There are very few things I miss about the VHS age: their bulk, their shitty, grainy quality, the endless fast forwarding past boring scenes while trying to stay hard....but I do miss the boxes.
In the same way that album covers lost a lot of their artiness as we moved from LPs to ipods, the art of the attention grabbing box has suffered as VHS gave way to DVD. For you kids out there, porn used to be packaged in unnecessarily large boxes with weird plastic liners that would take up more space on the shelf and thus provide more surface area for the glamour shot of the featured star. There was often a teaser on the spine of the box that would catch your eye, ensuring you'd sheepishly pull it out and take a closer look.
I would alway toss the box liner and stash the tape bare in a trunk...my porn collection took up enough space...but I hung onto the hottest box covers. I always thought one day I would use them for something. Wallpaper? I wasn't sure. But for 15ish years I have had a box of collapsed porn boxes. And now I'm sharing:
This is a perfect example of good advertising. I didn't like this movie. It didn't properly showcase the hotness of Jake Taylor and the sex was dull. When I was doing my VHS to DVD conversion, this was one I decided didn't make the cut and I tossed it...but the cover is alluring enough that I can remember the excitement I felt when I first purchased it. I have much hotter ones to come, but they all have stars on them that deserve an individual post.
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