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Truth in porn
November 01, 2004
On Saturday afternoon, I got naked for CityKittie, a new punk rock porn site that just got up and kicking this past month. And yes, I’ll let you all know when the pics are up.
I’ve always maintained that the thing I do best on camera is sex, the tease and pose stuff just feels awkward to me. This is partly because I’ve never personally understood the appeal of these more softcore images, I want to see spread pussy! But somehow, I’m becoming more adept at this looking cute thing, even if it feels weird.
As much as I support and get off to amateur porn, there is definitely a degree to which the sexualities displayed in any kind of porn just cannot be authentic. The CityKittie photographer and I joked around a lot: “Yeah, this is how I masturbate, in this contorted position, with my back arched like so.”
So I’ve been thinking a lot about whether truth in porn is possible - okay, more than that, can the truth be hot? Because, sure I love it when Dirck and I fuck with me flat on my stomach and him lying on top of me, but shit, it looks painfully boring on film. What feels great often looks really lame. But then you get the other extreme, where things both feel and look lame - here I’m thinking of the lesbian kisses you see in mainstream porn, tongues on the outside of the mouth. Ew and yawn.
Mainstream porn is shot much like any Hollywood movie, with lots of takes and cuts, several cameras shooting different angles, the director giving instructions to the performers, etc. Of course the individuality of the performers can come through a bit, especially with the more experienced performers who have something of a calling card (like Inari Vachs’ slobbery blow jobs). But basically, there is rarely anything spontaneous about the sex, it’s very mechanical. Sure you’re watching fucking, but often the heat of sexuality has dissipated. So, we turn to amateur porn for authentic enthusiasm for sex. But the problem that the amateur stuff runs into is that it often captures the heat but doesn’t show the goods very well. Can real sex be hot porn, or is porn always just a representation of sex and not the real thing?
I have seen some smut that gives me hope, but there is also just so much crap out there. But maybe people less picky and critical than I am are happy with the mainstream porn fare? It’s hard for me to say, since I live in a bubble.
Posted by Dacia at November 1, 2004 02:01 PM
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