Gay Videos: Some Random Thoughts

[Guest fountainhall]

A thought or two about vdos. Some posters have in the past expressed indifference about gay vdos. Others are enthusiastic and happily buy them or download them from the endless variety of internet sites.

 

I remember purchasing my first 8mm movie by mail from a company in Los Angeles (for in those days, vdo had not yet been invented). It arrived in a package with some strange title, presumably to put off customs and others who might wish to take a peek. The quality was pretty dreadful but I got a quick thrill from furtively watching it a couple of times. Thereafter, it remained unseen, stashed away somewhere in the attic where I hoped no one else in my family would find it.

 

Now when I see sellers on the beach or I pop into the dedicated gay vdo stores in Tokyo, I get that same slight rush of adrenalin as I look over the covers, conjuring - as the graphic designers intend - erotic fantasies from the photos. Sometimes I will be tempted to buy. Then I will later settle down to watch a few. Yet, despite the beauty of the guys on display, the achingly slow development of the action - that near predictable progression from meeting, to attraction, to manual probing down trousers, to disrobing, and from there to a good 7 – 8 minutes of oral simulation, a similar amount of time for anal stimulation, before the deed itself and the inevitable happy ending close-ups – have me fast-forwarding so frequently that a 2 hour film ends up as around 10 occasionally stimulating minutes. Not all are as predictable as this, I agree. In an earlier post I mentioned the Thai Twink series which involved quite a number of guys and in which the various scenes were shorter and more ‘interesting’. A couple of these remain amongst my favourites, as does one on the Japanese Surf Surf Revolution series.

 

I throw most out almost as soon as I have seen them, and only retain a collection of a few dozen. However, I realised the other day that I rarely bring any of them out, preferring instead that ‘thrill’ of fast-forwarding to yet another coupling, avoiding the longueurs in the build up.

 

I wonder how many posters purchase dvds. If so, do you generally watch them from beginning to end, letting the programmed ‘drama’ unfold naturally without hitting the fast-forward button regularly? And once seen a couple of times, do you collect them and tend to go back to them from time to time? Or do they end up in the trash as you search out another new vdo happy ending?

[Bob]

I probably didn't buy the first one until I was at least 30 and tossed them all out before I was 50 (got to the point where I wasn't watching any of them anyway and I suppose I either wanted the space for other use or didn't want somebody stumbling onto them). I had maybe 15-20 of them at most. And haven't bought another one (and, come to think of it, don't remember when I even last saw a location or store that was selling any of them....although I'm guessing people buy such stuff on the internet these days?).

 

And, yea, I'd skip ahead to the "good parts" when I did watch them. But I think part of that is something genetic about a male with a remote control in his hands....

[Guest fountainhall]

I think part of that is something genetic about a male with a remote control in his hands....

. . . and fingers on the trigger, no doubt

 

When I tossed out my old video cassettes, I didn't quite know what to do with them. I eventually went around a number of public washrooms in shopping malls dropping a few in the trash each time!! I hope the cleaners enjoyed them.

[Guest]

I have about 5 such DVDs. That makes my gay DVD collection slightly larger than the non-pornographic one!

 

Japan seems to offer a vast selection of pornographic DVDs, but unfortunately the law requires the private parts are obscured. I wish they would do export versions. Actually, even in the large gay shops in Berlin, there are very few gay Asian videos on offer.

 

I've watched a few other clips from gaytube & the like. Also picked up a couple of DVDs on Dongtan beach.

 

Personally I would like to see DVDs concentrating on more tasteful nudity & less of the rimming. Also better quality production and high definition would be welcome. Finally, keep the hairy farang out of the scene.

[Guest fountainhall]

keep the hairy farang out of the scene

. . . and do me out of a job??

 

Japan seems to offer a vast selection of pornographic DVDs, but unfortunately the law requires the private parts are obscured.

I have never worked out the origin of that law. There are some uncensored export versions available but I find they have to be ordered in from distributors in the US. I also find that the pixilation on many DVDs is now more like slightly fuzzy glass with not much left to the imagination - unlike some years ago. There is also some sort of underground unofficial porn called 'urabon' which generally has no masking.

 

Interesting fact on wikipedia. The porn industry now accounts for 1% of Japan's GDP and equals the total Japanese Defence budget!

[Guest Steve1903]

I have maybe about 30-40 dvds. These will be among the binned casualties when I put my stuff into storage for the duration of my upcoming stay in LOS. Dont want to bring them over, dont want them in storage either.

Truth be told there are maybe only about half a dozen I will "miss" in any way and even then only a few parts of a few scenes from those. As for watching them all the way through I'm not sure that I've done that with any of them. I think some of them I got from start to finish in 10 minutes and never looked at again. Bottom line is if I don't like the participants then they're of no use.

I concur with a comment of a previous post that those with Asian guys are quickly spoiled when farang are involved. Again, I've yet to see a good Asian sex scene in any dvd. They all seem to be formulaic, slow slow eroticism type thing (give me a good hard fuck any day) - not to forget that awful background music.....umm, is this too much information?

[Guest anonone]

 

 

Interesting fact on wikipedia. The porn industry now accounts for 1% of Japan's GDP and equals the total Japanese Defence budget!

 

"Make Love, Not War"...they are taking that quite seriously

 

 

At first, I would rent VHS tapes so there would be nothing around for the family to find. The "thrill" of furtively slipping into the backroom was OK, but even better was the trek through the public part of the store with my gay video in hand, praying there would be no one I knew in the store. Ah, the joys of closeted life.

 

I would tend to fast forward through these movies, mostly dependent on the particular actor(s) in the scene and what they were doing.

 

There was a brief period when I would buy DVDs, but that was short lived and I have thrown them all away. All my porn needs are now served via the internet

[Guest xiandarkthorne]

Hey! That's not fair! I enjoy watching Farang/Asian guy action! AND I'll bet so do quite a number of other Asians. It gives us strange thrills watching a smooth body rubbing up against a big, hairy one...maybe that's why bear movies are so popular in Japan, too.

[TotallyOz]

I have found most DVD's boring as well. I don't like the majority of them. However, when I do see Bel Ami, I get turned on. And, the two twins they have doing videos are sexy!

 

The Thai made videos are horrible and would not waste my money on them. I have yet to find one good company that makes videos in Thailand.

 

Brazil has some amazing videos and I like to watch the ones of the boys I know. I find it a big turn on.

[Guest luvthai]

I like the videos that have a little plot to them such as seduction and outdoor sex and favor the twink type guys.

However I find some videos degrading and just in poor taste such as most of the videos by privateboymovies.com These I find so degrading and having the old hairy camera man jumping in is such a turnoff.

[Guest fountainhall]

It's a while since we had a nice photo. I came across this cover for a Japanese video on a site the other day. I wasn't prepared to pay to download it, but these guys look really hot - and not just because they are in a hot tub

 

 

We cannot post links here but there is enough info on the cover for google to bring up something.

[Guest]

Having swiftly googled that, the following photo seemed worthy of a post.

[Rogie]

If there's one thing these boys exude, it's cleanliness. They're squeaky clean. I couldn't possible imagine anything dirty transpiring between them. Another thing, I love their dress sense - an eclectic amalgam of dressing gowns, bulging Y-fronts, cummerbunds and sawn-off dinner jackets . . .

[Guest fountainhall]

I think this will be the dress sense of the production company - but I know what you mean. The porn content may be lacking in something, but the guys usually look great.

[ChristianPFC]

I would not judge a DVD by its cover, but on the internet you can often find a picture that has screenshots of the movie every x minutes, and they are very useful.

 

I am very picky, so I can dismiss the majority just by looking at the preview.

 

What remains, there is about 5-10% interesting scenes fromt he total.

 

I only want the data, I don't need a carrier (DVD) for the data as I can store it on my harddrive. That's why I rather search on the internet and do not buy DVDs. There is a lot of free stuff on the internet, and stuff you usually have to pay for (boykakke, privateboymovies, ...) is available for free if you know where to look.

 

I have an underwear fetish, which is not served by the industry. Usually scenes with underwear on or how the underwear comes off are too short or absent. At the beginning, they are in street clothes, and suddenly they are naked in bed! The most important part for me has been cut out!

[Guest fountainhall]

I have an underwear fetish, which is not served by the industry. Usually scenes with underwear on or how the underwear comes off are too short or absent.

 

In that case, Japanese vdos should be right up your alley. Because of the censorship requiring some degree of pixillation, most vdos linger for many minutes on the guys in their briefs before anything more is revealed.