What's Up with Men in Porn?

[errantember]

I mean, these guys are getting worked over by people whom they, as a sex, have been most conditioned to want, and yet they have virtually no facial expression or commentary beyond the occasional canned "take it baby." Obviously they're *in* to what's going on, or we'd know otherwise. Unlike the women, they can't fake it. And yet, they're *so* undemonstrative.

I don't get it.

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[kiki39.livejournal.com]

*nods to this*

Note the increasing popularity of amateur porn, where men and women's natural reactions are highly valued.

I suspect "traditional" porn is marketed to a very narrow audience of straight-identified (ahem.. ) monogamous males who prefer not to have flamboyantly demonstrative penises insistently nudging the boundaries of their relatively "safe (ie. pussy-centric) fantasy world. :P

[jslorentz.livejournal.com]

I would agree with gryphynshadow and kiki. Mainstream porn is like corporate capitalism: so focused on what is ostensibly proven to be profitable that any creativity or deviation is accidental at best. The script shifts (not the "plot", but the positions and "extremes" to show just how wild the sex is), but it is all very generic.

There is more conscious, sex-positive porn out there, but you have to hunt for it, and the most successful renegades are focused on the growing porn-for-women market, not on the rather underspending guys-who-think/feel market.

[jslorentz.livejournal.com]

Actually, I want to add that there is also some non-gender focused porn out there too that just focuses on being hot and not what bits the viewer will want stiffened and it's an unfortunately small niche.