As to the chicken and egg nature of the porn biz — definitely yes. People are desperate enough (and shamed enough) to buy whatever crap is available because clearly there is a hunger for explicit material. It just seems amazing to me that so much of it is so, so bad.

I too hope that there is a little underground brewing, and I’d be happy to be part of it. Let’s hope so anyway, huh? The alternative is too sad to think about.

I feel a bit like Noel. Or I start worrying that something’s broken and doesn’t work any more when I have absolutely no sexual reaction to folks fucking on film.

You’re asking one of The Big Questions About Porn, which is:
Why does mainstream porn suck so badly?

It’s a question that I often wonder about. It think part of the problem is the cyclic, chicken-and-egg issue of “what do the punters want”? The producers think the customers want cheap, dodgy, stupid porn because they buy it. The customers buy it because that’s all there is. Around it goes.

I also think much of the porn industry is stuck in a creative vacuum. It reuses cliches invented 20 years ago and when innovation does occur, it’s usually as part of the “race to the bottom” theory of “harder, nastier, crueler, more extreme.”

I think you guys and the various online indie people are part of the circuit breaker. At least, I hope so. The optimistic part of me still likes to believe that the mass porn consuming public will gladly accept positive, sensual, realistic, non-sexist erotica if they can find it.

At least, that’s what I think on a good day. Don’t ask me my dark thoughts when I see how well “trick the girl into sex” reality sites are doing…