SPEAKING OF AMATEUR PORN PICSNot every pornstar gets paid for his labours. Amateur modeling, once a rare hobby, is now thanks to online outlets within the reach of the horny exhibitionistic multitudes. | |
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In an age when the bulk of commercial porn is awash with naked or near-naked
images of twentysomething, gym-buffed, hairless hunks with vacant expressions, amateur
pics are a hot alternative. Well-produced commercial porn has its many uses, to be
sure. One thing is for sure, for better or worse, these amateur guys are real. The showoff next door can be seen all over the world, his dong admired from Oslo to Orlando. Some amateurs do show the usual traces of free weights and steroids, but many are older, younger, hairy, smooth, well-hung or not so well-endowed. As one fan of amateur sites says, "I'm turned on by bears with a bit of a belly, but you can't find many in gay videos!" |
 Unintended visual cues can prompt the horny viewer to invent whole stories, entire novels... Perversely, I find myself trying to read the titles on a bookshelf... |
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British film critic Richard Dyer has said that one of the pleasures of watching porn
videos is the knowledge that an actor actually went before the camera to have sex.
It's not just the fucking that's the turn-on, it's the relationship of the porn
actor to the viewer, the basic exhibitionist/voyeur connection. That goes double
for the amateur stuff, where there's no monetary incentive and it all comes down to lust.
Some amateur sites are devoted to cyberdating; pictures are accompanied by sex ads and online links. Others are just albums of amateur shots. Either way, they're the ultimate in exhibitionism, someone standing naked in a cyber-window while millions of virtual voyeurs stroll by. And the pleasures of looking in that window are many; every picture does indeed tell a story. There's the guy so enamoured of his nothing-special dick that he uploads dozens of photos of the fella, from every angle, in every stage of erection. There are the shy spoilsports who Photoshop their faces into a scary pixilated blur. But the hottest amateur pics are those that show the most about a guy. Mainstream commercial porn pictures tend to be shot in a limited range of settings: on cheesy studio sets, in cheap hotel rooms, in the woods, by the pool. Amateur dick pics show a lot more variety. It's always fascinating when you catch a glimpse of real life. Unintended visual cues can prompt the horny viewer to invent whole stories, entire novels. The choice of furniture can speak volumes too. Now there's even a website that's devoted to the worst interior decorations on show in amateur porn. Here's a barren student flat behind that young, lean, bookish stud. That comfortable living room of the middle-aged man with a dildo up his butt: Is his lover holding the camera, or is it a trick who visited while dildo-man's wife was visiting her mother? Perversely, I find myself trying to read the titles on a bookshelf beside a hairy, uncut man, his reading habits as much an object of fascination as his long, luxurious foreskin. It's a turn-on just to see how the guys present themselves, what they think is sexy about who they are: The traces of clothing, whether the semi-ubiquitous baseball cap or cowboy boots; and the men's expressions, shy, defiant, friendly, full-of-themselves, full-of-booze. The world of amateur porno pics teaches us what, deep down, we already know. All men, to some extent or other, are erotic beings, and seen with the right frame of mind, there's something sexy about a surprising proportion of them. And a fairly astonishing number, when you point a camera at them, are more than willing to throw their legs in the air and say "cheese." For free, just for the love of lust. And the viewer can believe, for one cum-filled instant, it's all just for him. You've got to love it.
Simon SheppardSan Francisco artist and activist Simon Sheppard is best known for his contributions to the erotic literary scene. He wrote hundreds of stories that appeared in S/M magazines; erotic anthologies; and over twenty editions of Best Gay Erotica and Best American Erotica. His Sextalk column has appeared on OutUK for more than 20 years. You can find out more about Simon Sheppard in this OutUK feature and tribute, or take a look at some of his many books that are still available:
Looking for something very sexy and just as smart? Man on Man collects the best and hottest gay sex writing by Simon, who is also co-editor of Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power as well as a collection of gay erotica called Hotter Than Hell. In KINKORAMA : Dispatches from the Front Lines of Perversion he takes readers behind the unmarked doors and black vinyl curtains that lead to the sometimes shocking, often hilarious, relentlessly arousing scenarios of extreme sex. There are also stories of bears in Tales from the Bear Cult: Beat Bear Stories from the Best Magazines. |
