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I disagree. I feel that there will be a super invasive 1984-esque homegrown angle on the porn of the future. This Maya-based pseudoreality smut may fly with the Japanese and the most superficial of Americans, but the real wave of the future will come from next door. As I look to the side of my screen, I see a lovely young thing that I could probably bang next weekend. The future of sex rests prominently on your splash page and you can't see the forest for the trees... dickholes.
--COX
08/14 |
To answer all of Mr. Dery's questions at the end of his article I can say only this: We won't have all those things, except in a small niche, because most folks don't get their rocks off to that. There will always be a small group into the fantastical in the pornographic--for now they mostly have to watch Japanimation.
But realism in porn will never go away, as it is the driving force in the power of pornography. Vicarious experience is important to the average porn watcher as the MASSIVE surge in "amateur" porn over the last 10 years shows. Most porn caters to fantasies of women's unstoppable sluttiness or their total degradation. Salesand rental evidence bears this out. The desire for the real is at the bottom of most fantasies prtrayed in porn. Examples beyond the run of the mill porn include milfsearch.com and bangbus.com as well as countless others.
See, porn is the one genre of film that RELIES on reality for its punch in its entirety. See, in all other fictional films with performers, there are actors. In porn it is not acting, as the performers are actually DOING the act that they perform. They don't pretend to fuck, they fuck. The whole point of most porn is to actually watch real people perform real acts. The idea that we will turn away from this is absurd and clearly the fantasy of someone who doesn't want to admit to their own basest desires, but would rather mask them in fake intellectuality. And as far as all of the academic references in the article, they are just that. Academic. Try asking people who are really into porn for its own sake rather than as "cultural phenomenon" what they think. Some of them are even smart and articulate. And most of them (but certainly not all) are interested in realism.
Beyond that Mr. Dery, I would say you should try writing about something you know about rather than being a casual spectator and a dilletante. Or, you could spend some time actually watching porn for pleasure and see what you learn.
--JH
08/13 |
I really liked this article. I've always felt ashamed of my secret hobby: reading what I like to call science fiction porn, the weirder the better. The acts described don't turn me on, what does is the fact that they turn other people on. And now I find that my hobby has a name, and that other people do it too. Incidentally, I tried this as a proposition for a sexual relationship once, hooking up with an S&M chick hung up on butch-femme primarily because I was intrigued by what turned her on, and it didn't really work out well. I guess some hobbies are better pursued alone, in the privacy of one's computer! Or in my case, a university computer lab, where I am covertly squeezing my legs together as I read about hiccup lovers . . . yeah, doing it in public is kinda a turn on!
The best sites I have found so far belong to the breast inflation community. Diana the Valkyrie has a great site to get started at.
The second link in the article doesn't work, much to my chagrin. Please fix it?
--kem
08/11 |
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