Is there another reason porn gets made, other than people with nothing left to lose and bad risk-assessment skills saying, “Might as well try this?” In other words, the reason anybody anywhere has ever decided to make amateur porn. Here are 30 of the best, which tackle not just the weird and damaged people who want to make a permanent record of their sweaty hydraulics, but the rest of us who watch and try to decide if this is something we want to emulate.Ī film that manages to star acting heavyweights like Jeff Bridges, Isaiah Washington, Ted Danson, and Joe Pantoliano despite having a script with references to “carpet munching” and “a half-dozen guys unloading on a gal until she looks like a melted candle.” Bridges plays Andy Sargentee, a middle-aged divorcé with no financial prospects who tries to turn his life around by making amateur porn. But there are some illuminating films out there.
When you really delve into the art-imitating-porn universe, the pickings are slim. I sat through films like Jack Jimminy: Porn Extra and Award Winning Indie Lesbian Sex Film because I am a journalist and I am devoted to finding the truth, even if it means watching a lot of girl-on-girl action that never really carries the narrative arc forward. I sat through movies like The Erotic Samurai, a wildly offensive tale of an Asian-American porn star, and Porn Shoot Massacre, a horror film about… spoiler alert… a porn shoot where everybody gets murdered. Most films about porn are in the ballpark of Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, about a guy who becomes a porn star for having the world’s smallest penis. Yeah, um… turns out those movies are hard to come by. I watched countless hours of dramas and comedies, searching for the cinematic masterpieces (or at least watchable-pieces) that took a long, unflinching look at the seedy underbelly of porn and what the industry reflected back of our own desires and sexual hangups. How can something so important to our lives-and lie all you want, but Americans watch a lot of porn, so for better or worse it’s important-be so under-represented?Īs it turns out, there have been many, many movies about the peculiar human instinct to record ourselves acting like animals in heat. But I can recall only a handful of watchable movies about porn, and I watch porn… well, a lot.
So why have there been so few mainstream movies about porn? Off the top of my head, I could name dozens of movies about war, and I’ve never been in the military. My point is, porn has been such a consistently weird part of our cultural history, and a window into our complicated relationship with sex.
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It used to be profitable, but now everything is free online, and yet somehow there’s more porn content being created than ever in the history of people recording each other fucking, with more video of well-lit carnality than anybody could ever possibly want or need, and nobody’s paying for any of it, and yet porn actors are still calling themselves “stars,” even though there hasn't been a legitimate “porn star” since the 70s, and even then you could only describe them as “stars” if you were using “air quotes.” It’s a business where people get paid to have sex with each other while being filmed so that that the footage can be watched later by people trying to masturbate. Everything about the adult film industry is fascinating.
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