Twitter updates for 2009-03-24
- There’s a porn debate coming up at Ga. Tech between Ron Jeremy & Craig Gross. Sort of like the one @Ren_Ev was in but w/o her. :P #
- …and can I just say how sick I am of Ron Jeremy being the face and voice of All Things Porn? #
- Taking ibuprofen in prep. for dental work part 2 this afternoon :/ #
- Grady High School is doing a production of Cabaret. That seems like an odd choice for a high school. #
- Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #feminist #sex #socialmedia #
- Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #atlanta #sexpositive #blogger #
- I’m really not sure why I’m having 3 dental visits instead of 2. I can’t figure out what they’re going to do today. http://is.gd/oKdQ #
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Mar 24 2009 11:59 pm | Category: Twitter tweets
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Dental work? Ohhh, Holy God. You have my prayers and best deadhead vibes!
I think many more heterosexual women would be excited about porn if Ron Jeremy wasn’t in them. I mean, really? He’s fat, hairy, and greasy looking. I guess he may turn some people on (who am I to judge?), but he is most definitely NOT my cup of tea. Ew.
Mainstream porn usually either bores me or depresses me. a. most of it’s not made for women. which is what Ron Jeremy’s presence tells you, ’cause what woman fantasizes about Ron Jeremy? b. I generally feel sad about it, because the women tend to look like they might not be very happy. c. The script tends to be very formulaic and the quality tends to be low. Both things I wouldn’t accept in other genres and don’t appreciate in porn. That said, there is some interesting/arousing/cool porn…generally it’s not made by heterosexuals, or is for a market other than the mainstream.
That said, I’ve met Ron Jeremy a few times and really liked him. (In one of my previous professional lives, I worked to promote some porn-related projects.) Plus, I suspect he has interesting insights into the industry, which he’s pretty uniquely successful in. But yes, it’s sad that porn is more or less represented by him and a handful of others.
This is exactly the kind of generalization I have a huge problem with, largely bc I know a lot of women who have been in porn. As for the script and that sort of thing, I know some porn directors (again, all women) and so I know that there’s a reason for a lot of that stuff that those of us who aren’t behind the camera usually don’t think of.
I would guess that the general low quality is explained by economics, since most porn is low budget (and since it can be low budget and still sell).
But I’m not sure I see how that would explain bad scripts. There must be thousands of reasonably good starving writers who would welcome the chance to break the mold by writing a halfway interesting porn script, even for not much pay.
The only other reason I can think of for having formulaic scripts is that it’s too risky to deviate from a successful formula. But that I don’t understand either: if the budget is low to begin with, there isn’t much at risk. I would think that enterprising porn directors would want to encourage some creativity, at least in the hope of developing what could turn out to be new successful formulas.
Mm-hmm. Spoken as someone who has never tried to direct porn. No time to write more at the moment but Dacia and Ren have written plenty about this. Seek it out on their blogs.
Never tried to direct porn or known anyone who did, which is why I’m curious. A search of Audacia’s blog for “directing porn” turned up some interesting posts, but nothing that really answers my question. (I’m not sure to whom “Ren” refers.)
The other possibility that comes to mind is that the qualities necessary to be successful as a porn actor, and the qualities that porn actors cultivate in themselves, are not the same as the qualities necessary to be “a good actor” outside the porn world. So a porn director is likely to find herself with a cast that isn’t well suited to the thespian subtleties of a mold-breaking script.
If so, it’s a shame. I know at least one aspiring porn actress (if you count g/g as porn) that in my opinion has plenty of talent for traditional acting, but it seems that that kind of talent isn’t particularly valued in her field, and I worry that she’s going to lose it. It’s a shame because the formulaic nature of porn scripts becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Formulaic scripts discourage the development of traditional acting talent, and the absence of traditional acting talent enocurages the use of formulaic scripts.
I am simply stating my perceptions of porn as a consumer. Which are as stated. I’m mostly not a consumer of mainstream porn, evidently.
Also, though I did not state this explicitly enough, there is porn that I tend to see as interesting, innovative, and empowering. It tends to be isolated in the genre areas, though — I seriously don’t know that I’ve ever seen what I would like to see in straight, mainstream porn with marquee names or otherwise associated with it.