Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Here's what?! in your eye?

For whatever reason, I was pondering the subject of the almost institutional "money shot" the other day. I haven't the faintest notion why my brain seized upon that subject. It isn't something that I think of very often or to any degree of depth. In fact, the contemplation from a day or two back that I am summing up here would be the first somewhat focused stretch of attention I can ever recall leveling at the subject in my life. But as long as I did spend the mental energy, I decided the least I could do is mentally "toe-tag" it and present the results of the autopsy within a post.

The first thing that really should be provided is a definition of what a "money shot" is. What I am referring to is a male, often times withdrawing from another person's orifice, to ejaculate visibly, often onto their body. Sometimes it can be taken to a certain extreme such as bukkake.

It is quite popular in adult movies and hard-core magazines, which would tend to beg the question of why. Quite simply, because it was all but designed by the pornography industry. A normal sexual internal orgasm conveys about as much of a conclusion on screen as heavily sweating, grunting seal hauling its bulk out of the surf. The audience wants to see, explicitly, the finale of the fucking. If they aren't able to see the fluids erupting forth, it detracts from their own vicarious participation.

I would also suggest that it also bears with it some memories of teen-aged trysts in the back of cars or in rooms while the parents are elsewhere when both sides are still all too stupid and caught up in the moment to consider condoms and are willing to gamble their future on whether they can pull out in time. Thus every time some guy stops short to pump his seed over his energetically simpering partner, they can have a flashback to when sex was still bright, scary, and viscerally unknown.

In addition, it seems to be a societal taboo to have one person deposit their own bodily secretions upon another. Spit, mucous, urine, semen, bile, blood, etc. evokes a personal disgust. Expectorating on someone is one of the first aggressive gestures that children learn. Rapidly it evolves into a method of degradation. Therefore it's a very natural progression for this very simple and messy maneuver to play into this social perception. The spurter feels more virile and powerful, the spurtee feels more plundered.

For all of that however, it is largely an act divorced from reality. Only a relatively small proportion of the population tends to find it appealing. Perhaps not as minute as popular media would like to describe it, but they are still a minority. If it wasn't so visually dramatic, it would not be so prevalent in porn.

Enjoy.

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