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Vodveer
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7/07
Posted - Aug 5 2007 : 10:01PM
If you like porn the way it is today and hate change, or if you are hypersensitive, PLEASE DO NOT READ ON!
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According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, pornography is "the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement." Few can argue that 70s and 80s porn failed to deliver erotic material (check out some of the reviews on this website). The female performers were all natural, with God-given breasts and unclipped bushes. Things changed in the 90s, however, when trimmed bushes, fake tits, and dye-damaged hair began to proliferate. With the new millennium came more fake tits, tattoos, body piercings, ass-pounding, A2M, gaping assholes, and gaping vaginas (fortunately, however, trimmed pussies became shaved pussies). The direction porn has taken is obvious--eroticism has changed to mutilation, and sexual excitement has turned to sadistic amusement. Thus the demise of the true meaning of porn.
When you fantasize about the girl next door, do you picture yourself ramming four fingers up her twat, piston-pounding her half-dollar-sized asshole until it oozes blood? Most likely, however, you picture her legs up in the air with your face or your cock buried between them. Isn't that what viewers should demand from pornographers? If both pornographer and porn aficionado could lift the blanket over their eyes, they would see that the following types of looks and behaviors are not erotic, not cool, and not hip.
Tattoos--Especially the big ones, obscure a woman's body, hide her nakedness forever, and are simply distracting.
Piercings--Mere distractions.
Breast implants--After reading through various forum threads here and beyond, I conclude with certainty that the great majority of people prefer natural breasts. Whether small, medium, or large, natural ones hang gently and buoyantly--pure eye candy. Fake tits are stiff, superficially round, like two balls tightly encased in skin, often with nipples pointing unevenly.
Partial clothing on performers--Viewers want to see a woman performer in all her naked glory. Full nudity also allows the viewers to see whatever draws them--tits, ass, feet, elbows, knees, hands, stomach, etc.
Shoes--Though they can be sexy, especially on a stripper dancing in a strip club, or during a prefuck tease, they don't belong on a woman while she's fucking. Downright distracting, clumsy, and unnatural.
Ass gaping--If you really enjoy looking at an asshole a golf ball can easily fit into, along with pink rectal tissue, then why not get a job working as a gastroenterologist's technician and jack off to colonoscopies every day?
Vaginal gaping--Why not become an ob/gyn?
A2M--Spare me.
Fellatio--Nothing wrong with several minutes of talented cocksucking before the camera, but tragically, most porn depicts close-ups of penises getting sucked for an eternity. Yawwwwn. We might as well watch gay porn instead.
Male-performer jackoffs--At the end of each scene they unload in their partners' faces. Would be much more erotic if the female jerked him off or sucked him off to a finish. No, viewers don't enjoy watching men masturbate. Again, that's where gay porn comes in.
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How can porn return to the erotic experience? For starters:
All nude--Yes. That's what viewers want. Performers who strip first, sometimes POV style, walk around totally naked and tease the viewer before getting fucked.
All natural--Through and through. One will never beat God's art. Never.
Tattooless
Cunnilingus--Seriously deficient in most porn. Viewers like to see pussies getting eaten by talented tongues, not one-minute clit-diving clit lappers.
Anilingus--Tight assholes look cute, especially when being licked. And I'm referring to girls' assholes. If viewers want to see men getting rimmed, there's . . . gay porn.
Fortunately there are some directors like Andre Madness (formerly with Kick Ass, now Madness Pictures) and Mark Kulkis (Kick Ass) who are faithful to the meaning of porn, as revealed by some of their titles and series, understanding what eroticism and sexual excitement really are.
Most of what we're watching today is not porn. It is unerotic, unexciting, and it kills wood. I predict that the erotic will come back to porn eventually. There's only so much uneroticism that viewers will be able to tolerate. Porn will revert to the dictionary definition. Ultimately, people's eyes will open.
john thomas
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Posted - Aug 5 2007 : 10:37PM
If you check that dictionary a little more carefully you will see that "erotic" means 'of or relating to eros, sexual love and desire'. So all porn is erotic in the strict sense, regardless of whether you or anyone finds it sexually titillating or not.
It's a shame that you decided to centre your whole argument round a dictionary definition that you didn't really understand; I might have agreed with some of your points if you hadn't framed them so badly.
junglew
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Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 12:42AM
Vodveer. I can see you put a lot of thought and time in a very complicated post and I appreciate you thought and opinion. I am someone who lived thru the porn of the early 70's in one of those smelly amd sticky theaters. I was the one in the 15th row down next to the right wall as I am right handed and used my left hand to pull my raincoat to cover myself. I watched so much porn as I was leaving my favorite theater the lady ticket take wispered to her friend "There goes one of our best customers." In the 80's I ran thru a vew VCR's ff thru the "erotic" scenes of what some call the "golden age" of porn and I can tell you that now is the best time for all types of porn. With 1,800 realeases a year there is something for every taste. I do not long for the porn of old. Most of my old porn is packed away in boxes most likely to never be seen by me again. Nostalgia, is a word used for many events that happened in our youth but when we actually return to the home of our youth, we realize the house is about half the size we remember. I have dug into my old porn collection and have ocassionally been suprised but most often there is disappointment in what I thought was erotic and exciting porn of my youth.
Wayne In Dallas
Vodveer
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72 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 12:46AM
We're looking at different dictionaries; it might be due in part to my forgetting to include Collegiate in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, which defines erotic as "of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire" and "strongly marked or affected by sexual desire." Either way the key word mentioned in all the definitions is "desire" (certainly not "sexual love"). Your equation makes no sense. You say all porn is erotic, that is, evokes desire, with or without being "sexually titillating." My friend, if it isn't titillating to some degree, then there can be no desire, no eroticism to begin with. Dictionary definitions reflect the nature of the meanings we ascribe to words. Of course they are important, since we created them.
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Edited by - hardware on 8/6/2007 4:02:49 AM
Vodveer
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7/07
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 1:13AM
Thanks for the kind words. I agree with you that there's something for everyone today. Perhaps I should have discussed more the things I do like about present-day porn; certainly great variety would be one of those features. But I'm really trying to underscore how far people have strayed from the true meaning of porn, how unerotic it tends to be. I'd watch Sensational Janine a hundred times in a row before watching the riffraff we see today. But don't get me wrong, there certainly are talented directors who have a natural knack for the erotic.
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Edited by - hardware on 8/6/2007 4:04:19 AM
 
Mister Satan
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I'll knock up your wife and won't give a f***
74 Posts
6/07
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 2:40AM
Please Mr. Conformist. Please project your narrow, conservative reality on someone else because I do not want to be a part of it.
Tattoos
Piercings
Breast implants
Partial clothing on performers
Shoes
Ass gaping
A2M
I don't know what the deal is but I love all of these. Especially Julia Bond's tat that goes all down the left side of her torso. Fucking hot. I think you're forgetting what pornography is supposed to be. Fantasy. You wanna see sex without all the trappings, how about...wait for it...actually having sex with a girl IRL? Not only do you get all the sensuality and "pure love" you're talking about, she's an instant message board unto herself that can accept all discrepancies like, automatically. I only watch porn for the perverted fantasies that exist within my own mind. I save all the vaginal sex for real life, that's why I'm so excited to see pure sodomy releases.
What you're talking about inciting is a regression in fetish and sexual exploration. I'm sure there's a small market out there that caters to your tastes, but for you to say the entire mainstream market will "Ultimately" open their eyes is empty hope.
And what's with all this gay porn talk? I don't think it's the directors' fault you're focusing on penises, clothing and shoes and not the woman's face/boobies/vagina.
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Remember, MS doesn't give a [edited]
Edited by - Mister Satan on 8/6/2007 2:47:27 AM
Kolbath
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8/07
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 4:39AM
Of course, I'm new here and will probably be flamed to a crisp for this before I can tell Jewel and Tricia Deveraux that if they ever walk into a room I'm in I will promptly embarass myself by screaming "I'm not worthy" and then leaping out a window in sheer excitement. (Jewel, has anyone ever told you that you have a balcony one could recite Shakespeare from? And, Tricia your eyes go through me like a prune through a short grandmother. Wow!)
Anyway, on to the subject at hand, in certain things I have to say I agree with Vodveer. I detest facial piercings. 'Detest' can be defined as: the first thought that comes to me when I see a girl with a freaking metal spike in her probiscous is "Boy, she'd be really hot if she didn't have a staple in her beak."
I have NEVER, in my thirty-three years on this spinning rock, seen a single woman whose beauty was improved by a shiny metal booger attached to the outside of her nostril.
Tattoos can be interesting. I reserve judgement. On occasion a sick part of me likes to see a goth girl get obliterated, and the tattoos highten the allure almost enough to make up for the bullring in her mouth.
Heels and hose: Goddamnit, man, are you out of your ever-luvvin' MIND? Porn is about watching a fantasy. I may beg and plead to any available gods and some minor demons but I will never even be able to give Jewel a rose, much less assault the ramparts of her body. Tricia will never let me take her swing dancing (1920's Jitterbug), much less allow me to perform a horizontal mambo with her. I understand both of these ladies have sharp sticks specifically to keep people like me away.
Don't take away MORE of my fantasy! (You could ditch the platforms, though. Spike heels are enough. The "fuck me pump" was quite well named. I hate platform heels; hooves really don't belong on a beautiful woman.)
Breast implants: Okay, I'm with you on this one. I don't know where women got the idea that "in France, the perfect breast fits in a wine glass. In America it has to clog a toilet." Bigger is not always better. I'm sure there's still a line of men waiting to fly a low-level mission over Katy Gold, and her breasts are still natural (last I saw). Missing is probably a better term, but porn is also about VARIETY as well as fantasy. Some days I want to see a (somehow still innocent) Gen Padova learning to deep throat for the first time, and some days I feel like watching Ava Devine get used like a dishcloth.
Partial clothing: Nope. You're way off. Going back to the idea of fantasy, how many women out there really wear lingerie for their men? How many men are going to jump the bones of a woman tonight that's wearing crotchless panties? (Not enough, sadly.)
I want to see MORE partial clothing scenes. For one thing thigh-highs are AWESOME (Like a hot dog, for you Eddie Izzard fans... although I don't really care to see HIM in thigh highs.), for another there is something indescribable about a nice, messy cumshot all over a woman who is almost fully dressed. (I recall one scene the lovely Ms. Deveraux did where she was in professional wear and that happened. Christ I couldn't walk for three days, and my hand was cramped BADLY.) I'm not talking about a BURKHA, but there's something truly amazing about the idea of the "office slut."
Ass gaping and A2M are, like facials and anal sex in general, about degradation (at least in part). Some men, and I am not ashamed to say that I am in their number, ENJOY watching that sort of thing. Jewel has had a few scenes of similar nature that make the knees rubbery. "Forced Entry" comes to mind. Dear GOD you did a wonderful job in that scene (although I forget if there was A2M in that one.)
Male performer jackoffs: I'm with you on this one. Directors, please realize that gay porn is its own genre. I don't even really care for lesbian porn, myself, but watching a guy stroke himself is like watching... actually I can't think of an analogy worse than saying, "it's like watching a guy jack off-- when you were HOPING to watch him railing a beautiful woman."
What I think you must realize, Vodveer, is that porn is so myriad and diverse because each person's life experiences lead them to be aroused in different ways. I personally can't stand cunnilingus scenes. But if the porn producers want to make more of them, okay, that's why I have a fast forward button.
I'm sure that if you created a website for gay, amputee, bestial, necrophilia nasal porn, SOMEONE would pay you $29.99/month for an account. (I'm not talking about some insane homeless dude, I mean a fucker with a JOB!) We're all different.
I've read a few posts here lambasting male performers for performing rough sex scenes. Okay, but personally I LIKE those scenes. Tricia in "2 1/2 Weeks in the Life of a Prostitute" was STUNNING. It sent me out to search for her in OTHER movies. (By contrast, the potentially great Kaitlynn Ashley scene in that movie was RUINED by the shitty direction and introduction of a chunk of watermelon into her naughty bits. I don't like food play-- but that DVD was worth the price just for Tricia. Oh, and Ron Jeremy's auto-fellatio damn near sent me to a therapist. What kind of hetero-porn-watching-dude wants to see another man suck HIMSELF off? ESPECIALLY after watching Tricia and a couple of friends perform! WTF!?! What normal director is going to look at a scene and say, "Hey, we've got this gorgeous Tricia here who has been known to suck a cock or two, but it's a better idea to have Ron take care of himself."? Why did no one slap him and yell, "That's bad touching!")
You know what would improve most porn? If the directors stopped trying to make art. In my opinion, which isn't humble but is the only one I have, the idea of a SOUNDTRACK in a porno is obnoxious. I do not want to hear some trash-rock band blasting out a distorted guitar track they couldn't get on a mainstream album. I want to hear Aurora Snow begging to be fucked in the ass. Directors: KILL YOUR SOUND MEN!
Stop filming from crazy angles or with filters that obscure what the hell is going on! Stop showing the guy groaning and biting his lip over how great the blowjob is and SHOW THE FREAKING BLOWJOB!
I also would like to see fewer special effects. I know that iMovie and Windows Movie Maker are trying to compete to see who can deliver the most transitions, but is it necessary to use ALL of them in a single scene? I don't need to see laser beams shoot out of the guy's dick. I already feel inadequate because he's making Jewel say "uncle." The idea that he can also take down the Death Star with his equipment isn't helping me feel better about the four inches I was gifted with.
Mostly, though, I want to see FEWER CLOSEUPS! Here's a lovely case in point from the pro-am website "Anal Destruction." It was the reason that I canceled my account with them, in fact: during the scene with 'Malana' her face was shown for nine seconds out of the entire eighteen-minute assfucking. (I counted. I couldn't believe it.)
Where was the camera? About three inches from her right butt cheek. What. The. Fuck? Closeups are fine, in moderation, but let's be serious, it could be ANYONE in that scene. It could be freakin' Julia Childs for gawd's sake!
I dunno 'bout you, but if I find a DVD with Jewel or Tricia on the cover, I'm hoping like hell that I'm going to be able to watch them getting plowed like a snowy road. I don't want to see nothing but belly buttons or butt-acne. (Not that either of these lovely ladies have... oh fukkit.)
My point is that everyone is turned on by different things, but I think there are a couple points that directors could FINE TUNE. However, abolishing large parts of the genre like gaping and A2M is not improving things, it's just cutting down the pie.
Please pardon any typos or misspellings. It's late and I'm typing by the light of a laptop screen. Also, understand that my criticisms of the porn directing are from the heart, but I freely admit to having a very minimal knowledge of the business of porn. Most of my porn-making activities have been of the, "Of course there's no tape in there," variety.
-K-
Sean Renaud
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181 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 1:31PM
I hate to call someone flat our insane, but I think Vod might be borderline, but then again he is buying into a lot of lies that people claim.
Tattoos- At what point is it considered large and distracting? A woman with a sleeve is a turn off to me, but a tramp stamp can be rather sexy.
Peircings- Too each his own, I like nipple peircings, hate nose, ignore tongue and don't like lip.
Breast Implants: Considering that every single time I see those "Which tits are fake" tests I never see many people who score consistantly about 60-70% Considering that you could get 50% just by guesing Fake on all of them 60-70% says to me that people who claim they can tell are most full of shit. There is a perception that large=fake and that's not true.
Full Nudity- Not all the time. Hell apparently somebody has never had passionate I need you sex where you only take off whatever is in the way. Not to many performers can portray this well, but still.
Gaping: Shruggle
A2M: It is just gross, fun but fun cus it's gross. Like Creepy Crawlers it's based on guys like sluts no matter what they claim. There isn' much sluttier than ass to mouth.
Jerk off endings: Can't really debate that point.
Most viewers don't want to see cunninlingus, or anilingus. The problem is that neither translates well visually. It looks like a guy waggling his tongue, their is KISS if I want to watch tongues doing wierd crap.
Schmse
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I'm not here, this isn't happening!
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6/04
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 2:11PM
I like the variety of porn. There'S someting for everyone. There are some movies that would Vodveer enjoy and there are movies that Alex Panzer enjoys. Demand and supply is what the porn biz rules.
I think: Porn is something special. Do I want to see my girlfriend's asshole gape? No! Do I want to fuck her with 5 other guys? Of course not! etc. etc.
But i like watching a beautiful girl do this and other acts on screen.
Plain, boring pussy fucking is nothing what excites me when watching porn. I can have this in my real life.
I like my beer cold, my steak medium and my porn hard!
ToneBone
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176 Posts
8/07
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 4:08PM
You honestly mean to tell me you can't tell the difference between real tits and hard, perfectly spherical globes that won't move even if the girl is hung upside down?
I can understand some confusion if the girl is fully clothed; otherwise the difference between fake tits and real ones is often so pronounced you would have to be blind AND stupid not to notice.
As for gaping and A2M, it's a love or hate subject. It's heaven for Anal Festishists, and gross as all hell for the rest of us. I personally don't understand it. I've never fantasized about what a girl's rectal tissue might look like, nor have I considered it kinky to insert my cock in her mouth after it's been in her ass. I love making out with a chick as I'm banging her. Somehow the knowledge that she's tasting her own fecal matter ruins that for me! But hey, I understand people have their fetishes. I personally love throat fucking replete with all the noise and drooling even though many others find it repulsive.
Aside from the above, I'm also with the OP on tats, male rimming and jerk-to-pop cumshots. But beg to differ on partial clothing and pumps. I almost have a fetish for the latter.
dodatdang
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Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 4:10PM
I'll give the opinion of the viewer known as dodatdang. This does not represent ALL viewers...
Tattoos - They're not a big deal to me... I have a few of those. It's their choice.
Piercings - Just like tattoos, it's their choice.
Breast implants - See comment above
Partial clothing on performers - If it's something sexy then I'm all for it.
Shoes - Hot women + high heels = Sexy. Hot women + stockings + high heels = Super Sexy! I say leave them on all of the time if they want to. Actually, I'd prefer it.
Ass gaping - that's hot
Vaginal gaping - that's hot
A2M - that's hot
Fellatio - that's hot
Male-performer jackoffs - that's not... I agree with you here, I can do without it.
Like it's already been said though, thankfully there's enough variety out there for everyone.
junglew
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Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 4:30PM
I have a copy of "Sensational Janie" and the girl is quite striking but there was too much story as I recall. I suppose erotic is in the eye of the beholder. I agree there is not enought kissing as there was in the old days but there is so much more of everything else. Thanks for admitting there is something for everyone. Janie has way too many tatoos' but when that woman starts to screaming with passion those tatoos seem to evaporate in my eyes. Her breast transplants are quite stunning as are Tara Patrick's.
Wayne In Dallas
Vodveer
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72 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 6:28PM
I think we're talking about two different performers. "Sensational Janine" is the title of the American dubbed version of the 1976 German porn flick Josephine Mutzenbacher-Wie Sie Wirklich War, starring Patricia Rhomberg, an all-natural Austrian beauty. Her tits were succulent and natural and she had no tattoos on her hot body.
I'm glad most of the forum members here are engaging in intelligent dialogue about the future of porn. I have every confidence that "erotic" will once again become an integral aspect of pornography.
Vodveer
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72 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 7:02PM
So you like--
Tattoos
Piercings
Breast implants
Partial clothing on performers
Shoes
Ass gaping
A2M
Hey, just what everyone else (or almost everyone else) involved in porn likes, Mr. Conformist. And what's with the testiness? Too much caffeine? Not getting laid? This is a forum for adults who are capable of expressing their views intelligently, not emotionally. That's what separates the adult from the child.
RandomPrecision
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Enjoy!
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Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 7:09PM
When it comes to something like sex, everybody has a different dictionary. We all fire off these rants every now and then but it's important to remember that.
 
AlexPanzer
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Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 7:41PM
Needs more gape
junglew
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Posted - Aug 6 2007 : 11:10PM
"I think we're talking about two different performers" I think we are talking about the same film. I knew my copy was foreign but forgot it was German. Would of liked to see more of her with a Gonzo director, even a German Gonzo director.
By the way I really like high heels on a woman in bed. They look nice on the street but are very uncomfortable I am told and the only place they could be worn comfortably is in bed.
Porn is not real and should not be taken seriously.
Wayne In Dallas
Vodveer
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72 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 10:06AM
True about sex. For porn, however, there must be elements that characterize it, though granted there is great variety in what people like. Porn is visuals or words that compel you to whack off. If it doesn't make you want to whack off, it ain't porn. Call it entertainment, fantasy, diversion, escape, but not porn. An interesting question is how many people actually beat off to a close-up of an anus being stretched beyond recognition with full view of the pink caverns inside? A minuscule number I guarantee. Thus for the majority of people it's not porn. At best, I would classify it as fetish porn, having a very small niche of fans. Again, I'm not talking about enjoying gaping, I'm referring to having an orgasm to it.
Myload
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A rose is what you are to me
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Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 10:38AM
Vodveer, I agree with you about things such as tattoos, piercings, breast implants, partial clothing, shoes, gaping, male jackoffing, cunnilingus, and anilingus. I disagree with you about A2M and fellatio. As for jacking off while watching porn, I don't do that, but porn is about fantasy and is entertaining as hell to watch.
Vodveer
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7/07
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 10:58AM
Those are niche markets; hence they are not considered porn by most, since people would not be inclined to jerk off to them. But to fans who are capable of orgasming to dogs, amputees, etc., it is porn.
What's true despite everyone's preferences and differences is that we are passionate about porn. Your lively analysis reflects that. That's what binds the porn community together. Porn people represent a tiny fraction of the world population.
Vodveer
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72 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 11:05AM
Myload, at least we see eye to eye on most things. Cheers!
Kim H
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8/07
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 11:20AM
It's hardly black and white as the original posters seems to represent. I think the average porn consumer would have differing views on all these matters. These, for instance, are mine:
Tattoos - Nothing against a few small ones - I have them myself. A clever upper-arm tattoo or even a navel tat can be enticing.
Piercings - Tongue and Clit piercings are distracting. Long as the main work implements are not interfered with, it's all right.
Breast implants - Suits some performers, doesn't suit others. The girls need to be aware of their body type.
Partial clothing on performers - If it's something sexy then I'm all for it.
Shoes - Actually I agree that they look silly in a fucking scene, but its not THAT big a deal.
Ass gaping - Weird. As long as it's kept to niche movies I don't mind
Vaginal gaping - Eh, whatever.
A2M - Stupid
Fellatio - Can't get enough
Male-performer jackoffs - It isn't fun, but maybe there's a sound directorial reason for it? Given that it's in 99.9% of porn movies.
I don't think we're anywhere near seeing the end of porn...if anything there's something for everyone.
twilly
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9 Posts
8/07
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 1:25PM
I think vodveer has a point.
Porn changes from decade to decade and can be radically different from one culture and country comparative to "American" porn. What is occuring now will have some porn consumers, depending on their particular cravings, thinking this is the best that's ever been produced, while other consumers will long for the "good old days" when there was a different style occuring.
Lately it seems that if it's produced for a dvd, it's got to have this same annoying "formula" look that never changes.... "Chick-a-bow-wow Chick-a-bow-wow"..... Pretty sad. What's with all these close-ups that only a gynecologist could appreciate? What happened to contextual camera shots and heaven forbid, performers that were actually into it somewhat? I remember a porn film from a decade ago showing performers that got into it so much, having fun with each other, they actually forgot the camera was there for a little bit!
I'm a codger and have recently revisited the whole industry and am NOT impressed. As a side note (don't laugh) what does P.O.V. stand for? I guess I'm showing my age...
"The End of Porn".... I don't think that'll ever happen but for crying out loud, directors - try something new... PLEASE!
Edited by - twilly on 8/7/2007 1:29:15 PM
Kolbath
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31 Posts
8/07
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 2:25PM
Vodveer wrote:
I think I'd have to disagree, but only in part. As in most descriptive terminology, there is both a dictionary definition of "pornography" and a colloquial or common-use definition. While the dictionary might consider pornography to be just past the border of art (which is why it is protected by the Constitution), the common-use definition has been that pornography is visual, written, or audio materials used to heighten the pleasure of sexual congress, whether solo or with a friend or two, and the acceptable spectrum of what does that is as broad as the number of people who watch it. (Look, I REALLY don't understand guys that want to be tied up and have their balls whacked with a stick, but somebody, somewhere, is whacking off to that right now-- and his name is Harry Reid.)
Another poster realy hit it on the head, Vod. As a politically conservative porn watcher (yes, there is such a thing-- because I have read the ENTIRE Bill of Rights!) I have to say that all things bought and sold are MARKET-DRIVEN. This means the law of supply and demand influences the way the porn market works just as much as it influences how many bananas are on the local supermarket's shelves.
If the makers of ass gape scenes had no one interested in viewing their material, the genre would gradually die out. This doesn't appear to be happening, and may expose a flaw in your logic: YOU might not like such scenes, but their prevalence is an indicator that SOMEONE is purchasing those DVDs.
Another example is the "rough anal" threads that I've noticed have been killed over and over again on this message board. Let's be honest, folks-- we all know that the people involved are willing participants, no matter what discomfort they happen to be in during the scene. I think an amateur boxer takes more physical damage in a nine minute show bout than any porn performer takes in a twenty-minute scene and no one leaps to defend them-- and they are NOT getting paid for it!
I trained in competition martial arts for five years, broke three bones and had five concussions-- and never received a dime because I was classified as an amateur. In fact, I had to raise money to compete and pay out of pocket for expenses! Can we compare this to someone like Crystal Ray in her Meatholes scene. I'm sure Ms. Ray, who is one of the better-known female performers, was paid well over a thousand dollars for her fifteen minutes with Brandon Iron. I think she was adequately repaid for any discomfort she might have endured, even though her tears at the end were more likely the result of thinking about the puppy she lost at age nine than anything that had happened to her during that scene; she seemed to be enjoying herself.
I don't particularly understand why the forum leaps up and jumps on anyone who says, "Where can I find an anal sex video where the girl has tears in her eyes?" There are people out there right now watching videos where people are shitting and pissing on one another. Can someone explain to me, using small words and pictures where applicable, which one is more degrading? I am at a loss.
Tying this back into the subject at hand; there is obviously a market for such scenes or Rocco Siffredi would not be the most prevalent performer in europe. Pierre Woodman would not be nearly a household name. (Unusual households, to be sure.) There is obviously an interest in such scenes or people would STOP ASKING about them here.
We have to accept the fact that porn is market driven like any other commodity. Gonzo makers have rushed to fill a void with rough, gaping, A2M scenes because people want to buy them and not for any other reason.
If those directors could make more money by filming nothing but vanilla missionary vag scenes, then I'm sure the market would be full of those.
The best advice I can give someone is to vote with their wallet. For example, I DETEST Vivid video. I once wrote an essay called "How to Shoot Amateur Porn" in which I discussed the top ten things most rookies screw up. (I'm no Jake Malone, but I know how to hold a camera.) I was actually prompted to write it largely because I had been watching a Vivid DVD earlier in the day and then saw an amateur clip from the web that made the same damn mistakes.
Vivid doesn't have a damn clue what they are doing. They put the lighting behind the performers so all you see is silhouettes. They zoom in on the stupidest shit (I once watched a scene where they zoomed in on PJ Sparxx's right nostril for eight or nine seconds. What kind of shitty direction is that?) They use distracting jump cuts and shoddy editing, and they just generally make really lousy porn.
Of course this is MY opinion. Your mileage may vary. However, because I don't care for the craptastic job they do, I don't buy it. I've been somewhat interested in a few of their titles in recent years, but once I see that retarded "V" logo, I put the box back on the shelf.
That's about the only real recourse we have as the consumer: if no one buys the dish, eventually the menu gets changed.
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately if you happen to like modern porn, the folks buying the stuff now seem to be gravitating towards the rough, gaping, A2M scenes. Until porn watchers as a societel group move away from that, porn makers are going to keep on doing what they've always done: filling a nitch--
-- and a few holes in the female performers.
-K-
McCutcheon
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"I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar; I like it a lot."
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Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 3:13PM
Everyone always seems to say how much variety there is in the porn of today. I guess I can't quite argue otherwise. But it does seem that more and more current porn is going over, if you will, to the dark side. Things are becoming normal or regular in porn that the vast majority of people in this world simply don't find attractive. Vodveer pointed a number of these things out.
I find a great deal of current porn either entirely unwatchable or close.
 
RandomPrecision
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Enjoy!
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Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 3:28PM
And that's what makes porn porn. If it wasn't offensive to the vast majority of the people in the world, it wouldn't be called "dirty movies". OK, so not too many people call it that anymore but I'm sure there's an equivalent. Porn is supposed to be vulgar and offensive and hey. Maybe the guy who doesn't want to see gaping assholes isn't really that much of a porn fan.
It cracks me up. People claim to love porn but it has to be just so and it can't be too filthy or it's "Whoa! That's disgusting!". No shit. It's porn!

Sean Renaud
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181 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 3:36PM
I mean to tell you that if those tests where they ask you to choose which tits are fake and which are real can be trusted that most people can't tell the difference. They say they can but when the time to put money where there mouth is they fail more often than not. Like I said in a quiz that has two answers people scoring in the mid 70's isn't exactly a rousing sucess.
McCutcheon
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"I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar; I like it a lot."
161 Posts
11/06
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 4:01PM
No, it is called porn or "dirty movies" because it has people licking and sucking and fucking on film.
Do you really think the Jerry Falwells of the world were like "I'm fine with nekkid fuckin and suckin but, damnit, when you start showin gapin shit holes, I draw the line!"
It is true that people having sex on film isn't as offensive as it once was. This is probably part of the reason porn has become more and more transgressive. But there has to be a limit and I think there is for the vast majority of people.
"Maybe the guy who doesn't want to see gaping assholes isn't really that much of a porn fan."
Even though you wrote "maybe," this is still a silly thing to say. What? if I don't get aroused or don't want to jack off to a woman's colon I'm not a porn fan????
The point of porn is fantasy and stimulation for sex or masturbation. I think a lot of porn producers are forgetting this.
I'll add that I think a lot of porn fans have learned to tune out some of the things they don't like or hate in current porn. For example, I detest tattoos but am able to ignore them to some extent.
mod: snipped the quote - see the Forum Etiquette
Edited by - hardware on 8/7/2007 4:25:56 PM
Gunzo
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Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 4:45PM
How do the dictionary describe the word 'rant'?
Myload
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A rose is what you are to me
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Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 6:04PM
If you have read other similar posts of mine on this message board, you will know that there are some porno films where the sex isn't even what interests me in them. Also, I have stated many times that the most important thing in feature porn films should be the plot, not the sex. And porn in general is first and foremost entertainment.
Kolbath
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31 Posts
8/07
Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 6:18PM
I dunno, man. No matter what the amazing plot written on the back of the box is, I'm not watching a porno for the incredible acting, directing, or writing. I'm watching it purely for the sexual arousal.
Porn simply cannot compete with mainstream Hollywood. They don't have the money for the acting, directing, or writing, and for the most part I think their audience isn't really looking for that stuff.
True, I might be judging others with the mirror I hold up to myself, but I don't even read the back of the DVD boxes, myself. I look at the pictures. Neanderthalic, yes, but while I can debate Proust with the best of them, I'm not looking for THAT part of my brain to be engaged by a porno.
-K-
Edited by - hardware on 8/8/2007 12:02:17 AM
Vodveer
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Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 8:36PM
Vodveer
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Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 8:49PM
RandomPrecision
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Enjoy!
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Posted - Aug 7 2007 : 9:50PM
^Don't let me stop you.
Myload
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A rose is what you are to me
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Posted - Aug 8 2007 : 10:28AM
Yeah, everybody is different, but I sure think there's a difference between watching "Black Worm" and "Big Giant Titties". Guess which one has the plot?
I'm sure that there are people that are looking for good acting directing, and writing in feature porno films. Again, movies like "Black Worm" come to mind. If people didn't care about the plot in movies like this, they wouldn't have been made in the first place.
Like I said, everyone is different. If I only was interested in the sex, I would watch a gonzo film. I want something more and different from features.
 
Kolbath
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Posted - Aug 8 2007 : 4:20PM
Myload wrote:
I'm guessing that "Big Giant Titties" has a plot I'd prefer!
Oh yeah. I don't dispute that. In fact, it's one of my major points. I just think that the call for movies like that is a little less than the desire for movies with titles like, "Big Asses Get Obliterated No 287."
I'm with you. I pretty much ONLY watch the Gonzos. If I want a good story, I'll read Harry Potter. I'm looking for hot chicks getting rammed, so I go another route.
HOWEVER, and I do want to make this clear, YOU should still have the right and ability to find and watch the sorts of movies you enjoy. If you prefer more plot elements than those provided by Doc Johnson, that's cool, too.
I guess my hope is that BOTH sorts of directors run across this conversation: the guys making porn with plot will hopefully see your comments and take them to heart, and the guys making gonzo will see my comments and hopefully show me what I want to see.
-K-
Vodveer
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Posted - Aug 8 2007 : 7:16PM
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Sense no. 2 is the one that applies here.
Kolbath
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Posted - Aug 9 2007 : 1:31AM
Thanks, Vod. I saw that question and I was going to answer, but then I got caught up in other things.
-K-
Myload
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A rose is what you are to me
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Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 1:57AM
I don't want to imply that I hate gonzo porn. Quite the contrary, I actually like that style. When I only care about sex in a movie that's what I watch (although it's for entertainment rather than sexual arousal). All I said it that when it comes to feature porn, I'm more interested in the plot.
Kolbath
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31 Posts
8/07
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 3:26AM
No problem, Myload. I figured you meant something like that. Personally, I haven't ever seen a porno with writing good enough to make the plot more interesting than the fucking to me, but hey, if that's one of the things you prefer, I'm cool with that!
My ideal plot revolves around, "Hi, I'm the chick." "Hi, I'm the dick." Then some slurping and squeaking sounds. It's not going to win an Oscar, but those awards shows suck ass anyway.
-K-
William Hyde
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112 Posts
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Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 6:32AM
It seems pointless to debate the erotic appeal of this or that trend in porn, since tastes obviously differ from viewer to viewer. The same elements that may turn one person off, are sure to turn as many people on. So that's neither here nor there.
But as for the evolution of the look and content of porn and its performers... I think most of that can be traced to evolving technologies [ ie. the rise of the internet and cheap home video ], and the subsequent changes in the market.
Unlike the "good old days" of mob money, XXX theatres, and a relatively small number of producers and performers... the current era is dominated by corporate dollars, a groundswell of small producers, a glut of new "talent" and content, enormous competition, and slim profit margins. Not to mention tougher anti-obscenity laws that have emerged as a direct backlash to an industry which is much more "in your face" today. Middle America cared a lot less what was going on in Porn Valley, when the fallout was relegated to those dirty movie houses. Now it's pratically plastered on their aol "welcome" screens, and they're getting a little sweaty under the collar. Of course the irony is that porn "consumption" has increased exponentially thanks to the anonymity of the internet. So there's an obvious hypocrisy in America's revulsion to an industry it clearly endorses with its dollars.
In any case, the industry as it looks today [ several dozen agencies, as many new "studios", and a busload of new girls every week, each with a new set of tits and a shelf-life of about 2 months ] is a direct result of the changing market forces brought about by the internet and cheaper high-quality digital production and editing tools. And the fact that established producers have to fight a lot harder for their share of the ever-shrinking profit pie. Hence, the production value and creative boldness of the 70's and 80's have given way to the reliable marketability of the freshly-shaved "barely legal" barbie doll in a 2-hour gonzo gangbang. So don't throw out that copy of "Pretty Peaches" or "Candy Stripers" just yet.
mindee
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Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 8:49AM
According to the "experts" as a female, I'm supposed to want soft-core porn and gentle sex. In fact, I'm not supposed to be interested in "visual" stimulation. Sorry..
I like most of the trends in today's business. I like watching hard anal sex, and the milk enemas and ATM's. As far as the girls with boob jobs..I sort of like them. If I could afford a good boob job, I'd get mine inflated, and they're none too small already. OK, I see things a little different, but I think today's porn is pretty cool. And as a business, most companies don't stay in business too long if people don't buy their product!
twilly
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9 Posts
8/07
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 6:27PM
Yup, It gets a little silly when they develop some huge plot situation..... Give it a setting and leave it at that. The only place I've seen plot work is the soft stuff like "The Red Shoe Diaries". Too bad about "Eyes Wide Shut", one of the first big films that was suppose to have porn in it. Stanley Kubrick's death had Hollywood licking it's chops.... They totally destroyed that film to get the R rating. The frustrating thing is it seems that it would be very easy to make better quality porn. You can still have "rough" but it has to fit....
MythMaker
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Jada... the best thing in porn
919 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 6:59PM
...I can tell you that now is the best time for all types of porn. With 1,800 realeases a year there is something for every taste...
This and the original post where it was asserted there are at least a few directors who make movies the way he enjoys should be the end of the discussion. We all have different tastes, and to standardize anything is to take the fast track to medicocrity and stagnation. I love the direcotrs who push the envelope, take chances, and even do something quirky that becomes incredibly erotic to me (eg a girl that sniffs a cock during A2M). It's my taste, and what stimulates me that I may not have known before I saw it. Staying in the fold is comfortable, and conversely not everything one finds when exploring is titilating but the road less travelled really does make all the difference.
Viva La Difference!!!
Edited by - MythMaker on 8/20/2007 6:59:56 PM
Vodveer
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72 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 9:38PM
I don't think it's that simple. That "there's something for everyone" overlooks that mainstream porn, i.e., the bulk of what's being produced, is not erotic, as I and others have explained above. Those whose tastes don't conform with mainstream, therefore, have to look high and low for their erotic movies, which are fast becoming a rare breed.
MythMaker
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Jada... the best thing in porn
919 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 12:30AM
To understand you then, you don't object to having that kind of content out there, it's more about finding a studio or director who can be relied on to deliver the type of adult you'd like to see. You did say in the first posting that 2 or 3 directors whose movies you watch do deliver what you like, so that's something. The industry has to cater to what the majority of the public likes, but there will always be companies, directors, and/or performers who will produce where there is a demand.
Maybe there should be an entire comany that's dedicated to capturing the style of 70s, 80s, even 90s style pornography. Then again, I was under the impression places like Wicked and Vivid made the plot driven high end production with hardcore, but not over the top, sex (no A2M, cum burping, throat fucking). I could be wrong, though.
Erotic has to do with arousing sexual desire - to say most hardcore videos do not achieve this is a relatively pejorative statement that is belied by the success of such titles. I don't think people buy these videos because that's all that is available; these videos are meeting a need. Considering they dominate the market, I'm inclined to believe the need is of a majority. My logic could be faulty, however.
Edited by - MythMaker on 8/21/2007 12:35:19 AM
junglew
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Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 2:08PM
Porn has been found on the walls of cavemen over 100,000 years ago and it is never going to go away. It's format has changed from cavewalls to paintings to magazines to 35mm to video to dvd to harddrive and beyone but porn will never die. Only people who think it will.
Wayne In Dallas
ntfighter
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645 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 2:42PM
Painting's and depiction's of sex has been found on cave walls. Porn as it is today is something else. Resembles, but is not quite sex.
Edited by - hardware on 8/21/2007 3:15:16 PM
zuluaskono
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7 Posts
6/07
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 3:54PM
Tattoos- Hate 'em. Always have. Maybe not as much now as I used to, though.
Piercings- In my perfect porn world, only earrings and navel rings are allowed.
Breast implants- My biggest turnoff.
Partial clothing on performers- I'm okay with variety. In fact, some of the hottest scenes I have feature clothed women who end up fully exposed below the waist. Sure, variety also means you sometimes get scenes where you wish the woman would've lost the panties at some point, but I can live with that.
Shoes- I don't care.
Ass gaping- I never understood porn's shift to all things anal except as it satisfied the need to be more outrageous. I love looking at the female asshole, and especially enjoy watching the muscles contract during orgasm. Fingering and fucking obscure its beauty IMHO.
Vaginal gaping- Love me a good vaginal gape.
A2M- A curiosity, but just not hot in my book. But, see 'Fellatio' below.
Fellatio- Always a FF for me. I'm here to watch pussy, not some guy's dick.
Male-performer jackoffs- It used to be the pop-shot was done to assure the viewer the sex was real and effective. Now, it's become Most Extreme Jackoffs Show. Again, I'm here to watch pussy.
"How can porn return to the erotic experience?"
All natural- I wholeheartedly agree, and would welcome the return of pubic hair too. Trim it if you must.
Cunnilingus- If done well (and most of it isn't), cunnilingus can be extraordinarily hot. Similar to filming women with hairy cunts, the director/cameraman needs to use the best positions, angles and instructions to ensure the action is fully revealed.
Anilingus- Totally agree with what you said.
"I predict that the erotic will come back to porn eventually."
I think the pendulum will begin swinging back at some point, too. But I should mention that there's a ton of porn available anymore. If you have a decent search engine and some time to kill, you might find some stuff you'd like right now.
Vodveer
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72 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 9:04PM
I don't think X-rated movies are selling because they're erotic. Sensibilities among some people have apparently changed, and thus porn has acquired a different character--one catering to that which might be thrilling (to some) but not in an erotic kind of way. I would liken it to skydiving or bungee jumping--something that involves risk. For instance, how far can you stretch an ass or pussy without tearing the perineum, or how much shit-dipped cock can you suck without getting a gastrointestinal disease, or how hard can you pound a rectum without rupturing its walls? Perhaps what needs to be done is to advise the lexicographers to add a new sense to "porn" that reflects this new variety of entertainment, characterized by risky, violent behavior involving stretched orifices, gagging, pounding, etc. This new definition would appear alongside the original "arousal" sense. Hopefully there won't be a need for it though. Hopefully this is just a phase which like everything, will eventually pass.
Note to zuluaskono: Right on!
Note to junglew: I'm optimistic that erotic porn won't die, though I can't assert with as much confidence that the same will hold true about me.
Vodveer
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72 Posts
7/07
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 9:45PM
Porn. 1. An erotic picture or erotic writing that stimulates the sexual appetite. 2. (New definition) Violent, risky behavior involving superstretched body cavities, severely pounded rectums, phlegm- and semen-puking throats and other phenomena that provide thrills for some people.



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