Flashback: Naked Body Freedom

That's freedom from certain porn body standards. Even that tall-looking muscle guy doesn't have gigantic muscles. Rather, he's lean and tightly posed. His long, soft cock lives up to any era's extreme body standards though. I'm not mad.

But then check out the nicely imperfect guys in bed together. Their supposed flaws make the moment more real and accessible. No, they are not in love or anything so dramatic and awesome. But as a fantasy, they could be, and no lack of perfect triceps, biceps, abs and grooming is going to get in the way of that pretend intimacy.

The series of pics of the kissing and cocksucking guys is likely from one of those hardcore magazines made from stills of a film. They just skip the magazine part nowadays and that's our loss.

I remember Stroke magazine from the '90s which did have spreads like this, but with that '90s porn oversaturated, overlit sheen, a little too perfect and plasticky. But it was a nice respite from the limitations of softcore mags of the time.

Those frozen moments were the equivalent of freeze framing a porn video, albeit sometimes with clearly fake out cocksucking or fucking, done by angles and facial overreactions. But to also see the real thing locked in time was wondrous. Porn that makes you want the same for yourself can be revolutionary, especially when the people in it are perfectly imperfect.

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