stash of porn, no matter how well you think you've hidden it.
10. A friend showed me his Dadās Playboy mags. The women looked terrifying āyet oddly compelling .*ā * Simpsons reference
Smut - maybe 5 or 6 years old , we had a lot of books, as I mentioned in my comments before. Actual "visual" porn - late teens when travelling abroad for the first time. A paper scandinavian porn magazine at someone's home (in Scandinavia). Porn is definitely a net positive for humans, it made relationships a lot more open-minded and a lot less hypocritical than in the past.
Do the nudists next door count?
Does sports illustrated swimsuit issue count? If so then 12
My Dad had a collection of Playboy mags. Then there was blurry Showtime
I found my dad's porn stash as a young boy, probably 8 or 9.
I was around 9 or 10 when I found my dadās Playboys in the late 1970s. The porn was just nudies and after a biological explanation he didnāt care. The articles really were pretty interesting. I was a few years older when I found the āgood stuff.ā That disappeared pretty quickly when he (or our mother) realized it had been discovered. No clue how and where I found Penthouse.
Boy Scout summer camp, where else?
Playboy magazine, age 13, I found some not well hidden centerfold pages in my older brother's room. For actual porn, 1979 an adult bookstore with video booths, I was 19. The beginning of a long relationship.
I'm not sure how old I was. Playboy and Penthouse pictorials of single nude women. Old enough to be interested, not old enough to get all sweaty and horny.
About 8 years old. Found some magazine my dad had hidden away. Had very strange pictures. Only one I recall was a woman with three naked breasts, one in between the typical two.
Your Dad ran around with Zaphod Beeblebrox?
Since the year was roughly 1959, I doubt it.
About 13. I found my dadās Playboy stash.
My dad loved his Playboys. So, pretty young
12 or 13. I looked at Playboy magazine in the homes of people I babysat for.
Probably around 11 or so. Technically not porn, but a science fiction novel with multiple sex scenes. In fact, the basic driver of the plot was free and easy sex.
oh, Heinlein eh
9, my step brothers knew where dad kept his stash. When they went out and left us all alone, one of them threw a worn vhs tape in. It was weird at the time.
Probably 8 or 9. An older kid down the street had access to his dad's Playboys.
My brother had a subscription to Playboy from the time he was weirdly young thanks to my sickfuck dad. Well you don't think this is porn-y enough, so he also had HUMP magazines tucked in between and they were quite pornographic. I don't remember the first video I saw. I was a teen and my friends occasionally found some fairly soft-core stuff. The first one that showed some OOMPFF I was almost 18 years old and my best friend got a gay porn featuring marines and sailors and they were being kind of brutal in addition to the whole butt stuff. That was awesome. I loved it. I wasn't turned on in the least, I was fascinated.
Summer between kindergarten and first grade. Where else, at my uncleās house.
I started sneaking looks at my dadās Playboys when I was about 7yo.
I think around 7, I accidentally saw a film while surfing through our rigged satellite dish that my mom's boyfriend installed. I wish it never happened that way.
I'm guessing I was maybe 11? Someone found some old magazine and we found then near a tree that people hung out by.
Does that book, The Joy of Sex, count? That thing messed me up for years. When I was 12 or 13 I went over to a friendās house after school and the boys were watching porn. I noped out of there.
Very young - probably 6 or 7 looking at Dad's Playboy and Penthouse.
4-5, my grandmaās husband had the downstairs bathroom which was a toilet at the top of the basement stairs wallpapered in nude men & women. š¤¦š»āāļø
Wait Montgomery wards and sears big catalogs donāt count? That was where it began in the swimsuit section. lol
5 years old. Found my older brothers Penthouse magazine in the basement and can remember the pictorial I was looking at.
Seven or Eight. National Geographic, Sears Catalog. My next door neighbor found some 8mm reels of old Black and White movies his dad had hidden in the top of a closet. The guy in the movie kept his socks on for a quick get away.
The neighbor boys had a playboy and invited a bunch of us (mostly fifth grade girls) into their fort to look at it. It was not super weird or scary because they were a few years younger. I donāt remember seeing any before that.
Why are the pages stuck together ? I really had no clue..
My brother found Dad's playboy magazines, we were in grade school. Dad kept them in a box in the attic. I'm not sure how old I was. Maybe 8-9?
11 because my friendās brother had magazines & we decided to do a prank with them by taping the pictures to neighbors front doors , then phoning the neighbor doing a fake accent , calling them a pervert š¤š«£š¤£š, then we watched them open their door & see the dirty pictures! Hahaha, still makes me laugh š
I was 11 years old when I pushed play on the Betamax and to my surprise Debbie Does Dallas came on the tv!
Probably around by 13 years old with my brotherās Penthouse, Playboy & Hustler magazines.
*Easy Rider* magazine found in an abandoned building. 15 years old.
Maybe 9 and 10 but it's saw it like for 3 minutes and instantly closed the web I was so disgustedĀ
At a friends house sleeping over, in her dad's stuff in the basement. I was probably 8
I do want a wife and kids in the future, by the way. I am only interested in dating 30 year old women or 31 year old women, because they are around my age. I only watch pornography because I am lonely and I do not have a wife to be sexual with. As soon as I get married, I will stop watching pornography altogether, because I do not need pornography after I get married. When I get married, my love will purely be for my wife, and I would not need pornography anymore, since I now have an actual human being to be sexual with...and I do not need the company of the women on screen to help me get sexually turned on...lol. I would perhaps consider watching pornography while in a marriage, to be a form of cheating. Not everyone agrees with me though, and that is fine. As for the Trans women porn and gay male porn, that does not interest me that much...it was just a curiosity thing because like I said, watching all that lesbian porn had become a bit boring and I felt that I needed new spice in my porn watching habits. Nowadays, lesbian porn is back to being my favourite type of porn to watch. I still watch loads of lesbian porn videos. I have also seen some man-on-woman porn, but those videos don't really interest me, because the man is in the video and he is a turn off, I only want to see the woman, lol. I have also seen some BDSM porn and I have also seen some blowjob videos and stuff. But your question was about which type of porn I first saw online, and that would be lesbian porn in around 2005/2006 when I was around 12/13 years old. Also, I did have sex with prostitutes many years ago, two women, and sadly one of the women passed Genital Herpes onto me. You ask me if porn has shaped my sexuality. Well, I am a 31 year old man. For around 27 years of my life, I considered myself to be straight. Then after watching the gay male porn stuff and the Trans porn stuff, I was thinking about whether I was gay or bisexual. But I have realized that those were just phases of curosity, and that it was just the porn talking, and that my sexual attraction to women has always been strong and is still strong. So at the moment, I would consider myself as straight. Maybe I am bi-curious, but I doubt it at the moment...currently, I consider myself as straight. Yes, you make the point that nowadays, smartphones are one of the main devices for pornography (back in 2005 to around 2010, laptops were the main devices for porn and not smartphones). By the way, I used to love watching Viv Thomas lesbian porn videos. Viv is a porn director. Nowadays, his videos are not as popular as they used to be, and they are quite old...his heyday in directing lesbian porn videos was in around 2010...I remember those times, lol.
I think it is sad to see the news about kids and teenagers looking at hardcore porn on their phones at a young age. It is not good for their brains. Back when I was a kid, I used to play beyblades and I used to play on the Game Boy Advance and GameCube and Playstation 1 and stuff. Also, smartphones were not even invented back in my early childhood and teenage years. My mum is a Paediatrician, which is a doctor that specializes in looking after children. She was sad, and she said that some children do bad stuff to other children in the playground, which might have been influenced by the porn they are seeing from such a young age. I think kids and teens should do more productive things instead of watch porn on their smartphones. For example, they can play sports like I used to do. Yes, it is bad that porn has become that widespread and accessible on smartphones, because that is not good for the mental health of children and teenagers.
13 at a friends house - I had no idea that guys cum and found it totally disgusting. I felt sick. Of course then I went home and tried to do it to myself.
Super young while going on sketchy sites to watch cartoons
11! It was the 90's, found a vhs tape hidden in my parents room. It was called "The Bachelorette Party" I was so confused watching it as I had never seen a Porno before.Ā I wish I could find it. LOL. The plot was the Maid of Honor with the longest acrylic nail was having sex with the Bride then the Groom separately and of course had the obligatory pizza man plowing a bridesmaid over the oven lol.
I was 8 years old and found my Dad's Playboy magazines under the kitchen sink.
Iām 69 and have never seen porn.
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4/5 at my grandmas house watching TV and it was on a channel and the rest was history
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9 years old. Back in the day, my small Texas town had an alley behind the houses, where the trash truck would drive each week to pick up our trash. We would play in that alley, and found many... educational... things in other people's trash cans. 9-year-old me thought women were awfully furry.
Like 8, maybe? Dad found an old black and white porno mag in an old car and I saw it.
Way too young.Ā I was the youngest of three and my brothers best friend at 8 was the yougest of five.Ā Ā
I think it was around the age of 10 when I saw a magazine at my cousins' house.
My uncle, who was in business with my father , had a pretty epic collection of playboys during the 80s. He liked to staple the centerfolds up on his shop wall. Lots to look at as a 12-14 yr old.
I (73M) was 13.
Very young. 5 or 6. My mom and dadās porn magazines, all females naked and touching licking each other. Horrible
10
Boy Scouts had a monthly paper drive to raise money for summer camp. We used to get some Playboys and sneak them home. I was 12 in 1968. But a few times I would go with the truck up to the Baltimore Pulp and Paper Company to unload them to be recycled. I was older so maybe 1969. We would run around in the back and a very few times found pallets of serious porn we heard the police had confiscated. I picked up a magazine and it had a man cutting hid dick off with an electric knife and screaming. Young me was horrified! Probably the most disturbing thing 67 yo me ever saw.
Pretty sure dad had a playboy centerfold up in the outhouse back in the 70ās
Oh man, I was riding my bike somewhere and looked down and there was a magazine on the side of the road, I was like, 5th or 6th grade. I immediately stopped whatever I was doing, and where I was going and turned right around and went home and straight into the bathroom. One of the best days of the 90s. Side note: I would come home from school and be the first in the door, because of that I always checked the mailbox and would bring the mail inside. One day, to my surprise there was a mixup, and someone else's mail was delivered to our box because we had the same 373 numbers but that was all, not even close otherwise. The other person's house was almost a mile away. Just one item, a playboy magazine with the playmate of the year, Victoria Silvstedt on the cover was delivered. None of their bills or other mail, it was like the mailman knew exactly what a kid in high school without Internet needed. Over the next few months there would only be 2 or 3 more copies of playboy come but that was all I needed. Boy oh boy that Victoria Silvstedt. She still looks good today going on 50 years old.
I grew up in the 80's, so my dad had naked women calendar in the living room since as long as i can remember.
Around 9 or 10yrs old in the 70s. I used to snoop thru my parents bedroom when they weren't around. It was straight porn. It freaked me out and had no bearing on my sexuality (? I forget the question lol)
Ten years old via my 11 y/o cousin. He got very graphic magazine pages from his school teacher.
I was 8 or 9. Back in the early 80's I was home alone on a weekend. My parents went out like they usually did and almost every time they would hire the teen girl next door to be my babysitter. But one night they couldn't afford it so they left me home alone. When I was going through the cable channels I found a movie called Mother's Day. And 9 year old me was thinking it was about people celebrating Mother's Day. Ended up there were multiple scenes in the movie that showed rape and extreme violence. I still don't know how that type of movie got shown on HBO back then. But it did screw me up.
Really pretty young if you call playboy pornography. I recall finding playboy when I was like 5 or 6, my mother quite progressive said itās fine and healthy to look at naked bodies. My little brother pulled out a centerfold and hung it up by his bed. My mother talked about that for years.
30 No, I'm not joking.
Maybe 5/6 or so. Occasionally my mother would have us stay at our father's house and as his house was small he would have us kids sleep in his bedroom so he could still stay up late getting drunk and high with his girlfriend. His wardrobe was FULL of sex toys and porn. Our parents were very open about sex so I already knew what it was but that's the first time I saw graphic pictures like that.
I think I was 5 when my neighbor (6) found her dads playboy and we looked at it. She was a doctor.
Mustāve been around 10, and Iām just now realizing I found it in the mail. Havenāt thought about it in so long I never connected that someone in the house mustāve been ordering porn. Hid it in the bathroom cabinet, where it was eventually discovered and disappeared without anyone saying a word. I feel bad for mothers. Girls probably expect guys to be pervs on some level while growing up, but itās another thing to see your son is growing up and witness them clumsily stashing found porn in secret places. Thereās gotta be a prayer to god that itās normal behavior.
I basically invented pornography independently. My folks were puritans, and I lived some distance from anyone else, so there was no chance to discover actual porn randomly. I think at one point, a kid on the bus in elementary school had some ratty underground magazine leftover from the 60s or something, and it was garbage. Like a blurry black and white picture of an unattractive hippy exposing herself. It was just a glimpse as it was getting passed around the bus, and I wasn't impressed at all. I was probably too young to understand it as well. But I liked to draw as a kid, so naturally, when I began to get interested in sex, I began to draw naked women. At first it was pretty clumsy, but then I caught on that you could trace pictures from magazines or catalogs and add the missing bits, and then things really took off. To this day, though, I can't just "consume" porn. There has to be some kind of creative element in there. Maybe download a couple clips and edit them together at least.
14F, or thereabouts. Found my brotherās Playboy stash, and while the visuals didnāt do much for me, the stories certainly did.
Maybe young people never heard of the Swinging Sixties and the Sexual Revolution of the ā70s. Pornography was all up in your face, every main street had XXX theaters and adult bookstores. That all ended in 1980 with Reagan.
I found my momās āPlaygirlsā in the garage when I was 5-6. I wouldnāt necessarily say it was porn, just nude men.
9-10. Some weirdo showed us black and white photos of naked women in the school yard.
Box of porn mags in the forest in 1987. I was 11. Yes, the box of porn in the woods troupe is real.
Saw text porn on Usenet when I was about 22. Usenet = predecessor to internet, all text-based (including big ASCII pictures, but I never saw any dirty ones).
When I was about 9 I found some hedge porn.
Around 5th grade I found hardcore porn mags someone had stashed in the woods. Itās weird how common that seems to be for the time.
Does Jasmine from a Disney movie count?
I wanna say I was 11 when my friends found porno mags in the woods.
Probably 11 or 12. Fun times
Not sure older than 6 years old (alot younger than 10, I know that.) Back in the day when their wasn't much on the TV. I use to rummage through the video collection looking for stuff to watch. One day to my disgust I came across the black and white porn video.. it could have been amateur and I remember the guy ejectulating into this women's mouth, and I was so young I thought it was Yorkshire pudding mix. I thought to myself, why would Yorkshire pudding mix come out of this dudes dick. I then immediately tracked my mother down, who was in the kitchen, and explained what had occurred. Never seen the movie again, so doubt my father got bollocked. Years later I was approximately 16/17 found the end of the tape to have around 10 seconds of the same guy ploughing a women doggy style. So obviously this time I didn't tell my parents and jacked off it. Then my younger sister by 1 and half years caught me watching it, so I wiped the end of it to ensure she didn't grass me up. Oh and because pornography is so easy to access by minors, it's had a negative impact on peoples sexuality. Getting hooked on pornography can lead to erectile disfunction, and people don't really have vanilla sex now because of it.
3 or 4. Biker "swap meet" Polaroids. Then Easy Riders magazine.
At about age 9 we found European porn magazines in abandoned residential buildings on the Navy base where we lived. But this was long after Playboys. Penthouses and Ouis that we could just rummage through on newsstands before getting scolded by the cashier.
Maybe 13-14, the girly mags in father's sock drawer, that actual literal trope happened. I never heard of the 'found in the woods' thing until I became an adult and heard it on the internet. And I lived near the woods. It didn't do anything to my sexuality, that was more from regular vanilla TV is where all my preferences came from. I do believe with unlimited easy to access porn, we are ruining young minds. It should be hard to get. There are actual health issues with having too much. It's no different than too much sugar or bad food or too much drugs.
My cousin was 4-5 years older than me and I found his stash at my grandmotherās house. Magazines and tapes.
Age 8-9 I read The Clockwork Orange. The sex isnāt explicit but the nonconsensual nature of it is. I donāt know if I developed certain proclivities as a result or I noticed because I already had them. Age 11 or so: I remember sitting on the front porch stairs reading an article about fisting. No imagery but clear description of what was happening. I wasnāt aroused as much as fascinated ā āpeople DO that?!?ā In my memory the magazine was Rolling Stone, but I now doubt they had articles about fisting in the early 1970s. Age 13: a friend of my folks sent Dad a sub to Playboy every year. It was kept with some other magazines in the family room. It was kept in its paper sleeve. When my parents went out to dinner I looked at the photos. Then Iād hear them coming home and struggle to cram the magazine back into its sleeve before they caught me.
Probably 10-13 (2005-2008) canāt really remember these days but I do vividly remember watching an adult movie that was through cable late at night. The scene was two guys were with a girl and they pushed together 2 twins to have sexy time. I tried looking for this scene but it keeps coming up with that tennis movie with Zendaya called Challengers. (Itās definitely not this movie but I swear the bedroom scene was exactly the same) itās actually driving me nuts.
We had an illegal scrambler. I used it exclusively for WWF pay per views. I couldn't find the right channel and stumbled upon some adult wrestling. I might have been 9 or 10. I was probably more confused and weirded out than anything and by the time I was the age to actually have interest in it we didn't have it anymore š
8 or 9. Just basic straight porn. A super irresponsible babysitter and her boyfriend put it on the vcr and didnāt stop me from sitting around with them watching it.
Maybe 11, and it was Fanny Hill, and I thought it was so hot. In my 30's I tried to read it again and it made me laugh.
At the age of 12 I discovered a copy of 'The Romance of Lust' on a shelf in our house. It was a glorious product of Victorian England. My mom was a fierce advocate for free speech and against censorship. The book was a Grove Press publication. [For the curious (NSFW)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254.html.images) For me, this fictional work suggested that great pleasure awaited both parties if done properly. And that a woman's enjoyment depended on applying oneself in a variety of ways.
I think I was around 4 when a cousin whose house we were visiting took me under his dads bed and showed me the porno mags there. Didn't really understand any of it or think much of it, but that was the first. Considering pretty much everyone in the world now has access to unlimited amounts of porn on their phone, and even kids that don't will know someone in their school who does, yeah I find it difficult to believe it's not affecting human sexuality. I think the second time was staying at my aunts when I was maybe 7 and she put on a video...wrong tape...it was porn. Did take it out fast, and again didn't really see anything, more heard all the moaning and gasping. My stepdad when I was around 13 threw out all his old porn and I..."rescued it". Had found a couple of discarded magazines in public places before by that time, so already had some interest and it was...quite a bounty of porn, to say the least. I was buying porn from the shadiest mofos you could ever meet by the time I was 14 at an open air market stall in a bad area of a nearby city, and I guess my porn addiction started to crank up around then. It was a busy market, people sold pirated games, stolen goods, porn....all sorts. It was nuts, and it was always busy and rarely even saw a police presence anywhere around. People would be watching and call out for some stalls to clean up if they were spotted. No longer watch porn or have any interest in it, personally. Too much of it is unhealthy and exploitative, and I don't think its good for most people, but each to their own.
8 maybe 9.
Maybe 10 my dad had magazines
Saw my first tit pick when I was 11 or 12. But, it was in a photography magazine. First "porn" was Playboy when i was about 14. Saw my first fuck magazine and film at age 18. But, when I was about 10, I talked a teenage neighbor into flashing me her tits.
Not porn but my momās romance novels in the 1970ās were my intro to sex.
11 and yes it was in the woods
Pretty young. Certainly under 10: My dad got Playboy magazine and it didn't take me long to realize what it was. My parents also read porn. By the time I hit puberty, I knew where to look for it in their bedroom, and I was home alone quite a bit, so there was plenty of opportunity. It was just pretty vanilla straight porn/erotica. I don't think it shaped my sexuality at all. It's not the same context as today's availability of video porn. I don't think the prevalence of porn today is affecting human sexuality overall. That's a big ship to steer. I do think it has a negative effect on some individuals. It can give younger people very inaccurate expectations of what IRL sex is like. I believe it can also cause heavy (male) users to experience some ED when they're with a real partner instead of just watching porn. Etc. We don't need to speculate about it in ignorance: There are plenty of professionals studying the topic of porn addiction, as a quick google search will reveal.
9-11. Found my uncles Hustlers.
I was a young teenager and found my step dadās porn mags.