“Sex films for the rest of us.”
Time and again I’ve offered that one of the problems with “porn for women” is that it’s based on the idea that majority of the porn that’s out there is “porn for men”; and while it seems to be true that “mainstream porn” might mostly watched by men, it’s also true that mainstream porn leaves many (most?) men just as puzzled, bored, and/or offput as it leaves many (most?) women. So when a producer sets out to create “porn for women” by using “porn for men” as an antimodel, the results are often just as unengaging as “mainstream porn”, but for different reasons.
My experience has been that women like sex for more or less the same reasons that men do, and that where men and women seem to be different, those differences are as likely to be complimentary as combative – the idea that men and women want something so very different and incompatable from sex just isn’t supported by all the very enthusiastic fucking and sucking that’s going on all around us each and every day.
It doesn’t make any more sense to me that men and women want something so very different from porn.
With this in mind, you can see why I was thrilled when W.S. Cross blogged about our films in her post entitled “Sex Films for the Rest of Us”. Says Ms. Cross:
“I don’t like porn films.
“They’re boring. I don’t care if the people are “objectified,” and I think it should be clear by now you won’t find any reservations about sex on this site. It’s not that adult films are objectioonable on theoretical grounds, they’re just interesting…
…Director Comstock [is] clearly making movies for a different audience than the Chatsworth, CA adult film industry.”
Of course Ms. Cross is exactly right. I’m not making movies for the people who are content with the erotic output of the 818 area code. I’m making sex films for the rest of us.
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:41 am
And we thank you for it.
February 22nd, 2006 at 11:58 am
I’m so glad that I found your films. I’m looking forward to others, and hope to follow your career from here on out. Good luck, and may you prosper!
March 2nd, 2006 at 6:32 am
Hear, hear.
And thank you.
Next time my male friends complain about too much of the stuff they’re “supposed” to like being banal and nasty, and my female friends complain that the stuff they’re almost finally “supposed” to like is too soft and lacks the sexual tension to be arousing, I’ll know where to send them.
I think there’s a lot of ground in the middle still to be covered, presentation-wise, and I think that’s where most people fall. You’re doing good work, Tony.