Vintage Hardcore

Since the dawn of human evolution, artists have explored the sexual act - from primitive markings on cave walls and ancient Grecian ceramics, to the more sophisticated forms of Japanese Shunga or Vātsyāyana's Kama Sutra. With the advent of the photographic camera, coitus was depicted with a realism hitherto unseen. Yet, there exists a common misconception that 'XXX' photography is a post-modern phenomenon. Vintage Hardcore dispels this rumor, in a surprising and sometimes wildly shocking collection of rare vintage sex photos. From the very naughtiest of the 1900s to the super-swingingest of the 1960s, this book is everything your grandparents and great-grandparents tried to keep secret - until now!
Nico B, founder of the legendary Amsterdam video store Cult Videotheek, started Cult Epics in 1991, the first films acquired for Benelux (Netherlands, Belgium) distribution where The Exotic Dances of Bettie Page, and Tokyo Decadence. Moving to the US in 1998, he continued to release arthouse, horror and erotica films in North America, with the later, the series Vintage Erotica 1920 - 1970, American Nudes vol. 1-3, the Bettie Page films, the films by directors Tinto Brass, Radley Metzger, and Walerian Borowczyk.