Hi,
I'm working on which subjects (in the vast sea of
Realcore) I'll focus on in my presentation in
Amsterdam. The concept of realcore is simple:
consentig adults swapping their own (digital)
images in (digital) public, for free. If you want
to find this kind of material, I suggest you look
in two areas:
1) Usenet newsgroups: it's a weird world but
worth exploring. Very often this is where stuff
originates from, and sometimes it includes
comments from the authors. Within the hyerarchy
alt. binaries.pictures.erotica (infested with
spam) I suggest you look into the .interracial,
.transvestites and .wives groups, just to get an
impression (many people reposts older pics and
collections). Also alt.personal.bondage is
sometimes quite amazing (watch out: explicit
images). I should also say, as not many people
ever visit certain newsgroups, that the chance to
view objectionable material (from violence to
child porn) is very high. One way to avoid it is
to subscribe to one of the many web usenet
services (such as www.pictureview.com) that
remove child porn before displaying the images.
*) Public groups, such as Yahoo!, MSN and just
about anywhere else they'll let people publish
this stuff. For a while Yahoo has been the best
source of amateur, self produced, self published
sexual imagery. It's now more covert but still
there.
This is what I'll speak about (in 20 min... I'll make it):
*) Overview and brief history of Realcore.
*) The Reality age, from reality shows to
realcore porno, from live satellite feeds to
toiletcams.
*) The impact of digital, amateur, free porno on
the industry of Pornography, compared to other
industries such as music, film and news - and
also on ©.
*) Socially and politically controversial aspects
of realcore: there are many controverial sides to
realcore porno, even without child porn (which is
not in the scope of my research). I'll focus in
particular on the "interracial swingers"
movement, which is very large and consists of
white couples (single women are a rarity) that
look for multiple african american partners
(stressing on this exclusive preference) and
multiple afroamericans, associated in groups like
the The Southern California Mandingo Club
http://www.socalmandingos.com/, that cater to
white couples in the same racist fashion. The
resulting pictures were posted for purely
exhibitionistic reasons (and advertising for
future parties). Note that, due to the enormous
success, the mandigos website has become
ultra-commercial.
One curiosity: very often realcore people
communicate online (or advertise themselves) by
writing on their bodies and then posting the
pictures; I'll show a small collection of these
photos.
Any input is of course more than welcome
Sergio Messina
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