Posted by dejay on December 21, 1998 at 16:55
In Reply to: Pornography and culture posted by Dodge on December 21, 1998 at 11:06
I am afraid that I too am not well informed about pronography from other countries and am not familliar with their content but there is some sense in what you say. It is my observation however that the content of any porno film depends now on the prefferencs of that country but on the prefferences of the producer to the extent that the censors will allow. I am frequently frustrated with porn videos not only for the censorship but I often think that if I were directing the video I would have done this and that entirely different and given more attention to areas that were skimmed over more or less. I have been given many pron tapes and never watch them for finding them too boaring. When I get one I usually just fast forward through it looking for an interesting scene or female. They all look alike in my opinion (except for our fetish videos of coarse). The ones available in the USA all have the same scenes e.g. she sucks him, he eats her, they fuck in different positions, then two girls with one guy, two guys with one girl, two girls, everybody at once ,etc, etc. it's the same with all of them and nothing unusual ever happens and never a plot. I finally told the person who was giving them to me not to bother since I was only recording over them with something interesting. Before someone decided to invoke their own idea of what was moral in porno we did have some pissing acasionally but that was 20 years ago. As far as I was concerned, porno was dead until I found Wetset and Patches and the like.
Am I still on the subject? I've forgotten what it was now. I think my point was that as far as porno reflecting the interests of any country it is more a question of porno reflecting the interests of the producer and the censors rather than the interests of the public.