So obviously, when I found out about Tim Von Swine's Whale Cam (or Swiney' Pigpen) project, I was, of course, thrilled to check it out and pump it up.
In the scene I am honoring as a featured scene today, it's Tim and his buddy Mr. Maple (that lucky bastard) tag teaming the very cute Katie St. Ives..
Anyway, I can't embed the trailer, but the trailer is available at the same place you can buy the scene. It's an exclusive for chubold.com. Go there and search "Pigpen".
Oh, I know, I know; there are people out there who would gag at such a scene. It features two fat people, and that would make some folks tiny little heads explode. And not in the sense that you may think I mean, given that this is a porn blog.
A couple of weeks ago, Kelly Shibari wrote a piece for Fleshbot in which she talked up what TVS was doing. A couple of commenters wrote less than flattering things about this project. One even somehow managed to work the words "white privilige" into their rant against him. Some said he was selfish. Others thought that this project would be ruination of porn.
Really?
I just thought it was a fat guy having sex with cute chicks. But that might just be me. Since I could never, EVER, suffer from "white privilige" the use of that phrase in this situation was hamhanded at best and an attempt to take the discussion to a place it never needed to go.
As a fat dude myself, I appreciate what Tim Von Swine is trying to do. Look, if you cut aross all parts of the porn world, the simple fact of the matter is that while lots of body types show up on camera, there are NOT that many that are built like him. There just aren't.
Maybe it's because, in theory, the industry is trying to bring more women into porn, although in the hardcore, non-Vivid/non-Adam & Eve world, there are still more guys with buff gym bodies or guys with swimmers builds than guys that I would call, "average" or "everyman." And "average" or "everyman" is not code for "fat." When I use fat, I mean fat. I would bet, if you went and surveyed 1,000 scenes from a wide spectrum of sites, you simply aren't going to find more than 5% featuring fat dudes as the star—often wearing a lovely wifebeater or a t-shirt to cover up a belly.
That's just how the industry rolls. But if anyone wants to make a statement about how this ruins porn, that's ludicrous. The joy of porn is that you get to watch what you want to watch. If you don't want to see a fat dude with slimmer or average porn women, then don't watch. Don't purchase the clips if it repulses you that much. No one is holding you eyes open a la Alex DeLarge in "A Clockwork Orange" making you watch anything.
Over the past 20 years, I've seen BBW porn move from being a passing thing including on compilations of "freak show" type VHS tapes to being more and more mainstream. It has been wonderful to see such an evolution. And while it may still be a niche genre now (although the popularity and mainstreaming of it is still occurring), it is proof that change can happen over time.
I know that I want to see more guys built like me in front of the camera. For me, that's the true fantasy; to see a fat dude with an attractive woman having wild, hot sex. I hope that Tim can succeed. I hope that his work inspires other men of size to take the bull by the horns (or the camera off the tripod, so to speak) and get to filming.
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