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AltPorn: Interviewed by the San Fransisco Bay Guardian

AltPorn — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:58:55 +0000

San Fransisco Bay Guardian‘s intrepid Juliette Tang continues her journey into the altporn world, to paraphrase their description. In her endeavor to explore the world of AltPorn, she has been conducting a series of profiles and interviews, and we really enjoyed the opportunity to talk with her about our favorite genre. Her latest interview with AltPorn.net‘s own Cutter Smith covers a wide range of issues and topics. Cutter did have input on a number of questions from a lot of us over here, but we do agree about his ‘veritable encyclopedia of altporn knowledge’ and we’d love to hear your feedback on the interview too.

We’d like to give credit and thanks to Athena Hollow and her GeekGirlsOnline as well at sexy and talented model/photographer Mette Th13teen, as they chose photos from our features on you two and your sites to illustrate the interview.

San Fransisco Bay Guardian writes:

Recently, I chatted with Annaliese of the famous altporn site God’s Girls about nudity, tattoos, and DIY photography. In this installment of altporn interviews, I got the chance to talk to Cutter Smith of Altporn.net, the blog to read if you’re a fan of altporn. We literally talked about everything — Cutter is a veritable encyclopedia of altporn knowledge, and his site reflects his thoughtful, intelligent, and knowledgeable ~~obsession with~~ observation of his favorite genre of porn.

SFBG: First, what is the story behind Altporn.net?…

San Fransisco Bay Guardian: AltPorn

Truant — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:55:18 +0000

APN is proud that our man Cutter Smith was recently interviewed and subsequently quoted in an article in the San Fransisco Bay Guardian, titled Hipsters and the emergence of altporn, which was written by Juliette Tang. It’s an interesting article that brings up a number of issues and gets perspective from several people involved in the genre and we recommend you take a moment and check it out. It’s an entertaining and hopefully informative read. If you have any thoughts, we’d love to know, either here or there. Here is a little excerpt, from Cutter’s portion:

San Fransisco Bay Guardian writes:

Most people involved in altporn view their work as fundamentally different than mainstream pornography. Cutter, of AltPorn.net, explains, “AltPorn makes the trends and porn-porn tends to follow them. Traditional porn is conservative in a weird insular way. It tends to copy outside things.” Cutter doesn’t think that altporn appropriates or copies from existing subcultures. He and others view altporn as being organic, DIY, independent, and fundamentally authentic…

Smith (Cutter) elaborates, “All the originators in this genre were driven to create sexual media that appealed to their own community and their own communities’ aesthetics. So, the goths created goth erotica and the punks created punk erotica and the ravers created raver erotica. So, on an aesthetic level, altporn offers an alternative look, as well as the community interactivity, to prove it’s authenticity.”