![]() ![]() For many people under 40, the tropes of internet porn have saturated our lives and colored our expectations of sex. The scene is irresistibly bathetic, in the vein of Tarantino hit men bitching about junk food, but it’s also revealing. “I want to go to dinner and have a fucking nice meal and take it from there. But who wants to take their work home with them? “It’s, like, not even my cup of tea,” Dera tells Clark-Flory, who covered the sex beat for Salon and is now a senior writer at Jezebel. ![]() Both agree that their love lives have suffered because too many women watch their films and demand a live-action replay, expecting to be choked, gagged, and slapped around. T racy Clark-Flory’s memoir, Want Me, is subtitled A Sex Writer’s Journey Into the Heart of Desire, and it begins with an arresting anecdote: Two male porn actors on a set in Los Angeles are complaining to her about “girls these days.” One actor is called Tommy Gunn, because where would pornography be without puns? The other uses his birth name, Charles Dera. ![]() Illustration by Vartika Sharma source: Alberto Rizzo / Getty ![]()
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