‘Like a Sex Time Machine’: The Rise of HD-Remastered Vintage Porn and Erotica

The decline of physical formats like DVDs and Blu-ray among mainstream entertainment consumers has paradoxically resulted in an unexpected feast of availability for cult, fringe and obscure movies, both via streaming and VOD services and specialty Blu-ray for collectors — a phenomenon that also includes the classics from the Golden Age of Pornography (and erotica) in the 1970s and 1980s.