Believe it or not, gay videos have a pretty lengthy history, starting back to the times when the video camera was first invented. Gay pornography in general has always been around, from cave paintings to the art that came out of Greece during the countrys heyday several hundred years ago. However, when the VCR came around and the United States Supreme Court decided to loosen up a bit, gay videos exploded all over the cultural fabric of America.
Before 1962, when the Supreme Court of the United States heard the case of MANual Enterprises vs. Day, gay videos were illegal to make, buy, sell or own because of the strict obscenity laws that were put into place. However, in the MANual Enterprises vs. Day case, the Supreme Court ruled that pictures of naked (and nearly naked) humans on film were not to be seen as obscene material.
This means that the United States Postal Service (USPS) was now legally required to deliver the beefcake magazines that it had been marking as nonmailable because carriers found the material offensive. That one ruling chanced everything, and the floodgates were opened up. Because VCRs were not around yet, people would watch gay videos at actual movie theaters.
It may be hard to imagine now, but there were tons of movie theaters that would only play gay videos. In every major city, there were huge gay video premieres, similar to the kind of Hollywood premieres that are big today. It was not until the 1980s, when VCRs became affordable enough for just about everyone to own, that gay videos really took off on their own. After all, why would somebody want to go to a shady, dirty movie theater to watch gay videos when one could do it from the comfort of his own home?
Plus, when you can watch gay videos at home, there is almost no chance of getting outed by somebody you know. Before, men looking to watch gay videos would always risk the chance of being seen entering a gay theater by their coworkers, church members or mothers in law. Nowadays, you do not even need to leave your living room to get access to gay porn. As long as you have an Internet connection or cable television, you can have access to all of the gay videos that you can dream of.
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