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Caught in the Net: Porn Parodies

In honor of the April Fool’s Day (when this is being written, though not when you’re reading it, we know), we here at Caught in the Net have decided to focus on the delicate art of porn parodies. Most satire depends on taking real qualities of your target and exaggerating them to extremes for humorous effect, but some porn is already so inherently extreme and over-the-top that parody is hard.

Last night we watched Orgazmo, the 1997 comedy by Trey Parker (one of the South Park creators), about a good Mormon who winds up acting in a pornographic superhero film — it’s pretty funny, and the porn-within-a-film features Choda Boy, a sidekick who wears a headpiece with an enormous dildo sticking up on top like the spike on an antique German helmet. That’s just weird enough to out-weird most real porn, though the cheesy sets and bad acting are actually pretty accurate, possibly due to the input of the various real porn stars who made cameo appearances or even had speaking parts, including Ron Jeremy, Chasey Lain, Juli Ashton, and Jill Kelly. There’s tons of material at the website, including clips and photo galleries, if you want to poke around. Assuming, you know, you didn’t already see the movie last century.

Moving on to porn parodies created less than a decade ago, we recommend Very Bad Porn, which provides exactly what it promises — bad porn clips, bad porn photos, and bad porn stories. The acting is bad, the (lack of) sex is bad, and the quality is bad. We particularly like the Dominatrix movie, where the cruel dom says “I’m gonna rip your psyche out through your nostrils” while binding her victim with what appears to be masking tape. Or the midget porn, where they couldn’t find an actual midget, so they just got kind of a short guy wearing a unitard. Or the cheerleader scene where the woman playing the cheerleader is wheelchair-bound, but they just work around that.

Finally, Atom Films has a whole channel devoted to porn spoofs, some of which are very funny, and some of which are . . . rather lame. There are about a dozen short films there now, ranging from a behind-the-scenes look at fluffers to an examination of stunt cocks. The Stick Figure Pornos are our favorites — stick figures are better actors than many real adult performers!

Porn parodies in general suffer from a sort of time-warp problem, mostly parodying the films of the ’70s, when the mustache was king and the music was all boom-chika-wa-wa and the plots mostly involved pizza boys or plumbers coming over (with sexy results). Or maybe the porn films of the ’70s weren’t like that at all. We’ve only seen, like, three of them. Mostly, we’ve just seen the parodies.

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