They have to get it up and off on cue essentially and all the while in between maintain for two to three hours. As Seymore Butts told Forbes: “The most difficult part about being a male porn star is the hard-on. Despite what you may have heard in Boyz II Men songs, non-porn intercourse typically lasts between 3-7 minutes. In typical porn scenes, men are required to bang longer than the Salvation Army drum on the Easter Day parade, i.e. Everything looks big when you stand next to a girl who weighs 80 pounds. But just as technology can make Smurfs three-dimensional, porn cinematography can make a penis appear larger than it is, with lighting, camera angles, makeup, and even the placement of one’s penis next to, say, a diminutive porn actress. While no hard or even soft data exists on the average penis size of porn stars versus the average Tom’s Harry Dick, the porn-star-penis-as-huge trope is certainly prevalent and used to sell a variety of pumps, pills, and other penis-enlargement doodads, banking on men’s insecurity and Photoshop to hawk their wang wares. While we don’t expect to be regaled with the pleasures of their watercolors hobby or anything, a little attention could be paid to other erogenous zones, like nipples, necks, thighs, asses, and even balls, which are largely ignored, in porn as in life. Again, since the onus is on the women in porn, some disregard of male bodies is to be expected. Like RoboCop, but for sexual purposes only. In mainstream and especially hardcore porn, men are often reduced to little more than walking, grunting penises who experience no other pleasure except from their deep-V diver. Here are the 10 biggest male myths we find hardest to swallow (not sorry about that one, actually). In the meantime, some of our stats come from self-proclaimed “idea detective” Jon Millward, who crunched numbers from the Internet Adult Film Database (like IMDB, but for smut) which boasts data on 151,946 titles and 129,831 performers/directors, but as is to be expected, much of Millward’s data focuses on the ladeez.ĭespite these obstacles, when it comes to the topic of men, porn still gets a lot wrong. But! A peer-reviewed Porn Studies Journal is slated to come (sorry again) in 2014, so perhaps this will change soon.
While we do often glimpse extreme penetration closeups, with its accompanying, and at times mesmerizing, ball pendulums, little attention is paid to much else.įurther complicating our attempts is that very few scientific studies on porn have been done (except in the realm of addiction and why no one will think of the children). Rarely do we get sweeping slow pans of pectoral physiques, zoomed in facial grimaces, or the come-hither eyes that women make at the camera. Partially because, in mainstream straight porn, which is produced, funded, run, and directed by men, the focus is almost entirely on the porn actresses. Making a comparable list for men, however, proved to be harder (sorry) than it initially seemed.
We recently told you our biggest grievances involving women in mainstream porn.
This article originally appeared on Alternet.