Porn by Robbie Cooper

Recently I read an article on Slog about a Canadian researcher who wasn't about to find adult heterosexual male subjects who hasn't seen porn before. There's no such things as men who don't watch porn. No matter how some friends claim their innocent asses otherwise.

Video artist and photographer Robbie Cooper produced a video asking porn aficionados questions of what porn meant to them and their personal first experience of porn encounters. While the participants were answering the questions, they are also themselves watching and getting off on porn. Other than the subject matter and part of the audio, it's not really inappropriate for work. You'd just see a few "O faces", that's all.



My first encounter with porn is when I was probably 16 and one of my friends brought a penthouse to school and passed it around. I knew I like boys better then so the image of female nudity didn't do anything for me and I skipped right through the music review section to read the rare foreign music reviews available to me. Then, a friend invited me and a bunch of friends to his place to watch some category 4 movies when his family were out. The Hong Kong movie rating system only goes to category 3, no full nudity is allowed. The urban slang of "category 4", usually refers to pornos brought in from Japan ("accidently" unfiltered), Europe or the States. It was weird watching porn in a group with your straight buddies and you get filled with hormones and helpless at the same time.

After I discovered masturbation when I was 18, I rummaged through my uncle's newspaper where it casually contains erotic articles and stories. There's not much regulation when it comes to newspaper publication. The stories were graphic, there's also an erotic comic strip too. Those were my material for a while, I still enjoy stories because it inspires imagination. /there were an episode where a colleague of mine working in a restaurant invited me back to his pad to watch porn, maybe he was trying to open me up, and I did watch a western porn by myself where a woman was doing it with a pair of muscular twins and of course, I was just watching it for the boys but I kept it by myself.

After coming to the States, I got a computer and browsed for pictures back when it was till dial-up or nothing, you have to wait a whole 10 minutes to have one picture loaded. That's how my best friend found out I was gay and "unfriended" me. I explored the gay bookstore of Boston and imported a few dozens of VHS at my chance and loved watching porn ever since. And now, you can find so much frre porn on the internet that you hardly have to buy anything ever. Personally, I don't think one should be ashamed of watching porn, it's one of the human needs that needs to be fulfilled.

And no, I'm not gonna show you my O-face. Ha.