Have you ever seen a porn scene where the performers paused partway through to take a drink of water? Or to apply lube? Or to fish a stray pubic hair out of their mouths during enthusiastic oral? These are things which happen on a regular basis in my house, but they don’t show up as often in the average porn scene.
Let me make it really clear up-front that this isn’t going to be a post where I advocate that every porn scene should show the funny/weird/mundane/romantic/boring/cutesy parts of sex as well as the entertaining and sexy parts. Porn is entertainment. And it’s a huge and varied genre of entertainment. So like any other genre of TV/Film, it can be educational, political, comical, dark, or just plain entertaining – an individual scene doesn’t have to be all these things at once, any more than the latest Netflix boxset needs to span every genre on the menu list.
I went to a talk at by the fabulous and of (click the links, go see their work!) in which they talked to us about some of the things that go on behind the scenes at porn shoots. For instance, detailing the prep that goes in to a fire play scene (making sure you’ve got smoke alarms and extinguishers at the ready!) or the lube that needs to be sitting off-camera, ready to be re-applied throughout a shoot.
Some of their examples are things you may know already. For instance: BDSM porn fans probably know that ethical studios will include behind-the-scenes content where performers negotiate their limits and discuss what they would like to happen in a scene. But others might come as a surprise. Do you ever see the behind-the-scenes material in which performers show each other their STI test results? Those discussions happen too!



















