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In Surprised by the Guard, from 1930, a woman doing laundry outside gets interrupted by a soldier with more than clean clothes on his mind.
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Some are far less chaste than you might expect from porn of yore, and definitely not safe for work.
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If your idea of good porn involves a randy dandy macking on matrons of the local haberdashery, loosen your bow ties and unfasten your corsets. Things are about to get steamy in the drawing room.
For its new Remastered project (warning: link leads to NSFW images), adult streaming-video website Pornhub has, with the help of AI, restored and colorized a series of vintage erotic films, some going back more than 100 years, and posted them online.
"These films show us that human sexuality was alive and well in the early 1900s," Pornhub says.
It's a fascinating romp through erotic history that's by turns charming, funny, artful and eye-opening.
The collection of 20 films spans the late 19th century to the 1940s. Some of the earlier offerings are pretty chaste. For example, in The Undressing, from 1896, a Victorian woman dares to show her naked feet. In The Hairdresser, from 1905, a woman styles her tresses, topless, looking like a classical painting come to life.
But later films are far less restrained than one might expect of ye olde sexy times -- and definitely not safe for (most) work. As early as the 1920s, the films show voyeurism, bondage, spanking and cosplay. There are sex toys, same-sex interludes, threesomes, foursomes and more-somes.
Long before the sexual revolution, it turns out, porn stars in petticoats engaged in a lot of the familiar erotic endeavors you'd see in adult films film today. "People don't often consider the prevalence of erotic films back then, but they were quite the commodity," Pornhub says.
In flagrante delicto, in the last century.
Still, the footage is unmistakably vintage, with jumpy cuts and very little narrative structure. These short films, mostly from France, get straight to business.
In The Horny Haberdashery, from 1921, a male customer is hardly in the door before he drops his neatly pressed trousers to join two female workers engaged in maneuvers that would greatly concern today's HR.
In Surprised by the Guard, from 1930, a French farm girl is doing laundry outside when a soldier suddenly saunters up through the trees. It's immediately clear he's interested in more than having his coat cleaned. So is the next soldier who shows up to, well, enlist.
Adult movies date back to the beginning of motion pictures, when porn films were mostly anonymously produced and known as "stags." The earliest surviving porn movie is believed to be 1896 French film Le Coucher de la Mariée . It stars Louise Willy doing a tame striptease for her new husband as he slyly peeks and giggles from behind a dressing divider. Pornhub includes that early film in its Remastered series, renaming it Bedtime for the Bride.
Almost all stag productions were silent and black and white, even as the film industry adopted sound and color.
"This stylistic device contributed to the films' explicit allure," explains New York's Museum of Sex , "suggesting the reality of the sex acts being performed, as well as the underground and illicit nature of the pornographic film industry itself."
Since standard deep-learning models are trained using safe-for-work images, PornHub turned its AI on its library of 100,000 adult videos and images for a lesson in detecting body parts that take top billing in erotic films. Once the AI had colorized the black-and-white films, the team increased image stabilization, reduced flicker and increased the speed of the film to 60 frames per second. They added audio tracks, like player piano music typical of silent movies, that crescendo in all the right places.
"We thought it was important to not only preserve but modernize these films," Pornhub said. The relics will likely be a turn-on to porn and history buffs alike.
In 1896 French film Le Coucher de la Mariée, which Pornhub renamed Bedtime for the Bride, the groom gets a striptease on his wedding night.

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The civil complaint alleges that Pornhub parent company MindGeek, one of the largest online pornography companies, is a "classic criminal enterprise" with a business structure created to monetize nonconsensual sexual content — allegations Pornhub denies.
The suit was filed by Brown Rudnick LLP on behalf of 34 alleged victims of sexual exploitation, including minors, rape and human trafficking, and is seeking damages and protection for plaintiffs.
MindGeek owns over 100 pornographic websites , production companies and brands including Pornhub, RedTube, Tube8 and YouPorn. Among its various platforms, the company amasses 3.5 billion views per month, the lawyers said in a press release.
Michael Bowe, the lawyer representing the alleged victims, said on a conference call with reporters that the online pornography industry "has operated like an old-school red-light district of commerce where rules that do apply and should be applied haven't been applied."
"This is a case about rape, not pornography," the complaint reads.
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The women accuse Pornhub of profiting from videos posted without their consent. The complaint includes just one named defendant. The other 33 women requested anonymity.
One anonymous plaintiff on the call said that a video posted of her on Pornhub ruined her life.
"It is time for the companies and individuals who have profited off of nonconsensual and illegal content be held liable for their crime," the plaintiff said. "I joined the lawsuit because I seek justice for myself and the countless victims who don't come forward."
In a statement to CNN Business, Pornhub said it is reviewing and investigating the complaint. While it "takes every complaint regarding the abuse of its platform seriously, including those of the plaintiffs in this case," it denies the accusations about the company's structure.
"The allegations in today's complaint that Pornhub is a criminal enterprise that traffics women and is run like 'The Sopranos' are utterly absurd, completely reckless and categorically false," Pornhub wrote.
Bowe said he is hopeful that the case will be "a watershed moment" for the online pornography industry, which "simply hasn't been policed enough," he said.
The suit is the latest in a series of allegations against Pornhub and MindGeek.
In December, Mastercard ( MA ) , Visa ( V ) and Discover ( DFS ) blocked customers from using their credit cards to make purchases on Pornhub after a New York Times column accused the site of showing child abuse and nonconsensual sexual behavior. Pornhub has denied those allegations, calling them "irresponsible and flagrantly untrue."
Following this action, Pornhub implemented new safety policies on its platform in December. The new policies ensured that only verified uploaders can post to the site, videos on the site cannot be downloaded, and promised a transparency report , among other changes. In February, the site introduced further measures for verification, moderation and detection.
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New York (CNN Business) Dozens of women sued Pornhub and its parent company Thursday, alleging that the site knowingly profited from videos depicting rape, child sexual exploitation, trafficking and other nonconsensual sexual content.

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