the nightmare of free porn

by Violet Blue on April 3, 2008

So I’ll be doing a lot of text posts for a while, until I get a new set of backwards-skating WordPress workarounds figured out — like sharing this scary-accurate retelling of what it’s like to be a porn reviewer: the highs, and oh, the lows… The Pro Circuit: Free Porn, A Nightmare could have easily been written by me, Jonno, any of us. But it was blogged by Thomas Roche:

In 2005, I started a new job where I wrote about porn. With a voracious appetite to learn about the field and, of course, be rapaciously titillated in the process, I sent out literally dozens of letters to porn studios, outlining my credentials and asking for review copies of DVDs. I’d already spent some years as a commentator and occasional pundit, drawling with great authority to mainstream journalists that “adult entertainment is a growing business,” and that “there sure is a lot of this stuff,” as if that was some kind of brilliant observation. Frequently questioned about the scope of the adult entertainment business, I’d tell writers something like “More than 12,000 adult DVDs were published last year,” secretly thinking to myself “And some day I’ll become a porn reviewer, and I’ll have it ALL!”

Now was the time. This was my moment. 12,000? Hell, send me every last porno disk, motherfuckers, and I’d finally have a stew going. Some guys dream of being porn stars; I wanted more than anything in the world to be the Lester Bangs of the pop shot.

Pretty soon, packages started arriving (…read more)

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{ 3 comments }

1 oscarpatrick April 5, 2008 at 2:06 pm

there is enough given away out there on the intertubes that it’s all free pron for goodness sake. i mean, i’m ducking the cum-in-the-eye, cock inserted orally to the diaphram, squid tentacle bukkake, grandma needs young manmeat sites and there is still more free porn out there than my little soldier could possibly take.

that being said, da-rool da-rool. if people sent me constant streams of gratis jackoff material then who am to say but more, More, MORE!

2 black_pearl_10 April 4, 2008 at 8:40 am
3 SM April 4, 2008 at 7:18 am

First, I want this job. Not sure what my straight-laced family would think but what an amazing way to spend a day. Do you think you would get desensitized to it after a while? Do OB/GYN’s get tired of seeing the holyland day after day? I understand he was innundated with disks but does that mean he didn’t want to WATCH any more? God I hope not.

ANd totally unrelated… I wanted to forward this article about a study done on the amount of time it takes to please a woman. I’ve still got a shot….

http://www.ajc.com/health/content/health/stories/2008/04/03/SexSurvey_A0731.html

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