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.

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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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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.

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When I first started directing porn movies, one of the things they told me was, "Never show a guy dancing in a porn movie." The idea of a guy dancing onscreen might sound hot conceptually, but even if he's a skilled stripper it just doesn't translate to screen. 

That's why this little clip from a vintage COLT movie is so funny. He broke all the rules of gay porn - no dancing and no rolling your underwear up to look like a thong. Enjoy this clip from COLT's original "Waterbucks", but I promise you, if you join the COLT website, the videos can only get better! In fact, the COLT website has recently made a major upgrade and I think you'll really like the way their vintage gay porn movies and photos are now presented. Sign up and take a look.

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In any given period, there are always a group of handsome gay bait actors/models/waiters that attract the attention of gay men even if you don't know their names. If you point one out to one of your friends, he's no doubt just as familiar with the actor as you are. Case in point is Dennis Cole, an actor I never had occasion to connect a name to, but as soon as I saw the picture, I recognized this actor from numerous television appearances in the 1970's. Turns out a lot of other queens my age lusted after him, too. A discussion board I frequent has a lot of eagle-eyed porn hounds that dug up some good information about Dennis Cole including some posing strap modeling photos of a very young Dennis Cole redoubtably shot by Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild.

'Felony Squad' actor Dennis Cole dies
Ex-stuntman also appeared in 'Love Boat,' 'Charlie's Angels'
By Gregg Kilday
Nov 16, 2009, 06:51 PM ET

Dennis Cole, a stuntman who rose to TV stardom in the 1966 series "Felony Squad" and went on to dozens of guest-starring appearances throughout the 1970s and '80s, died Sunday at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 69.

The cause of death was not released.

Although born in Detroit, Cole had the blond, athletic look of a quintessential California surfer, which earned him the attention of physique magazines and led to his casting as rookie detective Jim Briggs on "Felony." After that show's 2 1/2 year-run, Cole followed with the series "Bracken's World" and "Bearcats!" and a stint on the daytime soap "The Young and the Restless" that began in 1981.

Cole guest-starred on such series as "Medical Center," "Police Story," "The Love Boat" and "Charlie's Angels," where he met his second wife, Jaclyn Smith, to whom he was married from 1978-81.

He encountered tragedy in 1991 when his son Joe, from his first marriage to Sally Ann Bergeron, was murdered during a home invasion robbery. The case was never solved.

In recent years, Cole became a real estate broker in Fort Lauderdale with his wife, Ree Cole, whom he recently divorced amicably. He is survived by his brother Richard.

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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Steve Kelso was a cream dream for a lot of guys back in the 1990's with his hairy chest and manly demeanor. Check out this seldom seen scene from COLT's original version of Waterbucks.

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