How could people access pornography in the 80s?

buy porn tapes or movies, im sure they had them in stores or something

You would go to literally any store/gas station and buy a magazine or vcr tape off of a shelf. There was also special movie theators (these still exist) you'd sit and fap.

To be honest, back then people weren't so desensitised so you could probably knock one out just looking at a random magazine with a lady in it showing an ankle or two! xD

OH MY GRAND COUSIN WAS BORN IN 1981 SO LET ME EDUCATE U. SO BASICALLY WHAT THEY HAD WAS A NACKER SLACKER IN A TALLYWHACK GIVE A DOG A BONE THIS OLD MAN WENT ROLLING HOME RADIO BOOBIES R US AND BASICALLY THE STINKY OREGANO MAN CAME TO OUR DOOR AND GAVE US SOME SHIT FLICKS WITH DICKS AND SOME STICK PISS WITH CHEESY WHIZ

Rental store adult section and adult novelty stores - both easily accessible in any major city.

one good look at something you seem worthy and snap that as a mental image and boom that'll last you a while

magazines or tapes, that must've been hella embarrassing

Trough Movie Tapes or Magazines since there was no internet to use

Tapes probably. As well as "Playboy" magazines or whatever.