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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)?

Realcore is the home un the unconventional. Any fetishistic variation small enough not to be a separate genre will find a slot in the newsgroups anyway. I found these images in the generic fetish group. They belong to a set featuring two middle aged amateurs having sex on a sofa. For the last two pictures they tried a couple of variations:

They certainly give a new meaning to the expression “getting sucked off”.

Terry Richardson is a well known fashion and publicity photographer: he’s worked for Gucci, Sisley, Miu Miu, Levi’s and many other. His images have appeared in Vogue, Dazed and Confused, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, “as well as a host of worldwide publications too numerous to mention.” He also does portraits: Daniel Day Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vincent Gallo, Tom Ford, Sharon Stone, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper and many other celebrities (check his website for some samples). Yet self made porno seems to be in his heart:

“Kibosh is the most important book of my career. This is my life’s work.

From the age of 16 when I first started to photograph for fun and then as a profession, I have always thought of Kibosh as the summary of my career. Kibosh is my book, the most intimate part of me as a photographer.

I believe that the phrase, “I would never ask anyone to do something that I myself would not do” from the introduction of this book, shows the profound respect that I have for the people who collaborated in the realization of this work, which for me is so important. For the realization of Kibosh I stopped working, for months I dedicated myself entirely to collecting the photos and planning the lay-out. I wanted it to be understood how important this book is for me, that no detail had been left out and that everything had to be how I had always imagined it. To tell people about yourself using images is something that requires time, lots of time, perhaps a lifetime, and this is Kibosh.”

Kibosh (printed in 2.000 copies, € 250, on sale only through the website) features very realcore images of Richardson and his partners that, despite his amazing professional background, manage to retain that special quality that “real” images always have. Kibosh is on exhibit in Milan. (Thanks to Andrea for the tip)

In the early days of Realcore, let’s say before year 2.000, there were many technical fetish sites: first and foremost the BDSM ones, being some of their activities very technical and at times dangerous if not properly executed (“Don’t try this at home” is a recurring caption). But there were also more unusual tutorials, like Sexual Bricolàge, the art of building sex toys, or more complex pleasure devices, from household items. From “101 common things you can spank your partner with” (woodspoons, brushes, coat-hangers, etc.) to this:

You can see this contraption as a masturbatorial variation, or as an attempt to have sex with a bed head. The latter seems to be the interpretation of MEO, proud maker and distributor of the Door Shagger™:

With “MEO’s Door Shagger”, you will discover solo sex in a completely new manner! With two flexible attachment positions, just right for every door. If you visit their website, don’t miss the “Customers who bought this product also purchased” feature: in my case it included Butt Banger, Sucking Mouth, Steve Rambo Butt & Dong (almost modern art), Glans Ring with ball, Rubber Cock Ring, Pheromone perfume, Blindfold Hood: what a party.

Mainstream porno is much like fashion or music: it exploits one particular field to death, and then it moves to the next one. The Cumshot Progression is a perfect example: in the beginning the cumshot just happened; then it became an important feature. But it really went big with the Facial, or Money Shot. Then it went oral, with endless variations on the final destination of the sperm: swallowing, swapping and a whole range of things, from simple to very elaborate.

Now, exactly like the Music business is looking for the next Ricky Martin (and Fashion is trying to squeeze low waist to exhaustion), the Porn industry is looking for the next Facial, the next keyword that is going to make them millionaires. Meanwhile they try another variation:

As you can see there’s even a website for this, and a very spammy one: many Newsgroups are infested with eye cumshots. Is this the next big thing? Does it hurt? Is it safe? What the hell where they thinking when they came up with this? I have many questions, but no answers.

To do a statistical study of web porn consumption is no easy task; data is unreliable, distribution is scattered and the sources are too many. One indication of a trend could be the number of posts in a specific Newsgroup but, being there lots of spam, one should check each message: very hard. Another clue is the frequence of certain type of images in generic groups, like alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fetish, but the number of daily posts, over 1.000, would make it a full time job.

For a whiff of what’s popular in mainstream porn, there’s nothing better than TGPs, Thumbnail Gallery Pages. These are single pages (plus infinite archives), updated daily, that feature links to “free porno”: 10/20 images or 2/5 short videoclips from commercial websites, devised to lure you into subscribing. Here’s an example of TGP links:

October 7: A gloryhole BJ from Rafael
October 7: A slim girl in black dress from Mickey
October 7: Footjob pics from Jack
October 7: A lesbian couple with an age difference in this movie from Jimmy
October 7: A poolside poser from Rachel
October 7: Amateurs posing and in action from Shaun

Of course Rafael, Mickey, Jack, Jimmy, Rachel and Shaun work for commercial websites such as cheatingxxxwife.com or ultrafacialsex.com, and provide TGPs with daily links to their ad pages. This is the porn of the poor: free, but short and full of commercials (videos often last just 10/15 seconds). Still, websites like The Hun (where the text above was taken) or AL4A (and its parent site Ampland, beautifully retro with its Courier font) are among the oldest websites still active, and some have been providing free porn to the masses since 1996. Just reading TGPs’ infinite lists of links gives you an excellent overview of what’s popular right now, like footjobs.

Wikipedia has a very good entry for TGP; it explains exactly how it works, the mechanism of traffic trade, what are skimming and fake TGPs.

It’s finally available the Realcore live at the Waag video recorded last august (thanks to Sam Nemeth, Floor van Spaendonck and the Waag Society). It’s a high quality video, .mov compression, made with three cameras and divided in four parts (click to view, right click to download):

part 1 (17:03, 144 MB)

part 2 (18:23, 156 MB)

part 3 (27:03, 229 MB)

part 4 (24:53, 211 MB)

We all know you can find a lot of unusual sexual images online; it’s less known that some people actually started whole new fetishes just because they weren’t anywhere else, changing their tastes every week.

This is not the case of the Lifters and Carriers: they’ve been online for ages and are even listed on Yahoo!

It’s usually larger, more muscular women, lifting and carrying smaller girls, although there are many variations on the L&C theme. You can find them all at Liftnet.net, the one stop shop for all your Lifting and Carrying needs: men, women, indoor, outdoor, in groups, on DVD: ” Blond, beautiful and athletic, Pam dressed in a hot pink bikini, poses, flexes and proceeds to lift Jeff in every which way.” ($55)

Most Realcore is shot in homes. Some people either use the bedroom or the living room, while other seem to choose rather unusual zones of the house, as if the private-in-public sensation extended to homes as well. One of the examples of this I use in the show is the amazing woman with gas tank, but there are countless images shot in unexpected rooms. Like this one:

Maria is well known in the mature women newsgroups (an endless source of incredible home shots), where her husband has posted several series of posed images like this one. I am not sure if this set was consciously chosen, and if the man’s shirt ready for ironing was planned or casual. But this is her house, and that’s her own personal ironing board.