Tuesday, November 08, 2005
The Rubber Game of the Match
I've been thinking lately about the use of the "raincoat" in modern porn.
When the AIDS epidemic hit some time around 1980, condoms suddenly started to be widely used in adult videos and films. In gay porn they were standard, but they also appeared regularly in straight dirty movies. This was, of course, the wise route to take. No one should have gambled with their lives, not for a largely disposable entertainment form, no matter how much we all love it.
Since then, we've learned a lot about HIV and AIDS, and this knowledge allows some control over its spread. We also have (Thank God) new drugs that extend and improve the lives of people living with the disease. Because of all this, most straight videos produced today don't use condoms. And there are even a few gay production companies that have done away with them entirely. Bare-backing, cum-eating and cream-pies films are a profitable sub-genre fetish cottage industry.
As much as I believe in safe sex, a practice I always use in my own sex life, I have to admit, with shame (kinda), rubbers in stroke-films are a huge turn-off to me. Sex flicks are all about fantasy, and, frankly, condoms aren't involved in any of my fantasies. In addition, I love videos with strong plots, and particularity ones with period settings. But it annoys me when the sets and costumes are period perfect, and out of nowhere a cowboy or a gladiator or a Revolutionary War hero, about to fuck, suddenly has a rubber covering his cock. I'm popped right out of the moment. And by the moment, I mean the fantasy.
Do I believe porn stars should risk their lives just so I can more fully enjoy pleasuring myself? No, of course not. But I also know that the workers in the sex industry are tested quite regularly and openly share the results with each other. The number of HIV cases in straight porn (where condoms are now rarely used) are historically quite limited. Sure, it occurs occasionally, but it's extraordinarily rare.
So, there it is. I want nasty porn. I like to see the cock sticking in -- whatever it's sticking in -- bare and natural. And the cum in the mouth, I like that too. Okay, maybe it's a kink, but it's my kink, something I'm really into. And as long as no one is getting hurt, I'm going to keep jacking-off to it.
When the AIDS epidemic hit some time around 1980, condoms suddenly started to be widely used in adult videos and films. In gay porn they were standard, but they also appeared regularly in straight dirty movies. This was, of course, the wise route to take. No one should have gambled with their lives, not for a largely disposable entertainment form, no matter how much we all love it.
Since then, we've learned a lot about HIV and AIDS, and this knowledge allows some control over its spread. We also have (Thank God) new drugs that extend and improve the lives of people living with the disease. Because of all this, most straight videos produced today don't use condoms. And there are even a few gay production companies that have done away with them entirely. Bare-backing, cum-eating and cream-pies films are a profitable sub-genre fetish cottage industry.
As much as I believe in safe sex, a practice I always use in my own sex life, I have to admit, with shame (kinda), rubbers in stroke-films are a huge turn-off to me. Sex flicks are all about fantasy, and, frankly, condoms aren't involved in any of my fantasies. In addition, I love videos with strong plots, and particularity ones with period settings. But it annoys me when the sets and costumes are period perfect, and out of nowhere a cowboy or a gladiator or a Revolutionary War hero, about to fuck, suddenly has a rubber covering his cock. I'm popped right out of the moment. And by the moment, I mean the fantasy.
Do I believe porn stars should risk their lives just so I can more fully enjoy pleasuring myself? No, of course not. But I also know that the workers in the sex industry are tested quite regularly and openly share the results with each other. The number of HIV cases in straight porn (where condoms are now rarely used) are historically quite limited. Sure, it occurs occasionally, but it's extraordinarily rare.
So, there it is. I want nasty porn. I like to see the cock sticking in -- whatever it's sticking in -- bare and natural. And the cum in the mouth, I like that too. Okay, maybe it's a kink, but it's my kink, something I'm really into. And as long as no one is getting hurt, I'm going to keep jacking-off to it.
