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Being The Porno Man, I often hear people’s (mostly interesting) opinions on the subject. A remark I sometimes come across (usually coming from people that seem to be interested only in the cultural aspects of pornography) is that today’s smut doesn’t have stories anymore. I believe this is a purely proustian comment: they remember their mythical past porn, that had many things going for it but seldom the storylines. I can remember just one porno movie where the screenplay actually made a functional difference: Gerard Damiano’s The Devil in Miss Jones (1973). Perhaps what they mean is that they’d like stories, or plots, or at least some kind of background information. In this case they should be happy: today’s porn, especially amateur material, is full of clues, information (often involuntary) – and it’s even possible to follow the real life adventures of people as they happen. Yes, much as in a reality show, but better.

A question I also often hear is what is the future of porn, and this weblog is also somehow a long, articulate answer to that question. But as far as Industrial porno, I believe it’s gonna look somehow like Tnaflix (one of the latest permutations of the Youporn, Pornotube business plan), but with ads like Hulu. There are many clues to this, the biggest one in my opinion being the way Music (another very emotional and personal product) works today. Rarely one wants the whole album (i.e. the whole film). Often people just want the hits (i.e. the climatic scenes, such as the cumshots), or some special song that for some reason they like (i.e. the Fetish bits). Compilations are very popular, and playlists are obviously the albums of the future; just like Industrial porn today is mostly made of disjointed scenes unified by a practice (cumshot, anal, ecc.) or a feature (skin color, big tits, ecc.). Hopefully someone in the future will start to make actual full lenght movies that include explicit sexual elements, such as some of the Destricted material – but as to 2009 the industry state of the art is still the plumber, UPS and the gardener.

PS: A meaningful 2010 to you all.

(Thanks to Daniel Dietzel for the tip)