Reviewed by Scott Axelrod
 Watch any number of documentaries placing pornography in an historical context, and you’ll be sure to hear testimony from sexual scholars stating that the first films produced after the inauguration of the motion picture, were in fact, “French” or “Stag” films found in adult bookstores and shown in primitive versions of the popular peep-show loop. In Europe and the Netherlands, photo sets of nude and copulating models were sold like trading cards on the black market. During World War II, “cheesecake” or “pin-up” girls Betty Page and Jane Mansfield became household names, while helping to alleviate the blue balls of many a young soldier stationed overseas.
 VintageCuties.com is an extremely ambitious site that offers members a well-rounded crash course in the origins of porn, while providing a contrast to what we’ve become familiar with in today’s vast market. Over 140 years of T&A are covered here, with erotic and hardcore photo sets dating as far back as the early 1850s.
 Membership grants access to both thousands of color, black-and-white images, and copious amounts of video clips. From the shy “Flapper” girl playing coy with the camera, to the bathing beauty posing with a handful of breast on a beach, tribeswomen of Africa, Parisian aristocracy engaged in ménage a trois, nudist camp co-eds, burlesque performers, the amateur exhibitionist, and the early days of the soft-focus Playboy-style snapshot, you’re transformed to more innocent times, when sex and art overlapped, and sometimes, even the tiniest peek of flesh was enough to give you a chubby.
 The large streaming/downloadable video collection recreates the peep-show experience with grainy, short and silent film footage, presented untouched in its original format. These hard and soft-core clips provide great examples of how the common sexual fantasy was recreated on camera for horny and repressed public audiences worldwide. The plumber plunging his pipe, the new secretary sucking up to her boss, the sexy nurse caring for the bed-bound patient, the teacher reprimanding the naughty student, the casting couch audition, and even the writer trying to cure his writer’s block by banging a big-tittied babe, are some of the scenarios--many ideas the current-day adult entertainment producer owes credit to their predecessors for formulating. Some of these scenes may seem tame by today’s standards, but they certainly contain the same fucking, sucking, groping, and stroking that we’ve all come to know and love.
 Rounding out the history lesson, are a collection of erotic stories, and access to the bonus site HairyPussyCuties.com, which for those of you looking to fast-forward a few years to girls with hairy pussies that are still actually alive, has a lot to look at. VintageCuties.com's photos section is updated consistently on a daily basis, with new video footage added every four days. For the standard membership fee, there is a lot of material to sift through. So, whether you’re a porn purist who likes to stoke it old-school to all-natural cuties, or a complete newbie seeking an education in the origins of jerk-off material, then this site is an important historical archive you won’t want to miss. The next time you see Jenna, Tera, Devon, or Savannah on all fours getting dicked balls deep, you’ll remember that it was these pioneering skinflick-suffragettes that paved the sticky way for them, and all of us, today.
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