1975 appears to be the year of Clay Russell's debut into smut films. What a debut it was. It's reported that his first screen appearance was in a movie called Sur and he also appeared in Snowballing, Six Card Stud, and Behind the Greek Door. Behind the Greek Door is actually something of a play-on-title from another smut movie from three years earlier in 1972. Behind the Green Door was a feature-length straight pornographic film that became a huge hit and remains one of the genre's classic films. But for this gay Greek Door film, Clay Russell and Shawn...
Alan Bates
He could have been as recognizable a household name as his contemporary fellow British actors Michael Caine and Sean Connery, but Alan Bates selected roles for reasons other than celebrity. Otherwise Engaged: The Life Of Alan Bates by Donald Spoto offers many details suggesting that the sexy actor known for his roles in Women In Love, The Fixer and The Entertainer was romantically involved with numerous men over the course of his life. The photo above of Alan is said to be a late-1960s classic physique pose by onetime lover Peter Wyngarde, a noted photographer of the time.Bates in The FixerIt's...
Hot of The Press
Hot Off the Press was a 1984 release that has an impressive list of very famous stars but unfortunately, it is standard fare in terms of that era's smut offerings. It's basically 6 loosely connected scenes which are tied to a printer's shop. This makes perfect sense for a porno storyline, right? At least the title pays homage to the longstanding tradition of smut movies utilizing parody in its titles. Some all-time favorite smut spoofs include Shaving Ryan's Privates, Forrest Hump, and Jurassic Pork. Longtime VGMH followers will remember our complete...
Playgirl's Sexiest Men~circa 1979
Looking at this 1979 issue of Playgirl (with what we know now here in 2014) there are so many surprises with their picks as sexiest men. Some of their selections were no doubt debatable even back then. This was a time when men like Christopher Reeves (Superman), Neil Diamond and Warren Beatty were big-ticket hot draws in the sex appeal arena, but didn't make Playgirl's list. Playgirl did select some guys who would go on to dominate modern culture in many ways. Sportsman Ted Turner would revolutionize media and journalism. Calvin Klein changed the...
Oscar's Unspoken Relatives
One of the earliest (non-porn) spoofs was 1922's Mud and Sand. The title plays fun at the (gay) actor Rudolph Valentino's film Blood and Sand, which was a huge hit around the globe. Many scenes directly parody that film. But with respect to sex, the genre of porn parody really took off with the widespread release of video smut tapes in the 1980s. The public was familiar with these titles and rented them to take home and enjoy. Within the industry (at least among those having a sense of humor about it all) porn spoofs started to become something of an honor if...
Lust and Love: The Art of Roger Payne
We kick off celebrating Valentines month with one of our favorite artists, Roger Payne. Roger's artwork often crosses an unspoken bridge and captures two conflicting forces which are constantly at odds with modern men living in a restrictive world: Primal instincts pitted against social, financial and gender/sexual classes. In the fantastic worlds created by Roger, no matter his social standing, uniform that his job requires him to wear, wealth or age, men are internally heart-throbbing, sweating primal beasts looking for sexual enjoyment and fulfillment. And man's instinctive...
Head for the Showers (Clay Russell part four)
sIn these NOVA Studios scenes, John Tower (aka Butch) and Clay Russell are playing two hotshot stars of their baseball team only they are not getting along so well after embarrassingly being thrown out of ball game practice. Tower is pissed and blames Clay. Exiled to the locker room while the action continues out on the field, Tower decides to show Clay where he ranks and humiliate him in the process. He pulls down the elastic on his jock strap for Clay to suck his dick in retribution for causing him trouble out on the field. Watching self confident Tower control...
