There were a lot of porn films in America in the 70s that were almost B quality films with full stories covering parodies and all types of different fetish themes you could think of. It's not as variety packed as Japanese content, but it was good from a story perspective, the actors actually were okay, and they looked reasonably normal and healthy. Most porn actors and actresses look kind of messed up today. In old Japanese/French/Italian/Central/South American/Russian porn and mainstream everything seemed higher quality in the 70s/80s/90s in terms of having good stories and decent actors that look like normal people. It seems like it's not really a respected art anymore to cover these topics. It's against modern business ethics (which I think are very hypocritical and biased). That's why you mostly see it surface in art without real people. One of the things keeping such things alive is open source tools that allow people to create this type of art. If it was in the cloud or involved real people there would be censorship or an outcry. It's actually amazing how the internet went from the wild west in the 80s when I was a child to how it's heavily monitored and restricted today.My point of view is very much in line with yours. Sex can be explored much better in audiovisual media, but they don't. In the past, they used to do it more, but nowadays it's hard to find films like this in the mainstream, just one or two, but sometimes very weak, because for cinema as a whole, production is needed to have more good films. As a film buff, the ones who made a lot of films like this in the world were the French, Brazilians, Italians and Japanese. The number of films in these countries got much worse with the turn of the century. I feel that the golden age of this genre of film, with more eroticism, nudity and sex, was in the 70s and 80s. That's why I think it's crazy to hear stories from my father, who had me when I was old, and watch these films, saying that their generation was more restrained. I feel that the generations from the 2000s onwards are much more sexually repressed and are uncomfortable with something natural, which is sex, a practically Catholic guilt and shame.
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