One suggestion for improving pornography might be: Leave the action/adventure/special-effects genre to Hollywood. I, like almost everyone else, is generally more interested, and attracted to, the ordinary people we know.

When I think about my own next-door neighbors over the years it’s hard to imagine very many of them shifting straight from “should I undress in front of a bunch of strangers with cameras at all” to “and while I’m at it why don’t I just let them tie me to a Sybian during an eclipse, too?”

The whole point about people like the girl next door is they’re not actresses. And presumably if we just wanted acting we’d be going somewhere else anyway.

Coincidentally or not, one of the sexiest things I’ve seen in a video was an AbbyWinters model who casually but thoroughly strokes her breasts during an inventory of which parts of her body she thinks is attractive. She wasn’t thinking about being sexy. In fact she does it while saying she thinks most guys would probably like her breasts better if they were bigger! (Whether that’s even true is completely beside the point. What she was doing was eighteen times cooler than anything Chesty Canyon might ever have done while trying to act.)

It might not be the most creative thing a pornographer ever thought of shooting, but I find I go back and watch clips like hers a dozen times for every time I watch a more adventurous (i.e. doesn’t feel sexy just being herself) model trying to pretend inserting light bulbs is interesting. That doesn’t mean one shouldn’t experiment — some people really are wild, sexy, very attractive, and creative. But in the mean time I wish people would figure out how to get everyday people to just be their ordinary sexy selves. The problem for (industrial) pornographers is it might be hard to encourage and boring to photograph, but it can be riveting to watch.