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I don’t find porn movies generally very sexy. I find hardcore porn movies the least sexy of all.

 ”But how can that be,” I hear some of you ask, “when hardcore shows nothing but explicit sex? What could be sexier than that?”.

That is indeed the crux of the issue; sex per se isn’t all that sexy. To be truly erotic, the brain must be involved.

If hardcore did show more than just explicit sex, it would be sexier. If it presented characters we cared about, portrayed by skillful actors, it would be sexier. If it followed a discernible storyline, and gradually built up the erotic tension to an explicit conclusion; then it would be sexier.

Instead, hardcore offers poor production values, bad acting, a non-existent plot, laughably fake orgasm noises, and interminably repetitive scenes of penises sliding into vaginas and assorted other orifices. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do rather enjoy seeing penises going into vaginas, but I get bored of it very quickly, and I don’t find it terribly sexy on its own. If I’m suitably aroused, watching a nicely shaped girl being fucked can definitely get me off. But on its own, it’s just a badly produced biology documentary.

On the other hand, mainstream movies usually offer the things I do find sexy. They have far more beautiful women. They are better shot and better edited. They have plots which make me care about the characters, and actors who make it believable. They are often highly erotic and highly sexualized. The only thing they don’t generally have is any actual explitic sex shots. Despite this, they are often sexier than hardcore.

Mainstream movies have more beautiful women

I don’t need to work very hard to illustrate this point. Here are just a few mainstream actresses. All of them have appeared in nude and sex scenes. (You can click on any of the pictures to see some stills from their nude movie scenes.)

Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it’s very possible that you disagree with me; but I think these women are extremely hot and generally very sexy in appearance. I have never seen women in a porn movie who are so inherently attractive - even clothed - as these.  

Mainstream movies are better made

A typical porn movie is shot on a single handheld prosumer video camera - something like this is a common choice. It does a pretty good job for a camcorder, but ultimately it’s a camcorder. There’s usually not a lot of attention paid to lighting, or to set decoration, or to color correction, or post-production generally. The result is a product that generally looks worse than real life.

Mainstream movies on the other hand, even low-budget ones, tend to be shot using equipment like this which will typically cost more to rent, per day, than the above camcorder costs to buy. Generally these movies are made by people who know what they’re doing. They have been to film school to learn composition, lighting and post-production. The result is that mainstream movies generally look better than real life.

Film school students learn more than the mere mechanics of operating cameras and light of course; they also learn how to assemble a narrative and emotionally involve the viewer through good editing. So you care more than you would in real life; and if they decide that a particular scene should be erotic and arousing, the result is sexier than it would be in real life.

Mainstream movies make us care more

When you’re watching a porn movie, there’s no moment when you forget that you’re watching a porn movie. You never find yourself lost in the world of the movie. You never feel as the characters feel; you never care about what they care about; you never believe in what they’re doing.

Mainstream movies, on the other hand, thrive on this kind of thing. Every mainstream director wants to make you forget who you are, and let you escape from your reality for a little while.

Let’s imagine that two movies are to address the subject of a young man who has his first sexual encounter at college. Here’s the porn version.

Guy is in empty room doing nothing. Door knocks. Girl comes in.

Girl: hi, I just moved in across the hall. Want to fuck?

Guy: I’ve never done it before

 Girl: That’s OK

They fuck

Girl2 stands watching them from open door as they fuck.

Girl2: Can I join in?

Guy: Yes

Girl: Yes

Girl2 sucks guy, girl fucks girl2, then guy fucks girl and girl2 at same time. Facial cumshot.

The End.

Now I’m sure you found that as sexy as I did. Let’s briefly outline what the mainstream version might look like.

* Scene where they first meet in the corridor. Guy is jock, football player, strong and tough but tender inside. Girl is slender, tanned, respectably dressed but showing her figure. Lighting and depth of field is used to make us see her as he sees her - radiantly beautiful, the center of the universe. Guy tries to make small talk, makes fool of himself, offends her. She walks off in disgust.

* Scene where we see him in class, watching her discreetly as she smiles and laughs with her friends. She yawns and stretches, pushing her breasts forward. We see him look hungrily. She turns and catches his eye, then frowns at him.

* Scene where he is hanging out with his friends and we learn that he is a virgin. They tease him about it and offer to set him up with a girl who is known to be ‘easy’. He shakes his head; he only wants Girl.

* Scene where they are forced together for an assignment. She is cold, haughty towards him. We see her leaving with her boyfriend.

* Scene where she misses an appointment to work on the assignment, and he goes to her room, to find her crying on the floor, clothes torn, hair messed up, face bruised, one breast exposed. She is made to look vulnerable and beautiful. We learn her boyfriend is abusing her. Guy is incensed. With the help of his friends, tells Girl’s now-ex boyfriend to stay away from her, threatens him.

* Scene where Girl and Guy become friends and begin to learn about each other.

* Montage - their friendship becomes stronger as they work on their assignment over the weeks. We use editing to show that he is in love with her, but keeping it secret. Towards the end of the montage we show that she too is attracted to him.

* Scene where she comes to find him in his room, but he is in the shower. Quietly, without him knowing, she watches him shower through the glass, taking in the blurred shape of his body. She puts her hand inside her pants and discreetly touches herself. We see her breathing shorten, and her face flushes. She leaves before he comes out of the shower.

* Scene where they find their joint assignment was the best in the class. He asks her on a date, and she says yes. They kiss.

* Scene where they go out for dinner. She is dressed beautifully, with perfect hair and makeup. They both get tipsy drinking wine. We see him looking at her cleavage as she leans towards him, looking up at him and smiling.

* Scene where they go back to her room, and finally start to make out, intensely. Girl opens her shirt. We see Guy touching her breasts, sucking her nipples. She begins to put her hand inside his underwear. He gasps. She moves her hand. He moans and shivers - he has ejaculated in her hands. She pulls her hand out, looking at it in suprise. “I’m sorry” he says. “I’m sorry, I’ve never done this before.” He is ashamed. She hugs him tightly, nipples pushing against his chest. He pulls himself away, and goes to his room.

* Scene the next day, when she comes to his room wearing a raincoat. She wakes him up. He is embarassed to see her. “Take your clothes off,” she tells him, giggling. She opens the raincoat to reveal she is completely naked inside it. We see her full frontal for a few moments as she takes off the raincoat completely. She climbs on top of him where he lies on the bed and kisses him hard. “Come on,” she urges, smiling, “I want to be your first.” She drags him to the shower, undressing him as they go. They laugh together.

* We see them both naked in the shower, cuddling as they soap each other and touch. “You have to do exactly what I tell you”, she says. She makes him touch her pussy. We don’t see him doing this, but we see the effect on her, as she moans and flushes at his touch. Then she pushes his head down between her legs and makes her lick her. We see her face in orgasm as the shower water crashes over them both. “Now,” she says, still gasping. She pulls him up and wraps herself around him, her buttocks pressed against him. We see his face as he enters her, hear them both breathing hard and thrusting until he moans loudly and shudders. They hold each other tightly for a while as they recover their breath.

* The scene where the ex-boyfriend returns, mad with jealousy and spoiling for a fight….

Obviously that was a little longer. But I sure hope you found it a lot sexier. Even just from these brief notes on the plot, we care about the characters, we identify with them, and we see that this is (at least nearly) a believable scenario.

Conclusion

Whatever a mainstream movie chooses to be, it tends to be very much. If it is a horror, it tends to be very horrific. If it is a comedy, it tends to be very funny. If it has sex in its storyline, it tends to be very sexy indeed. Beautiful actresses and talented, artistic film makers combine with involving plots to make mainstream moviemaking the source of some of the best and truest erotica around. That’s why on the average lonely Friday night, my choice of viewing is likely to be some well-made Hollywood movie with a great nude scene, rather than Busty College Girls Three.