Porn: Classic or Dud?

haha wow

as a 12-14 y/o i mastered the art of selective history cleansing

i don't know, i'm not gonna check my history normally, but it's obvious when it just disappears. also i don't care as long as it's not something really lame.

i believe many girls would think standard porn is 'really lame'

Stuff like 'redhead shemale' searches are just amusing.

http://images.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/11/15/townsend/story.jpg
"its for research purposes"

What pr0n did you ditch exactly, Hurting?

a) 60s/70s sweet innocent (and hairy) porn
b) 90s/00s (eg. nowadays) porn which is bling/hardcore/plastic surgery/emotionless
c) youporn/redtube and the likes: amateur porn

If it's b), I can understand, totally. It's gross and a waste of time. As for a) and sometimes c) as well, it's not gross at all to me, but can be fun/arousing/interesting, stimulating the imagination more than killing it. Not just for me alone, it can be an interesting topic of discussion with my girl.
Do the good talks you've had with your partner after your decision include porn itself? Did you talk about this with him/her? Or was it the abandonment of porn that spawned a somewhat 'purified' feeling? Question being: is it, or was it ever, debatable?

also i don't care as long as it's not something really lame.

i want to know what qualifies as really lame

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/savage_11.jpg

haha yes

that a/b/c breakdown is totally otm.

also Hurting I congratulate you on your honesty.

Le Bateau Ivre, you missed out 80's porn.

I guess I did, entirely!

What's that like? Pink stockings, hair bands and the likes? ;)

Big 80's hair, crappy video camera technology, vague attempts at plot, general feeling of dissatisfaction.

The clumsiness of it all sadly makes it slightly appealing to me. It's as bad as 80s hair metal isn't it?

I mean, anyone who feels nostalgic for the 80's should go and watch some random 80's pr0n, and in no time at all they'll be glad they live in the 21st century.

I think only the 80s could give us something as goofily awesome as "Sex Asylum 3: The Search For The Big Bamboo".

Do they end up finding it?

Yeah, but it got into mainstream acting and did the Ramboo films

(xxpost) I would like to refer readers to that "clown porn" thread from a few days ago...

80's softcore porn is the best. Playtime with Monique Parent is the masterpiece of the genre.

Play time is from 1994: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110846/

But kudoos for Monique Parent vividly posting on her own fanboard:

"The answer is no. We were not really masturbating. But yes, our hands WERE in our bikini bottoms, and yes, there really is nowhere else to put your hand once it's down inside a bikini bottom so in effect we were....but without intent, so we weren't. Does that make any sense"
http://www.uniquemonique.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

i guess really lame would be like...a paid burning angel membership

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Heheh - I'm shocked - it looks like the 80s! And has all this...

Big 80's hair, crappy video camera technology, vague attempts at plot, general feeling of dissatisfaction

It's also funny though.

It is! As his girlfriend I'd totally forgive Hurting for watching it every now and so ;)
Speaking of which... I'd like to see the brave man return to this thread!

I don't really understand getting overly upset about porn unless the guy is spending hours every single day watching it or is into something really bizarre and/or offensive.

xxxpost haha paid membership to any porn site = lame

yeah i'm fine with it as long as it's free.

yeh if you can't find good free porn but are still watching it you aren't trying hard enough

Someone is going to make a Gates mint one day figuring out how to make comedy porn that's actually funny.

"ironic porn purchase leads to unironic ejaculation"

ironic lil wayne cd purchase leads to unironic ejaculation

Well, I wasn't hiding it from my wife, and she tolerated it but wasn't really crazy about me looking at it, especially the more hardcore stuff. But my decision to stop was totally my own - just out of the blue one day said "Hey, I've decided to quit looking at porn." As far as how much I was looking at it - not enough to interfere with work or responsibilities or anything but enough that I felt like it was kind of dulling my sex drive and imagination. And something had also just become depressing and lifeless and compulsive about the experience itself - clicking through dozens of clips, looking for the exact right cumshot, etc. And in part I just wanted to try quitting as an experiment, and so far I like the effects, although it hasn't been that long.

(note, I made clear that this does not mean I'm quitting wanking)

GOOD ON YA

there are some sites that give hope (ifeelmyself etc), but then again , i only like that site after becoming boed with 80s / 90s hardcore stuff. as someone that grew up with magazines, i'm interested in how 80s kids think about their pron v. sex habits...?

I don't need porn. I just undress, arrange my games, guns and ammo on my bed and I take pictures while posing with them.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/at-least-16-previously-unpublicized-hiv-cases-in-porn-film-performers-public-health-officials-say.html

:/

'i used to have dialogue'

I have a really weird relationship with pron. On the one hand I totally defend anyone watching it and I also read about it, but watching it seems less interesting to me. I will once or twice watch a shitload of clips (per year) but after that I stop for a year or so. Overall though I am not really that fascinated by the pron itself, but I have a keen interest in the discussion.

Alson Joey Stefano=/ Joe Delassandro. Christ, I thought the former was Dellassandro so I picked up his bio. hahahahahahahahaha My fatigue resulted in reading about a gay porn star (who appeared in Madonna's Sex book!). Not that bad really. Well, the bio was, but still an interesting read somehow.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293165/Nanny-30-died-sexual-arousal-watching-pornography.html

A 30-year-old woman's death as she used a sex toy while watching pornography was probably due to her state of sexual excitement, an inquest heard today.
Children's nanny Nichola Paginton was found dead in bed naked from the waist down last October with pornographic material running on her laptop. A sex toy was discovered next to her.
A Home Office pathologist told the inquest in Gloucester that Miss Paginton died from a sudden heart arrhythmia, probably brought on by her state of arousal.
Gloucestershire coroner Alan Crickmore agreed it was likely that 'her activity before death' contributed to the fatal arrhythmia.
The inquest heard that Miss Paginton, of Cirencester, was found dead in October last year.
Detective Sergeant Gavin Webb said police had been called by her employer Sarah Griffiths who had visited Miss Paginton's home when she failed to turn up for work.
When there was no reply at the door she enlisted the help of neighbour Michelle Grant and they saw Miss Paginton through the curtains, lying on her bed with her cat lying on her chest.
'After they broke in they realised Miss Paginton was dead,' said Sgt Webb. 'She had a computer on her lap and when they moved it and lifted the duvet, they found she was naked from the waist down and there was a vibrator in the bed.
'The laptop was still displaying pornographic material.'
Home office pathologist Dr Richard Jones from the University of Cardiff said: 'There is nothing to explain why she died in this way but I suspect sudden cardiac death.'
Returning a verdict of death from natural causes, Mr Crickmore said: 'I am satisfied Nichola Paginton died of a natural disease process - sudden cardiac arryhthmia.
'It is not always possible to determine an exact cause of death but it is likely that her activity before death contributed towards it.

'so sad, lets tell everyone'

"ironic porn purchase leads to unironic ejaculation"

― Jordan

Ironic ejaculation: your sperm looks less like a comma and more like a quotation mark

porn: classic or DEATH!

William Donaldson died the same way, except it seemed sort of awesome and appropriate in his case.

In Austin, in the mid 90's there were a lot of photographers trying to get porn (their own, original work) on discs to sell at a few shops in town. I worked ten hours a day at a place across from the train tracks on the east side of town, before it was gentrified, with one of the more successful pornographers. He did videos and photographs and operated an online website. I helped with scenery, costumes and set design for the videos and lighting and posing the more inexperienced models for photographs. It was really interesting job, sometimes. I was in my early 20's and was happy with the pay and that lunch and dinner was always provided and we could pick take-out from any place in town.

What sucked was how the actors and models were talked about when they came in. They were just bodies and their bodies were under heavy scrutiny all the time. A woman came in once and no matter what we did with the lighting or the angles there was always too much cellulite for my boss. He kept talking about her and her flaws as if she didn't exist. At one point he said she couldn't even pass for sexy in the amateur videos he would stage. I saw that she was ready to just cry and gave her a robe. All that criticism and then naked on a rug. My boss then said good idea, paid her for an hour and told her he couldn't use her. UGH! There were plenty of desperate men and women who were willing to do anything for not much money. I stuck with the job until my boss closed shop to move to California. It is hard to watch porn and not think of a set up like the one I worked at. It has served to ruin porn for me and I do notice the lighting and sets and the high thigh area where my boss would say shows a woman's age more than anything.

Lack of marketing acumen, imho. Rule 28 etc...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/13/free-trade-organic-porn-on-the-hunt-for-ethical-smut.html

i think in sweden the government subsidizes feminist porn. this seems like a good idea to me. there's no reason for sexists to dictate what our culture's erotica looks like.

There are some really smart women in porn - read some interviews with Taormino (Thomas Pynchon's niece!), Camille Crimson - but when the curtain is pulled on any sort of so-called "feminist" porn collectives time and again we hear the same stories of abuse and mistreatment. It's such a delicate line, I suppose, given what drives so many performers to porn in the first place. It takes a certain strength to go down that road, but a certain wounded weakness to set you on that path. I imagine that any female-run companies treat their female performers a lot better than the male equivalents, though of course a lot of the women on the business side of the business have seen the other side and are trying to counter their own experiences.