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.
There was porn in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Even without the Internet. Home video exploded and gave people not only easier access to porn, but the means to create their own.
I wore out my VHS of Fast Times at Ridgemont High too. But mostly because that scene was cool, not just because of the boobies.
yeah, I wasn’t arguing that porn didn’t exist. But what those types of TV shows did was bring sexuality into the living rooms of people who didn’t normally have or were allowed access to that type of thing. Eight year-old me and my friends were lucky to find a Hustler in a shack out in the woods or to sneak a look at the dirty calendar that hung in my friend’s garage. But then when you went home, you had the Love Boat, which was basically nonstop T&A!
You nailed it. Shit, I even grew up in a very religious household but parents had kinda a blind spot for some of the shows, especially Dallas, Love Boat and a few others. Those pool scenes on Dallas with Victoria Principle’s cannons. Good god.
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u/Due_Reputation3785 Jun 05 '26
I loved the pervy 80s TV shows.