Just now, I saw a comment on a porn scene I was thinking of watching. "Honestly this scene is kinda depressing, she looks miserable and not having fun. Which may work for some but I find a lot of the best porn scenes -at least for me- are where they get into it."
I'll say a bit about that at the end of this post, but for now, let's look at a type of scene where the performer IS into it - specifically the first two minutes of a gang/blow bang.
Carter Cruise making friends
Smiles. Delight! Surprise!
I don't especially like gang/blowbangs. I don't seek them out. They often obscure the performers face. That whole DP thing leaves me cold, and so often the producer/director seems to feel that just getting a bunch of guys makes the scene special and exciting enough that they can just run through some positions and finish with bukkake. There are exceptions of course but usually it's not worth it. But, maybe half the time, the scene will start with something like this.
Leah Gotti. Smiles all the way through her seminal GB scene.
To be honest, if the whole scene was just forty minutes of this, I'd prefer it. Just to be clear, the girl being into it, is absolutely key here. Some GB/BB are dark and nasty and there's room for that as an acted-out fantasy but when the performer is really excited it's special.
What I like here is that 'Oooh lovely, lotsa guys!" look. Being touched, being fondled, being pawed at, the anticipation of what is to come. Looking around, smiling, inviting, losing track of the hands caressing and grabbing. Clothes being pulled aside, boobs exposed. Tottering slightly on high heels as the hands pull this way and that. Smiles. Delight! Surprise!
I don't especially like gang/blowbangs. I don't seek them out. They often obscure the performers face. That whole DP thing leaves me cold, and so often the producer/director seems to feel that just getting a bunch of guys makes the scene special and exciting enough that they can just run through some positions and finish with bukkake. There are exceptions of course but usually it's not worth it.
But, maybe half the time, the scene will start with something like this.
Leah Gotti. Smiles all the way through her seminal GB scene.
What I like here is that 'Oooh lovely, lotsa guys!" look. Being touched, being fondled, being pawed at, the anticipation of what is to come. Looking around, smiling, inviting, losing track of the hands caressing and grabbing. Clothes being pulled aside, boobs exposed. Tottering slightly on high heels as the hands pull this way and that. Smiles. Delight! Surprise!
Carolina Sweets. Consumate performer, sells this scene big time.
"Touching with hands is the neglected stepchild of porn "
Porn is a fantasy and this one, being the centre of the lustful intentions of a group of men is a particularly primal, powerful one. It's animalistic. It's decadent. It's peak slutty. And this part, the build-up and anticipation is the best part. More than the best, the multiple guys at the same time shots that feature so much in gangbangs are usually pretty lame. In contrast, the performer, smiling and delighted at all the attention and lust is great to watch. Touching with hands is the neglected stepchild of porn but it's the one of best parts of actual sex. Touching and being touched is the whole thing really.
Of course, these scenes end all too quickly. The clothes are removed and she's pushed to her knees, often less than a minute since the start. Ideally, this caressing and feeling would continue for a lot longer. Maybe she could sit or lie down and face the camera while hands roam over her body. Different positions - sitting, lying standing. And of course, why stop there - when the BJ or sex begins, hands could still be roaming, feeling, caressing. That never happens. JulesJordan's blowbang scenes sometimes do a bit of that but it's always at the same time as the performer is having a vibrator used on her very aggressively and she's totally consumed with that. What I'm looking for is her reaction to being felt up, and her sharing that with the viewer.
Some studios of course, do some kind of story setup. The sports reporter in the changing room, the wedding scene, the frat party. But once the action starts, in all but exceptional films, all that is dumped on the floor along with her clothes.
Porn is a fantasy and this one, being the centre of the lustful intentions of a group of men is a particularly primal, powerful one. It's animalistic. It's decadent. It's peak slutty. And this part, the build-up and anticipation is the best part. More than the best, the multiple guys at the same time shots that feature so much in gangbangs are usually pretty lame. In contrast, the performer, smiling and delighted at all the attention and lust is great to watch. Touching with hands is the neglected stepchild of porn but it's the one of best parts of actual sex. Touching and being touched is the whole thing really.
Of course, these scenes end all too quickly. The clothes are removed and she's pushed to her knees, often less than a minute since the start. Ideally, this caressing and feeling would continue for a lot longer. Maybe she could sit or lie down and face the camera while hands roam over her body. Different positions - sitting, lying standing. And of course, why stop there - when the BJ or sex begins, hands could still be roaming, feeling, caressing. That never happens. JulesJordan's blowbang scenes sometimes do a bit of that but it's always at the same time as the performer is having a vibrator used on her very aggressively and she's totally consumed with that. What I'm looking for is her reaction to being felt up, and her sharing that with the viewer.
Some studios of course, do some kind of story setup. The sports reporter in the changing room, the wedding scene, the frat party. But once the action starts, in all but exceptional films, all that is dumped on the floor along with her clothes.
Kali Roses. Theres some setup here, but in five more seconds, this is over.
How about a fistfight?
What I'd love to see is a more competitive scene. The base nature of the gangbang is that it is a competition between males to cover a female. Could a scene lean into that more? Would it be exciting to see, one of the men, grab the star all to himself and hold off his rivals while he fucks her, followed by the next in the pecking order? How about a fistfight breaking out before or during the action? Some of the best scenes almost get there where the female performer is pulled between two men. Often though, those are the most degrading scenes towards the star and they don't have to be. They could fight over her without demeaning her. How cool would that be?
So in my ideal scene, we have a fabulously dressed star. She's a modern-day princess, let's say, Mafia-boss daughter, or a movie star. She wants to get pregnant and she's invited the best of her elite bodyguard to her chambers. She demands attention. Hesitantly at first, they touch her, caress her as she commands, and she loves it. It gets more heated. She sits and poses. She offers herself to the one who can win a wrestling contest. While they pair off (we'd montage this) the others who are waiting to have their turn wrestling, stay, on her command, caressing and touching her while she relaxes on a divan. We see her get more and more excited as the competitors wrestle, watching their oiled bodies strain and compete for her. Again, we're montaging this. Men getting hit, competing. Hands caressing her soft body. Her smiles, eyes sparkling. A punch connects. Blood and sweat spray. Her chest heaving.
Carter getting into it. If only this went on for longer.
A winner is declared, but before he can claim his prize a real fight breaks out. Fists fly. No holds barred. The winner is deposed and the princess spreads her legs for the new victoe. He's bloodied and bruised. Though she lets him penetrate her, she demands more touching from her other suitors and says the next one to claim her pussy will need to win her like her current lover. More fighting, only now it's going on even as she's being fucked. Through all this she looks turned on and sultry and powerful. Montage all the way to multiple creampies from increasingly battered lovers. She is triumphant at the end, swirling her finger in her oozing pussy, while her exhausted, battered lovers worship at her feet. Close on her smiling face.
Now THAT would be a gangbang.
Miserable and not having fun.
Unsurprisingly porn is having a MeToo eruption. It's always been there. That worrying pain at the back of your mind. Is she really happy doing this? Has she been coerced? Is she okay with _that_, even if she was happy with the scene at the start?
Even if you don't think porn is always degrading and immoral in itself, everyone is aware that there are huge problems. More than enough pornstars and former pornstars have spoken out. You would imagine that major studios are reputable enough to ensure that the stars, that are the absolute most important people in their industry, are well cared for and protected. But no. Even if you keep away from the seedier end of the spectrum (and how does that help, really?) you become complicit in ever more disturbing, non consensual and exploitative abuse.
Sometimes that worry then turns out to have been an 'I told you so' and you find that you've been enjoying and masturbating over a scene where the female performer had not agreed to what was happening to her. Making you just as bad as the abuser. Going back and deleting scenes from your hard drive isn't any response at all. Not buying further from studios or producers who abused seems pretty pathetic.
The obvious answer from many people would be 'stop consuming porn you sick fuck'. But that's not going to happen, and given that many performers do enjoy their work and give a lot of pleasure by it, it seems that we ought to be able to make porn a safe and well-paid job for those who want to do it.
If you want to consume ethically produced porn where nobody was exploited, best practices were followed and the performer was paid and retains control of how it's sold, is there a way? I think there has to be. I know there are a small number of female-run sex-positive studios but they're tiny. Surely best practices should be the industry standard. Porn is like nuclear power. Great, but prone to terrible abuse and appalling consequences for individuals. Given the totally obvious dangers of exploitation surely the whole industry should be more tightly regulated than any other. Just ensuring your performers are STD free and over 18 seems like a laughably low standard.
One solution that seems possible is to put all production power in the hands of the performers. OnlyFans and similar sites seem to offer that, but it's going a very weird way. It seems terribly overpriced for what most performers put out and when I look at some of that content, Miserable and Not Having Fun seems like a better description than happy and empowered.
What I'd love to see is some kind of performers union which has the power to inspect and shut down studios if they break a strict code of conduct. A kind of independent performer run licensing authority. Sure, not all producers would be bound by it, but if it was widespread in Europe and the US then at least consumers could choose an ethical producer. Maybe that's pathetic, but when I see performers say that they were coerced or disrespected, or even cheated out of proper payment, I feel like the bar is so low on studios that it barely exists.
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