Monday, March 24, 2008

Hot 'N Queer: My Porn Recommendations

Lately, I've been getting a lot of questions from people asking me about various types of porn that I promote. I've finally decided to put all the information in one place for anyone who wants it. Enjoy! And if you have anything more to add, please leave a comment, since I definitely don't know about every piece of porn out there, and may have missed something really great.

So we all know that the kind of porn that we watch doesn't necessarily reflect on our sexual orientations; if anything, the porn collections of most people will attest to that. I'm sure nobody could decide if I was a lesbian woman, gay man, straight man, straight woman, transperson, or anything by looking at the hodgepodge of stuff that I enjoy. But I do tend to stay away from a certain type of porn. The kind of porn I hate is fake and passionless. Everything about it is fake, from the boobs, hair color, tans, and smiles of its stars to the passion and the orgasms of its women. Nothing about it feels or looks like the kind of sex that I have, and because of that, I can't relate to it. it's often got this misogynistic tinge (or outright male chauvinistic message) that doesn't even bother with the pretense of female orgasms, calls women "bitches", "ho's", "sluts" (and not in the good way or in a specific BDSM-related context), and always seems to end with that cliched and standard facial cumshot (ugh). The lesbians in the porn I hate are not real lesbians- they are inept with one anothers' bodies, they gaze into the camera (and hence the presumed male viewer), and they adhere to a pornographic, heterosexual male standard of beauty and sexiness. The transwomen in the porn I hate are invariably given demeaning names ("shemale", "chicks with dicks"), the porn rarely exemplifies true trans experiences (like difficulty in getting erections when you've been on estrogen for a while), and are treated just as badly as non-trans girls in straight porn. The transmen in the porn I hate don't even exist. In the porn I hate, love, passion, and chemistry are all too rare, eschewed instead for big dicks, big tits, and wall-to-wall gangbang action that tries to make up for what it lacks with the 'quantity over quality' concept.


This list is not about the porn I hate; it's about the porn I love, the opposite of everything I listed above. It's realistic, it's passionate and loving (often with real-life couples), it treats women and sex as beautiful, positive things to be cherished, respected and enjoyed, it features safe sex, and it has real orgasms (my favorite!). Enjoy it. Buy it. Spread it around, because God knows that it's all too rare, and needs all the support it can get.

How To Read This List:

It's organized by the type of sex portrayed within (gay, lesbian, straight, trans, etc.), although you should remember that many of these categories can overlap and share areas with one another. I have them listed first with the production company, then the title, just to make it easier for you (as if putting clickable links wasn't kind enough!). Almost all of these movies can be found as VOD (video-on-demand) at Hot Movies For Her VOD, too, if you'd rather have it on your computer than as a hard copy or just want it instanteously instead of having to wait for it to ship.

Queer [Mainly Lesbian] Porn:

I add in "mainly lesbian" here as a qualifier because while this stuff is technically lesbian, it often features transmen in it, too, just to warn you, if that isn't your thing. All the porn listed here has a least one butch woman in it. I'm not saying that femme-femme porn can't be realistic, hot, and sexy (by God, of course it can!), but it's much easier to find positive and real femme-femme porn than it is to find butch-femme and/or butch-butch. Many of the videos and websites do have femme-femme in it, though, along with butches. So, in no particular order:

1) Pleasure Productions' "San Francisco Lesbians Series", Volumes 1-10

2) Factory Video Productions' "Working Girlz"

3) Pink & White Productions' "The Crash Pad". You can watch the preview trailer for the movie here.

4) Pink & White Productions' "Superfreak". You can watch the preview trailer for the movie here.

5) Pink & White Productions' "In Search Of Wild Kingdom". You can watch the preview trailer for the movie here.

6) Pink & White Productions' "The Crash Pad Series, Volume 1". You can watch the preview trailer for the movie here.

7) Early To Bed's "Coming Home"

8) Early To Bed's "Special Delivery"

9) S.I.R. Video's "Hard Love/How To Fuck In High Heels" (the two are sold together)

10) S.I.R. Video's "Sugar High Glitter City"

11) Fatale Media's "Afterschool Special"/"Turn Me Up, Over, and On" (the two are sold together)

12) Fatale Media's "Take Her Down!: Lesbian Erotic Oil Wrestling Party"

13) Fatale Media's "Full Load: Scenes From Ssspread.com"

14) Fatale Media's "Suburban Dykes"

15) Fatale Media's "Bathroom Sluts"

16) Dirty Pillows' "Pornograflics"

17) Mojo Video's "Real Butch Dyke Lesbians"

18) Hysterie Prod's "Pour Une Nuit"/"One Night Stand". And here is the film's Myspace, complete with lots of non-explicit preview videos.

19) Crash Pad Series Website

20) Good Dyke Porn Website

21) Cyber Dyke Website

Straight Porn:

I'm the first ot admit that I don't watch that much straight porn, for reasons cited above. So I don't claim to have all the great movies that you should be seeing. But here are the few that get my thumbs up, almost all from Comstock Films. NOTE: all of these are fabulous, because all have preview trailers on the sites so you can see what you're buying.

1) Comstock Films' "Jack and Marie: A Hardcore Love Story"

2) Comstock Films' "Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract"

3) Comstock Films' "Matt and Khym: Better Than Ever"

4) LUST Films' "Cinco Historias Para Ella"/"Five Hot Stories For Her"

5) Libido Films' "Trial Run"

6) Libido Films' "Urban Friction"

Gay Porn:

I watch a ton of gay male porn; I love it SOOO much. But (I confess!) I don't purchase much of it because there's just so much of it available for free on the Internet, and it's of a high-enough quality and good aesthetic and message that it sates all of my needs. So I can't provide much information here, but I will list a few that have caught my eye for going above and beyond:

1) Comstock Films' "Damon and Hunter: Doing It Together"

FtM Porn:

FtM porn has gotten a lot of attention because of butch hottie and total amazing transguy Buck Angel, who put FtM's on the map in the porn world and has carved out a niche for himself. He's won awards, gotten recognized in the adult entertainment community, and paved the way for those who follow. Can we get three cheers for Buck? But there are a couple of people who came before Buck, and several who have come after, to increase the FtM porn out there from 'nil' to 'some'. Oddly enough, most of the FtM porn out there (and most of the videos on Xtube, too) seem to be gay male/trannyfag in nature . . . I'm not sure why that might be or what it means, but that's the state of things, so if you're longing to see transmen with girls, you might have to wait a little bit longer. I'd also like to caution that many of the FtM's here are alongside lesbians or gay men, so go through them on a case-by-case basis to see what'll appeal to you:

1) Fatale Media's "Full Load: Scenes From Ssspread.com"

2) Dirty Pillows' "Pornograflics"

3) Hysterie Prod's "Pour Une Nuit"/"One Night Stand". And here is the film's Myspace, complete with lots of non-explicit preview videos.

4) Morty Diamond's "Trans Entities: The Nasty Love Of Papi and Will"

5) Morty Diamond's "Trannyfags"

6) Christopher Lee's "Alley Of The Tranny Boys"

7) Christoper Lee's "Sex Flesh In Blood" (I can't find this movie for sale anywhere; if you know where to get it, PLEASE tell me)

8) Trannywood Pictures' "Cubbyholes: Trans Men In Action". You can watch it with video-on-demand here.

9) Trannywood Pictures' "Couch Surfers: Trans Men In Action".

10) Buck Angel's "Transexual Man" Website. Buck's a totally prolific actor and has tons of movies, far too many to list here, so you can view all of them here.

11) Crash Pad Series Website

12) Red Handed Porn Website

MtF Porn:

Like I mentioned above, most "shemale" porn feels just as exploitative as the name implies. Where are real transwomen? Unfortunately, I've yet to find much in the way of real transwomen, but here are some sources:

1) Red Handed Porn Website

2) Crash Pad Series Website (has the first post-op transwoman ever in a professional porn- that I know of, at least. Her name's Julie!)

In Summation:

I hope that helps everyone! What can I say; I love porn, and the only way I can make sure that the kind of porn I like continues to get made is to spread the word so that people keep buying it and they'll keep making it. Not to mention that I love helping out individuals and couples who thought their kind of sex and the sort of things that turn them on didn't exist.

2 comments:

Ian Sparks said...

Wow, great summation of the state of this part of the industry/community.

It's so fun to stumble upon you (so often ;)

shaxx said...

I will check your list, thank you!

I findd that my taste is a bit hard to find in porn vids. Basically I like butch-femme action, but I don't like the butch to be too manly... (no offense, but I feel like I'm watching a man minus the breast) I like my butches to be pretty and uhm ordinary looking haha (no heavy make up/punk-like hairdo, no too much tatoo or piercings).... maybe it has something to do with my past and upbringing haha... anw im very grateful if you know something like that? You know I really really like Dallas from crash pad, oh if only she ever made one with an ordinary, daily femme haha.