Gamelink’s Loadmap to Great Porn in 2014

How would you like to see porn evolve in the year 2014?

Wait, let me stop you right there: There’s probably nobody listening. Sorry. I mean, sure, I’m listening, so you can feel free to leave as many comments as you want, but I can’t really do anything about it. I’m guessing the vast majority of you have no connections to the porn industry and neither do I, so whatever we’d like to see in porn in 2014 is probably going to remain just a wish. Feel free to go to your favourite porn producer and look for an email address to send suggestions to, though; it’s worth a try.

I highly doubt anyone in the porn world reads my blog – and if they were they’d probably just continually roll their eyes at my ignorance – but there’s this dude named Gram Ponante who also blogs about porn, except that unlike me people actually read his blog, including people in the porn industry. So I’m hoping they listen to his post on Gamelink on what he hopes happens in the porn world in 2014, which is, in my humble opinion, quite funny, including this passage, in which he tackles the genre of “interracial” porn:

Seriously – it’s the 21st century. We are less than sixty years away from being discovered by Vulcans, if the Star Trek universe is to be trusted. Do we really want them showing up and finding out that we are still so dumb about race that we call it “interracial” when a black man has sex with a white woman but not when it’s a white man and an Asian woman? Or that we still think it’s important that the distinction be made? How are we going to get into the United Federation of Planets while our porn awards show still has Interracial categories? At the very least, the people making Gorn-on-Horta porn are going to think we’re rubes, and they’ll be right. PJ O’Rourke once said something like (and I am quoting very loosely from a 20-year-old memory here) “You have more in common with a Maori tribesman than a Lhasa Apso does with a golden retriever.” I may have gotten the dogs and the people wrong, but still. The fact that we are still using the word “race” to describe the difference between me and Lexington Steele (there are a couple of other differences) is silly; porn is supposed to be the place where social conventions are destroyed and taboos broken. Can we not just give this one up and find a different one to thrill over?