Stag Movies

The prehistory of modern pornography is the classical American stag film, a body of clandestine short pornographic films produced during the first two-thirds of the 20th century. While the exact corpus of the distinctive stag film remains unknown, scholars at the Kinsey Institute believe there are approximately 2000 films produced between 1915-1968.
Stag cinema is a form of hardcore film and is characterized as silent, usually filling a single reel or less, and was illegally made and exhibited because of censorship laws in America. Women were excluded from these private screenings that were shown in American "smoker" houses such as fraternities or other exclusive institutions. In Europe, films of the same kind were screened within brothels. The mode of reception of the all-male audience of stag films was raucous, collective sexual banter and sexual arousal.
Film historians describe stag films as a primitive form of cinema because they were produced by anonymous and amateur male artists who failed in achieving narrative coherence and continuity within their diegesis. Today, many of these films have been archived by the Kinsey Institute, however most are in a state of decay and have no copyright, real credits, or acknowledged authorship. The stag film era inevitably ended due to the beginnings of the sexual revolution in the fifties in combination with the new technologies of the post war era, such as 16mm, 8mm, and the Super 8.
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Since some movies can not really be catagorised I label those as 'stag' since they are a essential element in the development of producing fetish content for movies.

Gallery

Family Spirit (1940) "Family Spirit", 1940s (or earlier) French hardcore stag film with emphasis on fetishistic whipping, spanking and lots of other stuff. The many explicit sex scenes had to be cut in order to keep this on the Archive. This film is part of a series I'm posting on vintage fetish films, not porn. Story: A blond girl caught watching a couple having sex is harshly spanked and whipped. She gets revenge by having the brunette bound and whipped, then she has wild sex with the guy. However, the girls make up in the end via a strap-on session. With what is shown you can read between the lines. Porn was old hat by the '40s. This is presented to document an early example (and one of the best) of all-out fetishism. That is, bondage and corporal punishment as a sexual element in film. Here, those wacky French were decades ahead of the rest of the world.

Three rare 1950s bondage fetish movies Three short, obscure Irving Klaw films featuring the usual rope bondage and spanking of underwear-clad models. Filmed in a crude warehouse. No title cards identifying the performers. Could be raw footage that was never properly finished. Funny blooper: at 5:30 you can see the second cameraman on the left side of the frame. Last shot is a freeze-frame of Bettie Page in leopard bikini.

Lessons of the strap (1950) Short stag reel, circa late-1950s. A woman's nightmare of being punished by a jealous girlfriend. No strap, just bondage and non-stop hand spanking. Similar to Irving Klaw's films and "Co-Ed Secrets" (also at this site). Part of a long series I'm doing on the history of fetish films.