Bear Porn Rant
May. 10th, 2005 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 Bearfilms wasn't like this a couple years ago; but those bearish early Bearfilms models have all been replaced by a new generation of slimmer, more muscled types.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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Date: 2005-05-16 01:13 pm (UTC)Buck Bauer, Steve Ellis, Hank, Ali... Guys like that (all of whom I've met at bear events and at least chatted with) are more attractive to me than the men in their recent productions, like "Bear Voyage". It's a matter of personal preference, and my preference is for guys who don't look so highly-maintained.
I also enjoy Jerry's (and Ken's) work with XXXL Productions; if their first video hadn't been the best-looking big man/bear porn I'd ever seen, I never would've agreed to work with them. It's well-shot, nicely lit, beautifully edited, and the music is some of the best I've heard in this kind of production. And I really like the men in their videos.
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Date: 2005-05-18 06:26 am (UTC)Yes. Bill, Jerry and Ken do produce a great product... I love talking to them about the technical aspects of their production (and their disagreements). One of these days I may take a stab at the market myself.
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Date: 2005-05-18 01:26 pm (UTC)And they disagree about everything, all the time!
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Date: 2005-05-19 07:55 am (UTC)I have stuff hanging where it shouldn't be and stuff not hanging where it should!
And it is cute to see them disagree or argue. For some reason, most of the time when i talk to Bill, it's in a pool somewhere.