sumsbums wrote:...The guys, really, I HATE them. They show absolutely NO respect for the girls, they don't even really seem to be turned on... they act like they're beating someone up. Don't know what they did before shooting porn, maybe they used to be club bouncers... or jailbirds...
The male actors are so irritating that I'm unable to enjoy a single scene. Which is a shame, cause the girls are hot and willing to play. For 3 minutes, that is, cause then some moron annoys the fuck out of them, so they merely endure the rest of the scene...
I believe this problem is much more widespread than just the sites mentioned above.
This growing misogyny in the porn industry has been on the increase for a good few years now, previously it had been a mainly American thing, but in the last couple of years it has started to really permeate into the Euro porn business...
I've written about this topic at length, on other forums, and have had some very interesting reactions(!), but the general view is that a lot of people have tended to agree with most of the things I've said.
The bottom line, for me at least, is this; the performers and producers of this kind of sub-genre of gonzo porn
don't actually like women, these guys have a lot of built-up rage and resentment towards the girls in the porn industry, and of course, absolutely ZERO respect.
They take out their strange pseudo-psychotic fury on these unfortunate female performers, and it shows on their faces and does indeed spoil many, many porn scenes/movies.
I remember a time, not that long ago, when porn was fun, when all the performers at least
appeared to be having fun - even those who were just there for the money.
There certainly wasn't the level of aggression we see now.
I've recently seen a number of potentially good scenes
ruined by the guys gradually getting more and more aggressive towards their partners during scenes.
You see the girls starting out all-smiling and trying to put in a good performance, but by the end they are so
shell-shocked and
traumatised by the experience, one truly feels sorry for them.
Not exactly my idea of erotic.
There's nothing wrong with a good, hard sex scene, especially when the girls are equal participants in the action, but when the girls start to become the objects of near-brutal behaviour by their male partners, then you just know that what you've just been watching isn't porn, but like some twisted revenge fantasy
against women.
The thing is, I actually like women, and would never dream of treating them in the manner that is becoming commonplace in porn these days - porn is about fun and fantasy, not about torture and humiliation.
Is all this nastiness a reaction to the progress of female equality in the 30 years or so, and all the bitter resentments that some men feel as a result?
Maybe.
Or is it that the guys involved in this kind of porn are merely brutal idiots who would beat-up their wives/girlfriends in their own private lives?
Again, maybe.
Whatever the answer, and all I have is theories, mainstream gonzo porn is getting uglier by the second.
Peace,
PG.