Adventures in Audio Porn

Did I do an audio post before? I did, but it was years ago. Audio porn is to video porn as TV is to reading. It's a little more work, but so, so much more rewarding.

Reddit's GoneWildAudio is an amazing resource. But unlike visual porn, the medium requires a little work to get the most out of it. So, even though I've been visiting GWA for ages, it took me until just recently to find performers I really like, like AprilW9.  I just wasn't putting the work in, dammit.

Putting in the work.

If you read this blog, and you haven't visited GWA then you should. There are thousands of very, very professional audio recordings covering every kink imaginable. Listening is so much more sexual than looking or even reading. In the very best porn that I like, the actresses act, which can include expression and movement, but mostly it's what they say. But it's so rare. Lots of porn contains barely any speaking at all. When you do find it, it's often repetitive and badly acted. You can get distracted by the images but it never hits you in the heart in the same way as a woman's voice does when delivering  powerful words, direct to your brain. When it works, it's amazing. And that hit comes more frequently, and harder in audio.

Plus, it's almost all free. Many of the best performers have patreons or other pay sites but vast amounts of very high quality stuff is available for nothing. Plus many performers post and comment and take suggestions and feedback online. It's a great community.  It just takes a bit more work than opening a browser and looking. You have to listen and that's harder. Not just more time-consuming, it takes effort to listen, seeing is free. 

I have only scratched the surface of what is on GWA, but I have a few observations.

Everyone is so nice.

The internet is a crawling, foetid swamp of narcissists and fun-ruiners. But decent people have found some cosy corners to hide in. GWA is one such place. Perhaps the moderators of the subreddit are particularly vigilant, but I've never seen people being mean or dismissive. Posts are removed or deleted, but more often for posting links to paysites or other spammy acitvies.

There are so many switches.

I've never listened to a male recording artist, but among the most popular/prolific women, almost all have posted Femdom, Femsub, GFE, weird fantasy and all sorts of stuff. Some are better or more familiar with one kink or another but most of those that I've listened to and like, do a variety of stuff.
It's not like that in the PMV community. There, people find a style and subject and stick to it pretty hard. I can usually tell who made a particular popular PMV by watching the first 10 seconds or reading the tags. Audio performers are much more varied in the topics they cover, even if they excel in one particular area.

Writers and performers are not the same people...

.. to the degree that performing someone else's script is the norm and recording artists tend to flag when they've written the content themselves or are just making it up on the spot. Some scripts are popular enough that several  performers may have a go. That said, there are probably thousands of poor quality scripts languishing that will never be taken up. But still, I don't know of any other medium where writing may so frequently have a life beyond the words on a page.

L-Bombs.

Writers and performers tag the scripts [F4M], [Incest], [Beast] etc. And it's fascinating what they choose to emphasise. L-Bombs are tagged all over the place. I L-bomb that. If someone isn't in love with someone else then what's the point, right? I think every story I've ever written has someone saying they love someone else at some point. Sometimes they love each other on every other page. I don't go looking for anything else - most of the  FSub and FDom stuff on GWA is filled with love. It may be rough, but there's always love and acceptance, which is great.

My own forays into writing for audio

So, ages ago. I liked a site called StrappedInSilk, owned by audio domme Teresa Bowers.. This was in the around 2008.  I messaged back and forth with her a little and I asked if she would record a script I'd written. Its here (as a pdf) And her recording is here too. I loved this, but to be honest I don't remember what writing it was even like. I do remember the thrill of hearing her voice saying the word 'Lingerie'. It sounded way better the way she said it than the way I'd imagined the character saying it. 

Much later I found Natasha's Bedroom and  and Lucy Marie on clips4sale. They did customs at the time and I asked each of them if they would do a script I'd written. (This was a one-sided psychiatrist femdom script). It's here. It was too long and both of them were getting out of the custom business,( or at least they said so. I now suspect that my script was just waaaaay to long), anyway,  I left it there.

Then I found PrincessAmiAudios, who also records (or, at least, used to record) on GWA and had a YouTube channel. I liked her stuff so much I joined her patreon which had the reward that she would record a script. But I've never managed to write one. I tried to turn an existing story into a one-sided dialog. That was easy - it was keeping it succinct that was hard.

It's much different than just writing a prose story, and even though most of my stories are 90% dialogue, writing-to-be-spoken still feels very different. What I write, sounds like writing, not speech. When people talk, so much more is implied than is said. It's show not tell, but all you have is words. And if my case, too many words.

Examples of what I like in Audio

So here's two favorite stories/performers that were in my groove.

The first is ThrowAwayYourLust, doing a script by u/flos_legere, which is here. Her recording is here. (* Actually, she has her own site now and deleted the originals from reddit but the site its down now. Hmm. This copy will do for now but I wish that site were up). These characters appeared in other stories, in which the setup is a fictional firm who have 'Free-Use' Wellness Therapists to service the senior male managers. Very FSub. In fact, it's almost Erenisch, but without the slavery. The script then takes that into a Femdom, Cuckold direction by having the personal secretary's husband be on the phone while she's being fucked by her manager. There's some breeding stuff in there too and it's all very well integrated into the story so it makes sense on it's own terms. I loved this so much I joined Lust's patreon.

Then there's this one Inappropriate Office Behaviour, , by AprilW9 who may be my favourite performer. The script is by ezy11, here and it's set in the same or a similar firm. (I love this Wellness Secretary setup). In this case, the secretary is upbraiding her boss for not being dominant enough with her, in a kind of workplace-harassment-in-reverse scenario. Her voice is wonderful, and she's funny and clever and talented. 

April also has a patreon, which I also joined.

 

April also did a series of three linked audios called Jerk Off competition which are all linked on her page here.

There's so many good moments in that that I could write a whole blog post on any one, but if you do listen to these (and I very much recommend you do, then watch out for her saying "I can't wait to see the look on your fa.." 

That's cut off there, because at that point, she's  savagely penetrated by her bull as she's taunting her cuckold husband. The noise April makes at this point is just amazing. You need the context. Listen to the whole thing. If you're the sort of person who visits this blog, then I swear to you, you will stop everything and vanish down this rabbit hole and thank me for it.

I've had so much pleasure from performers on GWA that I feel guilty about it. I pay for a lot of (visual) porn, but the vast majority of audio porn is just published for free. Patreon for audio is great. OnlyFans for visual porn sucks ass, but that's a different blog post.

My actual recent audio writing.

I wrote a sequel for AprilW9's Inappropriate Office Behaviour story  which I'm hoping she will perform. In a Q&A she said she likes scripts where she gets to flip from Dom to Sub or Sub to Dom in the same scenario, so in the sequel she accepts that her attempts to make him more dominant have failed, and she takes their relationship into her own hands.

My first draft of this was 5,176 words. The OG script, by ezy11, which is 28 minutes long is only 1,786 words. It was only when I did this wordc ount that I realised that my verbal diarrhoea was out of control. Tightening it all up was a painful experience. I found reading it out myself revealed some of the problems, but didn't make editing it down any easier. I did a pass where I edited and edited and at the end found I'd only removed about a hundred words from the total. I'd cut about a thousand and added nine hundred more. D'Oh.

Update (April 2020):

I just got tired of trying to cut it down and published it on reddit anyway. I actually put it straight onto April's page.
Where it languished. It got a couple of comments and a handful of upvotes but no other response. . Then I noticed April has a small website where she actually has a paid-script-audio offer. Yay! So I submitted it there and she's doing it. I can't wait, but I must, until May, so that's not so long. I really, really want to try to do better at this. I've read a few scripts to get some better idea of the way language is used in a for-audio script, but I think practice and simply reading it out loud is probably the only way. I can do the implied dialog of just one side speaking easily enough. 

It's just that what should be one sentence is too long, and turns into two or three and soon enough the thing sounds like someone who is in a Jane Austen novel. When your character says 'However' during sex, you know you've taken a wrong turn.

Another Update (October 2020)

Writing audio isn't fast or easy. Nor recording or editing it either. It took till August for April to finish just the first part of the story. Listening to it was a joy. It's here. . Please listen to it and leave a comment on her reddit page.

Since then, April's been working on the second half. It's imminent. I've also been failing to work on a sequel. Hopefully getting part 2 will make me finish one of the many other scripts I've begun and then let languish in half-done limbo.

Here are a few I've finished.

I want to be your slutgirl.
In which our girl writes out her mission statement - really a kind of SubDom contact for her housemate detailing how she wants to be dominated.

Please baby, I'm trying to read 

Jessica has recently sidelined her husband where sex is concerned. He's too much of a wimp and in awe of her to complain. He may also be a bit dim.
It's implied here that Jessica has informed her husband that she is having an affair with some man called Dieter and her husband has, possibly reluctantly, agreed to this. It seems that this happened very recently
At the time, she jerked him off, while telling him how things were going to be . But now, Jessica doesn't want to be lumbered with taking care of hubby's needs all the time.

Cuckold Hotline.
The Cuck hotline provides bulls to needy wives. It's a prestige service with prices to match, but their stable of studs is second to none and they now operate nationwide! 
The operator gets increasingly frustrated with her caller who doesn't seem to understand what is about to happen to his marriage, and he keeps ... playing with himself while she's trying to do her job.

Porn Mommy Issues

We have to talk about Eva.

Or rather, my fucked-up relationship with her.

I've made four PMVs of Eva. That's three more than any other pornstar. I have written a novel, or rather, am writing a novel, already longer than War and Peace, called 'Eva's New Lifestyle.' I can pretend it's not about her, but on every page, I've put a picture of Eva Lovia, so who am I fooling? I've written blog posts about her, posted captioned pictures of her. I've downloaded and then deleted over a Terrabyte of her videos and pictures. I love her. I hate her. I don't hate her. She makes me crazy.

My most viewed and downloaded PMV is one of Eva where she gently encourages the viewer to masturbate while she is fucked by her lover. I spent many many hours on it, like the other three which are entirely composed of her videos. Hours staring at her. Listening to her. Admiring her. Adoring her.

 

I joined both of the personal websites Eva created. I joined her onlyfans. I got a twitter account purely so I could follow her. I have bought many, many of her videos. I have probably watched her on some form of media, more than any other woman. 

But I can't stand her. After the JOI video blew up, I re-downloaded some of her videos so I could finish a different one of her that I'd started. I called the folder I put them in 'EvaForMySins'. In a blog post I likened her to Anne Boleyn, who Henry killed but could not excise from his life. 

So, the other day, I opened her twitter, which I had unfollowed, just to see how she is doing. 

And it all came back. She has a podcast now. Of course she does. A Trump-supporting podcast. I read some of the synopsis and her comments. I listened to a couple of episode. Oh God, how can this be her? How can the woman I want her to be, be so very different to the woman she actually is? Spoiled. Self-obsessed. Reactionary. Right wing. Self-satisfied. Uncaring.

"The women’s march does not represent all women. It does not represent me or my beliefs."

"How is using the term mansplaining anytime a man speaks not sexist? Thinking women need SJWs to defend them from conversation is indirectly saying women aren’t capable of going toe to toe with a man. Why is it the progressives want to keep us moving backwards?"

She goes on and on and on like this.

I know, I know. There's absolutely no reason why she should be any other way than she is. The woman in my mind is just my wish fulfillment projected onto porn. It's not like she pretended to be a progressive in her videos and her views in real life are different. She never expressed any views while she was shooting porn. Who would? Eva Lovia isn't her real name. She doesn't even really have a porn 'persona'. There's nothing there. Why would there be? The person in my head is a product of the thousands of hours of video and writing and obsessing that I did, not anything she ever did or said.

It's just, just, that she's SO different. So objectionable. Of course she loves Trump, guns, money, spiritualism. She's anti-vaccination, covid-sceptical and against civil rights. If there's a compassionate political position, then she's on the opposite side. Pro Gun. Pro Life. Pro Cop. Making America Great Again.

I wish. I wish I'd never found out any of this. Or re-discovered it all again. Be warned. Never meet your heroes. Don't even follow them on twitter. Or read their blog. And for God's sake don't listen to their podcast. Unless it's David Tenant. He's okay. His podcast is wonderful. Listening to him chat with Ian McKellan or Stacey Abrams is a joy. But I can't get quite as excited about seeing him in opaque pantyhose. Or anyone else for that matter. It has to be Eva. She is my Porn Mommy. If only I could forget her.

Perfect Porn Aria Lee TeensLoveBlackCocks

Aria Lee. She's just amazing. Her twitter says "The only Alien Pornstar" which says a lot about her. She does have amazing cheekbones and wide, olive eyes that have a suggestion of the classic 'grey' alien. She's also incredibly beautiful. Tiny boobs, huge ass, very short. She's certainly unconventional, but her porn is just incredible. Like Brooklyn Gray, she puts everything into her performance. She can go from bubbly fun to brow-furrowed sex toy in an instant. The looks she gives the camera are electrifying and she's made some amazing scenes.

Here's one of her best.

Interestingly, the blurb and promotional stuff for the scene barely mentions that this is a totally cuckold scenario. I almost missed it. In it, she and her boyfriend have been filming porn to make money for a holiday. Now, the porn producers want an interracial scene. Which means black, of course. Anyway, her boyfriend is put out, but agrees to go along in a sulky manner. (I think it'd be better if he started to like it, but never mind, the focus isn't on him.)

It's on Aria, from start to end

Tee Hee Hee. See what I've got!

Enter Rob Piper and Aria straight away looks very happy. Cue lots of camera side-eye as she examines his cock. We're in for a treat, just like her.

All through the scene, Aria talks to her boyfriend, cheekily telling him not to be put out and to be happy for her. She gives the viewer knowing looks all the time while she does this, and revels in his squirming unhappiness. Meanwhile she's revelling in the terrific sex she's getting from her stud.

Aborably slutty

There's a great bit near the start where she's laying back, missionary and she calls out to her boyfriend. "Ob baby don't worry, it's not that good. But then silently mouths to Rob, "Oh fuck yes, it is."

I think this is my favourite cuckold clip ever and I've seen a lot. It's very Aria, she's having a lot of fun and she's getting it on camera. It would only be better if she were to wink to the viewer too but maybe I'm making it too cheesy.

fooling nobody

It's those looks to camera that I really love. She's really playing with the viewer, showing you what fun this is, how hot she's getting, how that cock is making her feel. 

She can emphasise all this with her incredible eyes. They're huge, almost cartoon character huge or Alien sized as she says herself. She can signal a range of emotion and feeling and meaning with just a flick of those eyebrows. See here.

Check out her eyes.

She can do that submissive, sultry look, then grin like a maniac and then close them again as her pussy stretches around that cock in ecstacy.

Now, check this out.

She's not done torturing her sulky boyfriend. When she gets onto her knees to blow Rob she calls him over "To get a better look." Check out the hair toss. Just delightful.

Who wouldn't want to get a better look?

She gets those eyes on her stud, her boyfriend and on the camera in one sweep. All eyes on Aria. When her boyfriend points out he hates this. She just tosses off "Yeah, but it's a cool treat for me." Them slides her mouth down over her lovers shaft again.

Mmmmm. Yummy.

The setup here is great. We see her being shafted on the couch full-on, then over the back for that great BJ shot, then back again so we can see her take the cock deep between those quivering ass cheeks.

Working her face to show us how it feels.

More torture. Now she wants him to hold her hand while she's getting fucked. Which he does,  awww. My theory is that this is all Aria's idea. No other TeensLoveBlackCocks video is quite like this.  There are cuck scenes but they're the usual unimaginative stuff. Aria is the one bringing this sense of fun and novelty to this scene.

Only a churl would refuse to hold her hand when she desires it.

Share this with me.

In this series, I'm trying to. work out what makes good porn. Setting and wardrobe and makeup and all matters to a degree but the performance of the central performer is the critical thing. And what is that performance? It's sharing. She's trying to get across how this feels. Sex is a two way thing. Your partner's feelings and pleasure are reflected back. It's more complicated than that, but projecting those emotions and sensations is key and Aria gets this across with ease. Her face is expressive and open. Everything plays accros those eyes, those cheeks, her mouth. It's what elevates her scenes to that perfect porn plateau.

In these doggy shots, if we weren't seeing that agonised pleasure rip across her face, this would still be porn. If she was just screwing her eyes shut, still porn, but we get to share her pleasure and pain in her expression, her acting. We get a better experience in fact, than Rob Piper. 

It's only really at the end that the direction lets us down. That camera should be above her to catch those perfect eyes as she takes his jet of jizz onto her lovely tongue. 

But it's okay, at the end, she's giving the viewer all her charm and loveliness. "Was it worth it?" asks the forlorn boyfriend? 

"I thinks so." She laughs ironically, giving the viewer her loveliest looks.

Aria has an above-average onlyfans. She posts reasonably regularly and there's good content for the base price. If in these tough times for pornstars you want to help out, I'd recommend supporting her.

Hypnotized Mind V

You know when you try and try at something, and you think what you make is good, and then you see someone else's work and you realise you're actually shit?

Yeah, that feeling.

Check THIS out.

I've seen Mamman12's work before and it's good, but this latest one just blew my mind.

If you don't care for PMVs or you think they're a plagiaristic waste of good porn, then read something else now.

For a start, Mamman's latest opus has great music, attached to perfectly chosen clips, which is 90% of the the job. And though, this may seem like a technical tour de force, mamman12 isn't using that many techniques or effects, he's just using them really, really well, and sparingly.

Let's break it down. He's panning over images. He's rotating them a bit. He's speeding up and slowing down. He does his trademark glowing edge thing, and he highlights colours. That's it. Oh, and he adjusts the opacity over an image. You could do 90% of this in Premiere. I could do 90% of this, and if I had the patience, I could learn how to do his edge-highlight thing. But could I put it together like he has?
No. I could not. Or rather, I could now, I could copy it, but doing this so well, so orignally is what makes his PMVs great.

The playing-with-speed is the best feature of this. He has timed those speed ramps perfectly to emphasise a particular image or look. He then almost always hard cuts to black just to leave that perfectly lit image burned onto your retina and he times it to the bombastic track to leave it echoing in your brain. If you've never done this, it looks easy. Premiere or whatever editing software gives you tools to adjust speed and ramp it down or up, adjust the rate of change - all that, but timing it, and timing it to the music, isn't easy. Timing it right, to the music and having the image curl to a slow pause just at the right moment takes practice and patience and skill.

Having tantalised your brain with a startling, shocking image, he then takes a calm, leisurely stroll over some darkly lit shots until he does it again, and again, and just when you think he'll do it again he rips through a series of images in such rapid succession that you're left gasping 'what the fuck was that'?

When I saw this entry for the 2020 PMV games, I'd just finished doing a long PMV which I was pretty pleased with. But after I saw this, I felt like deleting it.

Choosing the clips for your PMV is 90% of the job The other 90% is timing. Mamman12's timing seems almost lazy. He'll let a clip play for a long time, lingering over it, and then hurl through a sequence so fast the viewer can barely register them. Some of those images have multiple effects to enhance them and probably took forever to put together but he has the confidence not to  give them time, but let them register almost subconsciously. So it seems lazy, but really it's genius. The viewer is left dazzled by the change in pace and wondering what they just saw. I dare anyone to watch this just once. When it reaches the end you want to play it again just to experience the dizzying drops and the dopamine-hit of the millisecond perfect timing.

Trying to explain this with gifs is impossible. You need the music for it to make sense. Plus, the video needs to be seen in whole for the context and the way it builds and collapses and builds and collapses. Short clips don't really get it across

BUT, there's no publicly available place where it's available that I can find. Her's a short clip with the sound which tries to do it justice.

Perfect Porn : Alina Lopez Blowbang.

Alina Lopez is perfect. Obviously, she's stunning, but she also comes across as just, a really together, confident, dazzling person. I've watched a lot of interviews and what stands out is that she has a lot of respect for herself and what she does professionally. She takes porn seriously, but she doesn't take herself too seriously. 

She performs with commitment and a sense of fun. She knows what looks good and she leans into it.

Nowhere is this more in evidence than her blowbang scene for EvilAngel. Everything about it looks amazing and she's right in 2160p focus for the whole thing. She owns that screen.

This is a Donni Darko scene, reminiscent of the Wet Food series. In many ways, it features things I don't like about porn. Firstly, the whole thing is in close-up. Alina's face fills the screen for 99% of the film. No bad thing, but moving back a bit every now and again to let us get a better look would have made this even better. Secondly, there is a build-up, Alina is squatting, gazing lock-on to the viewer and talking about how much she wants this. Also, top notch but some full-lngth shots, some of her walking around and posing wouldn't have taken anything away and been really cool. Lastly, there's a lot of cock-slapping which, ho-hum, does zero for me, but someone must like it because it's always there. Maybe Alina likes it because she's the one doing it most of the time.

Given those gripes, it's just outstanding. Alina and the director work together so her incredible eyes bore into the camera almost constantly. It's like she's trying to melt it down. And those eyes ...

Keeping this up for the hours it must have taken to shoot must have been exhausting but it really makes the movie. And of course, Alina is talking whenever she doesn't have a cock in her mouth. She lavishes some amazing lines all through it, putting lots of emotion into her tone, and the climax comes, well, when you'd expect. With a cock ready to spurt all over her, she pierces the camera with her grey-blue lasers and drawls, "Yeah, paint me up." Doesn't sound like much, but in context, it's incredible, and she delivers it knowing just the effect it will have.  I have to believe she just extemporises through all this. Her performance is a masterclass and she elevates the whole thing to a level porn doesn't usually reach.

I'm reluctant to give Darkko much credit but EvilAngel does this top-end glossy porn better than anyone. Alina's hair, makeup and lingerie are peak porn. Her eyes, which seem to fill the screen at times are flawlessly made up and though she throws herself at those cocks and the whole scene is slobber from start to end she still manages to look amazing right to the end.

They're topping up that makeup and fixing her hair throughout. When you do a PMV you end up scrutinising a scene in great detail, which in this case is no bad thing. Her hair goes through three distinct phases. Styled and fluffy at the start. Then, swept back and getting, well, more moist, as she gets going. Then she ties it back to lie on her back and for the final cumshots. In each of these distinct phases there's edits where the hair stylist must have come on to fix it for her.  Presumably makeup lady also worked overtime as her lipstick and makeup is still flawless at the end as it was at the start and even the most waterproof cosmetics couldn't stand up to the kind of wear she's giving it throughout.

Darkko doesn't give a crap about his male performers. I just checked if they're even name checked on the site and they are, which is just as well for them because we never see anything but their cocks. They don't speak, they don't make any sounds, they're just there to give Alina something to do with her mouth. This guy had a vision and he stuck to it ruthlessly. Nobody is here to see Alex Jones' or Jason Moody's face in this and if they are they're going to be disappointed - you barely see beyond their thighs. 

There has to be a lot of cock-wrangling going on from the director because he never lets them obscure her face. It's like there's a death ray connecting Alina's pupils to the lens of the camera and they know to cross it is doom. Even when she's actually upside down gagging on a cock there isn't even an elbow in the way.

 

The camera films her from above, three quarters, straight on and from the ceiling. She kneels, lays down on her back, squats and lies on her back but the focus is always a rigid line sraight to her eyes and her busy mouth and hands. For a few shots they're face-fucking her, hands on the back of her head, but for the most of the 58 minute and seven seconds  running time Alina's in control, endlessly feeding cock after cock into her achingly pretty mouth and side-eying the viewer with a obsessive hunger. It's almost scary.

 

The cumshots begin with around four and a half minutes to go, and they're spectacular. Alina's eager face gets doused over and over. She looks pretty crazy at this point, but not gooned out. "Yeah, give it me." She orders and displays her incredibly long tongue, eyes rolled back for the first one. We're firmly in hair-tied back territory by now and while she has a liberal coating of pre-cum, she's not messy or dishevelled. She's still totally in charge. 

The first spurt jets across her lips and from there on she's taking line after line over her face, her hair and her breasts. It drips from her eyebrows, her chin, her cheeks. It gets a bit other-worldly for a minute or two. By the time the last one erupts over her she's totally covered and glorious. 

She then spends around a minute rubbing and smearing it over herself and laughing as she slurps it into her mouth. If a pornstar ever looked totally in control and commanding her performance, then she does here and that's what makes the whole scene. Which is why I'm reluctant to give Darkko much credit. He never shot anything like this before becuase he never had a performer of Alina's power or class before. By the time she's done he's been reduced to a human tripod. Alina makes the whole thing, everyone else is living in her porn world. 

Id' defy the most ardent porn hater to see this and claim Alina has in any way been degraded or disrespected by this movie. It doesn't invalidate that a lot, maybe most porn is degrading and nasty but she proves it doesn't have to be. I wouldn't claim anyone has been empowered by it but it's enormously entertaining, even affecting and Alina comes out of it looking like a kind angel, possibly even an evil angel. 

Phew. Why did I take so long to write this?



Here's a few more shots. I'd encourage anyone to join Alina's Only Fans, at least until COVID is over.

In the meantime, here's. few more gifs.

Perfect Porn : Those scenes

Another in my occasional series about Porn I Like (tm).

Just now, I saw a comment on a porn scene I was thinking of watching. "Honestly this scene is kinda depressing, she looks miserable and not having fun. Which may work for some but I find a lot of the best porn scenes -at least for me- are where they get into it."

I'll say a bit about that at the end of this post, but for now, let's look at a type of scene where the performer IS into it - specifically the first two minutes of a gang/blow bang.

Carter Cruise making friends

Smiles. Delight! Surprise!

I don't especially like gang/blowbangs. I don't seek them out. They often obscure the performers face. That whole DP thing leaves me cold, and so often the producer/director seems to feel that just getting a bunch of guys makes the scene special and exciting enough that they can just run through some positions and finish with bukkake. There are exceptions of course but usually it's not worth it. 

But, maybe half the time, the scene will start with something like this.

Leah Gotti. Smiles all the way through her seminal GB scene.

To be honest, if the whole scene was just forty minutes of this, I'd prefer it. Just to be clear, the girl being into it, is absolutely key here. Some GB/BB are dark and nasty and there's room for that as an acted-out  fantasy but when the performer is really excited it's special. 

What I like here is that 'Oooh lovely, lotsa guys!" look. Being touched, being fondled, being pawed at, the anticipation of what is to come. Looking around, smiling, inviting, losing track of the hands caressing and grabbing. Clothes being pulled aside, boobs exposed. Tottering slightly on high heels as the hands pull this way and that. Smiles. Delight! Surprise!

Carolina Sweets. Consumate performer, sells this scene big time.

"Touching with hands is the neglected stepchild of porn "

Porn is a fantasy and this one, being the centre of the lustful intentions of a group of men is a particularly primal, powerful one.  It's animalistic. It's decadent. It's peak slutty. And this part, the build-up and anticipation is the best part. More than the best, the multiple guys at the same time shots that feature so much in gangbangs are usually pretty lame. In contrast, the performer, smiling and delighted at all the attention and lust is great to watch. Touching with hands is the neglected stepchild of porn but it's the one of best parts of actual sex. Touching and being touched is the whole thing really. 

Of course, these scenes end all too quickly. The clothes are removed and she's pushed to her knees, often less than a minute since the start. Ideally, this caressing and feeling would continue for a lot longer. Maybe she could sit or lie down and face the camera while hands roam over her body.  Different positions - sitting, lying standing. And of course, why stop there - when the BJ or sex begins, hands could still be roaming, feeling, caressing. That never happens. JulesJordan's blowbang scenes sometimes do a bit of that but it's always at the same time as the performer is having a vibrator used on her very aggressively and she's totally consumed with that. What I'm looking for is her reaction to being felt up, and her sharing that with the viewer. 

Some studios of course, do some kind of story setup. The sports reporter in the changing room, the wedding scene, the frat party. But once the action starts, in all but exceptional films,  all that is dumped on the floor along with her clothes.

Kali Roses. Theres some setup here, but in five more seconds, this is over.

How about a fistfight?

What I'd love to see is a more competitive scene. The base nature of the gangbang is that it is a competition between males to cover a female. Could a scene lean into that more? Would it be exciting to see, one of the men, grab the star all to himself and hold off his rivals while he fucks her, followed by the next in the pecking order? How about a fistfight breaking out before or during the action? Some of the best scenes almost get there where the female performer is pulled between two men. Often though, those are the most degrading scenes towards the star and they don't have to be. They could fight over her without demeaning her. How cool would that be?

So in my ideal scene, we have a fabulously dressed star. She's a modern-day princess, let's say, Mafia-boss daughter, or a movie star. She wants to get pregnant and she's invited the best of her elite bodyguard to her chambers. She demands attention. Hesitantly at first, they touch her, caress her as she commands, and she loves it. It gets more heated. She  sits and poses. She offers herself to the one who can win a wrestling contest. While they pair off (we'd montage this) the others who are waiting to have their turn wrestling, stay, on her command, caressing and touching her while she relaxes on a divan. We see her get more and more excited as the competitors wrestle, watching their oiled bodies strain and compete for her. Again, we're montaging this. Men getting hit, competing. Hands caressing her soft body. Her smiles, eyes sparkling. A punch connects. Blood and sweat spray. Her chest heaving. 

Carter getting into it. If only this went on for longer.

A winner is declared, but before he can claim his prize a real fight breaks out. Fists fly. No holds barred. The winner is deposed and the princess spreads her legs for the new victoe. He's bloodied and bruised. Though she lets him penetrate her, she demands more touching from her  other suitors and says the next one to claim her pussy will need to win her like her current lover. More fighting, only now it's going on even as she's being fucked. Through all this she looks turned on and sultry and powerful. Montage all the way to multiple creampies from increasingly battered lovers. She is triumphant at the end, swirling her finger in her oozing pussy, while her exhausted, battered lovers worship at her feet. Close on her smiling face.

Now THAT would be a gangbang. 

Miserable and not having fun.

Unsurprisingly porn is having a MeToo eruption. It's always been there. That worrying pain at the back of your mind. Is she really happy doing this? Has she been coerced? Is she okay with _that_, even if she was happy with the scene at the start?

Even if you don't think porn is always degrading and immoral in itself, everyone is aware that there are huge problems. More than enough pornstars and former pornstars have spoken out. You would imagine that major studios are reputable enough to ensure that the stars, that are the absolute most important people in their industry, are well cared for and protected. But no. Even if you keep away from the seedier end of the spectrum (and how does that help, really?) you become complicit in ever more disturbing, non consensual and exploitative abuse. 

Sometimes that worry then turns out to have been an 'I told you so' and you find that you've been enjoying and masturbating over a scene where the female performer had not agreed to what was happening to her. Making you just as bad as the abuser. Going back and deleting scenes from your hard drive isn't any response at all. Not buying further from studios or producers who abused seems pretty pathetic. 

The obvious answer from many people would be 'stop consuming porn you sick fuck'. But that's not going to happen, and given that many performers do enjoy their work and give a lot of pleasure by it, it seems that we ought to be able to make porn a safe and well-paid job for those who want to do it. 

If you want to consume ethically produced porn where nobody was exploited, best practices were followed and the performer was paid and retains control of how it's sold, is there a way? I think there has to be. I know there are a small number of female-run sex-positive studios but they're tiny. Surely best practices should be the industry standard. Porn is like nuclear power. Great, but prone to terrible abuse and appalling consequences for individuals. Given the totally obvious dangers of exploitation surely the whole industry should be more tightly regulated than any other. Just ensuring your performers are STD free and over 18 seems like a laughably low standard. 

One solution that seems possible is to put all production power in the hands of the performers. OnlyFans and similar sites seem to offer that, but it's going a very weird way. It seems terribly overpriced for what most performers put out and when I look at some of that content, Miserable and Not Having Fun seems like a better description than happy and empowered. 

What I'd love to see is some kind of performers union which has the power to inspect and shut down studios if they break a strict code of conduct. A kind of independent performer run licensing authority. Sure, not all producers would be bound by it, but if it was widespread in Europe and the US then at least consumers could choose an ethical producer. Maybe that's pathetic, but when I see performers say that they were coerced or disrespected, or even cheated out of proper payment, I feel like the bar is so low on studios that it barely exists.