Why Videos of Nude Photoshoots Beat the Photos

June 8, 2011
CEDRIC-DEWITTISON

Photoshoots can be long, tedious affairs equivalent to watching moss grow. With us, something else starts growing (wink wink har har). In a mind-twisting paradox of intentions, the videos of a photoshoot are often sexier than the photos themselves. We've figured out why.

Video killed the print pornstar. Most gay porn magazines have gone the way of the rest of print media now that man-on-man images are readily available online. Why buy mags of still images anymore? With making videos a cinch, watching porn that moves trumped flipping through a group of still images. Now you can kick back with both hands! Photos feel as useful as a phonograph.

Stop Photoshop! Photos now seem as authentic as a jackalope. First it was airbrushing. Now with Photoshop, who knows what's real. As porn moved towards amateur sex, studio photos began to look too glossy, too manicured, too inauthentic.

No movement raises tension. In the videos of photoshoots, the actors stand like statues, only moving slightly to get different angles. The tension of being so close, yet being unable to touch, on concentrating that touch in one erogenous zone, is unexpectedly exciting. Watch the video below of James Jamesson opening up Marcus Mojo's butt. We just want Jamesson to dive in, but he doesn't. Ooooh, what a tease.

In instances where there is no video, naturally photos will do just fine to show us the naked goods, as with nude celebrities. When it comes to professionally produced porn, however, pictures just serve as a tease to the the video. A photo shoot is fine. A video is divine.

· Photo Shoot: Tyler Ford & Logan Scott (nextdoorstudios.com)
· Photo Shoot: Marcus Mojo & Jamesson (nextdoorstudios.com)