What's the joy in watching fake dicks?
A thought provoking question, BDrake.
My guess is that there are two major categories of porn watchers.
Most are those who watch
vicariously (from the Latin for
substitute, imagining through another), imagining themselves in the scene as a participant in the action. For them, certainly a fake dick just makes the imagination have to work way too hard. How do you feel what a fake dick feels? No joy in that.
The other group watch
voyeuristically, watching the scene as an observer, enjoying its visual eroticism, the attractiveness of the actress, and maybe imagining some girl he knows being in the scene. The men (and their dicks) are all props. For the voyeur, the erotic value of a fake dick is purely visual.
Vicarons (okay, I made that word up, adding the Latin word for
meat) are more likely to enjoy scenes shot in POV. They have favorite sex positions in their movies. Voyeurs have favorite camera angles--what does it show, what can you see. Voyeurs only enjoy POV when it's from the eyes of
someone else in the movie watching the scene.
If the scene is an unfaithful girlfriend, the one who watches vicariously probably takes the position of the guy fucking the girl, while the voyeur may take the position of the hidden boyfriend peeking through the door.
Sex is strange stuff!