Once upon a time…

In a place not so far away, not so long ago either, but actually maybe as close as your neighbor’s house only yesterday, cameras are rolling on carousing couples caroming around on their beds, fucking like rabbits…. if in fact Bugs Bunny was a porn star ready for his close up, tongue in both cheeks, what’s up your orifice doc, loony times for sexy lunatics not concerned with anyone seeing them in all their naked horny splendor. Amateur sex videos were, are, and will be recorded and saved then produced and reproduced for many others to watch. But something is different, there is a change, subtle yet distinct, all one has to do is look at the way those self made porn videos used to look compared to how they look today.

It isn’t just that the hairstyles have changed. And it doesn’t matter that not too many people wear elastic head sweat bands and neon lime green lycra body suits any more, because we are not talking superficial and cosmetic differences such as those. Let’s face it… sex hasn’t really changed all that much in quite a few years either when you really get to thinking about it. Yes the technology to shoot homemade sex videos and edit them has improved but what is truly the difference?

What has changed is the ability of the people shooting them. So many years of people possessing the ability to shoot videos has actually improved technique as if there has been an evolution of intellect of what to shoot and prowess at getting the right angle and perfect frame to make things look just right. So now amateur sex videos just seem more polished and professional. That quality has actually led people to pursue making amateur porn beyond the level of hobbyist and seek the higher echelons of erotic achievements, like sending in their shot at home sex tapes to Homegrown Video.

And at Homegrown, we are ever so proud to preserve the history of amateur porn through the ages!

In 1982, Homegrown Video became the first company to distribute homemade sex videos and changed the entire landscape of adult videos forever. Before Youtube made everyone a producer, director, and star of their own movies just as Steven Spielberg once predicted the access to video cameras would change the world of movie-making, Homegrown Video put the power of being a porn star in the hands, and private parts, of the masses. The effort was grassroots, and like grass, when it caught fire it spread quickly to change the entire face of porn. Even professional high glamour companies, from Playboy to Vivid et. al., began to offer amateur stylized productions.

Homegrown paved the way for “gonzo” and “reality” porn, offspring of amateur porn. It laid the foundation for celebrity sex tapes, from Tanya Harding through Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton. Homegrown Video made making a homemade sex video fun and more importantly – normal – and even sort of acceptable in a mischievously naughty sort of way. If your next door neighbor might be doing it, then people didn’t have to feel so weird about themselves enjoying this form of entertainment. In this way, Homegrown Video helped bring porn out of the shadows in San Fernando valley, and into the bright light of mainstream consciousness.

Homegrown Video did not stop shaping the landscape there either and continued to innovate by digging down into what customers really wanted, then building mountains of content to satisfy them specifically. Focusing on niche themed fare in the days before the internet became a what it is today, Homegrown launched series like “CreamPie Club” and “Natural Bush” that addressed exactly what customers were looking for in their porn and catered to niches that had previously been completely neglected. As one fan once wrote, “Now I don’t have to keep watching movies shot in 1970 if I want to see hairy pussies”.

Just as Apple’s i-Tunes changed the way people listen to music, Homegrown Video changed the way people look at porn. Not only that, it changed the way people look in porn. Eric Schlosser, the author of “Fast Food Nation”, says in his book “Reefer Madness” that “Made by the people, for the people, Homegrown Video represents the democracy of porn”. Today, the face of porn is no longer necessarily a blond busty beauty with big fake boobs; it might be a housewife in Ohio, or a privileged socialite, a big beautiful woman or a skinny young co-ed with a very hairy pussy, thanks to Homegrown Video’s impact on the world of porn.

vote for Sassy!

Some amateur sex video fans have always been politically active – the hairy pussy fans come to mind first and foremost. I think because they were such an oppressed segment of the market for such a long time, they had to bond together to be pro-active and take action against the inequity of being forced to watch old 70’s porn classics in order to see some hairy pussy for so long. They formed clubs, unions, ways to collectively bargain and demand greater satisfaction from video companies. One company that heard them loud and clear and was willing to champion their cause was Homegrown Video.

Homegrown stepped up and said “If you want to see more hairy cunts then by the grace of the Gillette razor company we intend to bring you hairier pussies!” Homegrown entered “Natural Bush” as a candidate for best release devoted to the hairy beaver niche and it was a winner that still holds official bragging rights to this day, earning Homegrown Video a prestigious “best niche studio” award from Xbiz.

The Homegrown Video website is unique in many ways but one of the less titillating but no less stimulating ways that it puts a new spin on user satisfaction embraces the democratic principles inspired by those revolutionary hairy pussy fans. Homegrown allows members the right to vote on upcoming updates so the members actually have a voice in what gets posted on the site.

Homegrown Video stands for TRUTH, JUSTICE, and the RIGHT TO HAIRY PUSSY amateur porn!

Now that is a hairy bush!

I always tell people that I was inpired to get into amateur porn which eventually meant finding Homegrown Video during a life changing wonderfully provacative acid trip at a Grateful Dead concert in Berkeley in the mid 80s.

Most people would never in a million years equate eroticism with the jam band stylings of the grand daddy of jam bands, the Grateful Dead. For the freak that I am and cannot hide from being, the elongated instrumental jams, especially on tunes that completely stretch the horizons of musical spontaneity and ingenuity like “Dark Star”, inspire and stimulate some erotic trigger deep in my reptilian brain where instinct and impulse shape sensuality.

Sure, there is plenty of music out there that makes you want to fuck like the Easter Bunny eating egg shaped Viagra tablets. The bump and grind beat your meat of funk, the shake your rump ecstasy groovings of electronica in its various forms come to mind. But some Dead jams for me stimulated something deeply sexual and felt more like an entire immersion in pleasure, with foreplay, frenzied fucking, and the denouement of post coital bliss, only to build back up again to screaming orgasmic joyful rapture.

Maybe it was the site of all those bra-less big breast hippie chicks dancing like dervish gypsy witches that could spin a hex on you that would have you walking around with an erection for the next week. Maybe they would control your brain and make you say and do… things, naughty things, like begging them to sit our your face and grind her hairy pussy on your mouth while her clit bumps your nose. Even now, the whiff of patchouli, which has some sort of muskiness to it reminiscent of wet pussy, can put a spell on me.

Ok, I am a little ashamed to admit that…

Have you lived in this world long enough to wish you had amateur sex videos as keepsakes of various ex-girlfriends? You have to have been around long enough to actually forget all the stuff that resulted in her being your exgf and you have to have held on with a special glimmer in your mind’s eye to those special moments that were worth remembering. You know – like that time when your exgf added rimming your asshole to her blowjob repertoire one crazy martini soaked evening when inhibitions peeled away with her lacy lingerie and left you both open to walking naked on the wild side.

I remember when I was a sophomore in college there was an older girl in the senior class I dated briefly. Some footage from that relationship would make great exgf video porn. The so-called relationship which was essentially being an on-call boy toy booty call which could easily be avoided by day was all about crazy sex. By crazy, I mean partly by my standards at the time, because I was still pretty new and innocent at the time, having only been with about two other girls previously. But even by my aged, wizened, demented, twisted, debauched, lecherousness of my current standards it was still sort of wild.

She was from Germany and she had a sweet hairy pussy, very athletic, with perky boobs, and an ass you could beat on and signal a war party with. She used to like to kick the shit out of me. She liked to wrestle for foreplay, WWE style, drop kicks, elbow smashes, sleeper holds, the works. By the time she was smacking my face and our clothes were essentially torn to sweaty shreds, then she was ready for cock and wanted to be fucked hard. I was still innocently struggling with the idea of “love-making” and hadn’t quite figured out the thing called “fucking”. I was a deer in the headlights. I couldn’t figure out why she wanted me to toss her around and if I showed any sort of passive reluctance then that only provoked her to do things like try to punch me in the nuts.

Now I get it. It was kinky. It was wild. It meant playing a part in something and taking the fantasy to a place where it could be enjoyed as reality. If we had only made some amateur porn then I could’ve used it like a training video, a replay of the game, to go over with a coach and see where I went right or wrong in each and every exgf movie.

Oh well, at least I have Homegrown Video now to help in matters like this.

Getting around first
Second in not a problem
but third’s far away

There is no denying that Homegrown Video celebrates the hairy pussy. Sure, this goes against convention. Typical wisdom on the subject from our peers and colleagues tends to be completely disapproving and we are criticized and told women in amateur porn should have unshaven cunts. In their minds, Homegrown Video has some sort of problem. We are seen as being out of touch, behind the times, prone to purchasing content that seems in their view to be unpopular and unpleasant. Nothing could be farther from the truth of course. We have been around long enough and heard enough feedback to  know that our hairy bush amateur videos are a treasure to those fans of hairy bush that cannot find good unshaven pussy hair content any place else.

Go and pet the cat

The pussy begins to purr

Opens its legs then licks you

1.       When the Dead and Phish regrouped to come back on tour after a long hiatus, then young hot and hirsute women were sure to proliferate with big furry bushes and fuzzy arm pits.

2.       Sales of merkins (a pubic wig) have sharply increased for women that want that unshaven bush look.

3.       With many Brazilian waxing salons closing due to health code violations, many women are finding that they are forced to grow out their pussy hair rather than having to shave down there.

4.       Since Capri style pants are back in fashion, women that don’t yet want to trim down the winter bush in preparation for summer bathing suits can buy some time before whipping out the razors.

5.       Porn stars are finding a second life to their sagging careers by letting their cunt hair grow out.

6.       A commercial for feminine razors makes winking references to keeping women’s bushes neat and trim.

7.       Nostradamus made a prediction; the translation states “In the year of 2009 the red dog will bark for Adam as Eve will no longer know shame of her hairy pussy”

8.       The resurgence of shag carpet has been shown to have a direct correlation to the length of pussy hair.

9.       New grooming tool innovations have made it possible to shave ingenious designs in your pubic hair such as my girlfriend Lani’s fave, Hello Kitty.

10.   Amateur  porn  made for Homegrown Video’s “Natural Bush” series is winning fans worldwide!

I recall when we first took over Homegrown Video and I spoke with a gentleman whose name escapes me so many years later but whose penchant for hairy pussy still inspires me. Back then, we were just getting going and every day we were, excuse the pun, getting by – just by a hair, quite literally. The people that were our best and most loyal fan base were hairy bush enthusiasts many of whom complained bitterly about the state of modern porn where all the women have shaved or totally bald pussies. One fan, a hirsute lesbian by the name of Pam Winters, who published a journal on hairy snatch called “Hair to Stay”, explained the issue to me best. “People are sick of having to watch porn from the 70s over and over just to see a woman with a naturally hairy cunt.”

I knew what she meant. The first Playboy and Penthouse magazines that I ever saw featured women that had naturally bushy hairy cunts. The air brushed Playboy women had pussies that seemed to simply disappear into a blurry hairiness, while the more exotic and explicit women in Penthouse not only showed what lay so wonderfully hidden in their sweet bushes but even sometimes appeared to be wet in which case the pubic hair would be matted and glistening. Even now, if I see one of those vintage issues, then a wave of horny nostalgia sweeps over me and I remember what inspired me to get into porn.

Sweet, wet, hairy pussy.

At a time when so much of adult entertainment is dominated by everyone trying to copy what everyone else is doing, the idea that unshaven vagina still keeps us unique amazes me and the notion that so many seem to revile the natural state of things puzzles me. When I actually saw my first porn video, the classic “Resurrection of Eve” with Marilyn Chambers as the girl whose inhibitions are finally removed when she gets fucked in her hairy pussy by a big black stud, I wasn’t thinking “oh those pubes around her pussy and asshole are making me so sick I can’t watch this”; however, that is exactly the kind of complaint you hear from people these days when they see hairy bush porn.

I can’t figure it out… but then again, I don’t need to because the numbers don’t lie. Hairy pussy fans have spoken and clearly they are saying that they still can’t get enough natural bush.