First, it’s bad, it’s hilarious, it’s the Rotten Dead Pool.
Next, I got an email today that is very typical of the type of letters I get (see, they’re not all marriage proposals from oversized Elvis impersonators). I get piles of well-written and articulate letters from oodles of couples (and singles) who are just regular folks that watch porn for lusty recreation — and wish that more attention was *really* being paid to female pleasure, because like duh, it’s the other half of the equation for all of us nice straight and bi people, and anyone who loves having sex with women wants to see them (us) enjoying it. Sorry Jenna, we can all tell you’re faking it. Well, since it’s AVN awards/convention week, I figured I’d cut and paste this letter, so you can see the kinds of letters I relish receiving, and that I answer every week:
"Hello,
My wife and I have watched adult films as an accessory to our lovemaking for over twenty years. Since there is so much dreck* being produced by the industry, we have relied upon recommendations made in the Adam Film World annual guide. Even this has been hit and miss, since our own sensibilities are not well-reflected there. But it was better than reading the covers on the boxes.
Our relatively-recent discovery of your reviews on the Good Vibrations website and now your Tiny Nibbles website has greatly assisted our enjoyment of films. We certainly subscribe to the criteria you use in your reviews. They are both appropriate measures for reviews of adult films and sufficiently descriptive to be helpful to those searching for a new treat. We look forward to purchasing your new guide soon. Thank you.
However, we have a question to pose that arises from our film-watching experience that we’ve never seen anyone address. It’s about female orgasms.
Along with good film-making, what we most like watching is sex between people who are turned on to each other AND where there is equal opportunity pleasuring leading to mutual orgasms. The male orgasm appears to be the industry gold standard, yet we both think it’s one short of a complete experience. How many films have you seen where it’s the female who orgasms while the male remains unsatisfied? It seems to us that these vestigial images of male dominance are very unsexy.
We imagine we aren’t alone in the quest to see more female orgasms in the context of hot couples sex on film, given the size of the couples market for porn. As a male, it’s an essential part of a peak experience for me to bring my wife to orgasm. Yet, it is rarely depicted in adult films and we’ve often wondered why.
We thought you might have some insights to share in answer to that question. Maybe you could add this criteria to the list you use in your reviews, acknowledging that your "chemistry" criteria is truly a great step forward. And maybe you’ve got some films to recommend, too.
Thanks."
* I just love that word "drek"! I have used it in describing bad porn before and angered many.
