Porn in the post-apocalypse

[Strangebuddy]

So I was thinking about World War Z when I got to thinking...what happened to the porn industry during that? Then I thought about two ideas:

1. Human society is beginning to rebuild. While there are official excursions into the wastelands and fallen cities, they are just going after boring things liked canned food, machine parts, and knowledge about the world that was. There are black market excursions but most of them end up just contributing to the greater good.

However, humanity still has a hunger for smut and there's quite a few people who will pay however they can to watch footage or read about sex that doesn't involve extra appendages or motorcycle rape gangs. This leads to a wave of daredevils who will go on unsanctioned trips to raid old adult stores to get their collections of porn dvds and sealed novelty toys (which are very much in demand as rationing has greatly limited what people can use...and the remaining options aren't to comfortable). The story would follow a group of scavengers who are after a motherload of porn while fending off mutants and fellow scavengers.

2. Continuing from idea 1: a director who makes educational and "traditional" films (essentially low budget remakes of former blockbusters) for the new government starts to believe that the only way to prove humanity has come back from the brink and is advancing forward, is to make the first porno since the apocalypse. Working in secret, he must gather the supplies and actors necessary to make his dream come true, all the while hiding his project from the rationing committee.

3. This is a world where ALL the apocalypses happened. Ragnarok? you bet. The rapture? sure. Alien invasion? Why not? Zombies? sure. Nuclear Holocaust? of course! Cthulu waking up? The Blood War having a victor? Well, no, don't want to get sued by WotC...but there was also a demon invasion. Fact is, the world got jacked up...so now one scrupulous woman and her film team decide it's only fair to help the survivors jack off!

Getting a government grant by claiming to be filming a documentary that will help teach the survivors about their hordes of new neighbors, the director goes from area to area, teaching the locals the wonders of interspecies love...and how to properly film it.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Interesting set up. I think you'd be wise to pick one and abandon all the others because we're talking about a comedy set up here. I'm still gonna point out a few logic bombs but we're in a good place, logic really only applies so far as we want it to.

1. Was this a Zombie Apocalypse or a radiation bomb? I don't quite know where the extra appendages thing comes from with a zombie apocalypse. More importantly why are you setting this during a rebuilding instead of right in the middle of it. Something no more stable than say Land of the Dead? Otherwise I think this good.

2. I honestly can't make heads or tails of this. I can't imagine a set up that makes any sense here. I get that it's about a return to normalcy but. . . I dunno I feel like (granted this is my Amerocentricity speaking) but the return to normal would be when we finally had another Super Bowl. (I don't really give a shit about sports btw. I simply recognize it as a cornerstone of life.) And if it is their big return to normalcy why is this in secret? It's not the Manhattan project. I'd think that the first porn to get us back to "normal" would be a huge public undertaking getting every woman of age together to make sure the hottest, sluttiest girl(s) on the planet were the ones who broke us back in! I mean you've got this hyped up as something that's going to be a literal milestone in human history. IRL porn just sort of happens. Seriously go look at sculptures from thousands of years ago. I used to think teen males were immature because if you make a computer program where they can create things it's just a matter of time before they create penises. Now I know it's just humanity. This though? This is something like the Declaration of Independence, Sistine Chapel and Snow White all rolled into one.

3. Yeah. . .untangling that pile up would take longer than it's worth. For a few reasons. First and unless this is a fantasy setting (by which I mean superheroes or the like. There is only so much on fire things can be before it stops mattering. Zombies + aliens really isn't any worse than zombies or aliens. The degree to which I am fucked is already absolute. I think if you could make this one work it's probably the funiest set up but it's a little like a one armed man riding a unicycle blindfolded on a tightrope over a vat of acid filled with acid breathing laser sharks. I think the logistics are to heavy but I've been wrong and would like to be.

What is a blood war? I've been racking my brain (half of what I wrote was me hoping it would come to me.)

 

[Strangebuddy]

What is a blood war? I've been racking my brain (half of what I wrote was me hoping it would come to me.)

The Blood War. Dungeons & Dragons setting/concept. Essentially, the forces of Lawful evil are in eternal combat with the forces of Chaotic Evil. Should one side win, the forces of good would be overwhelmed almost instantly, as the CEs are practically infinite and the top LEs are stronger than a lot of the statted gods, control massive armies, and are intelligent as all hell (pun not intended).

As for the ideas:

1. I was thinking nuclear war or mutation virus run amuck. It could be occurring during the fall but I consider the rebuilding as having started once humanity is able to stabilize in some areas.

2. I wanted to make the character like an Ed Wood styled director who thinks he is making the greatest thing ever...when nope, it really isn't. The ending joke would be that his big production is actually a confusing mess that kind of sucks. He is convinced that it would be the last return to normalcy while even his friends don't...but they like his enthusiasm so they help him out. He has to keep it a secret because he is using equipment that is supposed to only be used for government projects.

3. The world has survived (all the apocalypses are in the past) but it's all messed up so you have angels, undead, aliens, monsters of myth, mutants, etc. Essentially, it would be a road trip series where the crew meets a new type of monster and convinces it to go on camera...

For example:

Crew spots a Dullahan. After dodging buckets of blood, they get it to calm down and talk, convincing it to take off its armor, revealing it's of course a beautiful...headless...woman. They offer to give it some pampering, comb its hair, listen to it talk about the old days...and then see if it's ever had someone go down on it (in fact, for funsies, the sex scene could happen off camera with the crew just recording its head reacting and narrating what's going on:

"She...oh...oh god." The head said, a blush growing over her cheeks.

Lisa focused the camera and lowered the mike, "what's she doing?"

"She's putting her fingers inside my..." the head stopped and let out a low moan.

 

[sirhugs]

will it involve tentacle sex?????

 

[Strangebuddy]

Oh my, yes.

In fact, one chapter I thought up was the crew running into a tentacle/humanoid creature. They chat it up and realize that it's considered a loser among its people and is still a virgin. Additionally, he's open to the idea of interspecies sex...but is woried he might offend his new friends.

"I mean, my species has to penetrate our lover deep and our ultimate pleasure is to fill every hole of our lover, roughly force our impregnators into those holes, and spray almost a gallon of come upon our lovers in addition to the amount we pour into their wombs...I just don't see how you or your viewers would find it appealing."

Lisa gave a devilish smile, "Oh, you might be surprised. Why don't you and I talk about this more in private?"

 

[RicoLouis]

This reminds me of some old movie I saw where a group of bad guys or digging up some ruins or something and come across a vibrator having no idea what its for, when it turns on they all scatter thinking its going to explode. I think porn would be found by accident but would have a high value, sort of a luxury item.

 

[Strangebuddy]

That's an interesting idea. With people who maybe have been in a vault or lived in some sort of sterile society where sex hasn't necessarily been outlawed...but has been phased out and artificial insemination and platonic relationships are shown in a positive light while sex has stigmas attached to it...not the typical "abstinence is your only choice besides hell" rhetoric, but rather that sex is inefficient, tedious, and provides more trouble than it's worth.

Then a group that is scrounging old ruins finds a cache of dvds and blu-rays. Intrigued as to why anyone would want porn, they decide to find ways to extract the data and watch it. At first they laugh at the their ancestors wasted time on physical pursuits but as they watch the actors engage in sexual play, they feel a stirring in their loins and decide to experience. Of course their first times don't last as long as the scenes they watch but they do experience some pleasure so they decide to try again and with more kinks. Eventually, a sexual revolution starts.