And now for something completely different - musing on the Literotica Login page.

[onehitwanda]

It's a weird... I'm not sure kink is the right word, it's more akin to fascination. I often stare at the photos of the various women who're running cams or chat rooms or... whatever that carousel of earthy delights is that scrolls across the login page.
And I sit and wonder who they are, or what their stories are. How many are doing it because they find it fun; how many started on a whim or as a way to make a bit of extra money for a holiday or rent or whatnot. I construct back stories for them, sometimes.

And I wonder about their real lives.

Every now and then the "front page" changes and I wonder what algorithm drives the selection. I wonder about the people who've appeared, and about those who've disappeared - whether they'll be back; whether they have to "top up" some balance somewhere to fix their ranking, or whether it's just completely arbitrary and they're gone for good.

There was one... I'll call her young woman, because she was too old for the label girl to fit her. Her photo caught her bending over as if she'd been caught in the process of getting dressed. Waves of rich golden hair tucked back behind an ear, looking off screen as if watching something. I wonder whether she got bored, or outed, or simply... moved on. I often used to just sit and stare at her. She should have been the subject for Reubens, she was that lovely.

I wonder where she is and whether she's happy.

Strange. All these other women I'll never know beyond this most insiginificant and intangible way.

The internet really is a shark-infested mangrove rather than a village. Little isolated islands and you can see other inhabitants, but reaching them is often beyond our means.

Anyway, enough rambling. You've been listening to Radio Free Wanda. We will now resume our regular scheduling.

 

[Djmac1031]

Weird. I just jerk off to them.

 

[onehitwanda]

Weird. I just jerk off to them.

I'm not entirely sure what to do with this mental image, but I'm pretty sure it involves bleach and rubber gloves.

 

[John_Vandermeer]

Seems like we have the acorn of a story idea for somebody... Maybe one of the E/V writers?

 

[Djmac1031]

I'm not entirely sure what to do with this mental image, but I'm pretty sure it involves bleach and rubber gloves.

Sorry. Didn't mean to plant that image in your head.

Getting slightly more serious; the nature of porn in general is to sexually objectify those involved in it.

So it can be difficult to remember sometimes that they're real people too, with real lives and stories.

There's a young lady I followed for many years for her wonderful JOI videos who later started a YouTube channel where she finally revealed her face.

And while she did talk some about her Adult career, she also shares her other interests in life.

It was a very interesting juxtaposition for me, balancing my sexual fantasy version of her and learning about her as a real person.

 

[onehitwanda]

So it can be difficult to remember sometimes that they're real people too, with real lives and stories.

One of the saddest things I ever heard was a snippet of video posted on 4chan (Yes, I'm depraved, no, not that depraved, but there is occasionally some... really quite delicious... lesbian content to be found there).

It was a section of an interview from an American adult film actress in which she pretty matter-of-fact stated how hard it was to live somewhere where pretty much everyone knew who you were and where you'd had penises put inside you.

One of the most poignant things she said was when talking about family and, potentially, children. And she just got this look on her face and said something like "But wait, no. You're a whore. You're not allowed these things. No family for you, and definitely no kids."

And I just remember looking at this beautiful young woman who was so clearly within a hair's breadth of tears and all I could think about was how unfair it was and how much she probably just needed a hug.

 

[MrPixel]

Weird. I just jerk off to them.

Gawd no. 95%, or some great proportion, are simply not my style, or, rather, they are posed or have expressions that I guess are supposed to be sexy that I actually find to be a turnoff. And there's the emphasis on my particular anti-fetish, lingerie. I'm more interested in the person, that what drives my interest in intimacy, even casual, goes way beyond the prospective pokey-pokey (or wanky-wanky).

And I will admit to "style". There's one, face only, that makes me immediately think, "I wish I could meet her," and the corollary, "Oh, to be 40 years younger."

Like Wanda, my mind flashes for a few microseconds on "what is their story?" I tend to avert my eyes, actually, because maybe you can tell the objectification makes me sad.

 

[SimonDoom]

One way to satisfy the curiosity is to contact them and ask them. I've written four stories so far based, in one way or another, on real women who offered, or still offer, online erotic content. I asked them questions, followed their posts, and obtained their consent, even though my stories aren't about them but about fictional characters based loosely on them. Female exhibitionism has always been one of my favorite Lit kinks, so the rise of the OnlyFans/cam phenomenon has been a boon for my creative output.

 

[Djmac1031]

Gawd no. 95%, or some great proportion, are simply not my style, or, rather, they are posed or have expressions that I guess are supposed to be sexy that I actually find to be a turnoff. And there's the emphasis on my particular anti-fetish, lingerie. I'm more interested in the person, that what drives my interest in intimacy, even casual, goes way beyond the prospective pokey-pokey (or wanky-wanky).

And I will admit to "style". There's one, face only, that makes me immediately think, "I wish I could meet her," and the corollary, "Oh, to be 40 years younger."

Like Wanda, my mind flashes for a few microseconds on "what is their story?" I tend to avert my eyes, actually, because maybe you can tell the objectification makes me sad.

It was a joke. And apparently not a very good one.

Not the first time my humor has fallen flat.

 

[MrPixel]

I knew it was a joke. But it did convey the base (in both senses) intent of the advertisements.

 

[John_Vandermeer]

Brings me to a thought I've always had. Jokes aside, I have always thought I would be more likely to contact one if she were more fully dressed. Don't get me wrong, sexy, and appealing to my own fetishes, but more fully dressed. The reality it is probably a service that quickly ends up appealing to the lowest common denominator in the market.

 

[TxRad]

Wanda, be very, very careful or you will find yourself writing things down about these young women you are talking about. And then worst of all, you will find yourself filling in details from your imagination. After that, all will be lost. You will be (Gasp) a writer.

 

[TxRad]

appealing to the lowest common denominator in the market.

Men!

 

[jsmiam]

It was a joke. And apparently not a very good one.

Not the first time my humor has fallen flat.

Ha. Wanda got away without a hitch.

And after what she did with those rubber gloves! ;-)

 

[SeraphNocturne]

They get on my nerves.
Not at all for their profession or anything like that, they're all quite attractive, but damn it all if I can't be on Literotica in public because half naked women are being advertised on the top and bottom of Lit Login. It's a mad dash to scroll down before any near by individuals with wandering eyes notice I'm on a filthy smut site. Reading is reserved for home now.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Reading is reserved for home now.

Do you know about the android app? Very discreet. No images. Sadly, also no comments, no forums, and no author interface.

 

[SeraphNocturne]

Do you know about the android app? Very discreet. No images. Sadly, also no comments, no forums, and no author interface.

It's tempting, but I enjoy the full experience, so I've just stopped visiting anything but the forums if I'm away from home. I have offered a feedback suggestion to have the advertisements disabled on my profile, I'm not their demographic at all, I will literally never utilize the Lit Webcam area. I doubt anything will come from it because it generates revenue, but it's worth a shot.

 

[TxRad]

Uh, what is this log-in page you speak of? I haven't logged out since.... I don't remember that either.

 

[lc69hunter]

Uh, what is this log-in page you speak of? I haven't logged out since.... I don't remember that either.

Understand. When I open up the Lit login page, I get the option of Bulletin Board or Stories. I do not see the rest of what has been mentioned here.

As for previous comments about the girls/adult actresses and the issues they face, I am a CPA IRL, and have two clients with OF accounts. One just plays with it and makes decent bucks. The other is making serious buck. Her attorney, her financial advisor and I have set her up with a SubChapter S corporation, put her on payroll, maximizing her Social Security earnings, maximizing her elective deferrals into her 401(K), along with the company match, along with an §125 plan and full medical coverage. She gets a a large W-2 from a vanilla sounding corporation, so no issues from lenders or otherwise. We have protected her as best we can, and set her up for when she transitions out of adult work. Of course, she is the exception.

 

[ElectricBlue]

For some reason which I don't understand, my kindle no longer lets me onto their pages. I've had an upgrade at some point that would appear to be morally judging me, and I haven't figured out a way past it. Probably need to play around with different browsers.

There's one in particular who always showed up whenever I'd go Search for an Author (like you, Wanda, I have no idea how the placement algorithm works). A very beautiful woman, the age field says forty, and I constantly wondered, is this what she does all the time? Because whenever I'd pop into Lit to do pervy stuff like the AH, like as not she'd be streaming. From the other side of the world. It's sad, truthfully. At least I get up and go outside.

 

[Bramblethorn]

A while back I saw somebody's collection of antique porn movies, going back to the silent days with dialogue cards. It was weird looking at that and wondering the same kinds of things about the actors and actresses in then, and about how the rest of their lives turned out. Everybody from that era would be long dead by now, but skip forward a few decades, and there must still be some old folk in retirement homes who could tell a story.

 

[onehitwanda]

I enjoy the full experience

Oh you.

 

[SeraphNocturne]

Oh you.

I mean... don't we all?

 

[onehitwanda]

I mean... don't we all?

A lady never tells.

She merely publishes all under an obvious pseudonym,

 

[onehitwanda]

And after what she did with those rubber gloves! ;-)