Flashback: Porn Styles Over Time

This group of guys from different porn eras is just a small snapshot but what you can tell is that looks in porn can reflect the styles of the times. A photo's era may become progressively more difficult to differentiate though as there can only be so many pixels per inch that our eyes can perceive. So photo graininess isn't a clue.

Now if photos in the future, and computer screens, are all three dimensional (digital dick in your face, anyone?), then we'll all know when that shift happened and photos taken with that method. But even once we're in that era, hairstyles can be a clue. As can the style of a particular studio. Or if the guy is slathered in stage makeup and lip gloss, or even if he's Photoshopped to seductive oblivion.

For the record, I don't care if the guy is Photoshopped the same way I don't care if Britney Spears sings live. Some things are not at their best when they're real.

As for porn eras, what we don't generally have the experience of is witnessing a long lasting nude modeling career akin to the length of Cher's music career (hits in the last 5 decades). So we can't see a model age much. Sure there are some guys still out now who modeled in the 1980s but not so much.

I wonder if nude modeling were a more accessible career path, and if ageism were less of a thing, if we'd see a model dramatically visibly age over time (or freeze their face in time like Cher). George Clooney's career doesn't count as a nude male model aging over time. He seems to have forgotten that Ocean's 11 should have been titled Ocean's 11 Inches.

Well, one thing that's timeless is imagination. And body oil.

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