Be sure to visit VintageBareback.com to see samples of a very rare vintage gay porn magazine from the 1960's called "69 Sunset Strip", a parody of the old TV show "77 Sunset Strip". Lots of interesting trivia about Edd "Kookie" Brynes, one of the first male teen idols and his sorted past.

And don't forget, if you are already a VIP Member of Lavender Lounge, the same passwords work at both sites!

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I just added a new gallery to the Vintage Bareback VIP Room called "Rock Hard" that features J. W. King and a blond hunk in an outdoor scene in the mountains. I sort of have an idea how the shoot happened, even though there is no actual way of knowing. The magazine it came from had no masthead, no photo credits, no company name and no copyright information. The magazine was titled "Rock Hard" because it mostly takes place on rocks (duh) and it is Volume 1 Issue 1. Were there subsequent issues? Doubtful.

My guess is an aspiring photographer got hired by a cigar-chomping guy with gold chains and shady reputation. The only directions were to "go out and shoot some boys and don't spend a lot of money". The photographer was probably just out of school and anxious to impress his new client. He probably heard of J.W. King as the "it" boy of the bar scene in LA or San Francisco and hit him up to do a shoot. With a hot property like the big dicked King locked in, the young photographer got the grandiose idea to do an outdoor shoot in the mountains.

To shoot hardcore porn in an outdoor setting, you really need to go somewhere completely remote so you don't get families or cops seeing you. That means a long drive and a long hike off the beaten path. No doubt it was just the two models, the photographer and a very rudimentary 35mm camera from the mid-1970's. No flash, no reflectors, no auto focus, no white balance and no digital playback. He probably left his light meter back at the dorm room, too.  

This type of shoot always starts out as all business, but after a long drive and a long hike to get away from onlookers, the "work" part becomes an annoyance compared to having a pleasant day outdoors. As the hours pass and the drugs kick in, the focus turns to the getting the sex over with. Surrounded by numerous trees, logs, rocks and undiscovered sights up ahead, it's hard to choose one spot to start shooting. The clouds shift, the tree branches move and the lighting changes as soon as you pick a good angle. Without a flash or a reflector, you are at the mercy of natural light. When your subject is half in bright sun and half in shade, the camera doesn't know how to give a good balance between overly bright light and deep shadows. Some of that can be corrected in photo processing lab, but there's no guarantee it will look good. After shooting digital for so long with the ability to preview each shot, I can't imagine going back the the uncertainty of not knowing how the shots will come out. Plus, even if the lab came up with some good photos, the printer could easily screw things up when putting it into magazine format.

Such is the problem with "Rock Hard". Most of the shots were in black and white, so I was able to do some remarkable corrections to the photos. The color photos still suffer from the dreaded color banding that I'm sure can be corrected somehow, but not known to me. Rather than presenting a series of muddy, washed out images I was able to improve a majority of the shots significantly, even better than they look when holding the magazine in your hand. Some of the close-ups actually look like, dare I say, fine art photos, with more detail than I expected. Some shots admittedly are duds, but given the possible scenario I dreamed up coupled with the antiquated film processing and low-end printing techniques, I think "Rock Hard" will be a delight to view for VIP Members of Vintage Bareback.

And, yes, they suck, rim, and fuck without rubbers on rocks, in trees and in front of a waterfall. J.W. King is gorgeous and works his giant cock like a trouper. Well worth the price of membership.

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A few months ago I took my 8mm projector and some movies to a dinner party. After a lovely meal with a group of gay men, I pointed the projector at the wall and showed the movie, "Sex Salad". The retro-cool angle of pulling out a Deco style steel and Bakelite antique gadget is, in itself a fun parlor trick. The fact that the images projected were kinky XXX rated gay porn only added to it. The audience was rolling on the floor laughing at this movie - a better reaction than I ever would have imagined.

Showing a movie after dinner on with Blu-Ray disc on giant flat screen is so passe it's almost automatic. Marshall McLuhan was right about film as a "hot" medium and television as a "cool" medium. The simple act of projecting a 30 year old movie onto a wall versus looking at the TV on the opposite wall made the simple act of watching instantly more engaging.

But back to the movie itself, "Sex Salad" was an obscure movie that has been sort of "lost" over the years. Long before Johnny Knoxville and his gang started performing "Jackass" style hi-jinx, (actually before those boys were born...), the unknown film maker did a small series of kinky videos that were more slapstick than sensual. There has always been an underlying vein of humor associated with porn, and most attempts at piercing through that thin veil are unsuccessful or unintentionally funny. The makers of "Sex Salad" knew they were creating comedy, but tried their best to keep it straight-faced and butch.

So what's so funny about "Sex Salad"? It's the inventive ways to use food as sex toys. Rather than just shove a cucumber up a guy's ass, they went to the trouble of coring out the inside of the cucumber for the top to wear over his dick to fuck someone in the ass. The hard-shell waxy skin of a cucumber makes a great green prosthetic dick and the extra wide thickness of it pleases the hungry bottom, actually giving new meaning to "hungry bottom".

But the cucumber is not the only vegetable exploiting in "Sex Salad". Carrots, tomatoes, celery, olives and lettuce are also subjected to acts of debauchery. Butt fucking with a bright red Beefsteak tomato worn as a cock ring is a sight to see! But the crowd pleaser when showing this movie to an audience is watching a dozen olives get shoved up a guy's ass only to have them spit out again and landing on another guy's face! Showing that scene will spice up any dull dinner party!

Before I get too analytical and pretentious (Did I really bring up McLuhan in a porn review?), I should talk about the men in this movie. In a word - HOT! In order of appearance, there is a hairy muscle daddy with a beard, followed by a shapely pretty boy with a perfect v-shaped torso and furry chest, and a smooth twink with a pre-Emo haircut that proudly matches the length of girth of his cock with that of a fat, juicy cucumber. For me, the burnt-orange shag carpet and red brocade curtains play a role just as important as the men themselves, but that's just my twisted sense of humor.

A well-orchestrated fetish sex comedy needs a boffo show-stopping finale, and this one truly delivers. The hunky three-some stand over a salad bowl of Romaine lettuce and tomatoes and shoot their loads into a tasty, though slightly salty, Bukaake Salad. The epilogue shows the boys fully clothed in period wear of the mid-1970's serving the "Sex Salad" to guests at their own dinner party.

If your dinner guests are beyond Martha Stewart, Paula Dean or Rachel Ray recipes and you need to get the conversation going, fire up VintageBareback.com and show them a bit of "Sex Salad". The party will either turn into a sloppy sex orgy, or they'll go home early and give you some private time to watch more porn. 

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PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release

RETRO GAY PORN WEBSITE LAUNCH: VINTAGEBAREBACK.COM
Current Lavender Lounge Members Get Access to Both Sites!

Lavender Lounge Studios is pleased to announce the launch of their long-awaited website completely devoted to vintage gay porn. VintageBareback.com will be a showcase for rare and collectable gay erotic movies, magazines and still photos from the personal collection of site owner, Mark Kliem. And the best part is CURRENT LAVENDER LOUNGE MEMBERS CAN USE THEIR EXISTING PASSWORDS FOR BOTH SITES!

"In the past two years, my personal collection of vintage gay porn has grown large enough to warrant building a separate website," says Mark Kliem of Lavender Lounge Studios. "The most exciting part has been the purchase of 400 or more gay porn movies on 8mm and Super 8 film. I have already transferred a big chunk of them to digital format to show on VintageBareback.com. These are films never before available at LavenderLounge.com!"

In addition to several large purchases of vintage films, Lavender Lounge has also acquired hundreds of gay erotic magazines from the 1950's through the 1970's. "I've been scouring eBay and garage sales for the most obscure old porn. Gay imagery of any kind, even the most innocent or mundane was considered shocking at the time, so you can imagine how rare it was to find nudity or hard core gay sex in print. We've forgotten how secretive and underground the adult industry was at the time. As a result, most of the old magazines I've unearthed have no masthead, no contact address and no copyright information," says Kliem.

Sexuality is the core component that gay men share with each other and these films and magazines were often the only connections gay men had with other members of the tribe. Below the surface of mere exploitation of naked bodies, they are a time capsule of how we lived, how we dressed and how we connected when there were no rules, norms or precedent. "Building this site is a labor of love for me," says Mark Kliem. "I will be approaching the material from a somewhat historical perspective without being too scholarly and dull. The home page of VintageBareback.com is essentially a blog, so I will be using that forum to connect the dots between various cultural references and always looking for humor along the way." 

LavenderLounge.com has been Kliem's flagship site since 1999 and vintage gay porn has always been a compliment to other original content on the site. Vintage gay porn became one of the most popular sections of LavenderLounge.com, but as the site grew, it became apparent that the main site should be split into smaller, more niche-specific sites. Creating a spin-off site of vintage-only material is the second phase of the recent re-launch of LavenderLounge.com. Current members of LavenderLounge.com will have full access to VintageBareback.com with their existing passwords. New members of VintageBareback.com will also get full access to LavenderLounge.com with their same passwords.

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I just received another shipment of vintage gay porn magazines from eBay! This batch of all early 1960's "posing strap" physique and nudist magazines is going to be fun. 

I got three copies of "Tomorrow's Man" Magazine, all from 1963-1966. TM was billed as a "serious" magazine for bodybuilding enthusiasts. It's full of ads for weight lifting equipment and training manuals, and skimpy crotch socks (posing straps) "for physique posing and over-all sunbathing". But the real business was selling photo sets of the bodybuilders with promises of seeing much more. They got away with some naked butt shots, but that's all.

"Big Boys" Magazine was part of the guild of physique photographers that sold photos direct to customers. The softcore magazines were essentially catalogs of how and where to buy more scandalous pictures from photographers like Kris Studio, Athletic Model Guild, Franklin Studios, Tyro Productions, Sophisticate, Frontier Athletic Club, David of Cleveland, Can-Art, Richard Harrison, Saxon, Acme International, and Quaintance. One issue has a review of a paperback book entitled "I, Homosexual", an obvious reference to the science fiction novel, "I, Robot".

"International Nudist Sun" Magazine is an interesting exercise in publishing. Billed as "the sunbathing and nature living monthly magazine", it really stretched the idea of going out in  the sunlight as something spiritual and health-oriented. "This magazine hopes to do its part in the creation of a better world , in which no moral prejudices exist and which will function without the haste so characteristic of our present-day world. We are trying to promote new methods of education, which will help us realize the true goal of sunbathing - a new and beautiful life in freedom and nature."

Get the hip waders, the bullshit is getting deep! "International Nudist Sun" has some incredibly beautiful men with fantastic physiques posing with swords, crossbows, sticks, or whatever they could find. But there are also some losers that snuck in, too, often caught in awkward positions. The juxtaposition of beauty and dork is hysterical.

These latest stack of acquisitions will be scanned soon, so go ahead and get your membership now. I actually have a surprise to announce later this week, so you'll be glad you joined when you did!

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If you haven't noticed, one of the new features of Lavender Lounge is the visitor survey located on the right side of the page. Though it's not very scientific, I am going to try to standardize these polls by conducting for around 30 days starting around the first of every month.

The results of the poll from November 2009 is shown here. I was watching this one with great curiosity to help me plan the future of my business. For the first two or three weeks of the month the results were different than you see here, though. At that time, the winner was clearly the "Anal Sex" section. I can understand that. Given the choice with no restrictions, it's human nature to choose the biggest, best, or most extreme. On the surface, the term "Anal Sex" invokes a more hardcore image than "Solo Studs", so naturally, that's what guys would choose.

My gameplan with LavenderLounge.com since the recent re-launch is to focus this site on my original photography. Most of it is the archive of "Paparazzi" photos I shoot, represented by the sections "Streetfair Skin", "Pornstar Parties" and "Barhopping Bare". That's a genre you don't see often in adult websites, so it's hard for most consumers to understand. That's why the VIP Room also includes my own original hardcore photos plus select galleries from other studios that I promote ("Anal Sex" and "Solo Studs").

It's interesting that the section of Lavender Lounge voted as your favorite is "Vintage". For some strange reason, the winner changed from "Anal Sex" to "Vintage" sometime last week. I always knew (and hoped) that my members liked vintage gay porn, and the survey confirms it. What you don't know is that I am very close to launching an entire website devoted to vintage gay porn. But the best part is, members of Lavender Lounge will have access to BOTH sites! I am currently in the process of adding tons of new material that has never appeared on Lavender Lounge, and most of it is going to be MOVIES! Stay tuned, and be sure to renew your VIP Membership, there's lots more fun in store, and thank you for voting. The next survey will be concerning your porn buying habits from 2009. Check it out.

VINTAGE GAY PORN MOST POPULAR SECTION OF LAVENDER LOUNGE

I don't know much about this video clip, but it was provided by a new sponsor, VintageGayLoops.com. The hot muscle guy with the blond hair, mustache and tattoos was fairly popular in the late 70's.

Sorry about the honky tonk piano music - this is NOT one of the clips from my collection of vintage gay porn movies! I take no blame credit for that!

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PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release

Lavender Lounge Studios is pleased to announce a major re-launch of their flagship web site, LavenderLounge.com. Development began more than a year ago and triggers a new direction for the company.

Owner Mark Kliem says, "Following industry trends, I am breaking up this main web site into a series of more niche-specific websites. LavenderLounge.com will be primarily a showcase for my own original photography. I've gotten the most notoriety for shooting candid photos at street fairs, clubs and porn star events, so that will be the focus of this site. The new site will also feature hardcore scenes I've shot with models, and with new technology available, I'll finally have a workable video solution for my members."

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The new LavenderLounge.com was built on a platform of open source content management software customized with plug-ins for video streaming, blogging, and photo slide shows.

Kliem adds, "Members will be able to watch videos full screen with amazing clarity, but my favorite feature is the photo slide shows. When a member clicks on a thumbnail, the picture opens into a lightbox that hovers over the browser and a slide show begins. Users will have full control to either go from thumbnail to thumbnail or sit back and watch the show. Photos automatically adjust to any screen size and each picture dissolves elegantly to the next. It's gorgeous!"

The majority of the content on LavenderLounge.com is exclusive photography and video shot at gay-oriented outdoor festivals, smutty bar and nightclub events, and sexually charged gatherings of gay porn stars. These completely candid, unrehearsed, reality based "Paparazzi Pics" are sub-divided into three categories:

STREETFAIR SKIN: San Francisco hosts several queer outdoor festivals like Folsom Street Fair, Up Your Alley (aka Dore Alley Street Fair), Castro Street Fair, Gay Pride Parade, Pink Saturday, Hairrison Street Fair and Mark Kliem has been documenting them with photos for several years. He has also photographed his travels to Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Russian River, Las Vegas, Florida, etc.

BARHOPPING BARE: Leather bars have some sort of beauty contest almost every night, and if you mix alcohol with horny men, the clothes come off quickly! Lavender Lounge chooses to shoot photos of bar events featuring hairy chests, big dick daddies, tattooed bad boys, real men with facial hair, and muscle bears.

PORN STAR PARTIES: Mark Kliem photographs many promotional events featuring gay porn stars getting loose and slutty. The GayVN Awards, Grabby Awards, Cybersocket Awards, Bad Boys Pool Parties, fundraisers, after parties, trade shows or anywhere porn stars gather to  titillate and entertain.

To satisfy customers looking more more explicit, hardcore porn, Lavender Lounge also offers photo and video sets of ANAL SEX and SOLO STUDS. Besides his own exclusive content, Lavender Lounge also presents sample picture galleries and movies from the best gay porn producers in the business. VIP Members of Lavender Lounge will get access to a premier selection of previews from the top gay porn studios through content provided in their affiliate programs.

Long time members LavenderLounge.com will be relieved to know that the extensive galleries of vintage gay porn is still active in the VIP Room (aka members area). Over the next few months, Lavender Lounge Studios will be launching a new website of strictly vintage gay porn content, allowing paid members access to both sites. "I can't wait to launch my new vintage site! I will finally be able to properly share my vast collection of rare and underground gay porn from the 1970's, including a couple hundred hours of hardcore movies I am transferring from 8mm. These movies were rarely seen when they were new, and a whole new generation of viewers have never seen them," added Kliem.

The re-launch of LavenderLounge.com was made possible with help from William "Jake" Jacobs of Webs Gold (www.WebsGold.com), specializing in Joomla support and services.

ABOUT MARK KLIEM

Mark Kliem has a degree in Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, and produced a weekly television show for five years before getting into the adult business. He produced and directed 8 feature length porn movies for Brush Creek Media and worked on the crew for Hot House, Titan Media, Falcon, and All Worlds. Mark Kliem was Webmaster of Naked Sword for five years and has judged the GayVN Awards since 2000. His photos have been published in Euro Bear Magazine and 100% Beef and he was named Official Photographer of the GayVN Awards in 2009. His articles have been published in Euro Bear Magazine, Cybersocket, AVN Online, Bay Area Reporter, and he is currently a featured columnist at CarnalNation.com. He's been a guest panelist at several adult industry conventions, been nominated for Cybersocket awards five times and won Best Blog in 2005. Lavender Lounge Studios was nominated for Best GLBT Company at the 2008 Xbiz Awards.

A few weeks ago I announced a big score I made on eBay of vintage gay porn magazines. Well, this latest score of only two mags could surpass that.

I wasn't in the market for vintage tranny porn per se, but the covers were so engaging, I sensed I should snap them up. They're fucking brilliant! Total 70's kitsch to the max. Gawd, where do I begin?

My first vintage gay porn DVD release, "Vintage Bareback: Hairy Muscle Daddy Collection", just got two excellent reviews! First is from Harley Shadow at XX Factor who wrote this:

A look back at some free-spirited 1970s gay porn. Producer Mark Kliem does his best Ted Turner with his restoration of these fantastic pieces.

"Vintage Bareback Hairy Muscle Daddy Collection" is awesome! Not only does it feature a cast covered in beautiful hair, which is a welcome sight, since most models today shave, wax and pluck within an inch of their lives, but the sex is hot and intensely erotic. It only shows us how far porn has or hasn’t come when it comes to ideas, the way it’s filmed, and how we take it for granted since it’s at the touch of any button on our phones, iPods and computers whereas the folks who made and saw these had to go underground almost to get their rocks off.

The other review is from Alex & Charles who put out a video review site, OnGuys.com who wrote:

Collectors and eager enthusiasts for the finest vintage clips should love this DVD set from Lavender Lounge Studios. The performer’s names may be lost to history, but their exciting action-packed scenes are preserved in this two disc set which features a ton of scenes!

When Alex wrote to me that they finished the review he wrote, "Charles will never forget this film in a million years..."

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