pornography
The internet has made the porn industry cut back on frills like dialogue, story and acting.
Sweet Jesus, more dynamite from the New York Times. The paper of record laments the receding of plot in modern porn. While the action is as puerile and bone-tastic as ever (probably more so considering our increasing tolerance, and appetite, for the weird stuff*), the artistic sentiment is going the way of the dodo.
Dialogue has gone from laughable to entirely absent. Drama has followed pubic hair out on the first train to Bolivian**. And the cinematic realism stops at the fact that it's just two (or more) real people who are really f*cking.
The advent of the interweb … Read More
A porn-loving woman finds that, after falling in love, her libido just isn't that into porn.
We hear about relationships torn apart by internet porn addiction, but where are the support groups for smut-loving women like me, who suddenly and inexplicably get turned off by porn when they fall in love? Before I met my boyfriend, I was visiting youporn.com about a half an hour a day, hunting through dozens of clips to find the one most perfectly calibrated to turn me on.
After I met my boyfriend, my visits to the site dropped off in equal proportion to how much I was getting off with a flesh-and-blood human being.
But my loss of appetite for porn … Read More
From honesty to growing old, here's the best from YourTango, this week.
It's been a rough week out there. Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Ed McMahon passing on, Iranian protests and North Korean threats, if you've spent any time consuming the news, you need a break. Luckily, YourTango is here to help.
From honesty to pornography, from growing old to what women want, YourTango is here to take you mind off the world.
So sit back and relax. Here's this week's best from YourTango.
Video: How To Best Honest, The Right Way
Who knew Honest Abe had such relationship insight?
Feature: 10 Simple Things Women Want
We named 10. See if there's … Read More
Is a guy's taste in pornography really a window to his soul?
Our rivals, friends and sometimes lovers over at Lemondrop have a very interesting take on what a guy's porn tastes say about his personality and predilections. The gist (heh) is that a dude's interest in porn (if he has one, I think the assumption that all men interested in sex are into porn is a bit overblown) generally has a subtler message than you'd guess. The whole thing is metaphor. A dude who likes watching the rough stuff (leather, handcuffs, really mean women, et cetera) may not really want an Amazon to literally step on his junk.
Sounds reasonable, … Read More
Is there a deeper meaning behind his porn choices? Perhaps.
We read a statistic the other day. Something like "10 out of 10 men have admitted to masturbating to porn." Or maybe it was "100% of all men polled said they had masturbated to porn." Porn For The Blind
Point being: men (all men) like porn.
While, yes, some more so than others, and, yes, some claim to never touch the stuff (wink, wink), it's pretty safe to assume there was at least an errant Playboy floating around somewhere in his past.
So, it's only natural that us inquisitive and look-really-deep-into-everything ladies would wonder: what does his porn collection say … Read More
When a man loses desire, should he turn to tits or tablets?
Newsweek had an interesting article today that actually touted the health benefits of married men viewing porn.
The article asked the (not often) debated question: what's the best fix for low testosterone: good, old-fashioned Jenna Jameson or the pharmaceutical industry? After all, neither are blameless diet-exercise-and-get-plenty-of-sleep solutions; it's pretty easy to judge weird drugs on the market and strange women on your living room T.V. Porn: When It Helps & When It Hurts
Apparently (and this was news to us) men lose 1% of their testosterone yearly after they reach the age of 30. They lose … Read More
Reviewing pornography for a living gives the writer a unique perspective on the genre.
Porn has played a starring role in my two most recent relationships—but not in the way you might expect.
I've been reviewing adult films for more than a decade. Over the course of those 10 years I've watched more than 500 porn movies, for fun and profit. OK, mostly for profit.
My porn writing career began when, while looking for a new publishing job, I answered an ad in the New York Times and landed a position as Associate Editor of Penthouse Forum. I had experience writing "semi-smut" for friends' zines (this was the '90s, after all) but hadn't watched an adult … Read More
The singing sensation was offered a huge paycheck to have sex on camera.
When Susan Boyle, the British overnight sensation, sang, "I Dreamed a Dream," the dream she had in mind was most likely not being paid to lose her virginity in a pornographic film. According to the Daily News, Los Angeles-based Kick Ass Films has offered the brilliant songstress $1 million to have sex for the first time on camera. Susan only has a week to accept the offer, and if she does, Kick Ass will fly her to L.A. on Virgin Airlines for the deflowering.
The 47-year-old Ms. Boyle publicly admitted to never having smooched a man before, much … Read More
Insecure about being an interracial couple, porn on campus and the problem in all relationships.
Love Bytes: three must click sex, dating and relationship links.Advice on how to deal with being in an interracial relationship. [Dear Sugar]Higher Ed Administration prefers porn to alcohol. [Asylum]
While it's not like the students will be seeing anything that isn't easily available in their dorm rooms, an explicit endorsement of porn by a university certainly is a bold move.
Conflicting realities from a couple in therapy. [First Wives World]
The problem is Sam and I are living two disparate realities. We experience the exact same moments, together, and have completely separate perceptions and understanding of what … Read More
There's a difference between dealing with his dirty laundry and digging up real dirt.
As a semi-live-in girlfriend, I encounter all kinds of things in my boyfriend's boudoir that he might have previously attempted to put away or hide to create a more presentable version of himself. Well those days are long gone and I am now subject to every dirty pair of boxers, week old Taco Bell leftover and wet, mildewed towel left on the bed. But these things I'm pretty much immune to. Guys' rooms are almost by definition a hell of a lot dirtier than girls (at least I like to pretend) and all of these little things Read More