The pornoverse has a dialect

[elfs]

A while back, when Omaha was on vacation, I was bored and the kids were in all bed upstairs, so I rented a high-end all-girl porn film with a pornoverse plot: two girls, age 19 and 20, live with their mom. Scene one: younger woman and her girlfriend, scene two: younger woman and her girlfriend, scene three: mom and her girlfriend discuss finding younger daughter's dirty magazine stash, which when on camera looks suspiciously like the film studio's catalog of all-girl smut and then mom and girlfriend go at it, scene four: mom's girlfriend seduces older daughter, scene five: mom seduces younger dauther's girlfriend, and so on.

("All-girl" porn is very distinct from "lesbian" porn; in the latter, the woman typically takes more than three minutes to reach orgasm and usually has more than one facial expression and sound effect to exhibit while doing so.)

The odd thing that got me while watching it was the dialect of the heterosexual pornoverse: there are no "gays" in the pornoverse, no "straights," and naturally there are no "dykes," no "butches," and no "femmes," although everyone in this film is one. There are only "lesbians," and it's said with a peculiar emphasis, an accent that exists only in the pornoverse. When one of the two women protests, "I like girls but that doesn't make me a lesbian," it's as if the word does not mean what the dictionary says it means, but has a wholly different connotation that the audience should understand.

I guess I'm not part of that audience. I didn't get it.

Comments

[woggie.livejournal.com]

I originally assumed when someone said "lesbian" in that way, they were saying they also liked men, as if all lesbians hate men. Later on I came to conclude that it was a self-identity thing. They don't identify with the lesbian community, probably because of what other associations they have with self-identifying as lesbian.

So what they really mean is they're bisexual. :)