…doing it?
Does anyone actually do this? Except for the boyfriends of high profile celebrities so that they can cash in on it?
OK, I’ll admit. I did, once. Almost. See, remember the old adage about the camera adding ten pounds? Yeah, well, it’s an understatement. As soon as my SO and I looked over at the monitor, we both blanched and leapt for the OFF button. The tape was ceremoniously burned, and we agreed to never speak of it again. And then…oh crap. I broke my oath. Foo.
Anyway, two things to consider. One, unless you actually look like a pair of porn stars, it’s not gonna be flattering. Two, unless you bring in a buddy, your camera will be stationary in a corner, generally filming your rumps or something. Not really that attractive. Frankly, I think it’s one of those “better talked about than done” kind of deals.
The GQ answer to your question is “Yes, people do.”
Off to MPSIMS.
I haven’t, and have to admit, wouldn’t.
I do, however, have a funny story.
I was over at my friends house, and was watching a movie. My friend ran downstairs to change her laundry, leaving me and another friend of hers watching the movie. Guess what. Yup, the end credits roll, then we’re watching sex. Horror spreads across our faces as we realize that it’s our mutual, laundry doing friend and her boyfriend doing it. Not only that, but she had one of those complicated systems set up, with 6 different remote controls, and everything set up wacky. We’re still desperately trying to turn it off, so she doesn’t know what we’ve seen, but she walks back in while we’re trying.
Was her face red!
lola’s tale reminds me of the time when I was a kid, about 10 or so, and my brother and I were staying with my grandparents for the weekend while my parents were out of town. After dinner one night, we rented a movie to watch. When we came back to the house to watch it, apparently the video store put the wrong tape in the box – we had rented a porno. We saw about two seconds of it before my grandmother freaked out and grabbed for the remote control. Instead of hitting Stop, she hit the fast-forward button. Hilarity ensued for about six seconds, and the next day my grandfather did not join the rest of us at the pool in the afternoon…
my girlfriend and i would love to, we just don’t have the camera. we do have a digital that we use to get short stills and stuff, and we find it highly enjoyable.
but it does bother me not having the video zoom wherever we would want it. i mean, it’d just get boring after a while unless we were really moving around and stuff.
I’ve never tried it, but do have a weird slightly on-topic story. A friend of mine from college had a camera that would fit in the palm of his hand. He would go into nightclubs and take pictures up girls skirts. He had several albums full of the results (alot of you women don’t were undies to nightclubs 
) I think he has a webpage of them now. Sorry for the hijack.
I sort of have, sort of haven’t. It’s a long story. We were, but wasn’t supposed to be the point of that actual video, and so there isn’t anything revealing on the actual film, but we were actually doing it, so . . .
Aw, geez, never mind!
Gaah. The thought of watching me do the nasty sends cold shivers up my spine. Even not considering the extra ten to twenty pounds the camera would add to me.
Quite frankly, I couldn’t watch such a tape for the sensuality/eroticism; I’d only watch it for the anti-narcissicm (“Geez, how much back hair do I have? Is that my voice squeaking like that? Gaah. How much cellulite is in my ass?”).
Reminds me of the Friends episode where they’re watching a video of Monica and Rachel preparing to go to the prom. Monica says “The camera adds 10 pounds” and Chandler says “How many cameras where on you?”. In other words if you look that fat on video…
Like many people above… My wife and I saw our lard asses for about ten seconds, and that was enough. We hooked the TV to the camera so we could see what the camera was filming while we were ‘doing it’. Ugh!
And finally, I’ll share this… A good buddy of mine and I had a ‘guys’ night out. Went to a pro basketball game, got drunk, etc. etc. At the end of the night at his place he pointed to a video tape that he and his wife had made. I joked around like I was going to put it in my pocket and take it home. Before long we forgot all about it. I got home, and there was his homemade video tape in my pocket!
I wouldn’t dare watch it. 
That wouldn’t be nice.