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Sexy or ugly? A fine line
August 16, 2004
I spent a lot of time today editing stills for a promotional package I’m putting together. This essentially boils down to having to pick 6-8 stills for three different productions, with around 800 images to choose from for each production. Basically, I looked at a lot of nekkid bodies today - like I do every day, only more so.
When I tell the uninitiated that I work in the adult industry, the next question is often, “Do you get turned on at work?” Yes, sometimes. But when I spend an afternoon looking at 2500 pornographic images, I’m really looking for very specific things - a certain look, a certain act. It can become very scientific as I look for the specific details that I know make images sexy, or at least are supposed.
The company I work for is trying to gently push our productions away from the mainstream, but while also staying away from the really alternative porn. We’re still playing with the idea of the girl-next-door that is so familiar to porn viewers; our girls have to display a certain level of realness in their presentation, acting and general style. We had a producer a few years ago who really liked fake tits. As a result, one of the sets I was editing today had a lot of this:
Yowza! Beautiful girl - why oh why inflate your ta-tas? Especially after seeing lots of images of “natural” beauties, the fake tits are a little over the top and hard to stomach. In my eyes (and pants), an instance of sexy become ugly.
The other thing that generally we try to avoid, but of course shows up when you hire professional porn performers, is the overly porny action, created for the sake of the viewer. For example:
Posted by Dacia at August 16, 2004 07:37 PM
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