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Originally Posted by danielle_ftv
I've been thinking about it. I think it seems like a slightly clinical update idea. Most of my fans know that I'm not into talking during masturbation (and sex as well).
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Hello Danny,
You know, there are lay people who enjoy partner sex, but still feel that autoerotic masturbation is too private to share. Obviously, while you are less inhibited than that (at least when the camera is the only observer), I can allow it's possible you'd feel too psychologically vulnerable to talk while jilling. (Let me observe that traditional Playboy Playmate video shoots never ask models to talk while posing nude.)
If that is the case, what are your feelings about recording a voice-over after the shoot? It does make the production process more complicated, and perhaps you'd want to charge a sales-price premium.
While we're at it, you could also consider doing a two-or-three camera shoot (overall, face, genitals) which gets edited. Electronic cameras and digital storage cost nothing compared to the pricey days of film-based shoots. And if you paid attention in your psychology class, you know about
habituation; the lesson for porn-film-making is that by cutting between shots, you can make a film "hotter."
Another issue is one of aesthetic privacy. Do you object to revealing what turns you on the most in your personal life? Maybe that is something you want to share only with lovers. If so, there is nothing to prevent you from scripting a
fictional testimony; how would nearly any of us ever know the difference?
Would you be surprised to learn that someone is working to create an online company which archives and displays the "sex tapes" of lay people, one purpose being the instruction of their new lovers? I would not invest in Cindy Gallop's enterprise, because I still think that nearly all people are still too shy to participate. I also think she lacks a broad enough knowledge of porn given her critique of it ("Pro porn; pro sex; pro knowing the difference") as uniformly unlike real sex; for example, has she seen the work of Ed Powers, I'd ask. (Maybe my disagreement with her is a matter of semantics.) I'll let you judge for yourself by listening to her 20-minute
TED pitch
here.
As for the whole concept being "slightly clinical," let me remind (or educate) you about early above-ground sexually explicit cinema. In the generation preceding the legalization of "hardcore sex" film exhibition in the mid-1970s, producers would often combat legal and social resistance by framing their film as "documentary" or "educational." Whether this was just an evasion to liberalize the exhibition of highly arousing erotica, or was more mixed in motive, it resulted in a genre we now refer to as
White-Coaters. Living in Germany, perhaps our friend Anoree might be familiar with the famous example of the
Schulmädchen-Report series, which began in 1970.
Do I know you well enough by now? I think that as an artist, you would prefer to make
romantic films with sexually explicit content, rather than stuff of the type under discussion. On the other hand, business is business, and who can be sure what is profitable until a test is made? I hope you already know that some of the most famous porn stars have leveraged their credential to produce and promote straight-faced sex education videos - even if they lack all conventional educational and medical credentials.