
"Missionary hides a lot of what most of the viewers want to see," explains performer Alex Saint. The need to play to cameras, and ultimately viewer desires, also leads to the underrepresentation of some positions performers love in their offscreen lives, like good ol' missionary, which don't lend to clear shots. In fact, it's often "profoundly uncomfortable for both partners." But, as performer Larkin Love points out, it's also "a ridiculous and miserable move" for many people. This is one of the reasons you see so many wild, acrobatic positions in porn that rarely translate well into real life, like the pile driver, in which a receiving partner is placed upside down, neck and shoulders on the floor and legs up by their ears, while a penetrating partner squats over and plows down into them: It's great for getting a clean shot of every bit and bob of interest to the average viewer, every hydraulic pump, and every facial reaction. Performers always need to make sure that the lenses trained on them can capture clear shots of all the action viewers want to see, explains adult actress Sofie Marie. "In 90 percent of the films we shoot, the sex is completely different than the sex you have in your personal life," says performer Ryan Driller, "fully due to the need to play to the camera." They even make sure that, when performers are going at it, they don’t fuck like they would in real life, but instead adopt specific positions, and contort themselves into odd angles that may not feel great, but yield ideal explicit imagery. They include or highlight key visual cues, like money shots, at key moments to give a sense of navigable structure to their content. Creators lean into specific tropes and scenarios (like those associated with the ubiquitous fauxcest genre), often repeatedly and farther each time, to charge or heighten viewers’ reactions to the sex they frame. So it should come as no surprise that almost every aspect of the vast majority of porn - even most amateur and reality scenes - is likewise carefully constructed in an attempt to maximize its audience appeal.
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We all know that a ton of art and artifice goes into crafting every movie, show, and half-decent YouTube or TikTok clip that we watch.

Welcome to Porn Week, Mashable's annual close up on the business and pleasure of porn.
