I am not knowledgeable at all in this area, but I do have to go with Little Nemo on the idea that I doubt they do a lot of takes to get it right. People are not watching for the story line or anything so why do a lot of takes. Just go with the first one and edit around it if you need to.
Sorry Satan, just had to ask.
Handy, don’t know if you are really upset with Rev on his remark about your username, but you gotta admit a guy with the username Handy discussing the porn industry, there are plenty of good jokes possible.
Sure Jeff, just kidding with the Rev, we get that way sometimes.
Still you have to notice there are quite a few less porn stars these days after the great ones got HIV, like Johnny the wad Holmes.
Not to say that you’re wrong again handy, but you’re wrong again handy.
There are so many more porn stars today than there were in the Holmes era. Hundreds upon hundreds. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry today. It rivals the music industry, fer cryin out loud.
Indeed, the porn industry is huger now than ever. The reasons are varied, but mainly it was VHS that turned porn into something you watch alone instead of a dirty theater with dudes in trench coats. The internet has vertainly also helped the porn industry flourish.
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Me thinks Handy is trying to prove that he is not a porn junkie or a pervert.
He has made several statements that, if believed, would indicate that he knows very little about the porn industry. I do not know of the number of “actors” then or now, but I would have to agree with Satan that due to VHS and the Internet there have to be a lot more of them today.
Me thinks he doth protest too much, or something like that.
Although the statement of the residue on the tapes at adult video stores does a lot to lead one to believe he knows more than he is letting on.
I saw Saving Private Ryan last night and got to wondering why you can show people getting killed left and right, a guy carrying his own severed arm across the beach, Germans jumping out of tanks on fire, and every other manner of sick violence known to man in an R-rated movie, but showing a penis inserted into a vagina is just too horrible to put in a R-rated movie.
mmmm fraid you have a point there puffington however I tend to wonder if you aren’t comparing apples and oranges. I mean war is one thing ( as horrible as it is) and keeping at least SOME mystery about what’s under those panties is another.
puff, we discussed this before. In Europe its the other way around. They can show sex but not violence.
StrTrkr777, I’ve read some stuff, Out of Bondage, which is Linda’s excellent discussion of the porn industry of the 70’s also read [Neither book has pictures, okay?] some huge book that the government wrote, ‘Report to the Commission on Obscenity & Pornography [?] 80’s’, also excellent.
Due to the nature of how people love to lie about their sexuality,esp. in this type of business, I don’t take the word of porn stars, porn producers, writers, directors, stars, strippers, etc. But you can.
I once read that if you ranked American actors and actresses by the number of movies they made, all of the top spots would be porno performers. After all, it’s not unusual for some of the bigger names to be in twenty or thirty movies in a single year. And while the actresses tend to have relatively short careers, some of the actors have been in the business for ten or fifteen years.
Which means Ron Jeremy may be America’s #1 movie star.
Handy, you seem to want to have it both ways. You want to portray yourself as an expert on pornography who knows all the inner workings of the business. But at the same time, you want to assure everyone that you never watch or read anything pornographic.
As for reading Out of Bondage or the Meese Commission report, that’s fine. But don’t think you can only read the works of one side of a controversy and claim to know everything. Try picking up an issue of Gauntlet a First Amendment magazine that frequently runs articles by people that work in the porno industry and don’t hate their jobs. Or look for a copy of Sex Work, a collection of essays by prostitutes and porno performers; or Hollywood Blue by Harris Gaffin, a reporter who interviewed a number of people in the LA porno scene; or Annie Sprinkle’s autobiography Post-Porn Modernist.
Bravo runs a program called “John Theroux’s Wild Weekends,” in which the host and his camera spend the weekend investigating some topci of interest; most recently, born-again Christianity.
In a recent episode, they checked out the porn industry, attending several different shottings, both gay (m/m) and straight. In two instances, filming was held up for some time because the male actor in the scenes being shot had trouble ejaculating. I assure you, handy, they’re real.
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather