Angelyn
Female
I have fantasized about being a pornstar for a day. But it won’t work in real life
One thing I like about Japanese scenes and porn made in the 1990s and 2000s is that they are often not too bright. Nowadays blacked.com and legalporno make disgustingly bright scenes that women can’t enjoy.
I’m very turned of by sex in overly bright locations. This is not so much because I feel shame or embarrassment – after all I fantasize about being looked at – but it seems to be a more deeply hard wired sense inside me.
Maybe it is a prophylactic (pun intended) desire to be safe.
Imagine our simian ancestors trying to mate. It’s taking place in the day. Would they choose the shade and shelter of the trees, or would they be openly copulating right out there on the savanna? I think that’s what’s going on for me.
I like the action in Blacked, but the light is simply wrong. Only men, whose sexual pleasure is primarily visual, can possibly enjoy the light.
As the woman, as the fuckee who is getting subjected to all that lust and male power, I’m not comfortable being so vulnerable. I’m already being vulnerable and opened up and pinned down and spread open for male lust. Bright lights accentuate that vulnerability, and not in a nice way. I’m probably hard wired to think that some tiger or lion is gonna get me when I’m so vulnerable.
I’ve read somewhere that while the action per se in many porn scenes is exciting and pleasing to porn stars, the lighting is the main reason that prevents genuine enjoyment. And I think that’s right. It’s fun to get fucked like a porn star. But I can’t imagine enjoying myself when cameras and lights are in my face.
It’s a sexist thing that male porn stars aren’t the ones who have to face the camera and get lights shone in their faces. Admittedly, I don’t care either. I think this is a certain feminine trait that I don’t really like meeting aggressive men’s eyes. I want to feel male power in a tactile sense. Also if the male was really dominant, I would feel like looking down and not challenge his assertion of power by looking him in the face. That’s probably the reason why very few women really care about porn that looks into a man’s face. We would look into the actress' face because we identify with the actress, but we kind of expect not to look into the actor's face because we're being pinned face first against a wall or the bed or his chest.
Consider this. When the pornstar is facing a camera, she’s not looking at anything nice. Moreover with all the lights shining in your face, it probably simulates the experience of deer being caught in headlights. It’s not enjoyable at all. No, it is an ultra turn off. It is probably more of a turn off, than getting a moderate amount of pain during sex. Women are probably hard wired not to have sex in very bright light because that would be like copulating on the savanna and very dangerous.
Men on the other hand, seem to keep buying modern day porn (pretty much the stuff made after 2010) despite the excessive brightness. I am wondering whether men have a different tolerance for light from women. After all, primitive women would be perched up on the trees or in caves hugging their babies and avoiding the light. Primitive men would be walking around stalking prey in the open. I can imagine how when having sex, the woman is the prey or the object, so men would not mind having her under bright light.
There is almost certainly a difference in how men and women perceive light in porn. Although I don’t care that much about stereotypical female soft lights and soft focus porn, the fact is that I am less turned off by soft lights than bright lights. And it seems all the women I know prefer lower lights, while all the men I know are not turned off by bright porn or don’t seem to find my lighting criticism an issue at all.
So here is another suggestion for porn directors. Use modern technology to give us girls an option. Let us turn down the brightness by, say, 400 or 500 lumens, at the click of a mouse. The guys can keep watching their bright porn, and I’ll get to watch porn that is not overly bright.
One thing I like about Japanese scenes and porn made in the 1990s and 2000s is that they are often not too bright. Nowadays blacked.com and legalporno make disgustingly bright scenes that women can’t enjoy.
I’m very turned of by sex in overly bright locations. This is not so much because I feel shame or embarrassment – after all I fantasize about being looked at – but it seems to be a more deeply hard wired sense inside me.
Maybe it is a prophylactic (pun intended) desire to be safe.
Imagine our simian ancestors trying to mate. It’s taking place in the day. Would they choose the shade and shelter of the trees, or would they be openly copulating right out there on the savanna? I think that’s what’s going on for me.
I like the action in Blacked, but the light is simply wrong. Only men, whose sexual pleasure is primarily visual, can possibly enjoy the light.
As the woman, as the fuckee who is getting subjected to all that lust and male power, I’m not comfortable being so vulnerable. I’m already being vulnerable and opened up and pinned down and spread open for male lust. Bright lights accentuate that vulnerability, and not in a nice way. I’m probably hard wired to think that some tiger or lion is gonna get me when I’m so vulnerable.
I’ve read somewhere that while the action per se in many porn scenes is exciting and pleasing to porn stars, the lighting is the main reason that prevents genuine enjoyment. And I think that’s right. It’s fun to get fucked like a porn star. But I can’t imagine enjoying myself when cameras and lights are in my face.
It’s a sexist thing that male porn stars aren’t the ones who have to face the camera and get lights shone in their faces. Admittedly, I don’t care either. I think this is a certain feminine trait that I don’t really like meeting aggressive men’s eyes. I want to feel male power in a tactile sense. Also if the male was really dominant, I would feel like looking down and not challenge his assertion of power by looking him in the face. That’s probably the reason why very few women really care about porn that looks into a man’s face. We would look into the actress' face because we identify with the actress, but we kind of expect not to look into the actor's face because we're being pinned face first against a wall or the bed or his chest.
Consider this. When the pornstar is facing a camera, she’s not looking at anything nice. Moreover with all the lights shining in your face, it probably simulates the experience of deer being caught in headlights. It’s not enjoyable at all. No, it is an ultra turn off. It is probably more of a turn off, than getting a moderate amount of pain during sex. Women are probably hard wired not to have sex in very bright light because that would be like copulating on the savanna and very dangerous.
Men on the other hand, seem to keep buying modern day porn (pretty much the stuff made after 2010) despite the excessive brightness. I am wondering whether men have a different tolerance for light from women. After all, primitive women would be perched up on the trees or in caves hugging their babies and avoiding the light. Primitive men would be walking around stalking prey in the open. I can imagine how when having sex, the woman is the prey or the object, so men would not mind having her under bright light.
There is almost certainly a difference in how men and women perceive light in porn. Although I don’t care that much about stereotypical female soft lights and soft focus porn, the fact is that I am less turned off by soft lights than bright lights. And it seems all the women I know prefer lower lights, while all the men I know are not turned off by bright porn or don’t seem to find my lighting criticism an issue at all.
So here is another suggestion for porn directors. Use modern technology to give us girls an option. Let us turn down the brightness by, say, 400 or 500 lumens, at the click of a mouse. The guys can keep watching their bright porn, and I’ll get to watch porn that is not overly bright.
