The Classic Porn

The Classic Porn is a premium porn website dedicated to vintage porn—which, as defined by the site itself, roughly corresponds to any pictures or videos produced after 1950, with various exceptions. The site itself is vintage, too, having started operating in 2006 as one of the only non-forum porn sites focusing on this type of porn. Not only does the site have almost ten thousand videos, but at their current rate they upload a new one every single day, so the size of the library should be the least of your concerns.

A Blast From The Past

Despite its considerable age and its focus on vintage porn, The Classic Porn has a surprisingly modern, effective, and attractive site design. Their taste for porn might be stuck in the past, but everything else is anything but.

One incredibly welcome feature of the site is that you can explore its entire catalog without being a member. Most pay porn sites have a public-facing page that’s essentially nothing more than an advertisement for the premium portion of the site while locking the actual content up behind members’-only walls. This isn’t at all the case with The Classic Porn, so what you see is what you get.

With that in mind, your eye will likely be first caught by the site’s showcase of popular scenes from today’s date. For each video here—and elsewhere on the site—you’ll be able to see all of the relevant information at a glance, including the title, date, director, and cast listing.

A few other similar listings will also be available if you continue to scroll down. Next up is a grouping of recently added films. On some well-curated sites, this is a perfect place to start your porn journey while on other sites with open uploads this section is about as bad as it gets. The Classic Porn sits somewhere in between the two—you might find a stinker or two, but for the most part, if one of these scenes catches your eye, you probably won’t regret giving it a shot.

Where the main page of The Classic Porn really stands out is in its sidebars. The site packs so much content onto these sections that you rarely need to venture anywhere else, and manages to do so as effectively and with less clutter than many sites that move these options to their own dedicated pages.

First and foremost is a sexuality filter, which allows you to quickly and easily switch your focus between straight and gay porn by filtering The Classic Porn’s entire collection with just a few clicks. Just below is a complete listing of porn categories, which even come with descriptions if you mouse over the corresponding icon. And, just like the powerful sexuality filter, this section can be switched from categorizing videos to categorizing porn stars in just a click or two.

The easily accessible options don’t end here—continue scrolling down to see a tiered list that allows you to filter the whole collection by decade, or, if you so wish, by individual year. One spot below that is a list of The Classic Porn’s top five videos of all time, and just below that is their selection of the five most-viewed porn stars on the site.

They even have a listing of porn by countries that shouldn’t be overlooked. In the modern era, the porn styles of different countries have become mostly homogenous due to the influence of globalization and the internet, but this wasn’t always the case. Sure, Japanese porn in particular to this day does have some unique aspects, but these pale in comparison to what you’ll find in Japanese, German, French, and Italian porn of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

The main pages features already go beyond what many sites offer, but they’re only the tip of the iceberg with The Classic Porn. The site has a perfectly balanced number of tags, which allow you to effectively narrow down on the content you’re looking for without having so many options that you’d be better off just scrolling through the collection aimlessly. These can be combined with filters for country, language, and release date as well as sort by popularity, rating, or upload date, essentially allowing you to find exactly what you’re looking for in under a minute in most cases.

Unfortunately, the perfect setup is somewhat marred by an imperfect execution. Tags and other metadata must be applied correctly to be effective, and this doesn’t always happen as it should on The Classic Porn. Some of the films on the site come with comprehensive cast listings and accurate tags, while others have nothing to speak of at all—with empty boxes where all of this information is supposed to be. Not only does this make the films impossible to find via filters, but it also makes them practically unsearchable, too.

Most importantly of all, the site’s setup is backed by an almost incomprehensibly large collection of fantastic porn. It’s not like they just grabbed every old porno and threw it up on the site—the quality is uniformly excellent—but despite that, the site has nearly ten thousand videos and over eleven thousand photos. And, when you consider that the majority of these are feature-length productions, not the ten- to fifteen-minute clips that many porn sites have, this breadth of content becomes even more impressive. On top of that, the entire site is ad-free, as attractive as it is functional, and virtually identical regardless of what type of device you use to access it.

A Night At The Museum

The Classic Porn is, unlike almost all other premium porn sites, is somewhat functional without spending a dime. In addition to being able to browse the site’s library free of charge, you’ll also be able to view trailers for every single video on the site. This might not seem like much, but calling it a trailer is often a bit of a misnomer—sometimes they’re exactly what you would expect, but occasionally you’ll run across a five to ten-minute clip from a vintage porn movie. This isn’t that much shorter than most porn videos, free or otherwise, so while it might not make the free version of the site one of your top choices, it’s an excellent way to get a feel for The Classic Porn.

To access full movies, though, you’ll need to pay for premium access. Thankfully, The Classic Porn gives you a lot of options to do so. They offer three main subscription plans. The best for most people to start with is their one dollar for one day trial, which gives you full access to everything The Classic Porn offers—including unlimited downloads. The other choices aren’t quite as great—you’re limited to a month-to-month plan that costs a relatively (but not ridiculously, considering the quality of the site) high thirty-five dollars per month and a ninety-day plan that works out to twenty dollars per month. The latter isn’t perfect—many sites offer better over a three-month term—but it’s a deep enough discount that most people should skip over the monthly plan.

Each of these three options can be purchased through your choice of two payment processors. Both are virtually identical in nearly every way, so if you’re going with one of these membership plans, don’t stress over the decision too much.

There is, however, a fourth plan that is only available through one of the payment processors. This twelve-month offer is, for almost all people, really the only choice that should be considered after evaluating the site with a trial. If you prepay for a full year in advance, your total cost works out to under nine dollars a month. This would be a fair price for a site far worse than The Classic Porn: for vintage porn this good on a site this well designed, it’s practically a steal.

A Classic Site

The Classic Porn isn’t flawless, but all of its flaws in terms of design and functionality are easily overcome by the site’s strengths and its excellent porn. The only real drawback is the prices on their medium-term membership options. But, given that the catalog can be browsed without paying, the existence of their free trial, and the incredible value of their year-long plan, this isn’t really an issue at all.

If you have even a passing interest in anything but the newest porn, Pornsites.com fully and completely recommends The Classic Porn. If you’re really on the fence, feel free to check out the trailers, but most people should feel comfortable signing up for a free trial and then (likely) transitioning that into the fantastic deal that is a year-long membership with The Classic Porn.