What did you jerk off to in the 80s and 90s?

MTV Music Videos

MTV Spring Break

MTV's Undressed

YES, R1! MTV was basically soft porn. I spilled so much seed to that perpetually dumb Eric Nies on The Grind. Or when he dropped trou on season 1 of The Real World.

OP, you had terrible taste if you watched [italic]Full House[/italic] and [italic]Saved by the Bell[/italic].

Here's Ken today. Have a ball, OP.

Dolph Lundgren - Masters of the Universe

Most of the gay boys who jerked off to Dolph Lundgren are now eldergays who look like Dolph Sweet.

More Dolph, and he still looks pretty good today.

The movie Making Love. Harry Hamlin!

KEANU

Who the fuck was developed enough to jerk off in the eighties? I was born in 83. When I saw Saturday Night Fever a few years ago I finally understood why people still talk about John Travolta. That hot ass guido was silk socks and all sex! A piece of tightly packaged fuck meat. Those pants?

But for this site and thread, why not include the nineteen seventies in your question Opie? Who the fuck wants to hear about who impotent old gays used to get excited by? DL is a sad place. The need for old men to remember when THEY were more desirable is what these thread are about. But the old men here fall for it every time, as if the subject is really about forgotten, faded or dead celebrities. Nah, it's yourself that you mourn for. Keep it private nona.

Damn, who need on your cornflakes fella? If you don't like the subject matter, move on!

I meant peed. Damn, autocorrect

[quote]The men's underwear models in copies of GQ that I'd steal from the doctor's office

You couldn't afford to buy the magazine?

"Who the fuck was developed enough to jerk off in the eighties? I was born in 83." - Yes, R10, and of course no one and nothing existed before you were born.

You are the center of the universe, unique and brilliant! Millennials are the best!

I honestly couldn't imagine not having internet porn. I'd think masturbating to magazines got boring after awhile

R14 You can't bitch about Millennials being self centred attention whores when you're the one giving us attention. Negative or positive:attention is still attention.

Is that James corden in that gif!!??

I can type whatever the fuck I want, R16, you asscunt.

I was also born in 1983. I used to find gay foreign/indie movies on late night IFC and Sundance. This was back when both channels lived up to their names and played independent and foreign films. I found the movie Cruising and watched it with the sound off. When the black guy walked in wearing the jockstrap, I came so hard it hit the wall behind me. I would also jerk off to AJ Hammer on VH1. I can't really remember any other celebs at the time who worked for me.

Luckily, we got the internet in the late 90's.

R18 Middle age man sounding like a 12 year old girl nice!

Illiterate shit douche typing like 5-year-old.

It should be: A middle-aged man typing like a 12-year-old girl; nice!

English is not in your skill set. Still living with Mommy, obviously.

Millennios don't stroke to much, except their own fragile egos:

You look younger than I imagined. Thanks for sharing your photo R14. I am unique and sexy so I understand this thread is to remind you of when you felt special too. That's why I pointed it OUT. Sorry to need on your cornflakes. You know you can turn autocorrect OFF gampi? Your stream is a little weak.

My folks wouldn't let us have internet in our rooms. Oprah did a show about how men come through the camera like R14 and seduce your boys with money. So I didn't have internet porn till I was 18. I did jerk off with some friends on my lacrosse team before that and fucked 2 older men in their twenties. Maybe better than porn.

R21 You know illiteracy has to do with being unable to write and write; not punctuation right?

[quote] Who the fuck was developed enough to jerk off in the eighties? I was born in 83.

Everything is always all about you.

"Sorry to need on your cornflakes. "

Engrish much, cuntface?

Oscar Wilde in his tight velvet suit, Sir Beerbohm Tree displaying a bit of ankle, Lord Alfred Douglas in his plus-fours...

Oh, you mean 1980s and 1990s. Never mind.

R24: "being unable to write and write; not punctuation right? "

The twit just keeps on coming!

r10 the OP said 80's and 90's. You would have been developed enough in the 90's.

R22 My ego needs at least 25 strokes each day for it to stay up and well. Thank you for the concern though

R19 Also born in 83 and remember taping stuff off of IFC all the time. In addition to indies, they would also air interesting shorts.

What the (weirdly aggressive) R10 seems to forget is how much overlap there was between 1980s and early/mid-90s pop culture. This was not the age of prestige peak tv, but when most cable networks basically ran movies from the 80s and syndicated reruns of older tv shows. I mean...

Patrick Duffy wore the occasional speedo on Dallas and had those tight yellow swimmers he wore in The Man From Atlantis.

Scott Bakula in his Quantum Leap days did it for baby gay me. They had him shirtless a lot on that show, and in the episode where he was in the circus, he spent the whole first act in tights, with some great bulge and ass shots. Very helpful.

I remember seeing the soft-core show Eden when they ran it late night on the USA network. It was originally made for the Playboy channel, so they cut all the nudity, but there was still plenty of hot guys in various stages of undress. Jack Armstrong was the resident man ho on the show, and they had him in speedo-type swimwear with blant VPL several times. Ah, memories.

A lot of random TV shows that had guys stripping down. And artier films with nudity like Maurice and A Room With a View. Damn, Rupert Graves was beautiful.

Found it. Good ol' Bakula.

The Other Side of Aspen

Powertool

Big Guns

Everything.

For me, it was male gymnasts, swimmers and divers, and the swim segments of "The Battle of the Network Stars."

Methinks R10, R24 are In incredibly foul moods today! Maybe they need to masturbate more or less in their lives. Definitely don't reproduce!

Ha! I was hot in 1970s and 1980s.

I am a beautifl, fabulous T now.

Fucked-up, millennials, your time is brief. But not for me.

[Quote]I honestly couldn't imagine not having internet porn. I'd think masturbating to magazines got boring after awhile

You'd be amazed by what your imagination is capable of, r15. We would have multiple orgasms by visualizing what we would do with those International Male models, for instance.

HBO and Cinemax showed a lot of soft core porn in the beginning (Cinemax still does) at night. Worked for me.

Oh, man. Sometimes I watch Simon and Simon or Riptide on those retro TV channels and can't believe how HOT those guys were. I never even noticed back then.

Rona Barrett's Daytimers magazine provided a lot of source material to me in me early teens.

I would constantly search out movies on VHS that had male nude scenes. Back then a lot of the time you just just had to hope there was one because you couldn't just google information on it. I would always check out the foreign film sections, those were the best for finding male nudity. When the internet because available I would always look for nude guys, at the beginning you were only getting pictures, video was still a few years away. I remember printing pictures of Simon Rex from his jack off videos. When I got my hands on my first gay porn I was trembling with excitement it was really hot and I shot the biggest load in my life, hit the wall with cum and must have made about 7-8 big spurts. I have been pretty much addicted to porn ever since.

How did people know enough to spell it "cum" before the internet?

US Magazine was great source material for me - it was like an equivalent of Tiger Beat with hot, sexy men (Costner, Harmon, etc) instead of hairless teenage boys. Probably cemented my daddy fixation.

[quote]When I got my hands on my first gay porn I was trembling with excitement it was really hot and I shot the biggest load in my life, hit the wall with cum and must have made about 7-8 big spurts.

How many of you have never counted spurts?

Gay porn was available on VHS tapes as early as 1982, so it was gay porn via VHS and gay porn magazines in the 1980s.

God Harmon was hot in Moonlighting R47. Good memories.

Number of spurts? How would I know? My eyes were always closed!

How old would a daddy have to be for you now R47? I'm guessing 80, 85. Yum. No spurts though.

Mark Harmon in the 80s was so fucking hot.

Mark Harmon was sexy, I do agree.

Blueboy Magazine

International Male catalogue.

The memory of watching someone take a shower on the naval base gym where I worked out. You have to understand, it was a Navy SEAL/Seabee base, and them men were fine as hell.

Wehell I see them every night in tight blue jeans

In the pages of a Blue Boy magazine

Hey I've been thinking of a new sensation

I'm picking up good vibration

Ooh she bop, she bop

Do I want to go out with a lion's roar

Huh, yea, I want to go south and get me some more

Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine

They say I better stop or I'll go blind

Ooh she bop, she bop

I jerked off to the men's underwear section of the JC Penney catalog until I couldn't keep it up anymore.

My mom's Cosmopolitan magazines often had hot shirtless models in pictures that accompanied explicit articles and stories about sex.

My older brothers yearbooks had great pictures of the swim team with the guys proudly posing in their speedos.

The Sunday paper was filled with ads for department stores with guys in swimsuits and underwear.

We just had to be creative back then. If you look hard enough (even without the Interwebs), you can find something, um, motivational. In the mid-1970s, Saturday morning network TV featured a show where teenage boys and girls competed in quasi-athletic events. Sometimes, these events involved water or swimming, and young guys in Speedos. If you were lucky and watched closely, you could see some of these dudes were no longer "boys." Plenty of material. I have tried, in vain, to find the name of that show. I watched it religiously...and a young gayling could do so innocently enough in his own living room.

My Dad used to take me and my brother to the drive-in, and to a little theatre downtown that showed non-stop movies (what I guess would qualify as a grindhouse). So I grew up watching second-rate horror movies, blacksploitation, kung-fu, and other types of second-rate movies. I remember the first men I saw semi-naked were Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Richard Roundtree, Tom Skerritt in 'Big Bad Mama', and other guys in movies like 'The Great Texas Dynamite Chase'. Oh, and 'Flesh Gordon', with the stunning Jason Williams. The stuff that kept me busy pounding my pud every night.

R35 - GOD *BLESS* the producers of Quantum Leap. Ziggy must've crashed when he saw those glutes. (Also, God bless the show's costume dept!)

"International Male"and "Exercise for Men Only." Plus, the Advocate Personals were quite raunchy.

I never jerked off to celebrities, actors or musicians. I preferred jerking off to fantasies about guys I went to school with or knew in real life.

The men's swim team.

[quote] I jerked off to the men's underwear section of the JC Penney catalog until I couldn't keep it up anymore.

Keep what up?

Straight to Hell zine. Boyd McDonald I think? Great reading. Think Nifty before the Internet age

Dear god r4! Time is such a BITCH!

R67, that's Nifty.

Lorenzo Llamas on Falcon Crest

WWF wrestlers like Ricky the Dragon Steamboat and Brutus the Barber Beefcake

Don Diamont

Billy Hufsey on Fame

Jack Wagner

Mac Gyver

Bruce Boxlitner

Jon Eric Hexum

George Clooney

Ed Marinaro

John James

Michael Nader

John Schneider

Ted Schakelford

Kenny on Knots Landing

Jimmy Smits

A Martinez onSanta Barbara

Todd McKee

John Wesley Shipp

Johnny the country singer on OLTL

Michael E Knight

Laurence Lau

Trucker on Loving

[quote] WWF wrestlers like Ricky the Dragon Steamboat and Brutus the Barber Beefcake

I love those names. The Rock sounds so blah in comparison.

Working Out by Charles Hix. I'm sure every closeted gay on the planet bought it.

Sidney Sheldon novels. Mein Gott Frieda!

R64 I still do both

Exit to Eden had gratuitous ass shots of Paul Mercurio. I would stay up all hours of the night to catch on Showtime (pre- on demand/DVR).

This commercial.

This ad.

Jordan Catalano

I jerked off to most of The Police videos. Sting was so fucking hot.

I got off on watching other guys get off - it didn't even matter if the guy was particularly attractive or not.

This was before I had access to porn so I masturbated to a lot of R rated movies.

[quote] I got off on watching other guys get off

Do you still, R81, or have your tastes evolved?

This provided a lot of wank material under the cover of "wanting to get in shape"

Unusual Underthings

Summer Souvenirs

I'd imagine jerking off to even fantasies got boring after some time: thank goodness porn came around

R83-- I clicked on your link to Amazon and one of the few reviews the book has basically reiterated your post-- said it was prime reading for young gay men.

Was that your review?

To this guy...

...and this guy.

The hot men of Skinemax. Paul Logan was aesthetics before we knew what aesthetics was.

White Squall

I got off to Marky Mark in his Calvins so many times

r33

No matter how good Duffy looked he had FUCKIN' WEBBED FEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No sane person likes a weirdo like that.

Designing Women and Depeshe Mode

In the late 90's I used to buy DVDs from Titan Media (porn company) and in the early 90's I used to jerk off to the Sears/Mervyn's/Target male underwear ads that came in the mail. Funny, today's ads barely show men in underwear. Also, international male catalogs would randomly come in the male once or twice a year, as I 13 year old gayling that was like a Christmas present.

come in the mail*

as a*

R7, Dolph's dolph.

I was still using my laminated copy of this . . .

R78, I was waiting for Jim Palmer to come up. I was a little young to be jerking off in the 80s, but I still remembered those ads very fondly.

And when the Marky Mark ads came around, I was ready for them.

Porn. We jerked off to PORN!

Gawd, some of you are such dweebs.

Greg Louganis at the Olympics.

R101 YAASS!

Thanks for the pic R102. No doubt I knew I was gay when I saw him walk on the diving board. My mom was so confused on why I was suddenly so obsessed with diving ( I was from small Midwest town that didn't even have a pool!)

[quote]Working Out by Charles Hix. I'm sure every gay on the planet bought it.

Didn't need to be closeted to appreciate cover boy Russell Penis. I mean Henis.

[quote]Porn. We jerked off to PORN! Gawd, some of you are such dweebs.

that's great, R100, but this thread is more aimed at guys who came of age in the 80s or 90s, not guys who got their AARP cards. I'm guessing most of us who were still kids then didn't have regular access to porn in the pre-internet age.

I had the trilogy of Charles Hix books: "Looking Good," "Dressing Right," and "Working Out"

I was obsessed.

Steve Lyon in Campus Man

Christopher Atkins in A Night From Heaven. My hands trembled the first time I put that tape in the VCR.

Jason Priestley and Gabriel Olds's asses in Calendar Girl.

And since it was mentioned earlier, I definitely got off to Paul Mercurio's glorious ass in Exit to Eden.

R110, I'll still watch anything Gabey Olds is in.

" this thread is more aimed at guys who came of age in the 80s or 90s,"

R105, the shitbat millenio asshole making age-hating comments yet again, with no facts. I did come of age then, you cunt dropping. You're not the hall monitor, fucktard.

And there was porn in various media then.

The thread should be titled, "What non-porn did you jerk off to in the '80s and '90s?"

r113 - calm down, girl. Breaaaathe. I was only making that comment in jest. I love my eldergays. Fuck, I volunteer with LGBT senior services at my local center. So, you were a kid/teen in the 80s or the 90s and you got your hands on gay porn before the internet? Maybe it's because I grew up in the suburbs, but I'm amazed that you managed to do that. How'd that happen? Older friends? Mail order catalog? I would've killed to have gotten my hands on a gay porn VHS or mag when I was a kid. No such luck. Hence the need to make do with the kinds of examples in this thread.

Talk radio

R116 - Dr. Laura?

I sometimes called those 900 phone sex numbers, but got in BIG trouble when my mother saw the phone bill.

Thank you, R114.

I bought porn since I was 18. In college, a few friends had VCRs and older pals loaned tapes. After that, I rented from video stores, and quickly got a second VCR to make duplicates. I've since burned the best to CD/DVDs, and tossed most of the tapes.

The funny thing about those days was, if you duped over a mainstream movie tape, they were heavy-duty and by recording on lower resolution, you could tape hours onto one tape. So I've saved a few of those old mixes.

R119 - okay, sure, once you were 18 years old you bought porn. I was thinking of the pre-18 phase, though. My first job when I was 18 was at an indie video store which had a porn section. I somehow convinced the manager that they were missing out on a niche market by not carrying any gay porn. She actually listened to me and started stocking some, but she found the weirdest most obscure ones you could imagine. Like, we had "Butt Nuggets Goes Gay Vol. 1-17". She had to order them out of a pictureless catalog; don't know what compelled her to choose those ones. She was a sweet 40-something single mother who dressed like Dana Carvey's Church Lady too.

"Butt Nuggets Goes Gay "

A new DL classic!

The men I could not accommodate each got one of my panties. They were happy.

The occasional hot-hot-hot Hollywood street hustler from one of the numerous Old Reliable videos. Most of them I'd fast forward, but when they were hot they were beyond hot. I had a compilation video I'd made on my own that was eventually lost or stolen.

90s era Marky

The Dukes of course, but not the new ones.

For R125

Kevin Williams

Grew up in a very rural area, so a lot of spank material was few and far between, but I did use the occasional photos of wrestlers and other jocks which appeared in local papers as well as country singers, especially cranking one out to good ol' George Strait.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas (and get your mind of the gutters, I was about the same age as he was)

I once visited a rather skanky little drug store as a young teen. It was in a small town near a truck stop, and a rack of books featured full-on porn paperback pulps with gay, straight and bi stories. I boldly walked up to the counter and bought five of them. I've since collected dozens more. Fun stuff!

Early 80's?Anything Chris Atkins.Lagoon,Playgirl,Heaven,that snake photo.Later?Anything Mel Gibson.So yucky now!After that I jumped on the gay porn wagon like everyone else.Joey Stefano etc.

River Phoenix

Jonathan Brandis

Brad Renfro

Edward Furlong

:(

R132 Ditto

Furlong looks in bad shape

This show.

Richard Gere in Breathless.

How did Mark Wahlberg get rid of his chest tattoo? It was pretty big.

"You are the center of the universe, unique and brilliant! Millennials are the best!"

Yawn, the people whining about millennials are tired Republicans. You must be older than the dirt if you think a thirtysomething born in 1983 is a young whippersnapper.

Harrison Ford in "Witness."

Steve Guttenberg in anything.

The OP seems common with very low-brow interest. I can see him and his parents having cookouts in football parking lots happy they found a spot near a garbage can.

R139 - My parents are from India and I was born in the UK. The closest I've come to a football game was singing the national anthem at my high school's homecoming game. And I left right after singing. BUT, your post made me genuinely LOL, so thanks for that!

Magnum PI and Three's Company would always provide fodder for this foot fetishist in the pre-Internet life.

CATS commercials. Rum Tugg Tugg it!

I masturbated for the time watching David Charvet on Baywatch!

Dwan in TUB STUDS

Liono in Thundercats.

Eric Estrada in CHIPS. Sears catalogue underwear section... International Male catalog

r143 Holy fuck that's some tasty flesh.

Baywatch had some lit dudes

Someone should start a thread on the hot guys from Baywatch

As you wish, R150:

Matt Lattanzi got a lot of my spunk as did Trucker on Loving.

Near soft core porn Silk Stalkings got me through some dry spells.

[quote] through some dry spells

Not so dry, eh, R153.

R148 - YES! I remember that guy being on Bay Watch when I was in high school. What was his name? Wasn't he on some daytime soap, too? At that time, we still had a VCR at home and I'd use the timer to set the VCR to record some of the daytime soaps while I was at school and the parents were at work so that I could... review the tape after hours. LOL. The shit we did just to get off in those days. If kids today with their Tumblrs and X-Tube only knew...

R153 - YES! Another basic cable memory from my jr. high and high school days! Rob Estes was smoking hot in that stupid show.

Paul Mercurio today.

Life can be a bitch.

Mark Harmon and Jim Palmer were the two I remember the most, and the underwear catalogs provided lots of 'bate material back then.

Rick Springfield.

R156 - is that some Australian tv personality? If I've got the right guy, I think he looks good for mid 50s.

Kin Shriner from General Hospital, Jameson Parker from Simon & Simon, Roger Taylor from Duran Duran, Warren Cucurrullo from Missing Persons (I would've worn my teenage cock off if I'd seen the hardcore stuff he'd later do), Marky Mark, Rico Suave, Kevin and Howie from Backstreet Boys, Dan Cortese and any cute guy within my peripheral vision. I can remember seeing hot guys at the store or at school and having to rush home to fantasize and whack off. Used to have fantasies about the hot guys from school kidnapping me and taking turns raping me.

Clark Brandon from the Fitzpatricks. Also borrowed my sister's "teen" star magazines ("Seven Ways To Win Leif's Love," etc.) and tried to return them in pristine condition.

This picture of 1950s-'60s heartthrob, George Maharis. In my whack-off fantasy, I was lying on top of him with my dick firmly embedded in his ass.

R162 - that's what you j/o to in the 80s and 90s?

Since Simon & Simon keeps coming up, I just noticed it's available on Hulu now.

Lots and lots of ads. this one in particular

and my god this

Ah, yes, R165. Lucky Vanous. I wonder how he's held up over the years? That ad was from a LONG time ago.

GQ's summer issue with all the swimsuits. First saw it while on a family vacation at a lake. Didn't jack off until we got home a week later and had some privacy. My cum shot clear across my bedroom looking at those pics with a week's worth of 13 year old boy buildup.

R153 that's Frank Grillo, who was amazing in that episode, with many intense close-ups of his grinding banana hammock. Oddly, Grillo went on to have a much better career than anyone else in the cast of Silk Stalkings.

I usually had a 50/50 chance to rub one out at 5am. Local tv aired an aerobics show hosted by a gaunt older blonde woman with scary inner thighs. Half the time, her back-up performers were men wearing Travolta inspired sports-porn outfits.

I'd change into my "outfit". It consisted of a flash-dance sweatshirt, tighty whities, and cable-knit sweater sleeves cut off and repurposed as leg warmers. As soon as I experienced discomfort, I'd lay down on the floor and let my hands wander all over my body.

I also jizzed over R88's Soloflex model until I heard him speak.

this guy

r155, Jason Brooks at r148 used to be Peter Blake on Days of Our Lives; as legend has it, he and his married co-star Melissa "Chik-a-Fil chicken lady" Reeves had an affair while playing husband and wife on the show; her husband Scott Reeves (of Y&R fame) found out and demanded they end the affair and she leave the show.

I never watched Days of Our Lives. Never knew who he played. But if Jason Brooks was on when I was channel surfing I would stop just to watch him. If I could have catalog shopped for a BF he would have looked just like Jason Brooks. He's also the client on Friends the Phoebe fell for.

Great tits.

cave paintings

I love this thread if only because I forget about it and then when it shows up again, that glorious, perfect chest of Ken Olin's just brings me back. God, what a beauty.

Ken says hi, R175

R176, attachment is forbidden.

Ken Olin likes black cock.

R176 - I can see the attachment in the preview window and when I click-thru. Maybe try a different browser?

Playgirl man!You could always tell yourself as you were bringing it up to the counter(that is,if you chickened out from shoplifting it),that they would think you were buying it for your sister.Flop-sweating the whole time.Fooled nobody of course.This was early 80s for me.Made it all that much sweeter when you got it home!.The risk and all that.

That commercial where that dude says something coded so only a gayling like me could understand what they said.

Matt Damon's tits.

[quote] Matt Damon's tits.

That's very specific. Why and which movie(s)?

Definetely the men underwear sections of any Department Store catalogue my mum received. In addition I was a great videotaper. I had a VCR full with soloflex conmercials, Marky Marc Video Clips and Chip n Dale strips from Donahue.

[quote] Chip n Dale strips from Donahue.

You darn zoophile you.

"Chip n Dale strips"

"Oh dear" doesn't even vaguely begin to cover this one.

R90, omg yes the men of late night Cinemax were so hot. Paul Logan had the best body. Another fav of mine was Steve Curtis.

Season one STTNG Johnathan Frakes. His good looks and that ass and tenting bulge in that starfleet uniform got me going. Plus I wanted to lick his chin cleft.

Greg Evigan most of the guys in TigerBeat and Marky, Marky and Marky. Not just his underwear shots but basically any photo of him. I really had it bad for him. Still do.

[quote] Who the fuck was developed enough to jerk off in the eighties?

Good God, has DL become a day care center for you toddlers?

Paul Mercurio was the hottest ass on earth then..

i dint fool round with mags, ide go shoppping with momma at macys and suk dik at 11 in the toilet while she bought stuff....

[quote]Episodes of Full House in which John Stamos wore tight tshirts that showed off his biceps

If only you had known what was under that t-shirt, you'd have been so grossed out and scarred for life.

Jack Scalia ruled with his underwear ad

More of Paul's perfect pooter:

The Blue Lagoon and The Dukes of Hazzard.

Then when I turned 18 I rented gay porn. Had a neighbor that had 2 VCRs for dubbing (As purchasing gay pron was expensive) . He was straight so I had to promise him a date with my sister.

Perfect Summer with Casey Jordan

Stryker Force with Jeff Stryker and Steve Hammond

The smutty parts in popular novels, relentlessly sought and researched while babysitting at other people's houses. A few dads had actual magazine porn, not just Playboys.

[quote]Stryker Force with Jeff Stryker and Steve Hammond

r196 - I hope this doesn't ruin it for you, but apparently that's a stunt bottom for Hammond in the scene with Stryker at the end.

R47, I'm SURE you remember this Kevin Costner Us Magazine issue from September 4, 1989???????????????

I do!

Was I the only one wanking to Playgirl? I did a search of the previous posts and didn't find anyone mentioning Playgirl. Got mine at 7-11 and asked for a Playgirl and Penthouse. Then ordered gay videos when they became available.

In May 1982, I bought my first VCR as a teen. that very night, NBC was re-running an episode of CHiPS where Erik Estrada's character was salsa dancing or something. All I remember is he was SHIRTLESS and wearing skintight black pants while dancing! I watched that scene OVER and OVER...

I cannot find that scene on YouTube, so here is some sexy EE dancing from earlier in the series.

I think I still have that first tape and will look for it!

I found my recently-divorced mother's copy of the October 1982 Playgirl.

I finally stole it for the John Matuszak pics!

Porn

Kevin Williams, definitely, and the Simon Rex jerk off videos were a whole new level.

uh, porn, duh.

Chris Sarandon in Fright Night 2 and Sean Connery in old James Bond films. Those guys helped me learn very quickly I liked the fellas and was gay!

I used to get off on the bareback porn that was still around from the 70s and early 80s. Then as AIDS really darkened my young life, I figured I would just get used to condom porn, and I did. In porn and in life. I actually never saw the future beyond AIDs, back then. It was a long haul to treatment. And that was shitty until 2000 or so.

I jerked off to Matt Dillon's denim covered ass in Little Darlings at 13 when they played it on cable. Shortly thereafter my older sister started to obtain Playgirl magazines at work, much to my delight!

Magnum PI

I was 16 in in 1980 LA, where I saw, then jacked off to what I'd seen of Andy Gibb and Lorenzo Lamas and Dennis Quaid at Venice Beach, with hot skateboarders and surfers everywhere. Several repertory movies played foreign gay movies with a lot of skin. Our local drugstore carried Blueboy. Also After Dark. Some of the kiosks on Hollywood Blvd carried gay porn mags. And there were erotic books even at chain bookstores. I got good at stealing those and glances at guys in the shower room at the Y or at UCLA or at surfers changing out of their wet suits. Then I started going to the gay beaches and bars. Unless you looked way under age, a lot of the bars didn't card back then if you came in with someone they knew.

r209 Matt Dillon is so dreamy!

No ones mentioned one of my main JO resources, the Solid Gold Dancers! Each week they would dance to the count down of the weeks hits and do interpretive dancing behind the guest performers. Many times the men were shirtless or wearing just a vest. There was one who looked like Adrian Zemed who I mooned over. Or maybe he looked like Deney Terrio? Hell it might have even been one or the other!

^^^ Like so many times after I comment on a thread, it sends me off on a google/ YouTube binge and I learn something new. It was not Adrian or Deney, but a dancer named Tony Fields. Not only was he a Solid Gold Dancer, but he was also in Michael & Janet Jackson music videos and the movie of A Chorus Line. He died of AIDS in 1995. Someone did a compilation video of his dances, if you’re feeling like getting into the season, one of the first ones is an interpretative dance to the Little Drummer Boy, during a holiday song count down. Notice how many of them he’s shirtless in or a vest showing off his sexy dancer body. The thing was you never knew when he was going to pop up during the countdown and how sexy he would be, but I was always ready to jerkoff just in case.

In the 90's, Pacific Blue's Jim Davidson. Those hot muscular cops on their bikes riding through the beach... Fond memories of my youth.