I suppose if it’s dom/sub or rape fantasy, a “helpless” look would be desired (though I personally can’t abide that stuff – I find the line with reality too thin). I think the mainstream appeal is more “unjaded, unspoiled, fresh” – ie: not a boob-jobbed, leathery old pro.
I don’t watch an awful lot of pr0n because it is so goddam stereotyped. I don’t mean just male/female stereotypes (although it’s difficult to imagine people having sex at all without playing to them somehow). I mean the almighty inflexible conventions of the genre. Naked rubber-doll pubes, the hijab of shod and lingeried chyx with fully naked doodz, immobile camera, endless closeups that reduce the actors to parts and faces.
Also, why do the guys have to be so fucking into themselves when fucking? They look like the world ends at their knob sometimes, looking up at the ceiling or eyes scrunched down at nothing, sometimes even flexing their ever present biceps and pecs like it’s all about me and men, the woman is just a way to rack up notches on my dick. The woman is the one who can be totally swept away during sex, passive, vocal, sensual, but the man must Perform, Deliver the Goods, hold high the banner of Manhood. And what’s the psychic subtext? Is a guy some sort of limp girlyman who couldn’t satisfy a woman if he wants to just lose himself in her?
Pr0n is always going to be a commodity, like chicken. Parts is parts. But how standardized a commodity does it have to be? How many people can’t get off because they feel they have to model pron or live up to it in some way, and they either don’t want to, can’t, or are distanced from their partner because of it?
I think life imitates art a lot more often than vice versa.
Really? Not me! Porn is about fantasy, stimulation, and sometimes entertainment: I don’t want to see short, fat chicks getting fucked (who does?) – nor do I want to see short, fat guys doing the fucking. I want attractive people in my porn! I’m about as straight as a woman can get, but a very hot guy could be screwing an average-looking woman and I’d wish she were hotter (and nice tits work for me in porn, for some reason). I don’t want real life, which is why I never watch amateur porn. Hell, I don’t even particularly care for the “real men” section in Playgirl.
I don’t need to see someone like me gettin’ some in a porno to know that someone like me can get some in real life.
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I agree with archmichael: I don’t think that women look underage just because they’re completely shaved, nor do I think that’s usually the reason behind shaving (in mainstream porn). Put a picture of a shaved 30-year-old pussy next to that of a shaved 12-year-old – or even 16-year-old – and I’m pretty sure there would be a noticeable difference. Other things change with age, too, not just the presence of hair. Likewise, I’ve never been with a guy who was completely shaved, but I don’t think it would make me feel like I was blowing a kid.
Fair enough. The only place I’ve ever seen another woman’s crotch (besides science class and the occasional glance at the gym (and that’s not something you stare at)) is on porn, and most shaved pussies look pretty similar to me. Then again, I usually see that it’s shaved and prefer to look at something else, so I don’t look closely. As a female, I generally prefer looking at porn where the woman has at least a landing strip - I don’t think a lot of hair is attractive, though I know there are fetish sites for that, but some hair seems more attractive and realistic. But I guess that’s the point - porn isn’t realistic. As a TMI - I once shaved myself there, and looking at it creeped me out so much I never did it again. It just looked so…prepubescent, even at 25.
Guess I should have put qualifiers like ‘most will choose’ or ‘I think many other guys’. Also should have quoted the reply to make it more clear that I was trying to explain a concept to overlyverbose, instead of having people misinterpret it as being a sexual fatwa.
