vintage / pinup

DeltaOfVenus.com, described by the site owner as "part historical archive, and part enlightened porn website," is chock-full of a century's worth of images, films and stories, digitally restored whenever possible. Dozens of Quicktime movies can be streamed from the site or downloaded. These are absolutely charming, both in terms of action, setting and background music. You'll also find hundreds upon hundreds of images categorized by gender, time period and activity. Rounding out the site are about a dozen fun and informative articles, as well as selections of erotic literature and art (these may have been my favorite things of all). One last awesome detail? The webmaster will do his very best to fulfill specific member requests. How cool is that? Join through CCBill with a credit card or online check; prices are more than reasonable for the enormous amount of truly unique content here. - AAG

Date Reviewed: 2008-08-20
Cost: $9.95/month, other options available Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: fine art nudes, vintage / pinup

One word: Woof! Kelly Abbass is a deliciously pert raven haired beauty that absolutely shines in her photo sets. Her member's area offers over 2000 photographs and over 65 video clips. Her photo sets are amazing; I particularly enjoyed a photo set called Alien Queen in which she has had her body painted to look like a very muscled alien. Photos are all high res and very creative. Her videos are a mix of behind the scenes at photoshoot clips and unique self made clips. In addition, she offers a personal journal and live chat for her members. Kelly is unique, sexy, and damned fine! Highly recommended. - Wolfe

Date Reviewed: 2008-03-13
Cost: $9.95/month recurs @ $6.95/month Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: Downloadable Video, model / glamour, softcore, Solo Amateurs, vintage / pinup

My first review of the day is a site featuring the very striking Ann, a burlesque and glamour model based out of Chicago. Members get access to over 220 images and 15 videos of Ann in a variety of different outfits ranging from early burlesque to modern fetish photography. Her images are all very good quality, though a tad on the small side. The videos are offered in streaming or downloadable quicktime format and feature Ann performing burlesque dances, playing strip poker, and even going through her bed time routine. Ann also keeps a diary which is accessible to anyone that visits her website. She's made a great start to her site and with more content it will only get better. - Wolfe

Date Reviewed: 2007-11-16
Cost: $12.95/month recurs @ $9.95/month Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: Downloadable Video, model / glamour, Solo Amateurs, Streaming Video, vintage / pinup

This blog site is perfectly charming. What an enjoyable time I had here. Your hostess, and the site, is named Silent Porn Star - with no doubt interesting and untold stories behind the name. The focus here is in curating - and celebrating - sexual iconography. I browsed the site's last couple of years of archives, hip hopping over such delights as old pulp fiction cover art, black & white vintage photography, occasional contemporary censorship issues, and even - to my delight - a link to a YouTube clip of Cher and Raquel Welch, all glitter-glamoured up in their prime and glory, singing Peggy Lee's "I'm A Woman". If that isn't as iconic as you could ask for, you're not looking. The commentary is smart, positive, and insightful. This is just the sort of unique site we love to encourage. - Peter » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-11-05
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Moderate
Category Listings: Blogs / Journals - Sex, mainstream erotica, vintage / pinup

Inspired by classic pin up style photography, the photos at Pin-up Wow take that classic element and give it a modern twist. The site features gorgeous British models that look like they could have jumped off the pages of a 1950's pin up calendar. Inside the member's area you'll see over 140 photo sets and over 28 high quality windows media videos. The photos max out at about 700x1100 pixels in size, and the videos are offered in high and low bandwidth formats. There is a small selection of 'WOW' photos offered at 2800x4200 pixels. The site is tastefully done and the focus is on the sexy outfits and topless nudity rather than full on pink spread shots. Trust me when I tell you that the content is that much more alluring because something is left to the imagination. They have only been open since March of 2007, but in that time they have amassed a huge amount of content with their very regular updates. Pin-up WOW is a really unique niche site featuring truly original material. You can't go wrong with purchasing a membership. Highly recommended! » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-10-10
Cost: $24.95/30 days recurring Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: model / glamour, Panties/Stockings, vintage / pinup

This blog is both free and a non-stop commercial ad, and somehow I came to enjoy all of it. For those of us who cut our teeth on smut featuring guys who didn't take their sox off and gals who never heard of the phrase 'Brazilian trim', this site is a central clearing house for nostalgic arousal. Now, I gotta warn you - most of the times you look to follow a picture thumbnail, when you click it you won't get an enlargement, but rather you'll get a entry page for a pay site. Often on the various pay sites you'll find short film clips of vintage video. They have continual updates so that you'll always be finding new tantalizing links to yesteryear. I started off irritated by the continual pay site links, but ended up enjoying just wandering around and around and around. I'm giving them a Q just for the many walks down memory lane I took while I was wandering. - Peter

Date Reviewed: 2007-09-27
Cost: Free Advertising Content: As described above
Category Listings: vintage / pinup

Vintage taboo offers vintage porn photos and videos from before 1920 through to the 1960's. The site owners collect material from private collectors and import them into digital format. You'll find everything from nudes and pinups to catfights and hardcore sex scenes. The tour is generous with 39 click to enlarge photo samples and 4 sample video clips in Quicktime format. Members enjoy access to thousands of photos and over 125 downloadable vintage porn movies. The site owners have done a great job of re-mastering the videos and photos. My only criticism of the site is that photo galleries do not open up to a thumbnail gallery so you can choose which images you want to see. Instead, galleries open to a single image and you have to keep hitting the next button to scroll through the entire gallery. Otherwise, the site is a real blast from the past. Lots of fun! - Wolfe

Date Reviewed: 2007-08-15
Cost: $9.95/7days recurs @ $22.95/month Advertising Content: nil
Category Listings: Downloadable Video, Fighting / Wrestling, vintage / pinup

You are going to have to try not to think about your grandparents having sex when you visit RetroPornArchive.com. Try hard. It's a site dedicated to tracking down decades-old smut for your viewing pleasure. A brief tour shows off several pages of montaged pictures and a few short video loops. Basically the tour shows you accurately what to expect in the member's area. Inside, both photos and videos are divided into hardcore and softcore categories. There are hundreds upon hundreds of pictures with no way to search by any particular characteristic ("corsets," for example, or "blowjobs"). You'll find images that look to be 100 years old next to ones from the 1970s; nothing is grouped or organized in any manner. Also, there is no way to click from one picture to the next. However, the images are fascinating. Some are in color but most are in black and white, or even sepia prints. They are sexy and genuine in a way that little current porn can match. The videos, at least the ones I previewed, are mostly dark & grainy, and appear to be ... well, from a retro archive. Don't take that as a negative statement necessarily - speaking as someone who was watching porno films 30-40 years ago, they looked the same to me then! All in all, the lack of labelling or sorting is a nuisance, but if retro porn is your thing [or if you just really want to hunt to see if that wild Aunt Lucille really did on film what the cousins said she did] this place is a fun one to visit. - Peter [and AAG, in a cooperative review]. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-07-16
Cost: $29.95/month recurring Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: Downloadable Video, Hardcore, softcore, vintage / pinup

Whatever you are doing right now, just drop it and go to this site. I'm not kidding, it is that wonderful! This is a very well organized, classy, and extremely erotic collection of nude, fine art, fetish, glamour, and pornographic photography. You'll find a wide variety of impressive photographers, information about photo books, and even a steamy and dirty-sexy section featuring polaroids. Yummy! This is a really great place to find out about rising stars and old favorites. Highly recommended! - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2007-07-02
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: fine art nudes, model / glamour, vintage / pinup

Ah, Vintage Seduction makes me happy, so very very happy. You know why? First of all, it's free. Yes, totally and completely free. There aren't even any annoying ads; if some of the links go to affiliate sites, it's all done in such a low-key and tasteful manner that you'll never know. Also, Vintage Seduction features models who have pubic hair! Some of them even have armpit hair! This rocks, in my book. The site contains galleries from the Victoria Era through the 70s; the webmaster provides a short history lesson in each gallery. This is a nice touch when the history lesson focuses on fashions and consumer prices. It's a little creepy when the lesson is about Jack the Ripper, and pictures of his victims are interspersed with pictures of cute girls in their stockings. Nevertheless, if you like non-silicone, un-airbrushed girls from your grandparents' era, check out Vintage Seduction. - AAG

Date Reviewed: 2007-06-08
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: vintage / pinup

If you peek inside RetroStrippers.com, you'll find a selection of about 40 DVDs available for purchase in categories such as "Nudie Cuties" and "Tit Queens." Compiled from archival films up to 70 years old, these DVD cater to the lover of natural big titties, full bushes and sweetly innocent faces. Almost half the DVDs have short trailers available on the site. No information is provided about returns; ask before you order. The webmaster lists a physical address, phone, fax and email. Expect these films to be of variable quality, scratchy, jumpy and amateurish. Therein lies the charm! - AAG

Date Reviewed: 2007-05-02
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: Amateur / Indie Video / DVD, vintage / pinup

Until a few years ago, artist Michael Berkowitz was known as a sculptor and performance artist. After viewing a book of vintage erotic photography, he decided to experiment with some erotic photography of his own. Soon the experiment turned into his main artistic focus. Berkowitz creates richly-layered settings from fabrics, furniture, costumes and jewelry, then uses a large-format camera to capture images of real women (and a few men) in sultry poses. Berkowitz's site showcases many of his photos and information on how to purchase his work. You can also hire Berkowitz to take photos of you, you and your lover, or even you and a group. Many of the images are really arresting; unfortunately, you'll have to view fairly small pictures (approximately 500x500 pixels) so that no nefarious folks will pilfer his work. Also on the site right now is a gallery of vintage nudes Berkowitz purchased while visiting Istanbul. - AAG

Date Reviewed: 2007-04-30
Cost: free Advertising Content: nil
Category Listings: Photographer Portfolios, vintage / pinup

This was an oddly compelling little site featuring vintage content from the past 50 years. Ray Spade may bill himself on the site as an excellent photographer, but I didn't see evidence of that inside. Rather, most of the content is snapshots, overexposed, underexposed, some with damage to the prints, many times with no attention to detail in posing or costume of the amateur models he was shooting. There are the occasional lucky shots in there, which are a given if you take enough photos. All that said, I still enjoyed my visit. There is just something about vintage content that I like, mostly what it leaves to the imagination: what is this woman's story? And with amateur pictures there are more hints in the background. Most of what I saw was 60s and 70s era, so lots of bouffant hairdos, and of course full pubic hair. I sometimes think the thing that will date erotica/porn from the past decade is the LACK of hair currently trendy. In all there were 71 galleries when I visited, each with anywhere from a 1-3 dozen images. Sometimes there was a line or two about the woman in the shots, usually the city he met them in. The video section is done in streaming Quicktime, and it's an eclectic mix of stuff: a beach scene from the 80s, another of a woman working out at the gym, then going home to ride her exercise bicycle in the nude, and then some hardcore blowjob and toy videos. The quality again is grainy like the photos, and you have to be patient waiting for it to buffer. 10 video clips at time of review. He also sells prints of some of the better shots, at about $10 a print. The join page claims 3 updates a week, but there are no dates on content so I couldn't tell how often things were being added. - Jane

Date Reviewed: 2007-04-23
Cost: $17.99/month recurring Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: amateur compilations, vintage / pinup

Ruby of RubysDiary.com personally guarantees that you've never seen a site quite like hers. Hm. Let's see if she can back up that claim, shall we? First of all, her tour is very nice, featuring dozens of professional-looking shots. There's no movie preview, but you do get a thorough written introduction from Ruby herself. Once inside the site, you'll realize that Ruby is an incredibly gorgeous woman. She's a natural redhead with a lovely face and body. Her personal blog is included, and it's sprinkled liberally with cute casual shots of her. Ruby has provided just a few quicktime videos of herself teasing, stripping and gyrating. These are set to music and nicely done. She will sign and sell you an 8x10 if you'd like. Now onto the pictures! You'll find a couple hundred high-quality images featuring Ruby in standard modeling poses as well as bathing, cooking and playing with whips. Most of her photos are professional quality (she credits her photographer) and really nicely done. I found the most charming part of the site to be the cell-phone photo page, which contains a handful of candid, un-made-up shots of Ruby. Very sweet. I'd have to say that Ruby's claim is indeed accurate. Her site is an original. - alwaysarousedgirl » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-03-19
Cost: $29.95/month recurring Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: softcore, Solo Amateurs, vintage / pinup

Fun stuff! Ron Werner is an artist currently in Portland, Oregon, who has a wonderful eye for the pin-up genre. His color illustrations use live models and classic styles. In this free site you can wander amongst his gallery, and I did enjoy doing just that. Some were custom pieces for others and are only here to observe, and some are available via PayPal in limited edition prints. He has a journal for those interested in keeping up with his adventures, updates on projects he may be working on, and so forth. Custom illustration from your provided photographs are negotiable via email with the artist. Talented guy, and a nice clean website. - Peter » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-02-28
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: anime / toons, Fine Art Prints, vintage / pinup

When you enter the main page of this site you need to pay attention and look for the links below the vintage photo that appears. Otherwise you might find yourself visiting a sponsor that doesn’t really have what you’re looking for. The rest of the site is mostly free of advertising. There are nine galleries containing approximately 81 photographs. These photos are all pre 1970’s with most of them being done in the 50’s and 60’s. I wish that there would have been more names associated with the pictures. It would have been great to know who you were looking at. At the time of review there were five video clips for your viewing pleasure. Each of the clips is between two and 4 minutes long. If you’d like to start or add to your own collection of vintage photographs check out Slim’s EBay store where you can purchase original prints. Successful bids on photographs are mailed out once a week on Mondays. If you win several photographs they will be bundled and sent at the same time. - Koi

Date Reviewed: 2007-02-20
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Minimal
Category Listings: auctions, vintage / pinup

Based from Dallas, the folks at this pin-up and bondage site draw their models from all over. At time of review there were close to 30 different models - many thin young beauties and some a bit more mature or BBW. They promise a bondage themed photo set to be posted every week and a pin-up style photo set every other week. You'll find a little nudity, although often I found models in classic lingerie or corsets, latex or costumes. Imagery is all softcore. Although I enjoyed the photography, not all was high def. - Peter » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-01-15
Cost: $12.95/mo/recurring Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: Female Bondage, Girls w/glasses, Latex / PVC / Rubber, model / glamour, Panties/Stockings, vintage / pinup

Tristan "Little Miss" Risk is a lovely brunette Canadian burlesque dancer and a pin-up model in the classic sense. In years gone by she would have her picture painted on the nose of a B-52 and stirred the soul of Howard Hughes. These days you can find her gothing about Vancouver, B.C., performing internationally as part of a burlesque troupe, or occasionally performing in a grade B horror flick. In this site she offers members new galleries weekly of her in pinup erotica, glamour and fetish glamour photos. You'll see full nudity, but no explicit sexual exploits. Bubblebath or pillows, yes - sex, no. Visitors have sample images to give you an idea of what is inside the member's area. Members have, at time of review, 16 galleries. There is also a link to her burlesque site, and another to a different membership site where she is a featured model. Charming! - Peter

Date Reviewed: 2007-01-11
Cost: $19.99/mo/recurring Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: model / glamour, Solo Amateurs, vintage / pinup

I like this site. It has great appeal because I love looking at vintage porn photos. I’ve also discovered that true vintage porn is a little harder to track down. The site is well put together and a snap to navigate. The majority of reviews are for pay sites that offer reviews on vintage, retro and classic porn sites. The reviews come in two flavors: a preliminary review which is a quick look at the website in question, and a full review which is a more extensive look at the website. Either type of review provides great information on what you can expect to get from the website membership and the cost. Each review also comes with some free samples to view so you can see what you will be getting. I’m not sure how frequent the updates are but the site is definitely worth keeping an eye on.

Date Reviewed: 2006-11-22
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Minimal
Category Listings: Other Web Review sites, vintage / pinup

This is a blog site that features vintage pictures and excerpts from old erotic novels. You will also find pictures of magazine covers from Eyeful and many other vintage magazines. It’s very entertaining to browse through; it’s kind of neat to see some of the old pictures and realize how much some things have changed and how others have stayed the same. Some of the pictures do lead to a full page ad for another website but this is not exclusively the case. There are several links to other vintage sites as well that are worth having a look at.

Date Reviewed: 2006-05-29
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Medium
Category Listings: vintage / pinup