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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   2473 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026

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whereas photorealistic AI-gen porn looks just like real life except with every conceivable imperfection mercilessly rooted out.

Honestly, this was already the case before AI-gen porn, for some categories of it. The high-end, "classy", "art" porn from central/eastern europe already has models-style girls with few imperfections to begin with, with top quality Hollywood level make up, flattering lighting, poses and angles and post-processing erasing whatever was there. So I think unrealistically perfect was already a thing before AI-gen.

Obviously consuming either kind of porn to excess will mess with your head. But which do you think is worse?

As a previously healthy consumer of porn (mostly reformed), sometimes you're in the mood for those perfectly shot videos, but also sometimes you're up for real amateur content, for fake amateur content, for 2000s early online productions, for 1990s italian hardcore flicks, for 70s classic films, for drawn content, for 3D CGI content, for softcore...

I think what is worse is being laser-focussed on a single thing and letting that shape your tastes. Checking many things out and being aroused by many of them is healthy.

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