Some guy on RAME (i.e., the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica) wrote a piece about (what I’ll call) the “stupefication” of porn. Personally, I couldn’t agree with him more.

Jamie writes on RAME: “While scanning through AVN tonight I happened upon a title by director Jim Powers called Pink Eye 2. Funny, but I had never heard of this Pink Eye series before. Needless to say, I was a wee bit shocked by it all. If you don't know what this title is about, here's a portion of the AVN review;

"Having to fuck Ron Jeremy is one thing. Purposely taking salty cum blasts directly in the peepers is another entirely. These bitches must really want to work in porno. And Pink Eye 2 does deliver the pink eye goods over 10 scenes. The man muck is injected into the target area care of two basic delivery systems: the braver of the girls just open wide and don't flinch. The uh, pussies, on the other hand, get a helping hand from the dicks, who hold the eyeballs open with one set of fingers while meat-beating with the other." (Mike Ramone - AVN)

Uhm folks, I might be wrong about this but the idea of forcing open a woman's eye so that a guy can deliberately ejaculate into said woman's exposed eyeball seems just plain evil. If I live to be a hundred years old, that's a fetish I don't think I'll ever understand. Take note; the box cover even seems to promote the pain aspect of the acts depicted in the tapes. "Oh no, it burns!" and "An Eye Doctor's Nightmare." Sheesh, that's ugly stuff!

Is it me, or does porn seem to get uglier and nastier with each passing day?”

jimmyD sez>: No, Jamie, it’s not you; porn is getting uglier and nastier with each passing day, and has done so for many days already passed. Why is this? Well, there are many reasons not the least being the lack of imagination and competence of some of the people who make this shit.

You see, if you’re unable to compete with fresh, imaginative, erotically stimulating, competently produced content, your only choice it to take your production into the gutter and produce vile filth. Now don’t get me wrong, there’s a big market out there for vile filth. In fact, sometimes I think the vile filth market dwarfs the market for true erotica. And what’s easier to produce than vile filth? All it takes is a camera (with no-brainer shooting modes) and some people willing to be vile and filthy in front of it. And trust me, Jamie, there’s no shortage of people willing to be vile and filthy. Money talks and bullshit walks and in this instance money talks in a vile and filthy way.

Porn audiences, it seems, have become so jaded, so numb, that they are in constant search for content that scores higher and higher on the filth-o-meter. My guess is that many of the same people who are making ratings hits out of all those lame fucking (pseudo) reality shows are the very same audience for vile filth. And I’m also thinking that all this vile filth, combined with sense-dulling reality shows, are noticeably contributing to the “stupefication” of America. (Stupefy: To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.)

And until a less stupefied audience arises and makes themselves heard, we’re going to see a lot more vile filth in the tradition of “Pink Eye” and it’s inbred family of porn flicks that include bukkake, pissing and shitting, homeless and fat people, ass-to-mouth, and many similar themes.

Perhaps the evolution of porn has become like a re-telling of an old children's story; but it's told backwards: in the story of porn, the swan turns back into an ugly duckling.



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