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Porn from the bottom of the barrel
Designed to cash in on the success of Kim Kardashian's notorious sex tape, this wannabe porn diva exercise is among the worst examples of latter-day junk masquerading as entertainment. It is worth discussing from an historical point-of-view.
Content of the hour-long video is strictly ersatz: imitating the Kim/Ray J opus, which is even shown occasionally on a video screen prompting protests from star Myla. Running time is padded by basically stringing together two long takes/sessions in which she is dressed differently, humped by the anonymous guy with a big, generally limp, dick. His seeming inability to produce the requisite money shots is also evident.
This is not erotic in the slightest, and the poor visual quality appears to be on purpose. I would surmise (without evidence) that distributor Vivid wanted a followup to the Kim hit, for which a sequel was out of the question now that she has bootstrapped her way from porn to an entertainment empire that should soon make her a billionaire. So rival (though hardly in Kim's league) Myla was enlisted, cashing in on the vague connection of a shared boyfriend, for whom her anonymous sex partner here is a stand-in. Instead of creating a professional porn video (as was done for other celebs such as ex-wrestler Chynna) this is forcibly amateurish to fool the fans into thinking it's "real" - about as real as what passes for so much TV in recent years.
As a porn fan what struck me immediately is how untalented both Kim and Myla are when taking the role of sex performers. They both display similarly unprofessional blow-job technique, lacking any of the teasing abilities that have made porn stars' work erotic, dating back over 40 years to the likes of Candy Samples. It's not stimulating at all. When it comes to actual intercourse, neither femme is interesting and they are poorly photographed - in Myla's case a softcore presentation would likely have been better.
With my mind wandering freely given the lack of interesting content here, I realized that both Kim and Myla come from a long line of beauties that exemplify a very particular female archetype. In softcore porn, Isabel Sarli from Brazil reigned supreme during the 1960s, even scoring a memorable U.S. success with the art house hit FUEGO. The dark, voluptuous brunette type from Europe as classically represented in mainstream cinema by Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale had several soft porn counterparts, notably Edwige Fenech and reached a peak in the 1980s with Donatella Damiani, briefly visible in Fellini's CITY OF WOMEN and star of the classic (yet to receive wide U.S. release unfortunately) IL PECCATO DI LOLA.
Around 1991 this Ideal Woman became personified in hardcore porn by the memorable Viviana and more significantly the British porn star Sarah Young, my all-time favorite actress in adult cinema. Young's voluptuous figure is the template for both Kim and Myla, and though it is her ample (and admittedly artificially enhanced) bust that stands out, fans can see her remarkable posterior on display in one of her videos starring opposite Mike Horner, wherein she gets down on the floor to service him under the table in a fancy restaurant.
Young's classic (they hold up today as extremely erotic over 20 years later) scenes with Sean Michaels and a neophyte Jake Steed are near-perfect examples of mixed-combo action, and the direct predecessors of these two Vivid "amateur porn" videos showcasing Kim and Myla opposite Black studs. In the case of Myla's effort, it is interesting how the subtle reversal of sex-object occurs: Myla is clearly the traditional "sex object", yet this incompetent male opposite her never shows his face, making him the actual object, essentially a disembodied cock.
I have always regarded porn as part of a continuum including mainstream entertainment, and these videos show how Gresham's Law (bad drives the good out of the marketplace, as in the appearance of debased currencies in circulation) is at work. Video replaced filmed porn beginning circa 1983, and soon after amateur productions largely edged out the previous professional output of the Golden Age. Similarly, reality TV stars like Kim (hardly Myla as yet) are threatening to replace actors and actresses, just as video has almost completely replaced 16 and 35mm film for TV series production.
Content of the hour-long video is strictly ersatz: imitating the Kim/Ray J opus, which is even shown occasionally on a video screen prompting protests from star Myla. Running time is padded by basically stringing together two long takes/sessions in which she is dressed differently, humped by the anonymous guy with a big, generally limp, dick. His seeming inability to produce the requisite money shots is also evident.
This is not erotic in the slightest, and the poor visual quality appears to be on purpose. I would surmise (without evidence) that distributor Vivid wanted a followup to the Kim hit, for which a sequel was out of the question now that she has bootstrapped her way from porn to an entertainment empire that should soon make her a billionaire. So rival (though hardly in Kim's league) Myla was enlisted, cashing in on the vague connection of a shared boyfriend, for whom her anonymous sex partner here is a stand-in. Instead of creating a professional porn video (as was done for other celebs such as ex-wrestler Chynna) this is forcibly amateurish to fool the fans into thinking it's "real" - about as real as what passes for so much TV in recent years.
As a porn fan what struck me immediately is how untalented both Kim and Myla are when taking the role of sex performers. They both display similarly unprofessional blow-job technique, lacking any of the teasing abilities that have made porn stars' work erotic, dating back over 40 years to the likes of Candy Samples. It's not stimulating at all. When it comes to actual intercourse, neither femme is interesting and they are poorly photographed - in Myla's case a softcore presentation would likely have been better.
With my mind wandering freely given the lack of interesting content here, I realized that both Kim and Myla come from a long line of beauties that exemplify a very particular female archetype. In softcore porn, Isabel Sarli from Brazil reigned supreme during the 1960s, even scoring a memorable U.S. success with the art house hit FUEGO. The dark, voluptuous brunette type from Europe as classically represented in mainstream cinema by Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale had several soft porn counterparts, notably Edwige Fenech and reached a peak in the 1980s with Donatella Damiani, briefly visible in Fellini's CITY OF WOMEN and star of the classic (yet to receive wide U.S. release unfortunately) IL PECCATO DI LOLA.
Around 1991 this Ideal Woman became personified in hardcore porn by the memorable Viviana and more significantly the British porn star Sarah Young, my all-time favorite actress in adult cinema. Young's voluptuous figure is the template for both Kim and Myla, and though it is her ample (and admittedly artificially enhanced) bust that stands out, fans can see her remarkable posterior on display in one of her videos starring opposite Mike Horner, wherein she gets down on the floor to service him under the table in a fancy restaurant.
Young's classic (they hold up today as extremely erotic over 20 years later) scenes with Sean Michaels and a neophyte Jake Steed are near-perfect examples of mixed-combo action, and the direct predecessors of these two Vivid "amateur porn" videos showcasing Kim and Myla opposite Black studs. In the case of Myla's effort, it is interesting how the subtle reversal of sex-object occurs: Myla is clearly the traditional "sex object", yet this incompetent male opposite her never shows his face, making him the actual object, essentially a disembodied cock.
I have always regarded porn as part of a continuum including mainstream entertainment, and these videos show how Gresham's Law (bad drives the good out of the marketplace, as in the appearance of debased currencies in circulation) is at work. Video replaced filmed porn beginning circa 1983, and soon after amateur productions largely edged out the previous professional output of the Golden Age. Similarly, reality TV stars like Kim (hardly Myla as yet) are threatening to replace actors and actresses, just as video has almost completely replaced 16 and 35mm film for TV series production.
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- lor_
- Sep 4, 2014
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