# The Porn Film That Wasn’t. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2002, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118 "2002-06-14T22:55:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/1 "2002-06-14T22:55:06Z")
It’s Friday night, SIL and her kids who we share a house with have gone out. Leechboy and I are at the video store he’s trying to decide between renting **Manhattan** or **Mighty Aphrodite** , I figure night to ourselves = adult film. So I pick up the first movie I see, I figure there’s not much difference between them; people have sex, get blow jobs, give blow jobs and moan/scream a lot. The box I pick up has this cute blonde chick on the cover, she’s tastefully naked, its called **the girl next door**. So we get home and put on the video………. WTF it’s a documentary, I grab the box, yep there it is on the cover just under the title a **documentary** by Christine Fugate (bolding and size all theirs). There’s even a little quote “Daring and honest” – Charles Lyons, The New York Times. Jeez if only I’d looked closer, I would have realised the NYT don’t review porn films. We decide to watch it despite the disappointment and it turns out to be really worthwhile! All about a housewife called Stacy who becomes a big porn star. WARNING SPOILER Some of the best comments in the video come from the guys who work in the industry, for example when a newbie leading guy decides to disappear mid shoot we get this from JJ his Stunt Double - “ I’m just bummed because I wanted to work with Stacy. I was hoping ‘cos see I was promised if his dick didn’t get to work I got to stunt dick” _stunt dick_ :eek: giggle All in all not a bad little doco. Not sure if it was for real or not but it’s an interesting insight into a world very different from mine. A somewhat disappointed but less ignorant (at least about the porn industry) leechbabe. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/2 "2002-06-15T02:21:41Z")
Yes, there actually is something known as the stunt dick in porn movies, but unlike mainstream films, he isn’t brought in when there is danger involved, but rather when the regular dick, can;t get/keep a boner. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/3 "2002-06-15T15:10:16Z")
The comedien _John Hope_ says he got his break into show biz as the stunt but for Ned Beatty in **Deliverance** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/4 "2002-06-15T18:38:30Z")
[Dave the lighting Guy] STUNT COCK! [/Dave the lighting Guy] ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/5 "2002-06-16T02:23:18Z")
Um, I thought that’s what fluffers were for. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/6 "2002-06-16T03:09:29Z")
Well, it depends on how big your budget is, as to whether or not you have fluffers. A stunt dick is usually brought in when a new male actor is doing his first few scenes, because while he may have been able to perform for an audience of 1 before, now he has an audience of anywhere from 3-15 people, most of him are other guys, so it can be a bit intimidating/nerveracking. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/7 "2002-06-16T03:31:10Z")
Ummmm the movie did really cover fluffers - they help the male star rise to the occassion (so to speak) correct? and if so how? traditional methods? are fluffers people or objects? ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/8 "2002-06-16T03:32:35Z")
oops that was meant to be “ **didn’t** really cover fluffers” ---
**Author:** ![lenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@lenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lenin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/9 "2002-06-16T04:26:36Z")
Wouldn’t that be one hell of a thing to put on your resume… _Guns ‘n’ Violence_: Stunt Man _Guns ‘n’ Violence II_: Stunt Man _Random Trashy Action Movie_: Stunt Man _The Girl Next Door_: Stunt Cock … Would IDMB credit him as “Stunt Cock (file footage)?” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/10 "2002-06-16T07:25:13Z")
Fluffers are people (gender generally depending on the orientation of the actor, obviously) and they use ancient oral secrets. The gender of the fluffer isn’t as cut and dried as you might think, btw. There is a fair amount of straight actors doing gay porn. The really, really good-looking ones almost always do gay, since (and this has been discussed before) straight porn studios generally hire relatively ugly male actors (to prevent the possibility of accidental “homo moments”, as the lovely Margaret Cho once put it). ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-porn-film-that-wasn-t/114118/11 "2002-06-17T03:33:21Z")
Wow - things I learn on SDMB. Thanks **jayjay**.