Someone needs to draw the attention that something is clearly going on in the sexual unconscious that all this “sex trafficking” madness is going around while women are writing hella stories about their fantasies of being sexually kept by organized crime
Thinking about how 2+ decades after Libby Hoeler, “make videos of yourself masturbating with a vibrator, send them to a guy, have it posted on the internet” is like one of the most unremarkably normal, typal things a college girl could do
Which is a reminder that Demolition Man was absolutely correct about how much sex in the future would be about masturbating at each other over computers
Thinking about how 2+ decades after Libby Hoeler, “make videos of yourself masturbating with a vibrator, send them to a guy, have it posted on the internet” is like one of the most unremarkably normal, typal things a college girl could do
Getting weird realizing from internet fic how much girls, unironically, like feudal and mafia settings because it’s a chance for men to punish them with sex, and then mapping that back onto my understanding of 19th-20th century romantic literature
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.
Appreciate how 4chan is like a think tank of ‘90s culture, proffering their own approaches to the sexual issues of the zeitgeist
Like before “trans girls” got big in the 2010s they had “traps”. Who fulfilled the female criteria of being hot and consumable. “Traps aren’t gay” (to be attracted to as a man) was, after all, a claim that these chicks-with-docks were not, in fact, men.
And what is all the femdom (incl. monster girls) but a response to the complaint that men are personally predatory to women and use them for sex in the workplace not by attempting to suppress this but by spinning up cultural valences, idioms, and norm for women to be too?
Can anyone really manufacture sexual desires as a response to something? Surely it’s more that such people go where the stereotypes about predatory masculine sexuality do not?
LGBT subculture didn’t develop as a response to societally enforced heterosexual norms, it developed because LGBT people were already there in spite of those norms and needed a place to express their sexuality where people from society at large wouldn’t judge them.
In the 19th century handkerchief fetishes were a thing, now they’re not. I have to believe that’s because handkerchieves were a thing then. They’re similarly trying to make these things now.
I’ve seen a few girls in r/gonewildaudio, which is basically amateur radio drama sexual fantasies for you to masturbate to, going to “slime girl” and succubus idioms. Which like, it’s not cause they think guys are going to like slime girl transparency in audio, it’s because slime girls are a thing in their head now. Presumably then, so to a degree is “businessgyaru who uses the new guy”
In fairness, the “gonzo porn” trend of the 90s was about realizing narrative scenes have no sexual purpose.
it took reading about your personality change to realise the only reason i like joi as a genre is that it's ogling, explicitly endorsed
AFAICT, it’s mostly dirty talking poorly
so when I was in LA I knew people in the porn industry, this was back in the mid-late 00s when the industry was still a valley thing you could make money off shoots, before it became a loss-leader for escorts and then dispersed to so many semipro bedrooms
anyway one of the guys was a casting agent, which I got to talking about what that involved, which totally he admitted that it was the Backroom Casting Couch thing where he’d take the 19-year-old UNLV girls coming in and fuck them on camera and it was a dream job
(the actual Backroom Casting Couch is totally set-up, which means it’s a fantasy that only someone already in the industry would know to think up. it also means it’s a premise that’s not much of an acting stretch for any given girl)
and it’s not even that that was a corruption per se because “how you look and act while having sex in a variety of positions” really was the basis on which you were being evaluated for roles
but the thing that threw me was he was like “honestly, my biggest value-add was giving her a chance to say no”, like he’d do the preliminaries and get the camera and drop trou and be like “time to put you through your paces”
and she’d freak out or hesitate like “well, I wanted to be a porn star, not have unprompted sex with someone I just met, filmed for people to see”, this was like the 2000s height of “raunch culture”, Jenna Jameson and Sasha Grey and Stoya as mainstream C-list
and he’d be like “honey, if you have something to realize, this is the time to realize it rather than the first day on set when we’ve got a house rental and a permit and a director and equipment rental and makeup people and male talent waiting on you”
which is to say as skeezy as it sounds “the guy you have to fuck in his office” was a replacement for “the producer there to abuse/manipulate/coke you up with $20,000 on the line” and I think it might have been an improvement
Surely the most egregious example of SJW ideological subversion is that the porn category "Shemale" has been renamed "Tgirl"
I thought I saw this in my feed but no apparently it’s still waiting to be posted
With respect to the whole sex-scenes-in-movies discourse, I think that nearly any comedy of the silent film era would in fact be greatly improved by the addition of a gratuitous sex scene, provided that it was shot and edited with the exact sensibilities of the era’s slapstick chase sequences, complete with flailing limbs, jangly piano score, frenetic undercranked film speed, and – this is key – that obligatory moment where the protagonist abruptly pauses to wipe their brow and give the camera a pointed Look before getting back to it.
At Cornell once I went to a showing of early black and white silent porn films and you realize that just like they didn’t reliably get the angles right until professionalization in the 1970s and 80s (and have kind of lost that with recent amateurism), “use attractive casts” was not at first obvious
Was thinking today about how USENET-successor Reddit banning their “creepshots” subreddit (of usually younger cute women photographed unknowingly in public) back in the day was a key sign of the decline of an open internet ethos to today’s attempts at schoolmarming
But that since the tumblr purge one of that corporate-polished Reddit’s significant challenges has been putting up barriers to all the high school girls who just want to show the world spread-eagle pics for free, that’s also a thing to be weighed
just reminded how ’90s Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri was
the environmentalist faction leader was Lady Deirdre Skye
That ‘80s-‘90s vague post-Stevie Nicks VH1 romance novel Celtic chick vibe. Probably had something to do with where Actual Ireland was at in America’s mind.
The names Moira, Killishandra, Ione, maybe even Naomi but then that broke too big.
Enya! Who was like the other (than U2) big Irish 80s act (she doesn’t tour tho)
Loreena McKennitt!
(who got by for a bit as CanCon)
realizing that this was kind of where investment we had in the figure of the gypsy migrated to
…but then again, that was kind of what the figure of the middle eastern girl had been - veiled belly dancer, harem girl, I Dream of Jeannie?
And looking back I kind of see that vibe in late-aristocratic Western European representations of like, the Bohemian peasant girl or something
“The newly peripheral hottie”? Authentic… but accessible. But that’s not at all the idiom America used when it was folding Asian girls into the sexual imaginary in the 90s
The funny thing about that was it wasn’t cultural appropriation, to the point it was fetishizing and stereotyping them it was like as the sex workers encountered by the 20th century American imperium – the Hong Kong hostess with the showy dress, the Bangkok whore, the 80s Japanese AV star
Trying to figure what to do with the figure of “the bully” in by/for male amateur erotic “sexual media”
In sissy stuff he’s easy to place as the one whose correct maleness yours is contrasted against, but I see stuff like, your bully fucking your mom, or your girlfriend
And it’s not like netorare stuff where their assertiveness wins the girls away from your herbivorousness and that constitutes their dominance, it’s like stuff where their established subjection of you is the premise
This is one of the least common tropes I’ve noticed recurring, I suppose I shouldn’t discount the possibility that this stuff comes from people who set their kinks in like middle school when “the bully” (and “mom”!) were more prominent figures
When someone writes the inevitable history of the “white women in wheat fields” aesthetic I hope they’re honest enough to acknowledge Hegre and Met-Art
Ways my tastes in porn changed upon turning bisexual (besides the obvious)
I remember the first story I read on alt.sex.stories(.moderated?) in the mid-90s was an installment of a series called “Paisley Pillows” where they fucked in a bathtub and some stuff probably meaningful to the author happened
I recommend Momus's LiveJournal post "Who Killed Bukkake?", a very thoughtful attempt to diagnose the decline from way back in 2008
Yeah that’s about the original Japanese market though, I was thinking more of how it became an American thing in the mid-90s, the story I’m looking for would be more about the high-Studio DVD-era gonzo stuff when they had Howard Stern as a promotional channel and how that didn’t transition cleanly to the pro-am fetish stuff
Remember, doujin (同人), as in doujinshi (from doujin zasshi) means something of a group like the apostles, by implication fanworks
By contrast America already had a term for “erotic comic based off established characters produced outside of copyright”, “Tijuana Bible”
