# What themes do you enjoy in adult flicks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445 "2007-12-18T09:20:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![9thFloor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/b487fb/32.png) [@9thFloor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/9thFloor)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/1 "2007-12-18T09:20:26Z")
Beyond the sex itself, for those to whom this applies, what are the emotional themes or other such elements that arouse you in watching adult flicks beyond the skin? ---
**Author:** ![tonedef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@tonedef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonedef)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/2 "2007-12-18T10:21:40Z")
I enjoy seeing pools being cleaned or photocopiers being fixed! ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/3 "2007-12-18T11:43:35Z")
I haven’t seen a porn film with a good ‘theme’ or ‘plot’ for ages, all the stuff me and my wife watch is basically scenes that go straight into the action as most plot driven porn is cheesy but I have seen one film which had an awesome theme and wasn’t at all cheesy, it was a french film set in an old chataux where the master of the house basically shagged his way through all the staff before hosting a massive orgy on his banquet table at the end - it was one of the most awesome porn films I have ever seen and would love to see it again, it had everything - a really, really hot mixed race lady wearing a french maids outfit and even a weird little dwarf who occasionally spied on the action. I miss that video… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/4 "2007-12-18T12:16:09Z")
The Japanese have some of the best ideas, but unfortunately it’s marred by their maddening pixelated naughty bits. And their other language, of course, which makes it hard to understand what’s going on. And their unending misogyny, though I avoid the worst of those. My point is, their zany concepts of having real world situations somehow naturally juxtaposed with explicit sex really works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/5 "2007-12-18T13:38:51Z")
High Explosives, Sheep, sex on active rollercoaster tracks, massive scar tissue, furniture fucking, hammers & saws, garbage bag sex, sacks of wet kittens, and oversized Mao suits. what? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/6 "2007-12-18T13:46:34Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Miskatonic] what? [/QUOTE] Nothing, it just seems kinda bland, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/7 "2007-12-18T14:35:20Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] Nothing, it just seems kinda bland, that’s all. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I mean, jeez, step into the 21st century, would ya? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/8 "2007-12-18T16:12:55Z")
Pirates. Wasn’t there an award-winning pirate porn flick? Clowns. It’s hard to find good clown porn. Clowns and Pirates together? Do I dare imagine? what? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/9 "2007-12-18T17:07:16Z")
I like it when a man and a woman have sex in the missionary and/or cowgirl position, preceded by some foreplay, and preferably without constantly cutting to the guy’s face. I know, I’m all alone in this perversion, judging from what I’ve seen offered from purveyors o’ porn. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/10 "2007-12-18T17:12:44Z")
[QUOTE=WILLASS] I haven’t seen a porn film with a good ‘theme’ or ‘plot’ for ages . . . [/QUOTE] Amen to that. Does anybody even _make_ traditional porn any more, where the sorority chicks can’t pay for the pizza so they bang the delivery guy, or the shy guy on his first day on the job scores with the receptionist? It’s a lost art. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/11 "2007-12-18T17:22:56Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] Wasn’t there an award-winning pirate porn flick? [/QUOTE] Yes. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/12 "2007-12-18T17:33:30Z")
Blackmail. The student caught cheating gets a chance to escape her fate in exchange for some ‘extra credit’ or the embezzling employee can make things up with some ‘over time’. ---
**Author:** ![9thFloor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/b487fb/32.png) [@9thFloor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/9thFloor)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/13 "2007-12-18T17:45:04Z")
[QUOTE=kidchameleon] Blackmail. The student caught cheating gets a chance to escape her fate in exchange for some ‘extra credit’ or the embezzling employee can make things up with some ‘over time’. [/QUOTE] Ah, that’s a good one getting closer to what I was asking. I wasn’t really asking about storylines as much as I was about what aspect of it turns you on erotically and psychologically beyond the skin. Such as: humiliation, domination, struggle, romance, comeuppance, etc. Those types of broad themes. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/14 "2007-12-18T17:56:36Z")
The benign indifference of the universe does it for me. Hard to find, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/15 "2007-12-18T18:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=9thFloor] Such as: humiliation, domination, struggle… [/QUOTE] Hell, I don’t need to watch porn for those. I get enough in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/16 "2007-12-18T18:10:39Z")
Humor, which is sadly lacking in today’s porn. But also good “take offs” such as the classic Flesh Gordon, Picnoccio (it isn’t his nose that grows), Alice in Wonderland. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/17 "2007-12-18T18:19:05Z")
Asian chicks taking it in the butt is an emotional theme I enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/18 "2007-12-18T18:22:44Z")
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] Asian chicks taking it in the butt is an emotional theme I enjoy. [/QUOTE] Not THAT’s entertainment! Both the theme and your answer, I’m still laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/19 "2007-12-18T18:34:41Z")
I actually enjoy conversation. Call me weird, but ANY kind anticipatory conversation in prelude to the deed is somehow erotic for me. Heck, even when watching 30 second clips from the freebie sites, I like to hear voices. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445/20 "2007-12-18T22:54:04Z")
If an adult film has to have a theme, it should be an at least moderately plausible intro-setup for the sex. (No more than moderately – we all know we’re not really living in the Porniverse.) This is handled fairly well in Hustler’s _Barely Legal_ series. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-themes-do-you-enjoy-in-adult-flicks/430445.md?page=2)