There were a very few well-built performers who appeared in these loops and I would search for the names I knew: Lisa DeLeeuw, Sue Nero, some others. Sitting in a small cramped booth. Watching John Holmes slide the sausage to some anonymous woman, wondering what it was like to carry that much meat between my legs. Hoping to catch sight of a good sized pair of tits bouncing and jiggling before my quarters ran out. And if I did stumble across some well-built young woman, the chances were that I would never see her again. Performers would shoot a loop, or a couple of loops, cash the check to meet the next rent payment, and then drop out of the business.

But technology never stands still. As video became more common, things began to change. First the peepshow parlors dropped the noisy projectors with the fraying, endlessly-looping films. Then stores started popping up that carried videos for RENT! And full-length porn flicks that were still shot on film were soon dubbed onto video. But slowly, the producers of the loops and movies were forced aside by the growing number of people that were shooting straight onto video. As they were pushed aside, customers such as myself gained some things, and lost others.

The films, even the loops I spoke of, often featured a plot with scripted dialogue, well-appointed sets, and experienced performers. Some were actually trained thespians! Paul Thomas, one of the more active male studs in the porn industry and later a director/producer of porn, had a speaking role in the film version of "Jesus Christ, Superstar"!

What we lost was plot, story line, budgets, dialogue, casts that exceeded three or four people, and any pretension to taste. Remember that when "Deep Throat" and "Behind the Green Door" were released they were often screened in respectable movie theaters and attended by dating couples!

What we gained was a much larger selection of material to choose from. Now porn has come home. Going to a movie theater to see porn is a thing of the past. If you watch porn, you watch it in the intimacy of your own home, on your own TV screen.

And if I sound like I'm disappointed with how things have changed, well, that's not entirely true. We have recently experienced what I bet will be referred to as the Golden Age of Big Boobs! Starting in the mid 1980's and continuing through today, those who admire the well-developed bosom have had a rich and varied group of performers to choose from. From tease to full-on porn, there is something for everyone. We no longer have to depend upon fickle Mother Nature to bless a young woman, and then hope that that young woman will grow up and choose to share her spectacular abundance with the world.

From Melissa Mounds, who started the slim-but-stacked, artistically-enhanced-with-implants onslaught, to Norma Stitz, we have had a lot to choose from! Remember Melissa Mounds? She magically went from D-cups to something much larger, more rounded, and much more prominent. She changed her name to Melissa Mounds, and introduced the magic of silicon implants to thousands of amazed men in strip joints and on video. She was the first "enhanced" model I ever knew of. You can still order "Introducing Melissa Mounds" from Napali Video. I think it was her first video after the surgery. Another change was that she no longer did porn! She had made several boy/girl and girl/girl appearances. That stopped once she became Melissa. Made more money stripping and performing in solo "glamour" and tease videos.

After Melissa, the flood gates opened. And not every performer who went under the knife was shy about getting it on in front of the camera. Starry Knights became Lisa Lipps. Tommy Ta-Ta's had a second (or third?) operation and renamed herself Wendy Whoppers. Veteran Lynn Lemay got enlarged and kept on keeping on for several years. Bunny Bleu disappeared from porn for several years. When she came back she was larger - but just as eager and demonstrative as ever.

A whole host of house dancers scrimped and saved to buy big enough tits to become feature dancers, and then went on tour or in front of the camera. Tiffany Towers did both, and, I think, did both better than most of her competition. There have been others too numerous to mention.

In the late 80's and early 90's it was exciting to pick up a copy of Gent or Juggs or Score to see if there was a new face to be seen. If so, chances were that that face --and the body beneath it-- would soon be available on video! If you saw someone you liked, you could start to save your money to buy the video when it became available. Which is another thing that has changed since the 80's and early 90's: the price of our preferences. The first big tit video that I bought from H & S Sales cost (brace yourself!) US$69.95! If you ordered three titles at once you could save all of US$10.00 per title!

The porn industry is currently inundated with "amateur" videos. The girl and the boy next door get it on in front of a $200 video camera and sell the video for US$19.95. Even the girl next door can (and might) get a boob job. And the chances are, she'll show up in a video shot by her "ex-husband" or old boyfriend, and the tape will be sold on the Internet!

So things have changed, for better and worse. There is a flood of poorly lit, badly photographed, cheaply produced videos featuring two or more people fucking. Lots of video tape has been wasted (IMHO) recording the sexual activities of people so ugly that they themselves wouldn't pay to watch it! There are also plenty of tapes featuring attractive, stacked young women exposed in almost clinical fashion. Busty beauties who are filmed in close-up while they spread their vaginas, leaving out no detail and also omitting any sense of fun, excitement, or sensuality.

But there is also some great video. Professionally made videos featuring lovely women (and occasionally a good-looking guy, but who cares?) with great bodies are still available. Yes, we have lost some classic performers recently. The "retirements" of Busty Dusty, April Chest, and others are cause for sadness. But there are new performers coming along. Chelsea Charms may be one of the all-time greatest if she chooses to continue to make videos, dance and do photo shoots. Teddi Barrett, of whom I have only just learned, claims to have made over 200 tapes. I've seen only one and it isn't really well-produced, but she has a great pair of tits, and she seems to enjoy sharing herself with the camera. I'm looking forward to seeing what Napali does with her in their soon-to-be-released tape.

And I no longer have to plunk down my hard-earned money blindly. Before I order a tape, I can hope to read about it in JustMeMike's column in R&D. Or see a comment on one of the many bulletin boards or chat rooms that are on the Internet. Things have changed since the mid-80's. Prices are down; selection is up.

Perhaps most important, there is a growing awareness of a community of people who share my interest. People who, like me, love to watch naked, supremely stacked women cavort, for our pleasure, on the small screen where we live. People who read about big-busted women on the Internet and choose to plop down the money to order a video, a magazine, or a book. I wonder what we'll see in the next millennium? I'm looking forward to looking!

DDDave