How small is your niche?

One of the (many) things that used to frustrate me with porn films was the way they were cut.


After an all-too-brief introduction to the main characters (plumber/housewife, that sort of thing), they would invariably cut immediately to both actors being fully undressed and, er, going at it.


The man's membrum virilis would be, as it were, at the ready.


It frustrated me because it missed out the staggeringly enormous erotic potential of undressing.


As this sequence demonstrates, there is a huge amount of fun to be had in the gradual reveal, in teasing ourselves with what will be delayed but ultimately, we hope, gratification.


And there's pleasure to be had, too, in one partner being more or less undressed than the other.


In feeling more vulnerable with one's (prospective) lover or more in control.


Porn all too often just isn't subtle enough to entice or reflect the full range of our emotional and sexual responses.


Although I suppose that isn't altogether surprising: after all, each of us is likely to have very different stimuli and responses.


The charming couple in this sequence seem to have been playing that game rather well.


And then the thrilling moment comes when it is time to turn the tables, to swap roles...


I suppose that's another area where the internet has been such a boon.


It allows each of us, no matter how freakishly unusual, to find reflections of the precise niche that makes us happy.


All too much porn is shockingly unadventurous -- surely most humans can't be so similar in their tastes?


But even a sequence such as this almost invariably ends up with a prolonged session of bumming.


Maybe that's just the power of the market, though?