Here’s a (bad) photo I’ve taken at the Musee Mechanique in San Francisco. It’s a 1920es (I believe) viewing machine, and what you’ll see is promised right there on the box.
It explains much better that I can one aspect of Realcore. Obviously we know what she does on her days on, right? We could safely assume that, on the other days, she behaves like any other person. But she’s an exotic belly dancer, so she somehow has a double appeal: onstage, where she visibly shakes her belly for everybody, and on her day off – where we can dream that she leads a wild, untamed, sexually frenzied existence. If it sounds silly to you, remember that in the golden age of exotic dances (as references, Ziegfeld was active between 1907 and 1931, Bettie Page between 1950 and ’57) men would literally go insane after the wonderful (and liberated) stars that would pass by their town with a dance troupe. And I believe the real reason wasn’t their onstage acts, but the atmosphere of liberation and possibilities (as opposed to the strict moral rules people had to live with) that emanated from these women.
It’s also, in a way, the same mechanism of gossip: see what Lindsay Lohan does on her day off. I bet the belly dancer had a far more interesting story to tell.
As anyone who’s tried to navigate japanese porn knows (and as I’ve written here before), it’s a true cultural experience – in many ways alien and incomprehensible. Such for me is the case of this DVD, of which all I know is this image, found in a newsgroup some weeks ago.
By the way they hold their instruments it looks like some of them can actually play. So this could be some kind of new classical porn where they have sex while playing Wagner. Or perhaps they don’t have sex at all, and they just play naked for 140 minutes: in both cases I’d love to see this – just to say I did.
The contribution of the Anime/Manga culture to pornography is well known, and there are fine books out there on this fascinating subject. There’s very little I could add, but I can contribute with this image:
I found it in the newsgroups, but I guess it comes from one of the millions of related websites. But related to what exactly? Fancifully operated transexuals? Shemale fantasy freaks? Manga mythology? Please note that this image complies with the japanese pornography regulations, as the tip of both penises is blurred out.
We all know that even in this globalized world, the Japanese retain an exotic quality to the western eye. This is especially true in pornography, and there are some genres that even have japanese names – like the ubiquitous Bukkake (which of course has its own Wikipedia entry). In Japan some people certainly have a fetish for body fluids, and the variations I have seen are truly endless (for a journey in the labyrinthine world of japanese porn genres, Japanzine has a Dictionary of Japan Sex). Another very big fetish (in Japan and elsewhere) is forcing: forced fondling (very often on packed trains, usually by a mob of guys), forced orgasms and of course forced Bukkake. This goes one step further:
I just hope this video was staged, and the lady with sunglasses knew what to expect. In this case she’s quite an actress: the WTF expression on her face is very, very realistic.
One of the great values of Realcore lies in its democracy: anybody can be a Realcore star, and while looks are secondary, the main aspect is usually motivation. But there are Realcore pinups, of all sexes: their appeal doesn’t have to do with being pretty thou, but with being unique, rare, different (yes, you could say odd, too). It’s certainly the case with this anonymous Frida Kahlo look-alike I found in the “wives” newsgroup:
Now, to find a pretty blonde on the web is very easy. But a bearded latin babe with lipstick, a bright smile and enough eyebrows for four (plus what looks like a knife scar on the belly)?
Another interesting anthropological side effect of roaming the fringes of porno, is that you get a feel of what works where. Despite the Internet, there are some differences between the porno made by italians and, say, germans or americans. Italians, for example, tend to blur every possible detail that might lead back to them: faces, tattoos, rings, skin marks, furniture, etc. Germans seem to have a taste for messy situations, like foodplay or mudplay. Americans talk a lot to the (video) camera.
But the most exotic porno imaginable comes from Japan; not only they film and photograph very radical stuff, perhaps the most extreme I have ever come across (not just sex: almost tribal, ritualistic and alien practices also involving sexual elements), but they have dozens of genres that simply don’t translate in other cultures. One big japanese kink revolves around shame, and generates all sorts of porno subgeneres, industrial and homemade, from Bukkake to this:
What is it? I’m not sure. I found it in a nose fetish (a subset of Japanese BDSM that involves nasal practices) website, but none of the images were BDSM: nice japanese girls whose features are distorted in funny expressions by other japanese girls. The image is a screenshot from a video (that I haven’t seen) produced by Aroma, a known japanese indie pornomaker specialized in stuff I usually try to avoid.
