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Here’s a topic I’m curious to get some varied opinions on. Can you masturbate to a pornographic video where the protagonist of your sex is a different race than you are? For instance if you’re a Black man, could you jerk off to a video where the male sex partner was White? What about Asian? What about a very dark skinned Latin person?
*As a quick aside, can anybody get off to two dimensional pictures anymore? I feel like even the most hardcore and specific pictures found in magazines and the internet are only little sticky notes spread around the world by the gods to remind you to masturbate to videos later, when you get home from work. Similar to the way walking by the hotdog cart reminds you that you haven’t eaten dinner.*
To keep things simple let’s deal with sex between one man and one woman. So that I don’t leave anybody out, I think you can replace the word “Man” in all of the following descriptions with “Boston Terrier” and my point still applies. When it comes to women in porno movies, most heterosexual guys can deal with almost any race under the sun. While they obviously have their preference about shape and size of different body parts, for a good portion of men the color of that vessel is not really terribly important. However, I have a pet theory that most men can’t masturbate unless the color of the penis on screen vaguely resembles the color of their own penis. What’s odd about this is that the rest of the person doesn’t resemble you; even the rest of the penis doesn’t resemble your penis. It’s usually a different size and shape and it has completely different tattoos. You would really have to freak out if you saw another penis in a porno with the same tattoos as your penis. I know I would be cutting it back to half an Ambien if I had a hunch my penis was out moonlighting without my permission. That is, unless the tattoo was something incredibly common, like barbed wire or “Mom.”
My best guess is that it would be pretty easy for a dark skinned Black person to jerk off if the male was a light skinned Black guy. I imagine most White men would be able to get there if the man was Asian. I bet almost every guy could deal with a Latin guy doing the fucking. It seems odd for a guy to put so much emphasis on the man in a heterosexual porno movie but that’s supposed to be your stand in. The fantasy is that this is you having sex with this beautiful woman and it’s impossible to get past the fact that you’re not a seven foot tall, 45 year old Filipino guy. You’re not even close.
Seeing how important the guy is in a straight porn film, I believe that there should be films with guys covered in Swastikas to appeal to neo-Nazis. They shouldn’t be able to get off watching a porno where the guy has ambiguous feelings about Blacks, Jews, and Catholics. I wonder how they would feel if the woman was obviously a Black, Jew, or Catholic. I suppose as long as he was sort of rough with her.
Oh, and for gay men, what if one of the dudes was your race, but the other was a disparately colored race. Seems simple enough, just associate yourself with the one that’s your race. But what if you are emphatically a bottom, and the person of your race is topping the whole movie? What if you’re Latin and it’s a Black guy and a White guy on screen; who do you root for then?
If you’re married, would your spouse be comfortable with you masturbating to a porno where the person of the opposite sex as you is a different race than your spouse? For instance say you’re a woman and you and your husband are both White. Would you be comfortable with your husband watching a porno with a White man and a Black woman? I imagine it would have to sting. What about a Black man and a White Woman? What about a Black man and a Black woman? What the fuck is he thinking about there?
How about this, you’re a Black man and you catch your White wife watching a porno with one Black woman and two Asian men. Do you wish one of the guys was Black? Both of them? How could it matter?
It’s difficult for me to put myself in the role of the woman when it comes to this idea of the self being reflected in porno watching. If she’s White does she have trouble relating to a Latin vagina? Perhaps for women it’s more of a white or black breast thing. It could be that they have some totally different priorities when watching a porno and they don’t care at all what race the woman is, only what race the guy is. If that were true it would seem that women don’t really need to be in porno movies at all, considering where everyone’s focus is.
Ok, just one more. What if you’re a White necrophiliac and the living one in the video is Black? What if you’re Asian, the perpetrator is Latin and the corpse is decomposed beyond racial recognition? What’s wrong? You can’t get off? Racist!
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Hello. I was reading someone elses blog and saw you on their blogroll. Would you be interested in exchanging blog roll links? If so, feel free to email me.
Thanks.
Comment by Rick Boyer — August 29, 2008 #