Bear Porn Rant
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daddytoddI cut this bit out of my post on "Cachorro" because it doesn't really have anything to do with the film.
The opening credits (of "Bear Cub") are some of the hottest bearporn I've seen in a long time, even without any close-ups of penetration or cum shots. Why can't actual PORNO give us something as hot as this? I know a porno doesn't have the budget to approach these production values, but they can surely do better than another scene of a couple guys' frenzied humping in a nondescript hotel room during a Bear Run.
The two bears fucking in Pedro's bed looked like regular, real men you might meet at the bar, unlike the polished muscleclones that have become commonplace in "bearstream" porno. Does porn REALLY sell better when it consists primarily of images of angry, sneering, unattainable men?
When I walked by the Bearfilms booth at IBR, I was startled to realize just how similar their models looked. There were three guys sitting there at one point who looked like they could be brothers! The only difference was the size of the tattoo on their shoulders and upper arms.
I was also struck by how different they looked from the vast majority of the men at IBR. These aren't representatives of us; they represent some other aesthetic being marketed to us as a replacement for the men we actually find attractive. Bearfilms wasn't like this a couple years ago; but those bearish early Bearfilms models have all been replaced by a new generation of slimmer, more muscled types.
The bearporn business is very strange; just what exactly is the role of porn in our lives? How do bears use porn? We tend to be sexually active, to the point of promiscuity. Is porn used as a substitute for physical interaction when sex is unavailable? Is it used to "spice up" sexual encounters, sort of visual foreplay? Or is it used to keep us at a high degree of sexual arousal, because no matter how much we're getting, it's never enough?
How do you convince a group of men who seem to have plenty of real, hot, face 2 face sex to spend their hard-earned money on a video of some other guys getting it on? How do you convince them that what you've got for sale is BETTER than what they can get for free?
I guess that's a rationale for using very polished models; if we accept the proposition that "beautiful people" have better sex than the rest of us schlubs, that might be a reason to fill it with images of unattainable perfection having titanic sex.
But you'll forgive me if I think this attitude betrays the last tattered shreds of meaning associated with the "Bear Movement."
Pretty musclebear clones with big dicks don't have better sex than the rest of us; they are simply more marketable.
And yes, I am fully cognizant of the irony of my saying something like that, given that some consider my image worth paying money for.
I think of myself as a pretty ordinary guy; I still get a huge rush from meeting some handsome, thick, furry, dark-haired, dark-bearded Bear or Cub and chatting him up. There is no feeling in the world like the feeling I get when "the question" is asked, and answered in the affirmative; I want him. He wants me. I get butterflies, a rush of adrenaline, and my dick starts to get hard when I see "yes" in his eyes. I'm addicted to that moment; I can't get enough of that kind of affirmation.
And I've never got that feeling from a pic or a video.
The opening credits (of "Bear Cub") are some of the hottest bearporn I've seen in a long time, even without any close-ups of penetration or cum shots. Why can't actual PORNO give us something as hot as this? I know a porno doesn't have the budget to approach these production values, but they can surely do better than another scene of a couple guys' frenzied humping in a nondescript hotel room during a Bear Run.
The two bears fucking in Pedro's bed looked like regular, real men you might meet at the bar, unlike the polished muscleclones that have become commonplace in "bearstream" porno. Does porn REALLY sell better when it consists primarily of images of angry, sneering, unattainable men?
When I walked by the Bearfilms booth at IBR, I was startled to realize just how similar their models looked. There were three guys sitting there at one point who looked like they could be brothers! The only difference was the size of the tattoo on their shoulders and upper arms.
I was also struck by how different they looked from the vast majority of the men at IBR. These aren't representatives of us; they represent some other aesthetic being marketed to us as a replacement for the men we actually find attractive. Bearfilms wasn't like this a couple years ago; but those bearish early Bearfilms models have all been replaced by a new generation of slimmer, more muscled types.
The bearporn business is very strange; just what exactly is the role of porn in our lives? How do bears use porn? We tend to be sexually active, to the point of promiscuity. Is porn used as a substitute for physical interaction when sex is unavailable? Is it used to "spice up" sexual encounters, sort of visual foreplay? Or is it used to keep us at a high degree of sexual arousal, because no matter how much we're getting, it's never enough?
How do you convince a group of men who seem to have plenty of real, hot, face 2 face sex to spend their hard-earned money on a video of some other guys getting it on? How do you convince them that what you've got for sale is BETTER than what they can get for free?
I guess that's a rationale for using very polished models; if we accept the proposition that "beautiful people" have better sex than the rest of us schlubs, that might be a reason to fill it with images of unattainable perfection having titanic sex.
But you'll forgive me if I think this attitude betrays the last tattered shreds of meaning associated with the "Bear Movement."
Pretty musclebear clones with big dicks don't have better sex than the rest of us; they are simply more marketable.
And yes, I am fully cognizant of the irony of my saying something like that, given that some consider my image worth paying money for.
I think of myself as a pretty ordinary guy; I still get a huge rush from meeting some handsome, thick, furry, dark-haired, dark-bearded Bear or Cub and chatting him up. There is no feeling in the world like the feeling I get when "the question" is asked, and answered in the affirmative; I want him. He wants me. I get butterflies, a rush of adrenaline, and my dick starts to get hard when I see "yes" in his eyes. I'm addicted to that moment; I can't get enough of that kind of affirmation.
And I've never got that feeling from a pic or a video.
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Hairrison
Date: 2005-05-10 10:58 pm (UTC)I hassled one of the Hairrison organizers at IBR 2004 because the cards he was passing out to promote the first Hairrison Street Fair ("The BEAR Fair!!!") used the image of a Colt model as the "signature" image of the event. I kept asking him why they didn't use a picture of like, you know, a Bear to promote the BEAR FAIR. He kept pointing to the image and saying "Isn't he hot?"
Frankly, he wasn't especially hot to me.
I have nothing against Colt models; I'm sure some of them must be lovely chaps. But they aren't Bears; they're Colt Models. It's a different thing. They represent a different aesthetic.
So I never gave Hairrison serious consideration last year. If Colt Models are their target demographic, they surely don't want the likes of me at their event.
I didn't see any Colt Models in the promotions for Hairrison 2005. I will make a mighty effort to go this year, but only if Elijah Black's gig comes through and he's performing that weekend.