Monday, October 19, 2009

(Very) niche amateur videos

Fleshbot regularly compiles 'Top Ten' lists of very niche amateur porn videos. The lists really illustrate how amateur porn caters specifically towards niche audiences with similarly niche fetishes - if commercial porn was more Fordist in production, does that make amateur part of the post-Fordist economy?

Top Ten Anniversary Sex Videos

Top Ten Amateur Floor Sex Videos

Top Ten Amateur Masked Sex Videos

Top Ten Amateur Sex While Smoking Videos

Top Ten Amateur Gloryhole Sex Videos

Guest blogger Nina Funnell - 'Sexting' and amateur porn

'Sexting' Youtube clip


To date, very little theoretical or cultural space has been afforded which might allow us to think of young people as the producers, rather than the victims, or damaged consumers of sexually explicit material. But with the growing trend of 'sexting', it is apparent that young people are acting as the producers of amateur porn.

At present, the current infancy of the theoretical position that approaches the child as a competent sexual agent, and the lack of discourse around such agency, means that both linguistically and intellectually we are limited to, and constrained by our current frameworks in discussions around youth sexting.

This debate is also constrained by the panics around the vulnerability of children and their sexuality. However, I believe now more than ever there is a crucial need for research into sexting behaviour and other youth trends.

Where do you think 'sexting' fits on the amateur porn spectrum?


Guess Her Muff amateur blog



Amateur blog Guess Her Muff poses the deceptively simple question, "Do you think you can guess how a babe keeps her muff based on her how she dresses?" Pictures of ordinary, fully clothed women of all shapes and sizes are published every day and readers vote in the comments section on how they think she grooms her pubic hair.

It's an interesting site - not least because the women aren't all young or conventionally attractive, but also because pubic hair politics are arguably inherent to pornography's penetration of mainstream culture. Commercial porn made the Brazilian commonplace. Did the rise of amateur porn bring back the full bush?