In fairness, the "gonzo porn" trend of the 90s was about realizing narrative scenes have no sexual purpose.
In fairness, the “gonzo porn” trend of the 90s was about realizing narrative scenes have no sexual purpose.
Honestly I’m with Colin Spacetwinks in saying “arousing scenes in not otherwise pornographic movies”, including shit we don’t think about today like the whole rape-revenge genre, was an artifact of more constricted mass communication channels
Like no one talks about Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition anymore, which was basically American gravure. I assure you they used to well into the 90s, past the football-phone TV ad era, cause it was this well-known, winked-at cultural institution.
Really they had lost the residual thespianism from since that whole 70s Devil in Miss Jones, Behind the Green Door, Deep Throat moment where they split off from mainstream B-movies, by the mid-90s Studio (esp. Vivid!) Era stuff where Howard Stern was their publicity channel
That’s why Sasha Grey was so big, she had spark like they used to. And the pro-am thing has been spreading for a while (Posterity appreciates you, Heather iDeepThroat, who made bank off of love of swallowing her husband’s cock) but past the earlier PornHub stuff on to truly just-our-thing niches I appreciate the return of character and plot, as h-manga long valued.