New Concepts in Porn

for A.W. 

1. Two naked men are standing underneath opposite hoops on a basketball court. They are both masturbating. The camera cuts between close-ups of their respective eyes and hands. Because the hands are filmed from various angles, eventually, it becomes completely unclear whose are whose.  Both men's faces are shown in full as they passionately ejaculate in concert. The film ends with a long shot of both of the men relaxed, smiling at each other bashfully, wiping themselves off with their hands.


2. In a fluorescent-lit, linoleum-floored basement ('rec room'), two short-circuit televisions face one another on either side of a ping pong (read: beer pong) table. Each screen shows a close-up of a man masturbating. The viewer is meant to presume that just beyond the edges of the frame, there are two men standing in opposite doorways, facing away from each other (perhaps this is implied by the film's title, which might be "Ass to Ass Too"). Left open is the tantalizing possibility that it is actually the same person on both screens (i.e. the masturbating viewer).

3. A naked man stands in the center of a football or soccer field masturbating. An airplane or helicopter flies directly over the field and one of the passengers, who is sitting in a window seat but not looking down, is also masturbating. The viewer is invited to imagine that somewhere around the 50-yard line (or its soccer equivalent), there is another man 40 feet underground or above ground, a miner or a businessman, who is also masturbating.


Finally, a lonely astronaut is masturbating in outer space.