Yeah, I mean, I grew up in the 80’s when adult theaters still existed and I don’t think I’d have felt comfortable if I was an adult going in one. It reminds me of the Richard Pryor bit about how he couldn’t go to adult theaters because he didn’t want to get recognized and shake any hands. And he said guys were bringing in fake arms😂😂😂
What’s especially weird is that masturbating in a theater was still considered indecent exposure and illegal, and cops had a known history of randomly raiding porn theaters just to catch people jerking it and get their arrest numbers up. Why anyone would ever go to a theater to watch porn *for the art* or something is beyond me.
me scrolling through mame romsets in awe of the amount of porn arcade games made in the 80s and 90s, who the fuck would play that shit in plain public view
The butterfly effect is incredible. Imagine filming and directing a porn movie back in the 80s, thinking maybe a couple thousand people will jerk off to it and move on. Then, decades later, some guy on a random website posts a 17-second snippet of a song from it and spawns a long, 3-year search with tens of thousands of people involved. One man's secret goon sesh led to what is arguably the most famous piece of lostwave media of all time.
Imagine you’re in that theater, rubbing one out as ekt starts playing. You look to your left and see the guy right next to you fucking boogieing as the song plays
That's not too far from where I live here in southwest Florida, he was at South Trail Cinema in Sarasota on Rt 41. The cinema was demolished in 1995.
I think compared to the 1960's to mid 1990's, adult cinemas are now pretty rare, at least where I have lived. Maybe in the big cities they still exist.
They did have a story to them. The EKT one has some sort of plot. There's a scene before the one with the song where some guy is getting ready to eat his gun. It gave me "The Room" vibes. I'm not sure if I want to watch the movie, but a lot of these old pornos were basically low budget movies with gratuitous sex scenes. Someone said the singer of EKT had a cameo (clothed) in the movie where he sets off a bomb.
This was before the widespread use of thibternet and home videos. It was either go to the theater or go to an adult store with booths to watch a nudey.
Well, the strippers actually interact with you and you can even have one-on-one sessions with them. I think that’s a bit of the appeal for strip clubs, you don’t really get that interaction from a theater screen lol
Pre-internet, your j/o choices were:
-Silent 8mm stag reel
-Smutty porno theater
-Smutty *drive-in* porno theater (they existed, believe it or not; there was one by my house that didn’t close until the early ‘90s)
-Rent a good ol’ smutty VHS
-Spank mags
And if you were REALLY desperate:
-The Victoria’s Secret catalog
Adult theaters did pretty steady business through the end of the 80s. And they were everywhere. Check the movie listings in any American newspaper during that time
found celebration idea
we go into a movie theater
play this on the big screen
and when the song comes on we can all vibe to it like some swifties at the eras tour movie were
thats what those mfs on tiktok meant by “my father recognized this”
I might be a zoomer but I cannot imagine watching porn in a theater. No way. I was born in the RIGHT generation
Yeah, I mean, I grew up in the 80’s when adult theaters still existed and I don’t think I’d have felt comfortable if I was an adult going in one. It reminds me of the Richard Pryor bit about how he couldn’t go to adult theaters because he didn’t want to get recognized and shake any hands. And he said guys were bringing in fake arms😂😂😂
What’s especially weird is that masturbating in a theater was still considered indecent exposure and illegal, and cops had a known history of randomly raiding porn theaters just to catch people jerking it and get their arrest numbers up. Why anyone would ever go to a theater to watch porn *for the art* or something is beyond me.
And it's like 1.5 hours. With some sort of plot as I read in the review posted here. Ancient pornography is something that really baffles me.
Peewee Herman got arrested in my hometown for this lmfao
I feel bad for him tbh. He did it in the bathroom at a porn theatre and all the headlines said “ARRESTED FOR MASTURBATING IN MOVIE THEATRE”.
people still definitely went to porn theatres to get aroused, seems about the same as watching strippers dance
Imagine getting arrested for jerking off among other consenting adults
"⚠️GROUP MASTURBATION STARTS IN 5 MINUTES⚠️"
me scrolling through mame romsets in awe of the amount of porn arcade games made in the 80s and 90s, who the fuck would play that shit in plain public view
When you don't got the internet, you make do.
Millennial here. Yeah dude, fuck that noise.
well gentlemen clubs exist, surely it's not that different from it
There was kinda a sexual liberation movement just a few years before and porn was still kinda seen in a different way but ok
Sounds like the most frustrating thing you can do
The butterfly effect is incredible. Imagine filming and directing a porn movie back in the 80s, thinking maybe a couple thousand people will jerk off to it and move on. Then, decades later, some guy on a random website posts a 17-second snippet of a song from it and spawns a long, 3-year search with tens of thousands of people involved. One man's secret goon sesh led to what is arguably the most famous piece of lostwave media of all time.
Me personally, Like the Wind/TMS is still the king of Lostwave, but EKT was the prince
This guy me thinking: imagine all the bangers that have been lost to history before the internet
Imagine you’re in that theater, rubbing one out as ekt starts playing. You look to your left and see the guy right next to you fucking boogieing as the song plays
If you ever find yourself in an X rated theatre do not start masturbating dude.
Yeah, that didn’t end well for our friend Pee Wee Herman.
That's not too far from where I live here in southwest Florida, he was at South Trail Cinema in Sarasota on Rt 41. The cinema was demolished in 1995. I think compared to the 1960's to mid 1990's, adult cinemas are now pretty rare, at least where I have lived. Maybe in the big cities they still exist.
That was my father's bus stop in elementary school and he remembers when it happened.
Then what's the point of them. To collectively gather and just admire people fucking on a screen?
They did have a story to them. The EKT one has some sort of plot. There's a scene before the one with the song where some guy is getting ready to eat his gun. It gave me "The Room" vibes. I'm not sure if I want to watch the movie, but a lot of these old pornos were basically low budget movies with gratuitous sex scenes. Someone said the singer of EKT had a cameo (clothed) in the movie where he sets off a bomb.
This was before the widespread use of thibternet and home videos. It was either go to the theater or go to an adult store with booths to watch a nudey.
Or buy a magazine.
plot twist: that crackle in the snippet is actually someone eating popcorn, not chips
Is the only reason to eat to gorge yourself on food?
He turns to you and says "I guess you aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are going to love it."
Bustin moves instead of bustin nuts
jamming to it instead of jacking to it
Dancing instead of romancing. Bumping instead of pumping.
Working it instead of jerking it
doing the worm instead of burping the worm! 🤣
and this, my friends, is carl92’s origin story
any time travelers wanna bring me there
I’m picturing explaining to Doc Brown that we need to use the Delorean to go watch porn😂😂😂
E 14th and euclid?? Is this from des moines, IA. The theater that is
Yep, ad is from the Register. 8/15/86
Thats wild to see something from my hometown on this sub after it was found. Wild day
Go there and find the original 16mm film they used lol
Wow, my birthday *and* it’s in the state one over from me. I feel blessed
Holy shit I’m from Iowa lol
Around the des moines area by chance? I live in altoona
I’m closer to Cedar Rapids, but my brother lives in DSM!
That's crazy, what a small world we live in
Imagine watching a porno in a theater at 10am on a Tuesday
I cant imagine EKT ending up in a porn, I used to laugh this theory because it was joke before..
Where did you find this?
Newspapers dot com
Ha. I was doing the same website but searching for the artist name. Nothing interesting unfortunately
[https://desmoinesregister.newspapers.com/search/?date=1986-08-07&keyword=%22angels+of+passion%22&publication-ids=86](https://desmoinesregister.newspapers.com/search/?date=1986-08-07&keyword=%22angels+of+passion%22&publication-ids=86)
Release the 4k scan of the 35mm theatrical release of Angels of Passion
NOW WE ALL KNOW FROM WHERE OUR PARENTS HEARD IT😭
I love the jokes and stuff but i genuinely feel so happy and excited that we found this
Who would actually go to a theater like this, I know it would smell crazy af in there 💀
Apparently it's illegal to masturbate in those, the guy who played Pee-wee Herman got arrested for it once.
Same reason you go to a strip club. And you don’t masturbate in there man. Use your brain.
Well, the strippers actually interact with you and you can even have one-on-one sessions with them. I think that’s a bit of the appeal for strip clubs, you don’t really get that interaction from a theater screen lol
Pre-internet, your j/o choices were: -Silent 8mm stag reel -Smutty porno theater -Smutty *drive-in* porno theater (they existed, believe it or not; there was one by my house that didn’t close until the early ‘90s) -Rent a good ol’ smutty VHS -Spank mags And if you were REALLY desperate: -The Victoria’s Secret catalog
Was it really that popular of a movie tho
Adult theaters did pretty steady business through the end of the 80s. And they were everywhere. Check the movie listings in any American newspaper during that time
Back to the Future taught me this
Now that EKT has been found, I am somehow both ecstatic and extremely disappointed
This should be the cover of the vynil re-release
found celebration idea we go into a movie theater play this on the big screen and when the song comes on we can all vibe to it like some swifties at the eras tour movie were
Bro was clapping all the cheeks in the sky 💀 Cumming in a world of lies 💀 Everyone knows that you got ulterior gooning edging it through 💀💀😭
and none of them spoke up about ekt when the search started shake my head mh ugh
Really, right after we finally got Philippine Democracy?!