The Male Pornographer

Scenology — By Adele on 20 July, 2006 10:40 pm

I was reading an interview the writer Susie Bright did with Bacchus of ErosBlog, and one of the perfectly vanilla things he said turned me to thinking about spanking porn. (That’s how things usually are with me.) Anyway, he said:

One thing that got me started sex blogging was the dire fact that most male-authored sex sites on the Internet (especially 3+ years ago) were “written” by pornographers of that misogynistic old “cunt bitch slut whore” bent— or by long-term customers of theirs who absorbed that leering peepshow mentality before they ever got out of high school, and then never grew up. [...]

Finding a healthy, friendly male appreciation for women and sex in commercial pornography is hard. A lot of guys in porn— perhaps a lot of guys generally— just seem broken when you consider their views of women.

Now, my experience of non-spanking porn is necessarily limited by the fact I hardly ever watch any of it, but I’ve conversed with the guy-pornographers enough to sigh and shake my head at what Bacchus had to say. Yep, they sure can be unpleasant in their bizarreness.

Now, interestingly, this hasn’t been my experience in the spanking industry: every guy I’ve worked with or for has been as perfectly wholesome as any pervert has a right to be; in fact, I can’t think of any I wouldn’t want to play with for pleasure if they landed in my living-room. But I’ve heard enough on the Models’ Gossip Line to know that what Bacchus calls “the leering peepshow mentality” is not entirely absent from the spanking industry too. We’ve got some, uh, interesting ones, too.

I think, there are two ways guys arrive at making spanking porn. There are the guys into spanking who decide to shoot the films they want to watch – either because nobody else is doing it quite right, or because they are creative, or whatever. Pornographers they may be, but there’s not a thing “broken” about them.

And then there are the folks who start out as vanilla pornsters, and then they move into making spanking films by way of expansion, conquering new markets, or whatever. And boy-oh-boy, you can hear some wonderful things from them about female anatomy, never mind female psychology.

I guess, my point – if I have a point – is that spanking industry, for all its potential to breed mysoginists and woman-beaters, doesn’t do that. They come in from the outside. Our own kink-bred guy pornographers are remarkably gentlemanly overall. Aren’t we lucky?