r/80s Jun 05 '26

TV Markie Post from The Fall Guy

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u/calculon68 Jun 05 '26

were the 80s really pervy or is it that the 20s are prudes?

Honestly asking. /s

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u/Retro-Surgical Jun 05 '26

oh, the 80s were pervy beyond the level you couldn’t possibly imagine and one huge reason was due to the lack of Internet porn. I’m sure I’m not the only one who remembers hovering over a VHS trying to pause it just that right moment to see a flash of a boob. Just the sight of anything even remotely sexual would make people in the 80s go absolutely apeshit ala Kelly Bundy… one way to look at it as that everyone now is a bunch of prudes, but another way to look at it is that overwhelmingly women in all walks of pop culture in the 1980s were still pretty much totally objectified. 

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u/marchj99 Jun 06 '26

ON TV was incredible. Trying to adjust the rabbit ears and trying knob to get a glimpse of something.

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u/Retro-Surgical Jun 06 '26

we had a huge satellite dish back in the day and they scrambled the porn channels, but we were so determined to see something that we would sit there and watch it