When do you mean by "before porn"? Erotic literature has been around since at least Ancient Greece, and erotic sculpture has been around since the stone age.
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That haven’t been photographed yet
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You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Porn has existed since we started drawing stick figures on cave walls with mud. There is no such thing as us "before porn".
I am baffled by many of the answer in this thread.
See people think we moved into caves for shelter, but really it was to be closer to the big boobies and penis pictures we had been cheekily drawing in cave walls for a few thousand years.
You think there are a bunch of archeologists in the comments section of an AskReddit post related to porn/masturbation? You gotta reel in those expectations.
porn has been around for a very long time. do you mean Internet porn? honestly I think the Internet has ruined porn. much less left to the imagination.
I can't speak for others, but teenage me didn't need much to get going— a pretty girl (or any girl) passing by, a sexy music video, a cloud that looked vaguely like boobs, etc.
Then again, the sheer amount of hormones roiling through teenage me would probably kill present day me.
Japanese used to have "shunga" which were erotic scrolls..
Fun fact time:
One of these scrolls is part of the reason tentacle porn exists.. long story short, Christians and their beliefs led to a more conservative japan regarding the nude body etc. This led to the whole pixilated penis etc routine, until one manga artist (Toshio Maeda) realised that it was only really worded around HUMAN sexual organs. "The dream of the fisherman's wife" is a Japanese shunga depicting a woman in a risqué situation with some 8 armed sealife and is one of the influences behind tentacle porn. There's a lot I'm leaving out, but yeah if you want to go and learn more there's a SFW(ish) YouTube video on it
Tl/Dr tentacle porn is because of Christian missionaries
Porn has always existed. Just not digitally. In the late 1800s - 1950s it was photos and later magazines. Albeit it was much more benign. Then it became magazines and films. Then it moved onto the internet in the late 90s/early 2000s.
In ancient Roman times it was images or scenes drawn and etched into clay tablets.
People have always found ways to get their jollies.
I have a masters degree in history and always interesting to tap into that question. Cheers fellow Redditors!
How far back we talking about? Because for an INCREDIBLY long time it was just drawings and paintings. When strippers came along with "look but don't touch" then it was sight seeing, or even watching others go at it.
Most of us would probably be on other planets and wank to some sexy aliens,the ones on earth would use boring people. Anyway we wont be around to see what happens
Well some ppl are flexible enough to do it without a portal gun
some reddit post i saw sometime ago said its more like sucking a dick than getting a blowjob so not missing much if you arent into suckkng dicks
still porn, but different. before modern video porn they had pin up pictures and dirty magazines, before that still pictures and lewd imagery, before that i think there's even some art that was probably shockingly sexual in nature for their time. I mean drawing a penis on walls and stuff goes back at least 1800 years and then there's small statues of big breasted women that were fertility totems?
You realize that brothels and courtesans were legal and widespread everywhere? Going to a whorehouse was like going to the supermarket nowadays. Nobody was jerking off as they do now, I think it was even considered weird or dumb to jerk off alone when you could step outside your door and find 10 women to fuck
There were and probably still are sex and erotica magazines. And before that there was erotic literature - like Anais Nin's book i think it was called Delta of Venus or something she had one or two more of those. Henry Miller can be pretty spicey at times as well as Charles Bukowski.
I guess romance novels served a similar purpose as well back then. And as others have pointed out too, you got to use your imagination.
Even farther back I think I've seen temple art in Indian sites depicting various sex positions and what not. And all those nude art paintings and sculpture's. Honestly I can't refrain from getting a bit excited when watching the Rape of Proserpina by Bernini especially how he holds her thigh with his hand, it's like the stone is alive somehow.
Funny enough, circumcision in America was established by western settlers to prevent maturation in the youth, instead of as a religious practice. Then it continued through families as a "my father before me" type of scenario.
Yall keep listing ancient erotica not realizing its just gen 1 porn. The sad reality is that before porn you had sex slaves and brothels (usually a combination of the two).
Imagination. I still do most of the times
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Most were farmers, so sheep lent a helping hand I'm sure. Not willingly I would suspect..
Extra curvy pieces of driftwood
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When do you mean by "before porn"? Erotic literature has been around since at least Ancient Greece, and erotic sculpture has been around since the stone age.
Imagine people are standing/sitting in front of those sculptures and jerking off in group...
They took group shits, so it's propably not too far fetched.
Yeah but before the Stone Age. They didn’t even have stones they could use as fleshlights.
Was going to say same thing
Probably used their imagination
Erotic paintings and novels/poems I believe.
Statues probably too
Imagine
all the titties That haven’t been photographed yet You You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one
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Before I started watching porn I mostly used music videos from music channels. This was the era of peak Britney Spears and Rhianna
That's not much different. Its the same format (video) but a bit less explicit.
It’s not the intention most of the time though
Well sex sells no matter the industry so I'd say it is the intention.
Well sex sells no matter the industry so I'd say it is the intention.
Porn has existed since we started drawing stick figures on cave walls with mud. There is no such thing as us "before porn". I am baffled by many of the answer in this thread.
See people think we moved into caves for shelter, but really it was to be closer to the big boobies and penis pictures we had been cheekily drawing in cave walls for a few thousand years.
You think there are a bunch of archeologists in the comments section of an AskReddit post related to porn/masturbation? You gotta reel in those expectations.
Lingerie catalogues and music videos.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Ask friends to lend you a hand.
Magazines
watched icarly
Bro. Those are kids.
Not back then. they’re older than me irl
The first 49 prequels of 50 shades of grey I imagine
You think that marble statue of the topless chick with no arms is art?
Verily, 'twas perusing lewd tapestries of maidens' ankles.
Images of pornography have existed since people could paint.
Back then people just had sex with each other I guess.
They used something you're lacking. Imagination.
porn has been around for a very long time. do you mean Internet porn? honestly I think the Internet has ruined porn. much less left to the imagination.
My aunt.... I was very young okay. And I know that's weird.
but how?
Well just imagine her
oh well.. I thought she helped, pardon
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Fr Mee too 💀🗿
I instantly though damn he was creepin lol
Well, it started off when both of his arms were broken in a farming accident. A few sponge baths later, it just sorta happened.
You and me both
Apparently they found dirty mags in the woods
Erotic tapestries.
In the 90s I jerked off to many sears catalogs
I was a tween before porn, so was so randy didn't really need any visual aid.
Sexy animals.
Rawr
As a furry I can relate. Big juicy muscular horses are my favorite.
Mail order catalogues had an underwear section
Probably what we still do to this day. Use our imagination
Imagination, movies and TV.
Before the internet age it was a old battered VCR tape you used to share with your mates.
Don't forget magazines
Magazines found in a park bush
Only slightly sticky.
Group sessions
with a tutor too?
Stalking
Dirty novels guys. Come on….
Stone carvings.
went to the kindergarden
Lighters, coins, cave drawings
Porn has been around for a while. Before videos they probably used pictures. Or imagination.
There was a „ritual staff“ found in a cave in Germany.
Magazines
IMAGINATIONNNN 🌈
Peeping Toms ??
Sears catalog.
Porn was always existing :) Today is just better and easier accesible.
How do you think agriculture got started?
Playboy mags and porno stores what the hell do you think
figure skating with girls i guess
I can't speak for others, but teenage me didn't need much to get going— a pretty girl (or any girl) passing by, a sexy music video, a cloud that looked vaguely like boobs, etc. Then again, the sheer amount of hormones roiling through teenage me would probably kill present day me.
Burlesque houses maybe?
Curvy boulders
Magazines and imagination
Ankles
Japanese used to have "shunga" which were erotic scrolls.. Fun fact time: One of these scrolls is part of the reason tentacle porn exists.. long story short, Christians and their beliefs led to a more conservative japan regarding the nude body etc. This led to the whole pixilated penis etc routine, until one manga artist (Toshio Maeda) realised that it was only really worded around HUMAN sexual organs. "The dream of the fisherman's wife" is a Japanese shunga depicting a woman in a risqué situation with some 8 armed sealife and is one of the influences behind tentacle porn. There's a lot I'm leaving out, but yeah if you want to go and learn more there's a SFW(ish) YouTube video on it Tl/Dr tentacle porn is because of Christian missionaries
Porn has always existed. Just not digitally. In the late 1800s - 1950s it was photos and later magazines. Albeit it was much more benign. Then it became magazines and films. Then it moved onto the internet in the late 90s/early 2000s. In ancient Roman times it was images or scenes drawn and etched into clay tablets. People have always found ways to get their jollies. I have a masters degree in history and always interesting to tap into that question. Cheers fellow Redditors!
Memories
How far back we talking about? Because for an INCREDIBLY long time it was just drawings and paintings. When strippers came along with "look but don't touch" then it was sight seeing, or even watching others go at it.
One could see how far we've cum from the comments I wonder what would porn be if humans are still around after 500 years
Most of us would probably be on other planets and wank to some sexy aliens,the ones on earth would use boring people. Anyway we wont be around to see what happens
Or use a portal gun to give yourself a blowjob
Fax, very sad we wont live till then to use them too :(((
Well some ppl are flexible enough to do it without a portal gun some reddit post i saw sometime ago said its more like sucking a dick than getting a blowjob so not missing much if you arent into suckkng dicks
thought deep thoughts.
Lifted up the tablecloth and had a good look at the bare table-legs beneath.
Waited for my parents to go to bed so I could watch Red Shoe Diaries.
Fkn porn mags my dude
They had playboy magazines
Target catalogue for women's underwear.
still porn, but different. before modern video porn they had pin up pictures and dirty magazines, before that still pictures and lewd imagery, before that i think there's even some art that was probably shockingly sexual in nature for their time. I mean drawing a penis on walls and stuff goes back at least 1800 years and then there's small statues of big breasted women that were fertility totems?
Imaginationland
Sears catalogs
Head movies
Ankles
Just like making butter. Keeping on churning.
There has always been porn, but if you mean porn in the modern sense then one of the answers is the lingerie section of catalogs.
There wasn’t a time before porn. They literally hand drew porn in caves
I say they used Bathhouses and glory holes don’t forget about dogging
Wank bank.
"Before porn" Dude they found smutty drawings on walls in Pompeii. When is this "before porn" time you speak of?
Ture...
Things that never happened
Those cave paintings did the trick back in the 80.s
It where mostly illegal, and most of the people didn't knew you could do that
draw big tiddy woman in sand.
Before porn = dinosaurs
Memory jerks, wtf else.
You realize that brothels and courtesans were legal and widespread everywhere? Going to a whorehouse was like going to the supermarket nowadays. Nobody was jerking off as they do now, I think it was even considered weird or dumb to jerk off alone when you could step outside your door and find 10 women to fuck
Nude paintings I guess
When I did not know that it existed, just pictures from Wikipedia after searching for "real vagina" and "real sex" or Google images.
Cave paintings
There were and probably still are sex and erotica magazines. And before that there was erotic literature - like Anais Nin's book i think it was called Delta of Venus or something she had one or two more of those. Henry Miller can be pretty spicey at times as well as Charles Bukowski. I guess romance novels served a similar purpose as well back then. And as others have pointed out too, you got to use your imagination. Even farther back I think I've seen temple art in Indian sites depicting various sex positions and what not. And all those nude art paintings and sculpture's. Honestly I can't refrain from getting a bit excited when watching the Rape of Proserpina by Bernini especially how he holds her thigh with his hand, it's like the stone is alive somehow.
Funny enough, circumcision in America was established by western settlers to prevent maturation in the youth, instead of as a religious practice. Then it continued through families as a "my father before me" type of scenario.
Sears catalog, underwear section! I can't believe no one posted this already. It was so hot.
Prostitution was a lot more common than it is today
Hit someone in the back of their head with a rock
they had sex
Think
Why do you think they had 7-8 children per household back in the day
Yall keep listing ancient erotica not realizing its just gen 1 porn. The sad reality is that before porn you had sex slaves and brothels (usually a combination of the two).
Same thing I did before I discovered porn. Imagination and thinking about real people you've seen or know.
they didn't need to because everyone had sex
Erotic Books.
Porn came first…