Comments on: Porn, Described

By: maymay

maymay — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:14:47 +0000

I have felt the same way about this for a long time. I really dislike many of the descriptions that pornography producers market their products with. It’s the epitome of false advertising in a lot of ways. What’s striking to me is that the more differentiation they try to inject into their product, the more monotonous the damn things sound. I don’t get it…. Why is honesty, which is not inherently unsexy, so difficult for pornographers?

@ryonne: For what it’s worth, the simple photo descriptions I write for MaleSubmissionArt.com were inspired by a combination of these things. I wanted a way to give non-visual readers a way to picture the image, but I also wanted to provide both seeing and unseeing readers insight into the picture being described without undue judgement, since the remainder of the text is often loaded with my own editorializing. :)

In any event, thanks for the mention. I’m actually hoping that one day I’ll see a few other people begin to describe pornographic content with a level-headed and objective view, since at least that way I’ll have some kind of reference I can use for the task.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:48:13 +0000

While your descriptions are certainly more utilitarian in nature, I can’t help but, instead, be tempted to imagine the meaning of her facial expression. “Are you serious?” “What’s wrong with that guy’s face?” “Did his piercing get infected?” A combination of uncertainty and vague dislike, but not complete horror, either…

By: Blacksilk

Blacksilk — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:09:56 +0000

Fuck, *I’d* participate. It’d be honest, sexy and bound to damned funny in places.

By: Distracted

Distracted — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:44:13 +0000

My dirty little mind actually preferred your description rather than theirs. I like the quite specific erotic image you conjured rather than the emphatic, generalized one from the overuse of buzz words.

By: Earl

Earl — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:36:23 +0000

A blueberry scoop? I thought it was one of those combs you drag conditioner through long hair with.
Agreed, tho, the hyperbolic text doesn’t match the pictures, which are slightly silly. I’ve done that kinda thing which might be why I find most pictures of it somewhat ridiculous. Not all, some that you’ve linked to, like the one with the pic of all participants smiling at the end, works.
I used to write porn. She did this, he did that, she felt an erotic thrill of anticipation. Unlike most other forms of writing, it got boring pretty quickly, but not before I’d ‘pumped out’ some reasonable pieces.

By: J.S.

J.S. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:54:58 +0000

I love the specificity of your identification of the blueberry scoop.

By: RedBud

RedBud — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:51:21 +0000

Erotic stories get like that.

I’ve been posting my stories at ASSM but I might try out a blog again. The stuff posted at ASSM is almost entirely fetishistic or deviant – absurdly hyperbolic. I’ve noticed similar trends at other sites, but ASSM is the worst.