Just like regular television has lost it's audience recently,
conceding prime time slots to reality television,
so too have big-budget porn productions. In place of these
legendary movies of crappy plotlines and bad acting
has emerged a new genre of porn: “amateur”
porn.
And it’s grabbing the country by the balls. Gary Blumenthal, Webmaster for OnTheHUNT.com, a spin-off of Manhunt.com that invites its members to be filmed
having sex with other members, says that the reality porn genre kicked off a few years ago – the same time video Internet started gaining steam. People were tired of regular porn, they were ooking for a change, he says, something they hadn’t seen before.
Reality porn has been around forever, there are now actual sites to view it. Sites like XTube and GayTube have given amateur porn stars a place for
people to view their homemade vid.
Now even many video distributors and video-on-demand sites have sprung
which specialize in this type of homegrown reality amateur porn. OnTheHUNT, which is on the cutting edge of reality porn is as real as reality porn gets. When it launched, the site
received more than 4,000 inquiries from Manhunt members interested in meeting other members to have their
sex taped. “We send a famous porn star like Jeremy Hall or Collin O’Neal or Matthew Rush to
the amateurs’ home to film the hook up just as it is happening,” Blumenthal explains. “In the editing process, we
leave in about 99 percent of the footage so people can see the good, the bad, and the in-between.”
Christopher, who answered OnTheHUNT’s call, says he had never been in front of a vid camera before
signing on to star in a reality porn film.
“I received an e-mail inviting me,” Christopher recalls about the first time he heard from OnTheHunt. “I wasn’t
sure if I was up for it because I knew so many people would eventually be able to see me do whatever it was I was
going to do, but I submitted my photos anyway, thinking what the odds were of me being picked. Next thing I know,
I was chosen and showing my junk on a vid.”
Christopher says he enjoyed the experience so much that he’s decided to pursue his newfound fetish
even further.
“As of now, I have not been cast for any scripted porn by any studio,” he says, “and I’m not sure how the transition
would be, really. But I’m always up for any challenges.”
A lot of guys just don’t care much about a
dumb plot or artfully rendered dialogue in a porn flick. They might like
fiction and the fantasy, but they’re really in it to watch the
sex. People who watch porn seem to have their
finger on the fast forward button when they are watching scripted
porn.
Straight porn is
farther ahead in reality porn than gay porn.
Fewer gay content studios embraced the reality porn genre in the early
days until they realized amateurs were submitting their own x pics and vids to various gay sites.
While there is no shortage of participants in reality porn, Alexa, a
Web info company that consistently ranks the most
visited Web sites in the United States, ranks Pornhub.com and YouPorn.com
as numbers 28 and 40 in total site hits.
To put these statistics into perspective, both sites receive more traffic than
those of corporate giants Fox News and Disney.
The beauty of reality porn is there are no real stars, the stars are the guys next door who are
filming their own hookups and bros.
It represents the future. Like the old television sitcoms that continue to die a slow death, only to be replaced by reality television, so too are over-the-top porn productions now relegated to an X-rated graveyard.
We are going to see more exhibitionist sites, more sites with live video like Manhunt’s Mancam, and more everyday guys jumping in front of the camera.
Veteran porn stars, stand by. Your pink slips are coming.
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