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Pornographic movies are movies that explicitly depict sexual intercourse and other sexual acts, for the purpose of sexual arousal in the viewer. They appeared shortly after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible. Pornographic films have much in common with other forms of pornography. Pornography is often referred to as "porn" and a pornographic work as "a porno". Older names for pornographic movies include "stag film" and "blue movie".

Overview

The movie camera has been used for pornography throughout its history, but pornographic movies were for most of that time typically available only by underground distribution, for projection at home or in private clubs.

Pornographic motion pictures are nearly as old as the medium itself. According to Patrick Robertson's Film Facts, "the earliest pornographic motion picture which can definitely be dated is A L'Ecu d'Or ou la bonne auberge", made in France in 1908; the plot depicts a weary soldier who has a tryst with an inn servant girl. The Argentine El Satario might be even older; it has been dated to somewhere between 1907 and 1912. Robertson notes that "the oldest surviving pornographic films are contained in America's Kinsey Collection." One film demonstrates how early pornographic conventions were established. The German film Am Abend (c. 1910) is, as Robertson writes, "a ten-minute film which begins with a woman masturbating alone in her bedroom, and progresses to scenes of her with a man performing straight sex, fellatio and anal penetration." (Robertson, p. 66)

Pornographic movies were widespread in the silent movie era of the 1920s, and were often shown in brothels. Many pornographic films were made in subsequent decades, but given the usually clandestine nature of the filming and distribution, details of such "stag films" are often difficult to obtain.

More permissive legislation permitted the rise of "XXX-rated" movie theaters in the United States in the 1970s. There was also a proliferation of coin-operated "movie booths" in sex shops that displayed pornographic "loops" (so-called because they projected a movie from film arranged in a continuous loop).

At that time, pornographic movies even approached acceptance into the mainstream movie industry, with films such as Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door
and Gerard Damiano's 1972 film The Devil in Miss Jones
being shot on film with high production values, and grossing substantial amounts in movie theaters.

With the arrival of the home video cassette recorder in the 1980s, the pornographic movie industry grew massively, allowing people not only to view pornography in the privacy of their own home without having to go out to a theater, but also to make their own pornography. Video production is much cheaper than shooting and editing on film, and has thus displaced production on film for almost all pornographic movies.

With the advent of the Internet and DVDs, the production and distribution of pornographic movies has become even easier and it is a huge business involving at least hundreds of filmmakers all over the world, and thousands of performers. With ~20,000 feature length films a year in the US alone, the pornographic movie industry is the biggest branch of film industry in the world.

Sub-genres

Main article: List of pornographic sub-genres

Current pornographic movies can be divided into a number of sub-genres by the sex of the performers, the types of sex act portrayed, and the intended audience. Some of the most popular include:

Straight porn, designed principally to appeal to heterosexuals. It has been said that the majority of straight porn is marketed towards men, and that only a minority of women enjoy it, thus leading to...
Couples porn, a slang for a subset of straight porn designed to appeal to 'both' heterosexual men and women, as most straight porn is supposedly marketed to men's urges, and not something the majority of women can enjoy.
Lesbian "girl-on-girl" porn designed to appeal bisexuals, lesbians and heterosexual men. Some think most lesbian porn is not actually aimed at lesbians, but towards heterosexual men.
Gay (see Gay porn) "man-on-man" porn designed primarily to appeal to homosexual men, but also to heterosexual women. Unlike lesbian porn, its primary aim is not disputed.
Bisexual or Bi-Sexual porn, involving both heterosexual, lesbian, and homosexual male acts, most commonly made in MMF threesomes or sexual group arrangements.
Animated porn, for example h-anime, h-manga, and h-dōjinshi (called hentai outside of Japan)
Pregnant and Milking porn, involving sex with pregnant women and/or drinking and squirting of breast milk (although this does not necessarily require a pregnant woman).
Shemale porn, involving transwomen (male-to-female transgender persons) that have breasts (either through hormone replacement therapy or through breast augmentation and usually other female secondary sex characteristics), but who have not undergone genital reassignment surgery, in other words, women with penises (often called 'chicks with dicks').
Gonzo porn, which often purports to recruit amateur performers off the street (but does not actually do so, because of the need for HIV testing, and to satisfy record-keeping requirements in the age verification of the performers)
Spanking and BDSM porn
Fetish porn

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