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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

To be serious for a moment when people say "it's fake", they mean it's not a legitimate sporting contest. That's true...and completely misses the point. That's not what it's meant to be. It's scripted entertainment. A high school teacher who was a big pro wrestling fan said it was a "soap opera for men."

Porn isn't a legitimate sporting contest either, but it is fake in that it's staged and scripted (minus amateur stuff). It's the same scripted entertainment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

It's a soap opera stunt show where the story revolves around a wrestling league.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You're ignoring that for the majority of its history both the pro-wrestling industry and fans have supported the kayfabe, so people saying "It's fake" would be met with "No it's not! Was that guy getting hit with a chair fake?!?!!"

Does that happen in porn? In soap operas?

And, of course, a lot of the fans of pro-wrestling were children. The "It's fake! No it isn't!" arguments mostly happened between eight year olds in various stages of figuring out the world lies to them.

Even beyond that, this is just a ridiculous boomer argument on the whole. The kayfabe has been largely abandoned for a decade, because it was becoming a legal liability to pretend to be a legitimate athletic contest no matter how hard they winked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Porn isn’t a legitimate sporting contest either

Not with that attitude!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Oddly enough, the fakeness is why I dislike both wrestling and produced porn. I'll take footage of a suburban soccer mom getting spit roast by two bulls at a swingers party over any staged porn...or wrestling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And like most great art, we don't know the context for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

"Because drugs" is probably the closest were gonna get to context.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I like the fact that the produced stuff tends to have things like better angles. There's been a lot of videos that looked good, but the camera seems to have been placed in the top corner of a room where the people are on the opposite side and you can't really see anything.

But otherwise, I agree. Amateur stuff as a whole tends to be more appealing. No stupid story line intros or anything. Not to mention the story type stuff they do add has gotten beyond ridiculous in some of it. Or at least I know it is in gay porn.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

“I love pro wrestling because it’s like porn.” I bet you do, sir. I bet you do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is fake until it's not. Lot of interesting scene from wrestling happen accidentally but they kept on going, the injuries are real, the pain are real, and the fact that in 1998 when the Undertaker threw Mankind off "Hell in a Cell" and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table, is real too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The only thing I miss about reddit is shittymorph

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You're supposed to pee after!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some people prefer to pee during, I don't konkshame

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I do. It's my kink.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You can do both!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I just don't enjoy sex as much with a full bladder

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I feel the exact same way about videos on the internet. But I seem to be the minority in that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The other 10% would incorporate the pee into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I swear to god if it turns out "Sumo wrestling but instead of fat asian men its muscular black men" is fake...