Porn is never more than a couple of taps or clicks away these days.
Spare a thought for our grandfathers who had much less choice and a far harder job getting access to the good stuff. These days, we can stream the entire filmographies of Golden Era porn stars… on a handheld phone. Who needs a trip to the sex cinema?! It would blow Grampy’s dirty mind.
Yep, watching vintage porn is easier than ever. If you are looking for some nostalgic erotica, several sites specialize in retro movies. There’s just something about the crackly footage from decades ago; it adds an extra ‘oomph’ to each scene.
I took the chance to explore some of the most popular vintage porn sites paying homage to these forgotten classics. Check out my top picks below.
What Are The Best Vintage Porn Sites?
“They don’t make ’em like they used to…”
“What’s that, Dad?“
“Pornos.” 😳
I was born in the eighties, which means any adult movie released on VHS qualifies as ‘vintage’ in my book. A mate of mine recently referred to his Kazaa download stash from the noughties as ‘old classics’.
It made me think: vintage is truly in the eye of the beholder.
For the purpose of this guide, though, we’re going to be looking much further back to the respective eras of antique, classic and retro porn.
1. The Classic Porn
www.theclassicporn.com
Vintage Range: 1965–1990s (focus on ’70s–90s Golden Age)
True to its name, The Classic Porn offers one of the largest archives of premium retro erotica on the internet.
Think of this as the Netflix of vintage porn: it’s a massive on-demand library of classic adult films and scenes. How massive? The site advertises 8,300+ full-length DVDs/movies, 11,500+ photos, and over 8,000 pornstars represented.
In reality, about 4,900 films are currently available to stream (with more added regularly), but that’s still an insane amount of old-school content. Their earliest titles date back to 1965, and they have around 170 movies from the ’60s alone. Most of the collection, however, is ’80s and ’90s Golden Era stuff – the era of big hair, neon spandex, and cheesy synth music.
It’s a great site for filtering and search functions, with all the movies being well-categorized and curated. Choose from interracial porn, DP flicks or everything from fisting to shaving, lesbian to squirting. Porn genres have expanded since the Golden Era, but this site does a cracking job of categorizing the evergreen content of yesteryear.
You’ll certainly find all the legends of porn being represented by some of their most famous titles, including leading male stars John Holmes, Rocco Siffredi, Buck Adams, and Harry Reems, as well as female porn icons Brigitte Lahaie, P.J. Sparxx, Isis Nile, Tonisha Mills, and Bianca Trump (no relation to the President!).
Quality-wise, most videos are digitized from DVD masters, so expect 480p or so – decent but not high-def.
They offer a 3-day trial for $3 – a cheap way to relive a specific classic. Regular membership is about $34.95/month.
2. Adult Empire
https://adultempire.com
Vintage Range: All eras (not a dedicated vintage site, but massive selection)
Adult Empire isn’t a specialized vintage site per se – it’s a giant adult VOD (Video on Demand) platform that sells and rents porn movies of all genres. So why include it? Because Adult Empire happens to offer more classic titles than most specialist archives combined.
Adult Empire is… bloody huge. It’s home to over 165,000 movies and 700,000 clips. Within that, they have specific categories for “Classic” and “Vintage” porn. By the site’s count, there are 20,000+ classic porn movies and 4,900+ vintage porn movies in their catalog.
Even with some overlap, that’s roughly 25k older titles – far more than any other archive. It includes everything from famous Golden Age films (Deep Throat, Debbie Does Dallas) to obscure 90s gonzo flicks. If a studio has ever digitized and licensed a classic title, chances are Adult Empire carries it.
The catch: Adult Empire is pay-per-view. Unlike membership sites, here you generally buy or rent movies individually. Typical prices might be $5–$15 to rent or ~$10–$25 to download/own a single film. That can add up fast if you’re binging old porn like popcorn. However, they do have an Unlimited subscription option for $24.99/month… and that’s where the smart money is.
Still, in my experience, the Unlimited sub’s “Vintage” selection is only about 500 movies – a decent chunk, but nowhere near the full 4,900+ available for purchase.
So, Adult Empire is fantastic for cherry-picking specific classics you can’t find elsewhere, but it’s not the all-you-can-eat buffet unless you’re ready to open your wallet wide. On the plus side, video quality is often the best available (some classics here are HD remasters or at least as clean as possible), and you can truly own the content you buy.
3. Delta of Venus
www.deltaofvenus.com
Vintage Range: Early 1900s through 1970s (yes, antique erotica!)
This truly vintage repository of movies spans the early 1900s through to the 1970s and delivers some fantastic antique vintage porn as well as classic clips from the Golden Age of skin flicks.
There are over 900 movies to watch, and they include everything from explicit retro sex to the teasing art of burlesque and Victorian smut. There’s even vintage erotica animation as well as erotic art and postcards.
Precious few retro porn sites are going as far back in time as Delta of Venus. Granted, some of the oldest material is not what I’d call fap-worthy, but it’s historically interesting nonetheless.
Content is in the form of movies and photos plus articles, audio files, erotic literature and more. The collection is equally as diverse in origin and comes from the USA, Europe, and Asia. The scenes and content also cover everything from the rude to the lewd, the obscure to the mainstream, and everything in between, including straight sex, BDSM, and fine art.
If you’re a true vintage porn connoisseur or history buff, Delta of Venus is a delight. It feels like browsing a dirty museum exhibit – antique erotica that’s equal parts arousing and educational. They’ve got material over 100 years old here!. It’s niche, it’s quirky, and it absolutely scratches the itch for authentic vintage porn that predates the VHS era. A monthly membership costs $14.95.
4. Private Classics
www.privateclassics.com
Vintage Range: 1960s–2000 (magazines and films from Private Media)
Private Classics is essentially the digital vault of Private, one of Europe’s biggest adult entertainment brands. Private has been cranking out content since the Swinging Sixties, first as a magazine and later as a film studio. This site compiles the best of Private’s archives from those early days right up to the year 2000.
The result is a Euro-flavored trip through porn history. Expect plenty of legendary European starlets with big hair and bigger bushes.
Private has painstakingly restored and converted its classic VHS titles to digital. Video quality varies by age, but many films have been cleaned up nicely (no more tracking lines from your old VCR). The library includes some legendary ’80s and ’90s titles from Private’s golden era, plus tons of content from the 60s–70s that originally appeared in their glossy magazines.
In fact, a lot of the older content is presented as high-res magazine scans and photo galleries – a real treat if you enjoy vintage centerfold photography.
By the numbers, Private Classics boasts 250+ vintage magazine issues, 1,500+ photosets, 100+ movies and 800+ clips/scenes, featuring over 200 classic performers from the Private roster. Despite the age of the content, the site itself feels modern and slick – big glossy thumbnails, easy navigation by stars or film titles, and everything loads fast. Still, the $29.95/month price is perhaps a little on the higher side.
5. Herzog
www.herzogvideos.com
Vintage Range: 1980s–1990s (classic German Alpine-themed porn)
Known for being the home of ‘Heidi’ porn, Herzog was founded in 1979 and has produced over 250 titles, most of which were released in the 1980s and 1990s.
Once a big name in Europe, Herzog Videos is a German studio that was responsible for some classic ‘old school’ porn from this specialist genre. It’s not the oldest porn on our list, but those randy Germans are certainly giving me some nostalgic vibes.
The content isn’t as ancient as some archives, but it definitely qualifies as retro and distinctive. Imagine wholesome Bavarian farm girls by day, randy Bavarian farm girls by night. Yup, lots of pigtails, milkmaid outfits, and outdoor romps in scenic hillsides – like The Sound of Music, but with more yodeling during the sex scenes.
The site has had a nice facelift with a new sleek modern interface since I last reviewed the site a couple of years ago. They’ve also been faithfully restoring their old masters to preserve the best quality, so many scenes look as good as they ever will (still SD, but clean). The niche here is fairly specific: German “Schulmädchen” style porn with an outdoorsy twist.
At around $29.95/month, it’s a specialist site for sure… probably best suited to serious collectors or nostalgia hunters, or randy old Germans!
6. Rodox
www.rodox.com
intage Range: 1970s–1990s (scanned magazine photo-stories)
From Germany we head north to Denmark. Rodox is a celebration of Danish pornography’s golden years, specifically through the lens of classic porn magazines.
If you have a fetish for old-school dirty mags – the kind sold under the counter in the ’70s – Rodox will be your jam. All the material here consists of photo sets and pictorial “stories” pulled from popular Danish adult magazines of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. Not videos, just high-quality scans of those glossy pages. Some of the featured magazines include legendary titles like Color Climax, Lesbian Love, Teenage Sex, Sex Bizarre, and Blue Climax.
(If those names ring a bell, congratulations, you’re officially a vintage porn nerd.)
Though not movies, the action is pretty hardcore and, in some cases, extremely explicit and ‘taboo.’
In fact, Danish porn of that era was famously boundary-pushing. You’ll find everything from straightforward couples action to jaw-dropping group scenarios and kinky/taboo themes that mainstream US porn wouldn’t have touched back then.
Rodox’s collection has 700+ full photo stories comprising several thousand images in total. It’s part of the same network that brings you Retro Raw and Vintage Classic Porn (see below), so you get access to all three sites for the same price: €19.95 per month.
7. Bruce Seven Films
www.brucesevenfilms.com
Vintage Range: 1980s–1990s (vintage lesbian & BDSM films)
Bruce Seven Films is a niche archive dedicated entirely to the works of one man – the late, great Bruce Seven, a prolific porn director from the ’80s and ’90s.
If you’re not familiar, Bruce Seven was known for his lesbian-themed movies and BDSM/fetish productions, working with studios like Bizarre Video and Evil Angel back in the day. He even snagged a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 for his contributions to the adult industry
This premium vintage porn site gives you all of Bruce Seven’s movies in one place, and you can follow his career over 100+ films. As well as downloadable DVD quality movies, you can also access high-resolution photos from plus get access to 5 bonus sites (Ed Powers, Luke Hardy, 3 AM, and Sexy Momma).
Though Bruce Seven died in 2000, his work is well worth checking out, especially if you’re looking for more of a dark and twisted BDSM-take on the old porn classics.
The added bonus sites make the ~$25–30 monthly fee more palatable, since you’re effectively getting a mini-network for one price.
8. Hall of Fame Stars
www.halloffamestars.com
Vintage Range: Late 1980s–1990s (scenes featuring AVN Hall of Famers)
Hall of Fame Stars isn’t an exclusively “vintage porn” site, but it might as well be – its focus is on curating scenes and films starring the legends of porn who have been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.
In other words, it’s a collection celebrating the all-time greats of the adult industry. We’re talking icons like Jenna Jameson, Asia Carrera, Christy Canyon (yep, the ’90s are officially vintage now), and going further back to classics like Ginger Lynn, Vanessa del Rio, and Debi Diamond. If a porn star was a big deal in the ’70s, ’80s, or ’90s, chances are they’re featured on this site.
Most movies are from the late 1980s through the 1990s, and the content here is not exclusive; however, there are over 400 DVD titles to watch — although annoyingly, not in full.
It can be a tad frustrating if you wanted the complete vintage feature experience, but at least the parts with your favorite stars are there. The site has a modern layout with bios and filters, so you can, say, click on Jenna Jameson and see all her classic scenes available (there are plenty).
Membership ($29/month) also includes access to Pornstar Legends (also featured on our list) for free, since they’re sister sites on the New Sensations network.
9. Retro Raw
www.retroraw.com
Vintage Range: 1970s–1990s (vintage DVD collections and loops)
Retro Raw is one of my favorite archives of historic erotica, with content from some classic retro labels such as Sunshine Films, Caballero Classics and Swedish Erotica.
If those ring a bell, you know we’re dealing with prime 70s/80s smut. Essentially, Retro Raw is a grab-bag of popular porn series and films from the Golden Age. You’ll find plenty of familiar titles (if you’re into vintage porn, anyway) and big-name stars like Lisa De Leeuw, Seka, Annette Haven, Bridgette Monet, etc., popping up all over.
The range is great, and membership (€19.95/month) includes access to Vintage Classic Porn as well as Rodox, the Danish retro porn magazine archive. Much of the content is sydicated across these sites. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up dumping all of the material in to a single vintage porn streaming site (as is the norm with many pay networks these days) — definitely a service I’d pay for.
10. Pornstar Legends
www.pornstarlegends.com
Vintage Range: 1970s–1990s (mainstream classic scenes & films)
Pornstar Legends is the companion site to Hall of Fame Stars, and together they form the New Sensations vintage network.
The line-up of stars and studios is very similar to the Hall of Fame site, but there are some more obscure performers and titles on here. Not all of your retro porn favorites will qualify as Hall of Famers, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth a cheeky second-look…
In total you get access to more than 780 pornstars in 2,206 scenes.
I tapped through clips from Nina Hartley, Amber Lynn, John Holmes, Crystal Wilder and Jeanna Fine from popular titles and series, including:
- Face Sitter Series
- Diamond Collection
- Deep Throat Collection
- Debbie Does Series
- Seka’s Diary
- Sorority Sex Kittens Series
- Talk Dirty to Me Series
- White Men Can’t Hump
They aren’t exclusive clips, but they are well-curated and cover quite a wide range of tastes, from softcore to hardcore. It’s mostly mainstream titles, fairly vanilla, with little in the way of kink.
What Qualifies As Vintage Porn?
Speak to someone in their 40s or 50s, and vintage porn is anything in black and white, whilst retro porn will take them back to their teens and cover the 1970s and 1980s.
However, anyone under 30 would undoubtedly classify the 70s as vintage and consider adult movies from the 1990s ‘retro.’
We can classify vintage porn into three categories loosely:
- Antique Vintage Porn
- Classic Vintage Porn
- Retro Vintage Porn
If you want to watch the best porn from previous decades (and according to Pornhub, many of you are!), you will find a LOT of recommendations in my individual decade guides:
Antique Vintage Porn
By antique vintage porn, I mean adult movies that were made pre-1960. This can refer to black-and-white flicks as well as color. Adult films made during this period were not intended to be shown in a home-movie setting, as the home video player wasn’t a common appliance until the 1970s.
These films would have been produced for projection screens, with the main markets being adult cinemas. Though intended for larger audiences, some still had quite hardcore content, but most were far softer than you would find in modern porno films.
By comparison, nudity is also kept to a minimum, and often, there are no explicit shots of genitalia, just the odd breast, nipple, ass, and sometimes cock and pussy.
Of a low quality, often with poor sound (some with no sound), these porno flicks are a reminder that, even in days gone by (and you can find antique vintage porn over 100 years old), there has always been an appetite for erotic material.
Classic Vintage Porn
Often referred to as the ‘Golden Age of Porn’, this period covers the revolution of porn production when adult movies really began to shine.
With ownership of VHS players on the rise, porn aficionados could readily access adult content in their own homes, and this fact helped push porn production rates through the roof.
Made during the 1970s and 1980s, classic vintage porn comes from across Europe and the USA (specifically from San Fernando in California) and is often the stereotype of porn we imagine — the music, the lighting, the muffled grunts and plenty of pubic hair, and chest hair (the men, not the women).
A lot of classic vintage porn is heavily plot-based, and a full-length feature film of over an hour will likely only have four or five sex scenes.
They can be softcore or hardcore and, depending on where they were produced, can also include some very risqué and taboo scenes. Notably, some European studios produced highly explicit content during this period.
The male performers are less ‘buff’ or ‘ripped’ than you might find in contemporary porn but the women are still busty, leggy and good-looking but also mainly ‘natural’.
Retro Vintage Porn
Referring to adult movies made during the late 1980s to 1990s when porn production was in its prime, retro vintage porn is starting to get of a much higher quality and, in hard format, is available on DVD as well as VHS.
In this period, we can see a much more varied output of porn titles with less of a reliance on plot and more hardcore scenes being the norm.
In general mainstream, men are getting less hairy but more muscled, and there is an increased number of women who have had breast augmentation (this is particularly true in porno films shot in Los Angeles).
There is more humor in adult movies made during this time, and the porn parody starts to come into its own as adult film directors pay homage to their favorite movie scripts by dedicating whole pornos to them.
For the purposes of our guide, anything made after 1999 is most definitely modern porn… sorry, guys. You can head over to our porn section for comprehensive coverage of everything that came after 2000.
Like a good bottle of wine, leave those millennium porn flicks on the shelf and let them age a while longer. 😉
That wraps up our adventure into the hottest vintage porn sites. Are there any libraries of old classics I’ve missed? Got a favorite that you want to share?
Let’s hear your favorites!
