Film as foreplay: There’s no better way to realize just how much of an amateur you are at sex than by filming yourself in the act. With our lives increasingly becoming digitized, no wonder shooting images of sex acts has become a kind of fetish and foreplay. There are a few reasons for this boom in homemade porn. A) No more sending film to a third party for development. B) Advances in digital technology continue to make recording devices smaller, faster, clearer, cheaper and more user-friendly. C) Celebrities keep getting caught doing it, so it seems only natural to try it for ourselves. Now anyone can be his own porn director, editor, and producer, uploading video from a phone to the internet in a matter of seconds. This shift has also led to the replacement of phone sex operators with Webcam girls, and dirt talk between distant lovers with sexting/Skyping. The compression of technology onto cell phones will only feed this trend of digitized sex, making it ever easier for couples to shoot, record and share illicit images of themselves.
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This article appears in Dec 23-29, 2009.