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Posted - Nov 28 2004 : 10:33AM
In an effort to increase the volume of the female porn watcher voice (and for some fun) the Smart Girls' Porn Club has joined forces with Adult DVD Talk for some review action. The Smart Girls' Porn Club (SGPC) is a tribe started by Violet Blue (tinynibbles.com) where women talk about erotica. You can join the club at http://girlpornclub.tribe.net/ - you'll see some familiar faces like Loraine and Alison B.
I just posted the first review, Aphrodite's take on Road to Atlantis. I'll be posting all the clubbers reviews here.
"Women get off watching explicit imagery just as much as their male counterparts. It doesn't need to be any less powerful -- or dirty -- to do the job."
Dirty isn't really a word I connect with sex but in this context, "Dirty" could mean anything it means to a guy. It may involve the exchange of bodily fluids in innovative ways, sexual activities performed in multiples or it may not. I watch porn because I want to be entertained, turned on, surprised, delighted, moved and even shocked occasionally. I guess that men watch for some of the same reasons? If porn every now and then refects some of my own fantasies I consider it a bonus. A rare bonus. Powerful imagery doesn't always mean obvious, bigger, more, wetter, more extreme or novel, it can, but it's not mandatory.
I suppose that lots of women are also as picky about porn as the male consumers who frequent this board. You know, there probably is a female equivalent for every guy who has a list...shoes on/barefeet, hair/smoothshaven, multiple people scenes/one on one, toys/no toys, eye contact with the camera/focus on the other performer, cum glazed faces/swallowing (I like to see a hunky male performer with his face all wet and shiny from his partners juices) dark hair/blondes, naked/semi naked, talkers/non-talkers, a particular body type, particular pairings that turns us on more than others, you know how it goes. We too want to avoid the proverbial "woodkillers" too.
To answer your question "dirty" could mean anything that turns that individual on, male, female or transgendered.
"On December 20th, the Terms of Use will prohibit content that portrays sexually explicit conduct. This is driven in part by changes in the legal environment surrounding content that portrays sexually explicit conduct on the internet. It also reflects our desire to be a welcoming community that seeks to avoid offending others while celebrating diversity."
"One consequence of this change is that any bookmarks you may have to tribes that are currently "mature" may not work after 12/20. You may wish to go ahead and join those tribes now, to continue your access to them. (After 12/20 they'll be available by invitation only). "
Nice to see you Yoga . I haven't logged and tried to log back into tribe yet to see what happens to my tribes that have mature content. As I said in a post at the SGPC - I have this simple fantasy about two seperate internets - one for grown ups and one for everyone else. I wish it were so.
Have you been able to access the Club, Loraine? Has it gone underground, or simply gone?
I left Tribe months ago, but I was still in the habit of dropping in and reading the Smart Girls' posts from time to time. I just had to click through a "mature content" screen first. Now my access as a nonmember is denied with an "insufficient privileges" message.
The problem is that, while porn is a good boot strap, it also puts a cap on financial success. The best example is what's happened to Penthouse and Playboy magazines over the last 25 years.
Both pulled back during the Regan/Meese pogroms. But when Lay say lay bohn tohn roo la Billy took power, Penthouse got pinker and pinker, getting the easy money in the short run, but steadily shedding high-end advertisers and eventually went bankrupt. Playboy played the long game and is more profitable than ever.
I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but my impression is that Tribe is a money pit that's failed to turn it's community into a return for it's investors, and that they're using 2257 as a pretext to do what they probably have been wanting to do for years – clean the place up and make it more investor and advertiser friendly. Cynical? Sure, but no more cynical than the porn business.
Porno movies, sexy videos, xxx. Adult DVD Talk at your service. 6409 Posts 11/99
Posted - Dec 21 2005 : 11:38AM
Rupert Murdoch bought myspace. So I'm not sure how that theory flies these days. I don't think you can compare Playboy and Penthouse in terms of just hard and soft. There were many other issues - eg quality of the content. Lots of people really did buy Playboy for the articles.
Advertisers want a certain demographic and ROI. The Smart Girls Porn Club as a venture on its own could easily attract advertisers - just like all the product placement on Sex in the City.
Whatever the case, at the time Playboy was foundering, in large measure to the preasure Penthouse was putting on them with it's more vulva-centric view of sexuality. (In fact, in the early 70s it was preasure from Penthouse that force Heff to cross the bush barrier.)
Indeed they do. But they also hate hate hate controversy (witness Ford's recent cockup). A friend of mine is a bigwig at Maxim mag., which virtually owns the magazine world's share of one of the most desirable demographics – and that's why they have a strict policy about nudity in the mag. They will never ever ever show nudity as Maxim created images, and will only show a barish breast or nipple in a comic contect (nip slip); and when they do show a nip slip, there's always very deliberately affected prudery to go with it.
From Tribe's Code of Conduct:Wow, I can understand that the Tribe management might be skittish about visual depictions, but I didn't know that the ban also extends to text which merely advocates pornography or expresses sexually explicit conduct.
I started feeling frustrated with Tribe about the time that the first advertising appeared. This, plus the reformatted profile pages, made the site a sluggish browse for my dial-up connection. Tribe was ultimately useless to me as a career networking service. While I enjoyed some pleasant socializing here and there, I formed no lasting friendships that weren't already established beforehand. It was also tiresome to receive invitations from people whom I didn't know and who were clearly only interested in boosting the popularity of their personal profiles or tribes.
SGPC was one of the very few interesting forums that I still sometimes read after drifting away from Tribe. Now I have no reason to ever return.