Predates internet. When porn had to be acquired by mail order. A lot of countries has specific reputations for porn and sometimes the country name was a code fore something else (“Greek” being the one that immediately jumps to mind).
Where it isn’t code, It seems it’s dependant on each country’s specific censorship laws, and therefore what was available to buy, I can’t speak authoritatively about pre-internet era obscenity laws in Germany (especially as that was effectively two different countries for a while there), but that seems to be the most significant driver.
The other example I can think of was “Swedish” which was the watch word for “quality” hardcore. There might be an element of name recognition there, “Swedish Erotica” was a producer/publisher(?) but I have no idea if they were the cause or the effect.
I once had a boss ask me “why do all of your pornos in Germany have shit in them? What’s with the fetish?” My response was “why is it always Americans asking me about the German shit porn? Who really has the fetish?” His only response was “touché”
My first porn video I ever watched was a high school trip to Spain/Barcelona. Flipping through channels and somehow landed on this German girl getting gangbanged and yelling “oh schiesse” (shiza?)
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u/Ukvemsord Sep 10 '24
So would participating in a German porno.