One think that’s hot about vintage porn is that sometimes, it carries within itself evidence of the social risk that went along with making the stuff. Masks crop up from time to time in vintage porn, but they were particularly common in taboo scenarios featuring socially disapproved racial pairings:

This is a photographic lobby card for The Scissors Girl (“An Imperial Pictures, Inc. Release”).

Spread-eagled with bare (if censored) nipples, she’s got to be worried!

Marked SC5 on the negative.

I like the way she is smiling at the camera while he looks distracted and very very busy. Speculation: she’d like to make the photographer happy and collect her pay, whilst he — from the look of things — is working for a more immediate reward.

Another lobby card, this one for “Ruined”. Like the movie poster says, “it’s daring and sensational.”

She’s tied face down on the bed and a man in his underwear is kissing her! Gasp! She’s ruined, all right!