Mags:
Around the age of 9 (late 70's/early 80's)... My soon-to-be Mom's second husband had an extensive collection of Penthouse and Playboy he kept neatly in his study.
* He DID NOT introduce me to them *
I probably wouldn't be a reader if it wasn't for the cool articles.. sure it was the pictures (especially Penthouse), but I read each and every one of them.
Oh, Wicked Wanda was my first virtual cartoon crush. Loved reading Xaviera Hollander's: Happy Hooker 'blogs'
Then eventually graduated to High Society, Hustler, Swank etc. The local corner stores used to just throw un-bought ones in the dumpsters at the end of the month
* The censored hardcore ads were intriguing and a turn-on... then the laws relaxed.
I dug reading the Joy of Sex... I was very intrigued and it discussed pleasure.
Films/video:
Late 70's > early 80's Swedish Erotica Film series
Can't recall the name(s)
Discovered my Dad's VHS tapes while visiting mid-80's (my mid teens)... it's what got me hooked on anal and DPs.
Watching it definitely felt different than looking at pictures

* It's also why I don't mind pussy hair these days (it''s not a rare thing for me visit naturalist, or check out ATKHairy, Abbywinters et al). A shaved kitty was fairly rare (and more innocently exciting) back then.. So the opposite kind of holds true these days.
** Also, many of the actresses weren't all that great looking compared to today's standards, but sort of aided in my eclectic tastes.
Then I discovered Private Milcap and Teeny Exzeese early 20's, which turned me on to Euro Raunch and then Sineplex when I was peddling porn and selling sex toys.
* Euro-raunch introduced me to fisting, which I dig.
One of things I really liked about Private was: it really brought females 'finishing-the-job' to the for-front.... I miss that and wish there was more of it in LP's official content.
* Private also had superb magazines and photosets! Set a standard for me. And Silwa et al.
The late 90's > 00's was; in many ways, the 'best' era of modern porn. This is when anal and DPs were really starting to take the limelight, and female models were expressing more excitement, 'obvious' pleasure, raunchy sexual abandonment, skill and energy.
I often wish many of my favourite models/scenes of the 90's and 00's were shot in high-def 1080p wide-screen... It's too bad that beta/vhs can't be upscaled the same as from film (similar to certain Star Trek series that can't be properly upscaled).
I will often return to classic/retro American porn and Euro-raunch (flix and Pics) when I tire of modern. I still kind of dig the trashy, porn make-up cosplay from the early Swedish Erotica Films and Euro-raunch era when it comes to porn. I was a 70's kid after all.
I will venture into consuming fetish (latex/leather) and kink now and then.
Skipping ahead >>> I'm getting older, so I make sure I check out a fair share of 'milf' porn to keep things real.
Porn doesn't have to be all anal or DPs and/or youthful to be exciting for me. I don't really have any fetishes (needed to have to be turned on).
But I'm (for the most part) past the excitement of just watching the sex act now, there has to be something more about it than a woman getting banged... There has to be perception that she's into it, else it really doesn't do much for me.
What really turns me on now is: female edging with obvious and strong contracting orgasms. That's fucking hot! And when all else fails... Pussy control and female pleasure is where it's at.
We can thank the kinky Plain-Jane Cam-girl for that one.
