Coincidentally, My 20s and the last days of my bachelorhood coincided perfectly with the pinnacle of the porn rental business. I only dated sporadically throughout the 90s, and happened to live alone at the time, so I spent more than the usual amount of time masturbating. Fortunately there were two VHS rental places very close to where I lived.

The first was a rather shabby establishment run by a Vietnamese entrepreneur named "Bob", who had a fairly modest selection of mainstream movies in the front part of his store... but a much larger selection of adult titles behind a beaded curtain. It wasn't a very clean store, and he used to stack his boxes cover-to-cover like books... so I had to pull each one out to see what was what. But he made up for that with the sheer volume of titles he carried. The other I frequented was an actual adult store. It was very clean and very well lit and, even though it lacked the variety of Bob's store, the boxes were all displayed with the covers out, and were all organized into specific categories like "gangbang", "oral", "anal", etc. I liked the way that store smelled. I seem to remember being very interested in anything by Max, Elegant Angel, or Anabolic at the time. And Kaitlyn Ashley and Nikki Brantz were favorites.

On my days off I'd usually get there early in the afternoon and rent 3 - 4 titles. Sometimes more if I had a long weekend. When I got them home, I'd lay on the floor directly in front of the television, so I could swap tapes in and out of the vcr without having to get up each time. I'd usually stroke myself continuously as I FF'd through each tape to find favorite scenes. Occasionally I'd pop during the first or second tape, if I came across a particularly hot scene. But I always tried to make it through each tape... and then perhaps revisit a previous scene if I hadn't yet climaxed. This resulted in stroke sessions that were sometimes 3 hours or more, and remarkably powerful streams of ejaculate upon orgasm.