An Introduction to Porn as Art

So many times I wipe off my cock, zip up, throw the toilet paper away, and stand there in a daze like I just realized I lost something. And so too appears to stand the current collective sexual consciousness of humanity. We complete the act of reproduction in a short, brutish ceremony so ashamed of itself that we are never allowed to step back and examine the act for what it could be. Our societies reflect this. Try writing a frank, unashamed psychological study of the pleasure-anxiety that results from our collective sexual neurosis and you'll see your office smashed and your books burned à la Wilhelm Reich. It is easy to abhor the sexual oppression of both sexes that occurred in centuries past, yet most people, even the most "liberal" among us, are are almost totally blind to the self-imposed oppression around us and the resulting neuroses. I say this because I imagine most people would have a problem with their son or daughter becoming a sex worker of any kind. I say this also because the prescribed sexual roles for males and females do not seem to make us happy. Let it be known that I neither advocate nor condemn sex work. It simply seems to me that, in considering the sex urge abominable, we repress a part of our humanity.

It is an act that we are compelled to perform along with all other animals. This is probably why humans first tried to ignore or supress it. "We're not really like them, those disgusting dogs humping in the park. Watching the monkeys do it. I act like I don't wanna watch. But I do." Same way a lot of people are with porn.

I watched Raylene sucking cock this afternoon and couldn't help but think that porn will come to eventually be regarded as "legitimate" art. Any connoisseur, when given a safe, shame-free environment, is easily able to make the distinctions between "good" and "bad" porn. Sure the plotlines are cheesy. Why invest in a plotline when your audience has been trained to expect nothing more than a close-up shot of a penis ramming in and out of a dry vagina? I enjoy imagining futureporn. Comparing porn of today with futureporn is like comparing Boticelli and Leonardo. As we continue to learn to accept sex as a natural instinct and strip it of all shame, we will begin to master sexual perspective in art.

Then, perhaps, we will see sex realistically portrayed in popular art, and we will see it completely within the context of each individual work of art which chooses to address a sexual theme. I imagine a movie that has a scene that begins at a bar. The scene happens to center around a stimulating, slightly drunken conversation between a man and a woman who also happen to love each other. They go home and begin to caress, only pausing to take several healthy rips from an impossibly ornate glass bong. Their clothes begin to come off and the camera does not cut to a scene taking place after they have had sex, nor are we offered veiled images of two body doubles feigning intercourse. Instead we are taken with them on their sexual voyage, from the moment he goes down on her and uses his tongue to caress her to an initial orgasm, to his impossibly hard stoned boner entering her, both of them feeling every agonzingly pleasurable inch of it inside of her, and finally to more orgasms. So what if you have a boner in your pants while you're watching? It's hot fuckin sex, not an impossibly tight shot of two male buttcheeks bouncing away in a piston-like fashion over a hunched female form. This is COOL REAL PEOPLE SEX, and not only will it look really damn good, it'll make you feel good too.