Making Love Like a Porn Star

I’ve discussed this phraseology with a couple people and am astounded by how many differing reactions folks have to “making love like a porn star.” One gentleman asked me aghast, “You watch porn!?” I shook my head vigorously in denial, but my fingers were crossed behind my back. I’ve seen some pornography, actually enjoyed a few bits of it. As long as the actors look sufficiently of age, preferably closer to my own age, as long as there is no violence, coercion or cruelty, as long as there is not degradation or name calling, I can actually find some redeeming qualities to some of the films I’ve seen.

Ok, so perhaps I’ve only seen the collection I confiscated from my son, and perhaps it was conspicuously vanilla (much to my relief) and perhaps I am being naïve, but I think there could be a market for well done porn targeted towards middle aged horny women, seeing as we are hitting our sexual peaks. Most of the porn, at least the stuff I confiscated from my son, seemed to be targeted to….well…post pubescent teenage boys, like my son, who are also at their sexual peak. Perhaps the porn targeted towards my age group and gender exists, I just have never been exposed to it.

Anyway, when I first heard the phrase “make love like a porn star”, and sadly, it is not a phrase I coined, but rather one I borrowed from one of my dear writing friends, I thought, “make love with passion, abandon and imagination”. I did not think “make love with multiple partners while high on illegal substances in between hooking johns”. My friend who had that imagery thought perhaps I should use “make love like the romance book heroine”, but that doesn’t really mean what I was thinking. The heroines in romance novels usually take a passive role in the lovemaking, as the hero is usually rescuing them from something, then exacting their due, at least in the beginning. That is directly counter to the thinking of this middle aged sex goddess. Making love at my age is never something that is done to me, it is something I am very actively involved in making happen.

I stand by my assertion that I have made love like a porn star, meaning with passion, with abandon, with imagination. Come on, people. Some of my best ideas of what painfree, humiliation free, audience free position to try next have come from watching movies, not from romance novels.