Wednesday, October 30, 2019

A Walk Down Memory Lane: Cinemax Late Night and how it molded me as a writer

We all have that one moment where we found our sexuality. Some were completely straight. Some discovered they were, like me, bisexual. Some are trisexual -- they'll try anything once. And you have pansexuals, too. I might fall under that category, now that I think of it. For me, finding out I liked men AND women was a massive thrill, but also led to a boatload of confusion for me. How do I handle those feelings? I ultimately chose to marry a woman. Don't get me wrong, though, I still like a throbbing dick from time to time, with my wife's blessing (usually with her in the corner, her hand in her panties, but that might be a story to write at a later time).

I came of age at a great time: the mid-1990s was epic. The internet was still developing, and there was no such thing as online porn (yet). But every Friday night in 1997 and '98, I'd stay up late and catch the softcore movies on Cinemax, usually on after midnight. This was also before I went out to bars to meet young men and women, so I had my hands full ... of my breasts, and a hand inside my panties rubbing myself ... on those nights of my late teens.

While watching, I didn't find myself worked up with the hetero scenes; sure, I got damp (watching or hearing sex was always a turn-on), but did it make me want to get off? No.

For that particular exercise, I had to wait for the girl-girl scenes, and you knew that with Cinemax softcore, you'd get it between :45-:55 minutes into the movie. And sometimes I grew disappointed when there wasn't one during that time. I depended on those scenes, because I wanted to rub to a healthy orgasm, then go to bed because I had to wake up and go to work the next morning.

Yet as I look back, I remember paying attention to the story construction: it wasn't just wham, bam, thank you Shawna. There was substance in the acting, and those movies brought me deeper into the story. It taught me, in some ways, how to construct my plots. It wasn't something I got in high school English, that's for sure.

Simply put, I like story porn, especially ones with a good girl-girl scene. I don't like vignettes. I like to be entertained with a story, and I like to reach my climax as the actors reached theirs. Preferably the actresses, I should say. That has led me to construct my stories the way I do; I want to tell a full story while getting you, the reader, off.

A few of the movies that I found -- re-discovered -- recently on PornHub had wonderful storylines. Here are four of them:

Friend of the Family (1995)

This movie may be one of the first erotic B movies that I watched. I fell in lust with Lisa Boyle and her beautiful breasts watching this, but I felt dismayed that her character and the character of Shauna O'Brien's didn't get naked together. They kissed, sure, and that led me to believe there would be a sex scene between the two. Alas.

O'Brien's character was also good, as Elke. Elke had sex with pretty much every member of the family, except Lisa Boyle's character. She is sexually uninhibited, and that leads to a better life for the family in terms of openness, frankness, and the communication between family members improves.

Club Wild Side (1998)

Quite frankly, Club Wild Side may be the best one I've ever watched. It had your coming of age tale with the character of Haley, played by Sage Kirkpatrick, moving to the West Coast to explore life. She moves in with a friend of her parents and his wife, and those two are having affairs.

Haley's trip to the Club opens her eyes about sex. It also doesn't hurt that back at the friend's house, there is a sculpted pool boy -- rawr -- whom she has sex with once, and there is an amazing girl-girl scene between Haley and the wife of her parents' friend, played by the yummy and adorable Lauren Hays.

Of course, it also has Monique Parent in it. Who my age didn't love Monique and her tight body? She is an amazing actress and is still acting today.

I'm Watching You (1997)

I remember this movie vividly. A young woman is drawn into a world of voyeurism. I love voyeurism. I love seeing people have sex, I love hearing people have sex, and LoriDawn Messuri's character got an eyeful. Hence the film's title.

There is a great girl-girl scene between her and Jacqueline Lovell, a statuesque blonde with lovely breasts. She did a number of great movies, including Femalien. That girl-girl scene ranks up there as one of the hottest things in the world, although the two end up in a drunken tryst on a couch that Lovell's character instigates.

Testing The Limits (1998)

A couple about to marry goes on a trip to the mountains, and gets their world rocked. It's a story about Mike and Toni -- Toni played by the utterly adorable Brandy Davis, whose small breasts were virtually nuzzled in my dreams quite a bit -- and you can feel in the story that they are unsure about sleeping with other people -- but they do, and it strengthens their relationship.

Two girl-girl scenes in this one, including a Brandy Davis-Lorissa McComass (RIP) shoot that was tastefully done. Actually, both were. One was under a shower.

This one opened my eyes to the possibilities of outside of strong relationship sex.

Please take note: I didn't want to go into too much detail about these movies. I wanted to give a Cliff's Notes version, and you can always go and find the movies on PH. Unfortunately, I've tried to find these movies on DVD here in the US, with no luck.

Honestly, I think softcore stories still have a place in our society, in our sexual viewing habits, and I say bring these types of movies back!

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