Thank you for making my point so eloquently….porn used to promote realistic fantasies. Linda Lovelace was idolized by men and women where today’s performers are objectified.

ICYMI women like to fantasize and get off too and it’s the exception vs the rule that two dicks in an ass is female jerk off material…next comes the fact that women buy more toys because they prefer the real thing to a fantasy image.

Lastly…porn is the fantasy…may you find and respect the person who takes you places no fantasy ever can.

So who defined porns job as ‘promoting actual human interaction’? When was that made a prerequisite for porn?

Who are you responding to? This had back and forth had 0 to do with condoms. ????

@Mikesouth

That’s my point ….we have evolved from the day when porn was truly an art. When a film included a walk in the park or ocean swim without all kinds of bullshit props…it was really two people getting acquainted and doing what comes naturally with a chemical attraction. When it was about a group exploring their wildest fantasies.

Now it’s how fast can we get how many SMH… THE money shot was a climax to end a thrilling ride. Now it’s like the straight up superman roller coaster which is a thrill but nothing like the Coney Island or Myrtle Beach wood coaster that you could ride all day long 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 and yes my voice dropped to a sultry come hither.

@erick2690

Unfortunately there is no way it can’t come off as those things if you are looking at someone’s experience as a comparison, promotion or attaching motives that simply aren’t there. I knew that going in and expected it would also go over your head ala the cyclical nature of things you so aptly mention.

What you missed is that today’s porn is very DIFFERENT not so much better or worse. Next it’s my opinion that overall today’s content is the equivalent of a quarter slot peep loop….works for jerking off and stress relief but does little to promote actual human interaction.

The unspoken point that you totally missed is how tech over time has changed the content….porn has become a marketing freebie with the same value as a reusable plastic (disposable) drinking cup.

The reference to couples….I am a WOMAN in the late 70’s and early 80’s it would have been unheard of for me to walk into a theatre alone unless I was a working girl or establishment employee. I skipped the drudgery of hunting my brothers rooms and the attic for the super 8 projector or the futility of a search if one my brothers was home …

As for jerking off ten times a day….it’s a reference to reality. As men age their bodies change requiring longer recharge and most find their life interferes…be it a relationship, educations or demanding job etc. and in no way shape or form implies you or anyone else is a basement dweller for doing what comes naturally.

The porn industry has argued the free speech thing for years. But recently the court ruled that the message that porn may be trying to send, with no condoms, is mostly lost on the viewer. It is nothing more than purient interest, a key component in the three prong approach to determining obscenity, which is not protected speech. The condom was ruled to NOT have any serious enough affect on the message of pornographers to make thier mandatory use unconstituional, a unanimous 3 judge vote in the most liberal circuit court in the country. If you got a problem with that then take it up with the courts, tell the courts your rights as a viewer are being denied,,,,ps, you will lose. File a ‘Friend of the cout” brief in the measure b case if you feel so strongly. Again, you will lose.

and i would add to LR if all you want to watch is people fuck theres a PLETHORA of that available if you want to watch something that gets you emotionally involved in the characters…theres zip

Unfortunately it does come off as all those things. You promote your perspective of porn being all about couples watching (it isn’t) and then anyone who disagrees is shot down as basement dwellers jerking it 10 times a day. “overlooking what old timers know best” is hardly a porn thing, that’s the cyclical nature of most things.

@erik2690

At the risk of my experience coming off as dated and possibly even sounding “like someone saying ‘back in my day’” and hope to convey in no way whatsoever that I’m “thinking that equals better.”

Yes porn’s niche is sex in the entertainment world of media.

Too much content today is the equivalent of booth viewing material and too little is intended to stimulate meaningful sexual interaction between two (or more if that’s you’re thing) individuals.

As a young couple it was frustrating as hell to trek 45 minutes to a theater showing porn as it was banned in drive-ins and many counties banned it on the big screen…even more frustrating to try and make it home without finding a no-tell or pulling off to the side of the road afterwards. Obviously in home viewing is better

Be Kind – Rewind was a pain in the ass and hiding VHS tapes from kids was much less thrilling than long drives home.

DVD’s solved Be Kind – Rewind but we started seeing much more of what amounts to booth loops than foreplay or spice things up ideas.

Content today isn’t even worth hard drive space for consumers who used to dedicate entire closets to their collections.

It’s safe to say folks are still having and watching sex but it’s become geared towards jerk off material overlooking what old timers know best…the end of the ride is only as good as what comes before.

When your body or life interferes with jerking off ten times a day this might make sense.

Why does it need a plot? Porn has it’s niche, it’s sex. Plot exists in almost every other form of entertainment, there’s no shortage. Porn’s niche is sex, not every other entertainment has that. I don’t understand how that’s “sad”. You genuinely sound like someone saying ‘back in my day’ and thinking that equals better. A reason to fuck? What? It feels good, biological reasons, they find each other attractive lol. That’s hilarious, ‘these people in porn can’t just have some sex, of course not, blasphemy’.