In it are scenes involving a trapeze, stylized, slow-motion money shots that last several minutes, interracial sex, and a public orgy.

Perhaps the first “psychedelic porn” movie, 1972’s Behind the Green Door was the first feature-length adult film from the infamous Mitchell Brothers, and helped to usher in the “Golden Age” of porn (along with Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones, which we’ll get to).

Just be sure to get off our lawn afterward. Call it a history lesson if you must, since many of these films still impact popular culture 40 years after their release. So it’s with a whiff of nostalgia that we present this list of “classic” adult films worth revisiting. We sometimes wish modern porn was a little more like the glory hole days of the 1970s, when women were afflicted with clitorises in their throats and courageous cheerleaders with fringed bangs could bang their way to financial prosperity.

This article originally appeared on AlterNet.Ĭall us old-fashioned, but lately we miss the simpler times, when pornographic films involved actual cameras and not grainy, night-vision cell phone footage when images of Japanese teenagers getting penetrated by squid tentacles wasn’t something we could easily Google when posting “revenge porn” of ex-lovers would never have entered our thoughts because it didn’t exist.

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