Do You Watch Porn?

fyi table everyone posting in this thread will have to have done so by using the internet

only of the avatar kind

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i don't watch commercial porn per se, I have weird fetishes so the things my mind can make pornographic would be o_O to you all.

tho i do go to strip clubs

i watch lowest common denominator commercial porn, my tastes are v.vanilla. i've never paid for it tho, so i guess i'm actually undermining those sleazy, exploitative bastards. ahhhh, do you see?

I've only been to a strip club once, and that's just because my friend's neighbor was dancing and she got us our drinks at half price. It was odd hanging out in her kitchen earlier in the day eating a sandwich, and then seeing her naked on a pole later.

I've only been to a strip club once...since Friday

my favorite one was the oldest one there, proving to me that I definitely have a thing for older women.

i'd never go to a strip club, not for any moral reason, just cuz i'd feel like a sad bastard, i think. pretty girls make me feel like a loser enough already without me having to pay them money to see their knickers.

i felt that way until the time i walked by a guy who was bragging about how he'd just puked in the urinal to all his friends

The only thing more depressing than the one strip club I've been to is the direction this thread seems to be taking.

??? seems pretty tame for TMI for me.

but back to porn uh yea I don't pay for it either, fuck that

Max's post was really sad!

i find strip clubs to be really really really uncomfortable. like, i have a hard time imagining having a good time in one? i mean, duh, naked people, i get it. i went once or twice, not my thing at all.

xpost oh nm I misunderstood you. yea, it's a feeling I can identify with, too....

to be completely serious I don't usually go to strip clubs to have a good time, every time I've been to one (sans one, which was for a b'day party), I went with something heavy on my mind that I was going there to forget, always involving women.

mixed results.

due to the strange pathways of life i've read a shitload of academic work on stripping, too. this has influenced my feeling somewhat i'm sure.

there is something sad about "consuming porn" though, isn't there? deffo think about sex more when i'm depressed/bored. it's a bit like eating an entire tub of ice cream after getting dumped, a pain killer.

xposts

yea, that element does exist -- I am much the same way, because it serves as a necessary distraction.

undoubtedly

Yeah, I have really mixed feelings about strip clubs in general. Too tired to go into it now but I'm pretty sure my feelings have been influenced a lot by some personal experiences but also stuff I've read and work I've done with people involved in the sex industry.

oh sorry that was x-post to goole

??? seems pretty tame for TMI for me.

― pf smangs (San Te), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 00:33 (10 minutes ago)

not in TMI btw.

I've never been to a strip club because 1. there's the chance that seeing some dead-eyed eastern European teenager doing something she hates to just about get by would ruin sexuality for me forever, and 2. relatedly, while I know well that there are individual women who can be strippers and completely distance themselves from the aspects of it that are anything but easy money, the wider picture of it, both like economically and gender-politically, is something I want no part of.

But then I'm a wuss and my relation to porn is probably closest to "I occasionally watch porn when I am sad and use my tears for lube".

didn't even notice that, for some reason I thought the thread originated there. anywho...

i will say the club I go to, while I'm obv ignorant to the behind the scenes crap, is a classier joint and seems to take care of their women better than some of the seedier places...though again, that's just what it looks on the outside, and I know with those places that can be deceptive. i'm not going to lie and act like i'm Super-Ethical Man, but I'd probably stop going if I learned otherwise.

strip clubs are weird and hawt and the beer is super expensive, i watch porn btw

lol

they don't allow alcohol in the clubs in Tampa...some city ordinance. technically violating the 6 foot rule is a crime too so I'm apparently a lawbreaker in Tampa

strip club are interesting tho, it doesnt really matter how much youre apposed to child sex slavery, stick an ass in yr face and you will get a boner

lolol

real talk

Strippers: THEY FLY @ U FACE

and these ladies they are generally professional, theyre artful re their demeanor in sending off vibes, their body language is not screaming victim

Yeah, I mean, that's part of the reason they're interesting but also sort of creepy to me.

The one I was in was in LA at (at least at the time) they don't allow alcohol in clubs where the women are totally naked so they had to leave on the tiniest of underwear. It was pretty pointless and pretty lol.

I want to hear more about San Te's fetishes

like, are you a looner?

maybe this needs a ILTMI thread

I wasn't going to ask. Thank God for homoII.

yea i don't really wanna get into em on ILE. lol

the necessity of on some level buying into the sexualized environment on the part of the strippers is i imagine what has the greatest capacity to fuck w/ones head - i mean you cant just fake it totally you have to somewhat be it

well come on you have to say now

would you post about it on 77? I NEED TO KNOW

i'll post about it on ILTMI -- can't currently post on 77. but only if someone else starts the thread and other people participate, ie "list yer fetishes here".

:)

Do you want to learn about San Te's fetishes? Enter here.

puffy nipples fetish porn

p.n.f.p.

i've been to clubs a few times. keep in mind that this is portland, which Will Not Shut Up about how awesome and rad and not evil at all its strip clubs are. despite this there are plenty of clubs where the girls are obviously miserable/oppressed and those are the most depressing places i've ever been; but above-board places aren't bad. you just have to be in a certain unsentimental and slightly dissonant frame of mind: you might end up having a nice conversation with a girl, which will still be a nice conversation even when you're aware it's only happening because you're buying drinks/tipping. in fact the only way it won't be a nice conversation is if you can't understand that. i dunno. they're weird places and they're not my natural habitat at all but i can have a good time, especially if it's obvious the girls are.

porn kind of freaks me out but i've never really watched it. like i've seen and made use of as many pictures/videos of naked girls as the next kid who had the internet in high school but i've never really sat down and watched something where people fuck each other; it's not really for me. i don't have a coherent moral picture of it and i dunno if i'll ever get around to constructing one at this rate.

I did not realize that in all-nude clubs the lap dances are still all-nude. That seems like a bridge too far, IMO.

I've been four times total, I think. Second time I wound up getting a lap dance from a cuet tattooed punk rock girl - would have rather talked about music than had her ass in my face, tbh. Last time, stripper did a hand stand on my shoulders during lap dance, my right shoulder hurt for a week.
The clubs are fun if you're going out on a lark with a group - birthday, presumably bachelor party, etc.. Would find it entirely too depressing to go to one alone, or have it be a weekly spot.

Have never gotten a boner during a lap dance, either. Strip clubs are really, really good at de-eroticizing naked ladies.

Yeah, I thought you were supposed to see a doctor if it lasted more than four hours.

only so he can get you in front of drunk secretaries asap

Can I just say, the idea of an argument btwn fussy customers and angry naked waiter with huge erection is some p fucking hilarious shit.

Abbbbottt we need to make a comic abt this iirc.

shaft work

Working an eight hour shift erect sounds painful.

Like working at a buffet and not being allowed to eat.

lol Stevie I am imagining him balancing the tray on his glans so he can angry-gesticulate more effectively

Can I just say, the idea of an argument btwn fussy customers and angry naked waiter with huge erection is some p fucking hilarious shit.

OK this is cracking me up.

It's like that bit in Carl Hiaasen's "Skinny Dip" where that dude is abt to shoot that girl but he'd just taken some sort of ED pill and the girl's all "You're gonna shoot me and you got some huge fuckin boner? That is some sick shit, man, what the fuck is wrong with you?"

^^^ first time i've ever wanted to read Carl Hiaasen.

Hiaasen is lol and a page-turner

I finally read Sea Oak, the story EZ posted upthread. Not what I expected! I liked the aunt's advice: "...show your cock. It's the shortest line between two points. The world ain't giving away nice lives. You got a trust fund? You a genius? Show your cock. It's what you got. "

The guys at the Zigfield's didn't work 8 hours straight through.

4 hours straight, 4 hours curved

I first wrote "4 hours solid" but thought "straight" was less punny.

a dude named Tony Comstock has been guest-blogging at James Fallows' place at the atlantic for the past week. i'm not familiar with him or his 'erotic documentaries' but his posts have been pretty interesting. here's one of the first ones:

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/02/sex-law-and-cinema-1934-68/70836/

Must admit that I almost invariably feel better when I take a week or two off from porn. It's hard to take more than that, but I'm going to try again.

just deleted all my porn after reading this article and relating to it just a bit more than i'd like

http://nymag.com/news/features/70976/

oh god

Jonas*, a 34-year-old ad exec, told me, “I get on SpankWire or X Videos—you could carve ice sculptures with my dick. I take a girl home from the bar, though, and I’ll be up for a minute while she’s going down on me, but once I put a condom on and we start going at it, it’s like the Challenger exploded—all the flags are at half-mast.”

indeed

heh reading that article is interrupted by a semi-erotic Dolce & Gabana advertisement. 'how porn is is affecting the concentration span of reading newspaper articles'

the night’s best piece of acting, I’d say, came from me, back at her East Village apartment, after we’d been having sex for about 25 minutes, with Neil Young wailing the song “Comes a Time” from the laptop on her bedside table.

oh dear...

why in the world would someone fuck to neil young

Esp. that album

... I don't think his others would be much of an improvement, in case you're wondrin'

Cums A Time. I gleaned that it was one of the few 'trigger' songs that would help him not lose his boner

oh jesus it's too early in the morning here to read quotes from john mayer's "candid interview with Playboy

i mean, yark

Gonna take a Lotta Love for that (xp)

Ron says that for the past couple of years, he’s had weekly “dates” with his favorite porn stars, which he looks forward to all day and even showers and shaves for, as though preparing for a live-action rendezvous. “Mondays are for Gia Jordan,” he says. “Tuesdays for Sasha Grey.” Wednesdays he has a reprieve—a Portuguese night class. “I always look forward to Thursdays the most—Kasey Kox,” he says. “Then, on the weekends, I hang out with my girlfriend.”

“I love when Kasey is fully clothed and smiling at me from her bed, or I’m doing her from behind,” says Ron, the architecture student. “I get one glimpse of Kasey and I’m so turned on. I get dizzy.”

the problem with this guy is less that he has a porn addiction than that he is completely barking mad.

uhhh yeah

:)

holy shit this article

seems that it's less porn than constant wanking makes the decreased sensitivity of a condom feel unsatisfactory

Surprising that they managed to get Billy Joel to agree to be photographed while whacking off to porn

http://images.nymag.com/news/features/mensex110207_3_560.jpg

... I don't think his others would be much of an improvement, in case you're wondrin'

I dunno, you could get a decent speed along with "My My, Hey Hey"

guy on right trying too hard (at life, not j/o)

(Photo: Phillip Toledano. Casting by Wulf Casting.)

Good morning, Dell, this is Edie from Wulf Casting. I have something you might be interested in, it's a photo shoot in the upper east side. Give me a call back when you get this, I'm going to be out for the bulk of the afternoon, but I'll be checking my voicemail. Ok, bye!

can someone email the writer and confirm that he just made "ron" up to entertain his friends?

wait yelawolf did an interview about porn addiction xpost????

so these dudes are sad because they can't have an orgasm?

i guess women are used to this already. ba-doom-tish.

this article is both sort of hysterical and really depressing at the same time

ha homo i was thinking the same thing

“There’s a failure to distinguish between porn reality and reality reality,” says Monika, 27. “One guy kept shouting at me, ‘Ride the cock, ride the cock!’ I was laughing so hard we had to stop.”

sure there is no shortage of ridiculous stuff in porn, but has anyone actually ever said that in a porn movie or whatever?

And so a conundrum emerges. Men, oversaturated by porn, secretly hunger for the variety that porn offers. Women, noticing a decline in their partners’ libidos, try to reenact the kinds of scenes that men watch on their computer screens. Men, as a result, get really freaked out. They don’t want their real women and their fantasy women to inhabit the same body. Or, as Ron analogizes: “Remember Ghostbusters? How in love Bill Murray was with Dana, the Sigourney Weaver character? He feels lucky to even get her to agree to a date with him, but then when he shows up at her door, she’s possessed by demons, floating four feet above her bed, begging him to fuck her brains out. And he’s completely rattled by it and can’t get out of there fast enough. Well, that’s what it’s like when your girlfriend suddenly starts acting like a porn queen. You’re like, ‘Baby, where’d you go? I just want my girlfriend back.’ ”

so, american men have whore/madonna complex. never would have imagined...

By WalktheHorizon on 01/31/2011 at 1:24am
I want to say that Ron doesn't speak for all men. I enjoy porn almost every day, and my girlfriend has never been sexier than she was the last time we did it, a couple days ago. We often do it every day of the week. We don't just f*** either. We make slow love sometimes, sometimes on the kitchen counter, sometimes on the floor. I do think that condoms suck, and if I wore them with her my sex life might sound like yours. We are in a loving and committed relationship, and if you want really fulfilling, sometimes nasty, always tasty sex I think that is one of the surest ways to be. The greatest passion comes from real connection, at least for us, and the greatest sex is made of real passion.

ewww

your sex sounds like an olive garden commercial ffs

have only faked it once or twice when i was really drunk and tired and had stuff to do in the morning and just wanted to finish so i could pass out

... not that anyone asked

the thing about masturbating is that after you do it you are not as horny + have less spunk inside of you

i mean this shit is really not that complicated, is it?

We're definitely at a weird point in time where people, especially young men, are probably more likely to have *seen* people having sex so many times before actually having sex. I mean, we had stupid shit like the American Pie movie over a decade ago (seriously, a movie title based on a one-scene joke of a dude trying to figure out what a vagina feels like) but I think by now the porn sexual experience is even more normalized.

Kept waiting while reading that article for a guy to say he wishes he'd never watched porn, but it never quite happens.

http://www.onlineusanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Bohemian-Rhapsody.jpg
"Sometimes wish I'd never watched porn at all!"
<Brian May guitar solo>