Pornographic movie

Pornographic movies appeared shortly after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible. Pornographic films have much in common with other forms of pornography. Pornography is often referred to as "porn" and a pornographic work as "a porno".

Sub-genres

Main article: List of pornographic sub-genres

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Current pornographic videos can be divided into a number of sub-genres by the sex of the performers, the types of sex act portrayed, and the intended audience. Some of the most popular include:

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• Straight porn, designed principally to appeal to heterosexual men
• Couples porn, designed to appeal to both heterosexual men and women
• Lesbian, "girl-girl", or "girl-on-girl" porn designed to appeal to heterosexual men or homosexual women
• Gay, "boy-boy", or man-on-man porn, designed to appeal to homosexual men and to a lesser extent heterosexual women.
• "Bisexual" porn, involving both heterosexual (and often lesbian) and homosexual male acts
• Pregnant and Milking porn, involving sex with pregnant women and/or drinking and squirting of breast milk (although this does not necessarily require a pregnant girl).
• "Shemale" porn, involving transwomen (male-to-female transgender persons) that have breasts (either through hormone replacement therapy or through breast augmentation and usually other female secondary sex characteristics), but who have not undergone genital reassignment surgery, in other words, women with penises (often called 'chicks with dicks').
• "Gonzo" porn, which often purports to recruit amateur performers off the street (but does not actually do so, because of the need for HIV testing, and to satisfy record-keeping requirements in the age verification of the performers)
• Spanking and BDSM porn
• Fetish porn

At the same time, a distinction can be drawn across all genres between those movies with some semblance of a story and those which are simply assemblies of sequences of sex acts, the latter sometimes referred to as "wall-to-wall". A related distinction is between regular and "amateur porn", in which performers are not or appear not to be professional porn stars as seen by the lack of noticeable makeup, overblown dialogue, or discontinuous plot and motives. Third, porn involving roleplaying puts the performers into occupations which often are in real life thought to be unethical, unprofessional, or otherwise troublesome to have sex with another, for the thrill of forbidden relations, such as between doctor and nurse, cheerleader and team member, dad and babysitter, or professor and student. Another divides softcore and hardcore porn, the former common on premium cable channels, which do not show genitalia or bodily fluids at any time in the movie, and the latter on adult channels, which can and do.

Related Topics:
Sex act - Roleplaying - Real life - Softcore - Hardcore - Premium cable - Adult channels

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Pornographic movies are notable for their extensive use of sequels, probably due to the lack of plot: a successful new movie will often generate dozens of numbered sequels in essentially the same format.

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