Welcome to the new visitors to the site and a big hearty thank you goes out to both Racialicious and SmackDog Chronicles for linking me up in their blogs in regards to my last post regarding Interracial Porn and the politics therein. Visits to ye old site increased significantly with the inclusion and hope not to disappoint those who stop by with further intriguing posts.

So today’s subject I thought I would turn it over to my female friends (and readers of this site) who know my extensive knowledge of porn but still love me any way. I posed a question to them that has been hanging around in my head for a minute now.

“Why have you stopped (or limited) your viewing of porn?”

The answers were pretty varied and interesting:

V, from Florida wrote:

I used to get excited at having a little piece of erotica in my hands, a visual representation of the books I would read. A man providing for the physical needs of a woman. Wanton-lust-passion-sex-physical LOVE. I could even sometimes imagine myself in the place of the ladies being serviced by fine men. Being the object of his affection or lust even.

I began the sentence with “used to” because, I just don’t see any of that anymore. In this day and age of technology, and the advancement of men and women, you would think a fantasy would be easy to create on film. You would think a plot and storyline wouldn’t be too much to ask for.

Now days most porn movies are now “Scenes”. You get some chick, with bullet holes, knife wounds and stretch marks, sauntering onto the screen, next it is head, if she is lucky, the guy will reciprocate, then BONE, and the facial. Forgive me, but that just doesn’t turn me on. It is actually an embarrassment.

That was pretty passionate and pretty correct on a number of levels. My friends there used to be porn where it was fun and interesting. Porn that had plots and scripts and focused on a number of topics both real and fantastical. While looking at the site PornStar Classics I was amazed of how different films where back in the late Eighties/Early Nineties.

As for plot, a NY Times wrote an article recently stating that Porn today has even less plotting than before. They list several reasons for this but what struck me was the following quote:

The falling cost of hand-held video cameras gave birth to a generation of pornographers with little interest in drama beyond a clichéd plot involving a pizza delivery boy, said Paul Fishbein, president of the AVN Media Network, an industry trade publication.

I think what killed porn as a classic medium was the internet and video cameras. I’m not bemoaning the fact that the technology has improved things around us. That would make me sound like those folk who bemoan Twitter, The iPhone and all the other tech advancements. However it is plain to see that the ability to tape directly to video (and by extension Digital Video) it has made it possible for anyone to become a porn producer and distribute their media directly to customers via the internet.

Just like Pro Tools allow anyone to produce their own music and Torrent Sites allow them bypass big studios to put out their own songs.

I’m reminded about that classic scene the movie Boogie Nights where Jack Horner (played by Burt Reynolds) refuses to succumb to the advances of Floyd Gondolli (played by Philip Baker Hall).

Porn used to be about fantasy … but now thanks to technology and the business, its morphed into something more.

Okay on to the next person:

K, from NYC wrote:

Because it’s boring and some of those camera angles look like I’m watching some kind of medical video.

I noticed that too. Some of those camera angles simply look like they want to show every entry point in a woman’s body during the scene. You don’t film an action movie by looking at every entry point from the gun to where the bullet lands but you get every angle known to man. Sadly it means that most of my viewing of porn is me hitting the fact forward button looking for scenes where it looks like there is some passion between the participants.

From my twitter feed, @asturdivant wrote:

Don’t like: No kissing, no ‘heat’, no slow, hard strokes (as opposed to the ubiquitous jackhammering)

This seemingly was a problem I had with a number of porn scenes that seemed to forget about the fact that Kissing and correct oral sex is required to turn on a number of us who watch porn to get turned on. Okay I may want to see someone getting fucked but sometimes I find myself getting really turned on by porn that has an underlining of care between the two actors.

Besides it has already been reported that most of those positions are for show and not because they are a turn on for the man or the woman. According to sex educator/columnist Jamye Waxman in the following article:

What you see in film, all of those crazy positions, is simply because they look good on camera. They allow for great camera angles where you can see the penetration….

And from Nina Hartley in the same article:

Porn is a show. It’s entertainment. It’s all about lighting and camera angles. When you perform cunnilingus correctly, you shouldn’t be able to see shit. In porn, you see the guy or girl’s tongue licking pussy—but if you’re doing it right you shouldn’t be able to see that. I don’t lick pussy; I suck pussy. Any woman will tell you that’s what feels best; but it’s not visually appealing. They want the camera all in the woman’s crotch. So when you see all this tongue, that’s just for the camera. That’s not how it’s really supposed to be done.

Or like my friend T from PA, succinctly put it in her email to me:

I just love love, and there’s not a whole lotta love in porn…a lot of fucking, which can be good when you just want a nut, but terrible when you’re looking for passion between characters, and absolutely USELESS when you want to feel any semblance of a romantic or otherwise intimate connection.

I don’t know why I can get a video with folk into every fetish under the sun but I can’t get some scenes with some folk who are actually kissing and loving each other.

I know, I know … I’m asking a lot of porn. I would have a better chance of R. Kelly dating a woman his own age than porn that is romantic and sexual.

T, from AZ wrote:

I don’t like cum shots because for the most part they are pretty degradation and pretty unhealthy at this point in time.

Again I agree with this statement because I’m really turned off with ladies looking like a Krispy Kreme Doughnut after a scene.

From my friend N, in the ATL:

It’s hard to get turned on when da dude holdin’ da camera wont shut da hell up!

Sadly this strikes to the heart of the matter of the fact that we have A LOT of poor actors (and directors) out there who seemingly will screw up the scene by adding commentary. Many of my friends have stated that Wesley Pipes frequently FAILS in this category.

I always chuckle at this mention of Wesley’s Skills:

Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up (NSFW Audio) – More amazing video clips are a click away

C’mon don’t you think that if people are making high fun of you then its best that you might want to up your game a little.

Which leads me back to my friend V, from FL who stated this in her letter to me:

Some of these guys who have been in the business for more than 10 years, really need to give it up. Note to Byron Long, GIVE IT UP. Note to Wesley Pipes, GIVE IT UP. Note to Mr. Marcus, GIVE IT UP! If you are still considered “talent” after all this time, you need to find a new job or retire. Go to the old porno stars home, sit in a rocking chair, and remember the good old days.

If you have a face for radio, and a penis for porn, do the bondage videos where they cover up up your face and we don’t have to see you. My fantasy is all jacked up because your face is all jacked up. That just isn’t right.

I don’t think you’re alone. I became aware of this while listening to this interview with Victoria Allure, she said in reference to Male Actors in the business: “Some of these men need to retire.”

She’s now trying to recruit more qualified me into the game with the agency that she is running.

I think the reasons that the same men have LONG careers in Porn are simple:

1. The majority of the clients who purchase the product is men. Sadly men don’t car about the penis in the picture when they want to see a fine (and some cases not so fine) woman getting down. As long as you keep rotating the woman who’s getting “pleasured” some men really don’t care.
2. The majority of these men are here because they know how to perform. Quiet as kept as much as you want to see a Idris Elba-Type or Shemar Moore-Type getting it on with someone on camera … frankly it takes a special man to a) Not cum (or get soft) before the scene is over, b) Cum without getting distracted by a number of strangers milling about and c) Cum on command.
3. It is much tougher for males to get into the business than it is for females. The competition is very high and most of the time producers will not let you in unless you come as a package with a female or referenced by a well know star. So you get the low turnover rates that you see now.

I think on that note I will close it off here. If I’ve missed out on anything or you want to discuss further, leave a message in the comment box below. And yes anonymous comments are allowed … but lets try to keep it civil shall we.

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