In What The Porn Set Chalkboard Tells Us About Ourselves, the legendary porn journalist and blogger Gram Ponante shares his brief reflections, with photographic examples, on the absurdity of modern porn being shot on sets that are shallow parodies of a 1970s classroom, complete with dusty chalkboards:

Most places at which cheapie porn movies are shot have several customizable rooms. There’s the jail cell/dungeon, the bedroom, the doctor’s office (which can double as a regular office once the crew removes the hanging skeleton and poster from Gray’s Anatomy), and the classroom.

If you have been inside a classroom in the past 20 years, you’ll still see a chalkboard but it is hardly ever used. There’s a projector, there’s assignments on Google Classroom to tackle with Chromebooks, and there’s endless Youtube videos the teacher looks up on the fly when there’s more time to kill. Most teachers can’t remember the last time they used chalk.

Yet here we are, in a world in which fully-matured women above the age of eighteen are still required to dress in school uniforms (this did not happen when I took that floral design class at Glendale Community College) and the writing on the chalkboard is entirely a response to that FOMO feeling of, “We have this chalkboard; shouldn’t we write something on it?”

It genuinely is one of the most absurd tropes in a creative artform that is rich with them. And yet who doesn’t enjoy a porn starlet pretending to be a naughty student?

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