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a.k.a Two thirds of my posts so far have been about dicks, porn, or both!

Ed Wood knew porn

I never really noticed how fucking boring porn is until I started having to watch a set amount each day.  When you can touch yourself to your heart's content the attention is divided between what's going on in the smut and how fast and hard your hand is moving.  In this distracted case, and with the general loss of anything resembling good judgment that follows achieving such arousal, it's real easy to overlook a three-minute shot that is eighty percent nutsack swinging back and forth or a poorly framed shot where the cameraman is visible with his shitty facial hair and low quality camcorder.

But for the foreseeable future I'm not [going to be] looking at porn with an eye towards getting off, but still I have to watch a half hour of it a day.  So instead I look to it to fulfill other marginally more intellectual needs, and I find it lacking.

Generally porn has a shitty soundtrack, which is a well known trope and widely parodied in more mainstream mediums.  The issue is not always a question of quality, but sometimes of taste.  A bass driven funk rythm does not mesh well with a dark bondage scene.  Nor does an industrial track go together with a blowjob.  Unless they're cyborgs, then KMFDM that thing as much as you want.

Now this isn't to say that all pornography is worthless when viewed as anything but something to watch while rubbing one out.  Most of it is, mind, but occasionally something comes along that has some merit as art. A baroque piece played on a spanish guitar while a model poses and wanders near the ocean as the tide breaks can be both arousing and evocative if shot well.  Unfortunately, much like decent music in smut, skilled cinematography is also at a premium.