All right then RickFBerger3 and lezzyist, could you please explain to me why GG porn is a bigger turn-on than BG porn? I'm not saying you're wrong, what I'm saying is that I realize now that I might have been missing something. For the past 25 years I have only looked for scenes where women are fucked by men. Not all of it are good, far from it, and I guess it's the kind of the same ratio in the GG porn genre (from what I've read on this forum, the golden age of GG porn seems to have taken place in the early 2010's, and is now long gone). I wonder if you would be so kind and give me a recommendation of three absolutely must-see scenes (or must-see full-length films) and your top three female performers in the GG genre? It would be much appreciated.
I must say this: I loved the scene in Private's Cape Town 1 (1996) where Blondie and Demia Moor are teen friends, and Blondie's father and his new wife are watching them in secret when they engage in some lesbian sex, and get turned on and start fucking. Not the most realistic plot, but it's a hot scene.
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^Off the top of my head, I would point people to WeLiveTogether videos of Malena Morgan paired with Bree Daniels https://wlt.realitykings.com/scene/7929/more-pussy
Ryan Ryans paired with Gracie Glam https://wlt.realitykings.com/scene/9534/gimme-some-sugar
And Ryan Ryans with Celeste Star https://wlt.realitykings.com/scene/9072/pussy-petting
That last recommendation exemplifies what is missing from today's GG porn. Celeste Star does get over-the-top in her porn acting, but the way she and Ryan Ryans physically come into contact with each other is unmatched by today's efforts. There are a few exceptions, but performers doing GG today are generally unwilling to commit to that degree of nasty and genuine enthusiasm with other women that Ryan and Celeste display for any significant length of time. In today's content, if you want to see something in a GG video besides the girls making cow and cat sounds at each other while limiting physical contact as much as possible, you can forget it. Again, there are increasingly rare exceptions, but that is how content generally is.
Best performers to watch are, as you said, seen at their best in the early 2010s, and they had names like Malena Morgan, Georgia Jones, Bree Daniels, Gracie Glam, Ryan Ryans, Celeste Star (even though her faking moaning can be annoying, she never shied away from the ladies), Dani Daniels, Jessie Andrews, Elle Alexandra, just to name a few.
For recent good performers, watch Freya Parker, Lilly Belle, and Alex Coal. Each has a certain watchable baseline regardless of who they are paired with, even if the other performer is just terrible. Lilly and Alex were really good together in their Girlfriendsfilms shoot.
I also like Maddy May, and she absolutely would have done well working with people like Malena Morgan and Bree Daniels back then. She has a willingness with women that most performers just do not have today. Watch her Girlfriendsfilms appearance with Vivian Foxx (another good recent performer, but I think she has quit). The woman is entirely unafraid of pussy.
My biggest gripe is how awful the cinematography / camera work has become. I can't tell you how many scenes I find that look like they're shot from the other side of the room, cum shots filmed from 10 feet away to the point where you can barely even see it, odd camera angles that miss most of the action, it is just horrible.
The other stupid trend I see a lot now is the "Repeat the cum shot 5 times at the end in multiple not really different camera angles and at varying speeds. Good lord that's annoying, especially when the camera angle doesn't even change.
I wholeheartedly second this comment, along with Tony's comment on the lack of focus on the action. It's very rare to see anything resembling those types of scenes these days.
I gave this one some thought, I hope you'll appreciate. (Usually that's dangerous.)
I don't want to assert categorically that lesbian sex makes better porn than straight sex. There is the bonus of having more beautiful asses in the frame. If there were a place for me to register myself as a "pygophilist," I'd happily sign on. But great GG pairings are both arousing and educational. One or both of the ladies teach you something about the female orgasm that you might never have known.
Back in the '80s, porn movies had obligatory lesbian scenes, always in the middle like the scherzo in an otherwise allegro symphony. Usually the setup was that one girl had been spurned or rejected by her man, and she rushes to her best friend for comfort and instead they get it on. There was a mutual understanding between them that this was "substitute sex" for the real thing. I'd come to the conclusion as a young man that lesbian pairings were good for double the ass, but they were kind of a side-dish. One night I had rented "Ginger on the Rocks" because, well, Ginger Lynn, and do I need any other explanation? In the third scene, there's the usual rejected-girl-seeks-comfort-from-best-friend scene. It's with Amber Lynn, who I always thought was competent and a lovely pose, but not really the sexual dynamo that Ginger was.
Then they did something I never saw before, and I might have left evidence on the ceiling of my apartment: They inserted a double-dildo and went butt-to-butt. I had fantasized about whether such a position would be possible, but concluded it would never be sexy. Damn, was I wrong. Now, because editors in those days still considered lesbian scenes obligatory, the penetration there didn't last even a full minute. But from that moment on, I was driven to find more aggressive ass-to-ass penetration.
It was the early '90s before my prayers were answered with Bruce Seven's Buttslammers series. Bruce Seven worked with some genuine lesbians who were experienced in their art. They proved that there does not have to be a substitute man in a sex scene for it to be beautiful - and, on top of all that, informative. Women were getting off in ways that guys don't make them get off, and that still fascinates me.
Three women around this time brought a comprehension of lovemaking to other women on camera that surpassed anything we'd seen. And in so doing, I truly believe they helped establish lesbian sex as true, healthy sex - not a demonstration of some "alternative lifestyle," but beautiful people going at it and having orgasms. By pure coincidence, all three have singular names:
Felecia - (seen here in Buttslammers 3 legitimately viewable on Adult DVD Empire), clearly trained as a dancer with long, athletic legs, firm pointy nipples, and an elegant pussy. When something is inserted in her, she uses it quite uniquely, in a way I don't think it's possible to use a penis (while it's still connected to the guy). She expresses something in her orgasms that has nothing to do with wanting a man, and strangely for that reason, I find her captivating to watch.
Tianna - (seen here in Buttwoman's Favorite Endings getting it from no less than the great Shanna McCullough, viewable on Adult DVD Empire), she premiered in straight sex but made her name as a purely feminine aggressive lovemaker in Bruce Seven films. Always had a little thing for short blonde hair.
Belladonna - (seen here in Belladonna's Perversions 2, viewable on HotMovies.com), she set out to prove that you don't need a man in a sex scene. For most of the '90s and into the early 2000s, there were way too many performing males whom I would give what money I never had to replace with Belladonna, not because she would make a better man but because as a woman, she's better at making love to women. (Avy Scott is in this movie also, and there's a lot she might have learned from Belladonna that she carried into her later GG pairings.)
Now, there are some fabulous straight women performers who are brilliant in their lesbian outings. Like I said, there's Avy, who did a number with my favorite Polynesian woman Loni for the old 4-Finger Club site, though you can find it on Johnni Darko's Girl Crazy #1. Krissy Lynn did some of her best work for Kink.com's Everything Butt, and I think it might have been fraud to have named the site "Everything Butt" without including Krissy Lynn, with one of history's greatest performing asses. No one is better with a butt plug than Krissy Lynn. And anything with Lena Paul because, well, Jeez-us, that body of hers. Self-explanatory.
But these three women I listed certainly contributed to my understanding of sex, particularly the use of the tongue (for which Felicia is the undisputed world master). Now, you'll notice in all of these screenshots, these girls aren't locked into a tight embrace. One is giving hard penetration to the other, who cums once if not three or four times, then they trade places. This is fine. You'll see the girls orgasming several times, and it's here where you learn that, unlike for many men, the orgasm is not "getting off." A woman in the throes of passion can cum and cum again, and that's often many more times than the zero orgasms you see from the girl in a typical MF pairing, especially in the cheaper productions from the late '90s and early 2000s. When mid-2000s Web-based gonzo straight porn scenes started taking over the spotlight, one big reason I believe is was because the male artists resumed using their penises properly, as tools to be used by the girl to get off rather than a plug looking for a socket.
So to answer your question (finally!). . . A girl/girl scene is greater than a girl/boy scene when it reveals the girls' orgasms in a way the girl/boy scene missed. I'm into porn for the women, and if the guys aren't in the scene to help them out, then get them off the set, please.
Thank you so much for your - as always! - very well-written, informative and inspiring comment. I remember watching a Bruce Seven flick when I was younger, I had high expectations (because I had read some very positive reviews of his work) and was very disappointed, but I guess I wasn't open-minded enough. I'll give it another go. Belladonna, I think of her as a very allround performer, one of the anal queens of the early 2000's, a dream girl for Rocco and John Stagliano, but I'm aware of the fact that she has also done a lot of GG stuff. What I didn't know was that she was a queen in that department also. Interesting.
An overall lack of creativity & imagination, and general "phallocentric worldview." When banner ads featuring guy-normous dongs of all colors popping up in the All Things Lesbian thread, you know something's screwy. It's bad enough when the Dear Ladies break out the dildos, but Big Daddy Ding-Dong needs to zip it up. And lastly, as a White Guy who's First Time was with a fine young Black Lady, I find the "BBC Fetish" troubling. I don't give a goddamn hoot in hell what color or sizes who's consenting adult genitalia is going where with their consenting adult partner of whatever color/gender. But there's an ugly racist historical stereotype at play when young sexually frustrated white guys are encouraged to jerk off to "BBCs ravishing young White Girls." Maybe a separate thread for this sensitive issue? Thank you.
For my two cents, no, that actually does qualify as a major problem. Now, I do share your love for fine Black women. And if I'm thinking about male performers who really can enhance a scene, many of the men who come to my mind happen to be Black. There's nothing racist about appreciating beauty and quality in people. It's when we apply race categorically, in my opinion, and we create a fetish out of those categories, that it ceases to be about appreciation. There are plenty of great interracial scenes in the world, but it's not the fact that the races are distinct from each other that made them great.
I think the folks at IAFD came to that realization a few years back when they stopped classifying scenes with the "IR" tag. That was a bold move, but a good move.
^ ^ ^ Exactly! And thanks for your two cents worth and then some. I would also add "toxic masculinity" and "patriarchy" to racism in the mix, as they're inextricably tied together. It's the Year 2024 already, John Holmes & Long Dong Silver stopped having pissing contests in the minds of their cis-het male admirers years ago. I enjoyed being a "pussy-whipped toy-boy" in my younger days and totally get that "it takes two to tango," both Tops and bottoms. But the S&M part of BDSM is often troubling to my delicate sensibilities. Anything that is an affront to Our Common Bonds of Human Decency should not be tolerated in real life, nor casually dismissed in a "hey babe, lighten up, it's just a 'fantasy, free speech!" kinda way. It's a shame that Headmistress & Her Naughty Girls have been covered under the same "BDSM" umbrella as some of the more creepy stuff out there.
^ Creepiness is in the eye of the beholder, I guess, but "water sports', clamping things on genitalia, and more extreme verbal abuse & degradation creep me out.
^^^ Let's be fair here: Many folks get off on porn that makes them feel they're breaking some boundary or rule. It's part of the thrill, and I get that. We all know how it feels to keep our horniness perpetually zipped in our pants. It's what we have to do to remain a civilized society, but at the same time, it makes the release of those repressed feelings such a joy, and even a statement of self-worth.
So it's only natural that the porn production industry depicts certain barriers being broken and taboos being shattered. It's why the whole "stepsister"/"stepmom"/"insert family member here" genre is as popular as it is. It erects a kind of straw-man barrier, then kicks it down with every scene.
I grew up in the South US, at a time when interracial relationships were called out as sins against God. (And now they are again, I hate to say.) So I can identify with the idea that interracial sex scenes break a barrier, and I can identify with folks who watch interracial sex (guilty as charged here), see the joy in it, and get a bit of a thrill in watching this barrier get kicked to the curb. (Again and again.) One of my favorite HardX scenes involves the very beautifully white Krissy Lynn and the very awesomely Black Jax Slayer. I'd be lying if I said their oscillating, sweaty mixture didn't add to my thrill. Jax is a fantastic performer, and every time he makes love to a woman, I see it bring out something in her I never see in scenes with any other partner, or even solo. And Krissy is what the creator had in mind when designing the human female ass. Her body is holy and should be worshipped. Together they are nuclear.
Race is a barrier we should eliminate, and we should be joyful and celebrate when it happens. Abuse is a barrier that needs to remain standing, in my view. Nothing turns me off more than seeing any party in a sexual act even act like the pain hurts their psyche.
That said, a lot of the material that gets categorized as "BDSM" or "taboo-breaking" isn't really all that abusive, or even that bad. I think producers add the "BDSM" category to material that features only the bare minimum of domination or role-play, and folks get off on the feeling they're breaking a rule when they're really not. I avoided Kink.com for years thinking performers there were pretending to be raped. Then I discovered someone with a scene from EverythingButt.com, learned that was a Kink.com site, and thought, what the flipping heck? My butt fetish is a matter of record here. I'm not breaking any law or moral code or taboo by appreciating three or four or twelve women's asses in the throes of ecstasy. And Krissy's contributions there should be enshrined.
So I understand the labels, but I usually ignore them. In and of themselves, they're not a major problem with porn. It's when pain is peddled for our pleasure that I always tune out.
RFB3
Edited by - RickFBerger3 on 7/2/2024 12:03:24 PM
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Posted - Jul 2 2024 : 2:18PM
I don't want to come across as snarky but you do realize that the SM in BDSM stands for Sadism & Masochism right? Using clamps on genitalia, clothes pins on the body, caning, flogging, whipping, pouring candle wax, etc are all part of the S&M subculture. And yes it can come across as abusive or creepy but people should know that it is often the submissives who demand these treatments. One of the reasons for this is that many people can sexualize their pain, ergo they like pain in sex - which is basically Masochism in a nutshell. Another very important factor is that it is always the submissive who is in control when they engage in BDSM play, because it is the sub who has consented to it. The moment the sub takes away consent the action stops, no questions asked. This is a fundamental tenet of BDSM play. Many people have a fetish for water sports as well, but this is not strictly part of BDSM culture. But that's not to take away from the people who are genuinely into water sports and the only safe space they can explore this kink in can be found in a BDSM setup. Performers like Brooklyn Gray & Charlotte Sartre are well known in the fetish community for their water sports scenes. Their best fetish work can be found on their creator owned sites, OnlyFans, ManyVids, etc. However some retarded men think that coercing women to drink their piss makes them appear more dominant (Bryan Gojling of Hookup Hotshot- again this is NOT BDSM) whereas I've always found these kind of men to be extremely pathetic. And if you are referring to the LegalPorno/AnalVids pissing gangbang scenes those most definitely do not fall under BDSM. The only category I would list these two under is steaming pile of shit. And yes the extreme verbal degradation & humiliation can also come across as very retarded but you have to understand that many people have a humiliation kink & like being degraded. Now as long as the sub is the one who asked to be degraded & have given their consent I don't have any problems, & honestly this is how most BDSM degradation scenes work. However I am curious what degradation scenes you have seen. The only degradation porn I ever saw where the women did not want to be degraded, or even be there (as far as I could tell) was the long defunct (and abysmally bad) Meatholes series, but that does not really fall under the gambit of BDSM for me.
The reason I went on this long rant is because many people have a misconception about BDSM as if it's some sort of abusive rapey misogynistic practice, but the truth is that it is anything but abusive, rapey or misogynistic. It is always the submissive who is in control in a BDSM scenario, & consent is the most sacred tenet of BDSM.
Edited by - Miss Munchausen on 7/2/2024 2:43:41 PM
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Posted - Jul 2 2024 : 2:36PM
^ Please understand that when I am referring to BDSM i'm referring to hardcore unadulterated BDSM porn like Kink.com, Insex, Chanta's Bitches, Jake Malone's movies, DungeonCorp, Deviant Hardcore/Entertainment, etc
>"phallocentric worldview" "cis-het normative", "toxic masculinity" "patriarchy" " It's the Year 2024 already" (its the current year) >Anything that is an affront to Our Common Bonds of Human Decency should not be tolerated in real life, nor casually dismissed in a "hey babe, lighten up, it's just a 'fantasy, free speech!" *puts on opinion police badge*
I'm not begrudging anyone their own personal kinks or passing any judgement, I'm simply addressing the question of what I personally find distasteful, and yes, creepy. I'm also acutely aware of the problematic nature of seeing inter-racial relationships as some sort of titillating transgressive kink. It shouldn't be, but we live in the world our ancestors left us, so here we are. I was the "cool white guy" who got it on with "a "Fine-Ass Soul Sister," while She got a thrill out of "schooling a pretty white boy," but had to keep quiet about it from "Her Bros." Gang-Bangs are way too close to rape for my comfort, particularly all of those 'White Girl Taking Giant Cocks in All Three Holes from BBCs" banner ads that pop up on my screen, with their ugly racist overtones. Long Dong Silver would have been lynched back in the day.
My two main points are that maybe the BD should be separate from SM. While there's certainly an overlap between the two, there's a whole different psycho-sexual dynamic between Bondage & Discipline as kinky fun & games, and Sadism and Masochism. The difference between Mistress Harwood's Finishing School and Lady Macbeth's Dungeon, or something like that. If people are into being verbally and physically abused in the most humiliating & degrading ways Law Enforcement will allow, than have at it. I'd just like the doors to those rooms not to be opened up wide for all to see, aka pop up & banner ads. And however "kinky" one finds inter-racial relationships, they should not be seen as being on a par with Headmistress & Teacher's Pet, let alone Lady Cruella's Dungeon of Doom.
Thanks for the insights and all the best!
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Posted - Jul 2 2024 : 6:16PM
I didn't kink shame until I started noticing GG porn videos were often just a repeated set of trending kink and meme behaviors. Then it was like, "not only is this shit sex but it's just reallly fucking stupid" lol
Then I'd look at the comments and there'd would be dumb comments like "they only said mommy 3 times" or something else really stupid related to whatever kink trend. Turned me off all of that mess.
Today's porn needs more sex in it. The balance between sex and cartoon/meme shit is waaay skewed.
I think half of Reddit and other angry little man social media are now AI chat-bots ALL CAPS SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER!!! Most of the other half are either on probation, parole, or in the witness protection program. But I did find a good herbal male-enhancement hook-up, and some hot inside tips on the Crypto-Currencies Exchange Market.
You're saying BD & SM should be separate? BDSM = Bondage & Discipline(BD), Dominance & Submission (DS), Sadism & Masochism(SM). Maybe I'm wrong but you made no mention of the DS part, which leads me to believe you are not really familiar with this lifestyle. People who are in the BDSM lifestyle don't have a problem with the terminology of BDSM, so your (an outsider's) opinion does not matter. Also, separating the elements of BDSM (BD from SM) in the interests of better marketing - this is not one of the three problems with porn today - as OP had asked, in fact it is a paucity of authentic BDSM content that is a problem with porn these days.
If you don't like pop up & banner ads just ignore them. Nobody is pointing a gun at your head & forcing you to click on those links to watch BDSM porn.
On this I do agree with you. IR porn has absolutely nothing to do with BDSM. People don't get categorised on the basis of their skin colour in the BDSM community. I'm puzzled as to why anyone would consider IR porn & BDSM under the same ambit.
Edited by - Miss Munchausen on 7/4/2024 6:32:23 AM
Edited by - Miss Munchausen on 7/4/2024 6:34:19 AM
At the risk of going way off topic, allow me to put on the record the one thing that's really, really right about porn: At its heart, porn is not only about celebrating sex but about breaking barriers. For most of human history into the 20th century, sexuality has been used as a kind of fulcrum for applying social leverage to subjugate, humiliate, and suppress people's rights, liberties, and freedom of expression. Especially women, especially all non-heterosexuals, and especially "minorities" or, to be more truthful about this, non-whites who collectively are the majority of people. Look any place in the world including wherever you call home, at any time in the world including today, and where you find sexuality is suppressed, all other freedoms are suppressed as well.
Porn is a great liberator. Where porn does its best work is when it replaces hatred with fucking. And you know something, I absolutely love fucking better. Call me old-fashioned (or just call me old), but I prefer orgasms to riots.
So I think where our discussion here has headed, has to do with barriers, safeguards, and labels. They're quite different, and I think we all (myself included) may be confusing one for the other. Porn is not completely without barriers. Even here in this forum, we maintain the legal restriction that stipulates people under 18 are minors and should not be photographed having sex. That's a barrier I support, and you won't be seeing me take a pick-axe to that barrier like I would the Berlin Wall. There are good barriers for good reasons.
What LezBoyRDee69 is advocating for here, is a kind of safeguard. He doesn't want to be browsing a porn site, or any other site, and be shown an ad for bondage porn. Now, we can come up with any number of seemingly reasonable ways to accommodate that request. We've all seen the checklists in a website's settings letting you uncheck the categories you don't want to see.
But then we get into labels, and here's where things get tied into knots. On one of these checklists, we'll get shown a lot of labels, and one of them will inevitably be "BDSM." What exactly is that? I'll confess here to Miss Munchausen: No, I don't know much about the BDSM lifestyle. Here I am playing like I'm Mr. Freedom, and I'm not really qualified to say what BDSM is. But I do know how the label has been used throughout porn history. Back in the '80s, certain VHS would be shoved into a corner for the miscellaneous fetishes. If a tape had a girl on all-fours, or someone whose wrists were tied (however loosely) to a bedpost, or any scene that took place in a basement, it got labeled "BDSM." That was the label. Whether it meant BDSM to Miss Munchausen would not have mattered.
What else got shoved into the corner? In the southern US, you'd find the "Oriental" tapes. That's where you'd find a series like "Me Luv U Long Time" or "Suckee Fuckee," where Asian women were humiliated for being Asian. A scene would open and, naturally, the girl's working in a laundry because, of course, she's "Oriental." And the guys poke at her with chop sticks. Humiliation. The stuff that turns me off, and that porn should not be about. Yes, porn made us a freer society, but did that really mean we should be more free to humiliate people?
What other labels would you find shoved into the corner? "Black" was one. The tapes where there were no white people, so obviously that must be miscellaneous. "Fat" was another one. Again, usually an opportunity to shame the women. "Young" was there too, where the girls were of questionable age, and were probably being shamed as well. And yes, folks, there were the all-male tapes. And in one store in Missouri along I-44, the label for that one was an ugly three-letter word I shall not repeat here.
We think labels may be the least harmful things, until you see how effectively they're used.
So, back to the website that's gives us labels we can check and uncheck for our personal preferences. Which labels would help us maintain our personal safeguards? And which others simply aid us to reinforce our stereotypes, misunderstandings, and social barriers? LezBoyRDee69 doesn't want to see bondage. I don't want to see humiliation. "Bondage" has the greater likelihood of being a label or a tag. But if RDee gets to exclude bondage, shouldn't I get to exclude scenes where people are shamed?
If the preferences checklist ends up being unworkable, then we have Miss Munchausen's suggestion: Let it go and just ignore what we don't want to see. Don't click on the ad if it upsets you. Maybe that's the fairer way to go in the long run. But suppose there's a site that, by accident or design, enables an ad showing someone hung on a meat hook bleeding out. Do I just ignore that because hanging people on meat hooks isn't my lifestyle?
Then there's the opposite end of the scale. Suppose there were a system that used AI to suppress everything I would ever possibly want to suppress and never have to see. I'm not into guy-guy porn. It does not offend me, it simply doesn't turn me on as a straight man who's into porn for the women. I won't be purchasing any. If I saw an ad for a gay porn video, I would not be offended. If I saw an ad for a meat-hook scene, I would be. But the Suppression Machine doesn't care why I don't want to see it, it lets me be exclusionary for any reason I want. It doesn't give me a list of labels, it has No Labels whatsoever. It just acts on the prompt I give it. And the site does all the ignoring for me.
Would this be a good thing? If I had the freedom to have anything I wanted to ignore, be ignored for me, what would I do with that freedom? For a clue as to how dangerous this might be, substitute "porn" for "news" in the above scenario.
My lack of understanding about the lifestyle Miss Munchausen supports is mostly due to the fact that I enabled a label to serve as my safeguard, which then became for me a barrier. We could just break down all barriers and declare ourselves a purely libertarian society. But then the age restriction would go away.
This is not an easy problem to solve, is it? But it is something we should discuss.
Telling someone to "just ignore" the relentless parade of dick pick pop-ups and banner ads (in the Lesbian thread no less!) is a bit like telling someone to "just ignore" the Park Pervert going around flashing his wing-wang in broad daylight. But unlike attention seeking Exhibitionist Pervs who'll eventually go away if ignored, Banner Ad Boner Guy and Mr. Pop-Up Pee-Pee just won't go away.
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^^ Alright let me preface this by saying something about myself. I'm a bisexual woman in my late 20s born & raised in New Zealand by Indian parents. I'm a minority among the minority (bisexual non-White woman in a White majority country) & I've been in BDSM relationships on & off for over a decade. I'm a Switch (both a top & a bottom). I've been on the receiving end of whips & floggers, have had candle wax poured on me multiple times, been shocked by electric zappers & had needles pierced into my skin at various parts. I've also done these things to other people, I've whipped & flogged a guy to the extent of drawing blood (all consensual & pre-discussed). I had an ex-gf who demanded me to beat her with a cane to the point of passing out & threaten to break up with me if I didn't (I obliged). We have safewords & check-ins during these sessions to ensure all parties are on the same page. Now this is the BDSM community I'm familiar with & have been part of for almost a decade.
I have very little idea about what goes on in the USA other than what I see on the news & read in newspapers. From this little exposure I've had some understanding of how deeply racist, regressive & conservative many Americans are. Having said that, American porn is the best quality porn I've ever seen, especially in regards to the BDSM content (Kink.com being the prime example).
Now RickFBerger3, when you sir refer to porn from the 80s, I simply have no way of knowing of its existence. But the acts that you refer to- tying someone to bedposts, scenes set in dungeons, etc, these are literally BDSM scenarios. Why would I have a problem with BDSM activities being listed under BDSM?
The examples you cited here are so horrifically insensitive & inhumane that my only logical reaction was to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Americans huh? Anyone who is not White is an object of ridicule & hatred. Sure these movies might be more than 40 years old but given how regressive & misogynistic many Americans are I believe you could still find movies like these today if one looked hard enough. Also there's a big difference between humiliating someone in a sexual & consensual manner, & being racist to the point of dehumanising a person into some absurd stereotype.
Again this says more about the times & the people who listed them under BDSM/Miscellaneous than the acts itself. Anything outside of the White Man's norm would be considered subversive or taboo, therefore it must be BDSM- that all encompassing term which means every non-desirable or taboo sex act in the White Man's warped mind. However I don't condone pedophilia if that's what you mean by the "Young" tag, & let me assure you child abuse has no place in BDSM.
I'm not saying people bleeding out on meathooks might not exist (I've personally never seen that) but I find it highly unlikely something like that would be shot by a BDSM company. See AFAIK most BDSM companies have shoot rules (read self-censorship) which allows them to keep existing & not get shut down by the government for showing something too out of bounds (scat, animal abuse, etc). Forget meathooks, I don't remember ever seeing a needle being inserted into someone in Kink.com scenes. I'm not saying these don't exist, it might but it's extremely rare to see these things in mainstream BDSM shoots. Ironically the only time I remember seeing needle play in a porno was in The New Devil in Miss Jones a VIVID movie of all places- not a studio known to be a pioneer of BDSM porn.
The issues you raise regarding AI are of course thought provoking. I believe AI is still in its infancy & we are yet to understand what AI is truly capable of.
It has never been the intention of the BDSM community to 'gatekeep' our lifestyle. In fact most people are more than happy to initiate a discussion on the topic with an outsider. You can also read about it by simply typing BDSM into your search engine. I hope you at least come to some sort of understanding about the 'hows' of this lifestyle. The 'whys' might be best left to the Sadists & Masochists themselves.
Edited by - Miss Munchausen on 7/4/2024 3:02:21 PM
And yes, nobody's "pointing a gun at my head* and forcing me to watch" Park Perv flashing himself (i.e clicking the link). But I would like it if you'd point that gun at the Boner Boys and shoot those motherfuckers already.
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Miss Munchausen Deactivated User
In the Realm of the Senses 323 Posts 6/24
Posted - Jul 4 2024 : 3:13PM
This is not what you were talking about in the first place. You said
I believe you were referring to seeing pop up ads for hardcore BDSM content, which is why I countered your argument. Now you are saying the pop up ads are for male enhancement pills & their ilk. If it's the second case then I don't have anything to say.
Well yes, annoying pop-ups & banners in general, but BDSM included. As I'm typing this, I'm looking at no less than three dark brown male appendages with one dark face in the background. One of these appendages is reaming a White Woman who appears to be in some distress, having an intense orgasm, or perhaps both. The middle, facially recognizable gentleman is being sucked off by another White Woman, while his anonymous associate is boning yet another White Woman, in a banner ad for "Gape Me #6" an Evil Angel, "Jonni Darko" Production. Now if this doesn't promote just about the most ugly, vicious, racist stereotype, I don't know what does. "Gape?" Seriousl? And don't spew any bs about how the word "gape" in a porn context has nothing to do with the "R word."
If people want to watch a hardcore porn version of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, or Hot Babes of Abu Ghraib, then check with the boys up in Legal, and go ahead. Just don't slap the promos on my screen and tell me to ignore if I don't like it. If my replies bother you, then please follow your own advice and just ignore and don't say anything. And no, Alex Jones scamming his limp-dick followers is not on a par with gonzo, no holes barred, XXX-Treme Fetish BDSM.
Thanks for being very open-minded, Miss Munchausen. You may have already done the math in your head, but you'd be right in estimating I'm a senior White American male. I was not brought up in a racist, misogynist, stereotype-reinforcing household, but I was very lucky. And as a child, I had people in my life who strengthened my love of multi-culturalism, including a Black Vietnam vet and Purple Heart recipient who was my central male role model. He taught me, and I'm forever grateful to him for this, what the word fine means in the sentence, "That woman is fine!"
To answer your question: What got categorized under "BDSM" back in those converted filling stations of the '80s and '90s was all over the map. Some scenes would include a rope or two, usually pink, that got discarded. If someone had a riding crop, it would get used in a slap or two then be tossed aside. Maybe there would be yellow plastic handcuffs. My thought was, you might not actually consider the use of these props rising to the level of "BDSM scenarios" but do correct me if I'm wrong.
Then right next to these VHS would be one or two meat-hook variety videos. And maybe you'd think the violence level is beyond what you'd qualify as a "BDSM scenario," but please do correct me again. You would understand this way more than I would, and I'd benefit from your experience.
My point in bringing all that up, was to illustrate that here we are (or were) partaking in an art form that's about breaking barriers, and first opportunity we get (or got), we built new ones. The "Oriental" section, the "pink handcuffs and/or meat hooks" section, the "races other than snow white" section, the "you must be queer to enjoy watching this" section. As a young man (I can hardly believe it myself, but I was young once), if I had owned a porn store, I would have wanted to rip off all the labels and categorize everything alphabetically by title, like the Features section of an old Blockbuster Video. But then I wouldn't have had a store, because some white trucker would raise a ruckus about my filing a tape with a "yeller girl" (you can guess what that means) right next to a "normal" tape, offending his sensibilities, and he'd use his truck to re-create a scene from Terminator and I'd be history.
And yet I want a safeguard or two. I'm not innocent here. One of the "problems with today's porn" is a problem with us, to some extent. For convenience, for the sake of a better consumer experience, we'd like everything to fit our tastes. But of course, we could say the same thing about the entire world we live in. Even in any progressive democracy in the world, people tend to segregate themselves given the opportunity. And I would have hoped porn would do its part in discouraging that.
You know, in the end (as well as in the front), this is the real problem. Porn only needs to be about sex and nothing else. Beautiful people, getting naked, revealing their naughty bits in glorious high definition, and having orgasms. You can add other elements to a porn production, but since it's perfectly fine without them (6 hours of wall-to-wall butts can be great), why do it?
Well if they were using ropes, plastic handcuffs, etc only for the briefest amount of time & discarding them for the rest of the scene, they were using these props as mere window dressing to give audiences a sense of danger without diving into full blown BDSM sex. This method of half heartedly depicting some BDSM elements can still be found in mainstream sites like Brazzers & Digital Playground - whenever their scenes are tagged as BDSM rest assured it's the window dressing, not hardcore bondage or S&M.
The meathooks stuff you mention is very intriguing to me. I'm aware of people who use meathooks & other such extreme implements in their BDSM sessions, but I have never seen them either in my personal life or in porn. But you are talking about the 80s & 90s, while I'm only familiar with BDSM sites which started in the late 90s at the earliest- Insex & Cybernet(Kink.com). Since I'm not a historian of BDSM porn companies I have no idea which companies might have been around in the 80s & 90s producing these meathook tapes. The only BDSM content I'm aware of from that period are the Bruce Seven Buttslammer line & Kym Wilde's On The Edge line & other movies she did for Red Board Video. I don't believe meathooks were depicted in any of these films. I'm sure there were many other BDSM movies in this time period but I'm ignorant about them.
Maybe meathooks were a popular trend for BDSM movies in the 80s & 90s, which would explain why you were seeing those tapes in such frequency back then, but that is not the case in contemporary times. As I said I'm yet to come across any movie with such extreme acts like someone bleeding out on a meathook in the BDSM sites making content over the last 20 years. The worst I've seen was a girl being put in a tub with live leeches on an early 2000s Insex video.
Not really. If the participants were trained professionals & consenting adults then I would not consider the violence over the top. It's when amateurs try these things that often leads to disaster.
Regarding your view on labels & categories I do believe that's a necessity given how complex our sexual needs & desires can be, & the efficient way to fulfilling those needs when watching porn is through labelling & categorisation. I don't want to spend 3 hours watching lame softcore stuff in the hopes of watching a gonzo gangbang. However using derogatory racial slurs & stereotypes in the name of categorisation is not the way forward.
Thank you for being so insightful about this, Miss Munchausen, I'm learning a lot.
I think our moderators would agree I've beaten this topic pretty much to death (which shouldn't be what we're beating around here), but I think we can agree that we do need categorization and tagging to help us all in the selection process. If we're all doing the selection individually, rather than reinforcing stereotypes for others, perhaps that removes some of the danger. But it's sad that someone could use such a system to exclude people for who they are.
On the other hand... You and I share a disdain for anything that could be classified as "lame softcore." To some extent, our tastes in porn reveal a lot about our lives and lifestyles, so actually preferring softcore doesn't make sense to me. It's like actually wanting to hear elevator music, for any reason other than cultural curiosity or sociological study. But if I take this too far, I could be insulting someone who has a damn good reason for preferring what they prefer. And for that reason, I need to check my personal tastes at the gate.
The point here being, for purposes of this thread, and for everyone who's contributed to it including myself, somebody, somewhere, likes what you don't. And if we are to live in a pluralistic society, then we have to not just acknowledge that but enable that.
"Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval." ~ Leonard Rossite 2342 Posts 12/17
Posted - Nov 27 2024 : 11:37PM
Even though I don't watch a ton of BG porn, it occurred to me that I could expound on three problems with BG porn.
1: I've read more than a few interviews of female talent that went from doing both B/G and G/G to just G/G. Contrary to popular belief, it's not always about having a serious boyfriend or a spouse suddenly unhappy with it. The frequent issue I read is the toll that it came to take on their bodies which makes me think that possibly one of the issues with B/G porn is the physicality of B/G scenes over G/G ones because you never heard the same complaint from those that are G/G only.
2: I feel like Mick Blue should hold a seminar for all male talent on how to make a first time anal scene have a happy ending every time. At least two performers I know of both had horrific experiences with anal sex on set due to a male performer who didn't know how to make it pleasurable instead of painful. If you can teach that, you would have far more female talent willing to go that route.
3: Seen way too many B/G scenes where the guy gets a blowjob but somehow it is never reciprocated on the girl, unless you are one of those rare people who hates someone going down on you while on camera - there's no reason why oral should be mandatory for her to give him but not vice versa. Irritates the heck out of me every time I see it.
In a relationship, sure. Porn stars are putting on a performance, for the purpose of entertaining fans who purchase the porn. If guy-on-girl oral isn't interesting to the majority of viewers, then it won't, and shouldn't be, included in most scenes.
Personally, I have zero interest in any kind of oral. The less time wasted on it in a scene, the better IMO.
I would say porn is suffering from finiancial issues. since a lot of porn is availible on internet and OF has became huge hit, porn companies are struggling to keep there numbers correct. Just look at brazzers people who used to work for brazzers for 2009 to 2013 have long gone. Creative heads are being hired because they are affordable and not because they have ideas. slowly they introduced the idea of "Best of" criteria just to save money of one porn video. Recently NA also Started releasing old scenes as remastered plus re-releasing as new. It has multiple causes but one big reason would say companies had much more profitability on CDs sales than membership model.
What Have You Done To My Little Cable Boy? 2966 Posts 5/10
Posted - Nov 28 2024 : 1:41PM
But isn't the opposite true? If, for example, the EU girls were to be dropped from the Vixen Group, there would be a lack of "new blood". I would rather think that there is a lack of girls entering the business.
"Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval." ~ Leonard Rossite 2342 Posts 12/17
Posted - Dec 28 2024 : 11:58PM
I feel like the problem isn't so much an oversaturation of talent but rather a shortage of career performers for lack of a better term. I've seen so many performers who end up bowing out either shortly after making it or just as they are on the verge of solidifying their place in the industry. That's why I wish we had a boot camp or the equivalent of school for new talent so we could weed out those who don't have what it takes, nurture and help those who do develop to their greatest potential.
If you want a blueprint for what a driven, gifted, passionate versatile performer looks like: Casey Calvert, Sinn Sage, Cherie DeVille, Julia Ann, Nina Hartley, Joanna Angel, Kenna James, Dana Vespoli. All of them have proven that there's pretty much nothing in the industry that they can't do and make it look awesome and they love doing it to the point where they won't stop until they all but can't do anymore. Same with Anissa Kate and Valentina Nappi.
Edited by - Whyspers2Scorpio on 12/29/2024 2:52:17 AM
Edited by - Whyspers2Scorpio on 3/6/2025 1:30:07 AM
I never thought I'd see so many social justice warriors bringing their Huffington Post and Tumblr shit ideas into a porn forum.
That being said: I hate how fake porn is today, especially male orgasms. I don't know if it's a truely growing issue or if it just seems like it. Tons of scene cuts, fake cum, fake orgasms (sometimes from the men too). I love scenes like Manuel's Raw series, where it's just him, a woman, and a high quality camera. The camera work isn't the best but the 30-60 minute scenes are almost entirely unbroken and just him switching back from third person to POV. I want to know that the scene I'm watching is very close to the experience the actors are having. Too much camera work or editing breaks the immersion for me. I've seen scenes where you can literally watch a guy inject some fake cum into his urethra from a oral medicine syringe in the background before getting back into the main display of the scene for the "cum" shot. It's almost just as bad when the guy is fucking the girl and talking about pulling out and cumming on her face orgiving her a cream pie, then there is a camera cutoff, and the guy is all of a sudden jerking it and cumming. If you can't achieve a real orgasm with real cum from intensely penetrating a beautiful woman, gtfo of porn. Makes me wonder if the guys are even slightly enjoying themselves.
"Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval." ~ Leonard Rossite 2342 Posts 12/17
Posted - Jan 28 2025 : 10:25PM
^
Why is G/G porn hotter than B/G? Usually B/G porn has often been more mechanical than G/G porn: it's about the standard positions, the cum covered face, the gaping asshole, there's also the fact that it's less about the pleasure of the woman and I know because I've seen a number of scenes where the woman is going through the motions to make it look good rather than actually being aroused enough to have a full body mindblowing orgasm. That's why a number of female talents have almost signature behavior to signify them reaching climax. Allison Chaynes and Kenna James are both known for having their eyes role back in their head in bliss, Chanel Camryn is rightfully known as the Quiver Queen for her full body shiver when she explodes. It's very difficult especially in the past two and half decades, to fake chemistry in a G/G scene like you can in B/G. As long as you appear to flop around or come up with a convincing O face, no-one is going to question whether you came or not. G/G scenes - especially those under the GFF and SHV a little over 20 years ago, leave little to no doubt whether the girls are in the moment or just going through the motions. I've seen both and the latter sticks out like a sore thumb. I would also add that G/G porn is often far more psychological that B/G with the understanding that the mind is the biggest sex organ habitually overlooked. That was what led to the original ascent of GFF; mastering the psychology of eroticism and giving me scenes that left me exhausted after blowing multiple loads before the scene is even halfway near the end.
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Lezzyist Deactivated User
Make Porn Erotic Again 1736 Posts 9/19
Posted - Jan 29 2025 : 3:31AM
^GG is just like what you describe for BG, and at a higher rate today than in the past. It may be that your imagination works a little better for GG so that when you see a woman "orgasm" from infrequent laps at her outer labia or the awkward "scissoring" you can convince yourself better. The sex acting in GG is generally pretty non-believable.
I really, really hate when female porn stars roll their eyes back like that, to make it look like they're having some tremendous orgasm. Contrary to what they (or the directors) appear to think, it doesn't look sexy, it looks silly. Like adolescents playing that they have sex, something they have a very vague picture of.
"Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval." ~ Leonard Rossite 2342 Posts 12/17
Posted - Feb 3 2025 : 12:47AM
^ Judging by the popularity of Kenna James and Allysin Chaynes, I would say you are in a minority.
I never thought I would be the one to say this but ONE problem with today's porn that really shouldn't still be one is terrible editing; I was watching a scene that was literally cookie cutter editing that completely wrecked the potential of the talent involved to make it a real scorcher. They cut away to the 'partner' of one of the girls taking a phonecall which was stupid and they also made nonsensical cuts around the foreplay. Like what's the point??
The best G/G scenes rarely involve constantly lapping, Zoe Britton and Kristina Rose come to mind because when they got down and dirty, Kristina literally puts her entire mouth over Zoe's pussy - making her explode. That's eventually what I see more of, either that or the fantastic use of the tongue as a dick, jamming inside a tight pussy. Today's G/G is far more believable and enjoyable than the older stuff I want to say pre 2000.
Edited by - Whyspers2Scorpio on 2/4/2025 12:56:12 AM