And how the explosion of the genre means that almost all actresses are now included, whatever their age… Porn doesn’t discriminate!
Bored and horny, she wanders off in search of “some fresh young meat”, as the scene description puts it, and stumbles upon her friend’s son jerking off. The older James takes matters into his own hands and heads into town with the young man. In other words, it’s your standard MILF plot. But there’s only one problem: in real life, James had just turned 25.
A new definition of Milf
Many people think that a girl in her mid-twenties doesn’t include the word “MILF”. The word has a number of crude or vague definitions, most specifying an “older” woman, if not an actual mother. But it’s quite common for porn producers to entrust shocking young women with the status of MILF, cougar or, as the British call them, “cute moms”. This wasn’t always the case. But the rapid rise of the genre has transformed the porn industry’s idea of the MILF. We now find very young performers who have even been labeled as such.
There have long been hot “moms” in pop culture catering to the erotic fetish for sex between young men and older women (classic). The history of the term “MILF” is much more recent. The Oxford English Dictionary has its origins in the 1990s. Its first known use online was by a Usenet group in 1995. MILFs fully penetrated mainstream consciousness via 1999’s hit teen comedy American Pie.
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A sales term
Before the emergence of the term “MILF”, pornography didn’t have much appeal for performers under the age of 20. “Performers over forty were practically considered porn,” explains Jeff Vanzetti of IAFD, the adult equivalent of IMDB. But pornography always follows the zeitgeist. Thus, the industry got into MILF dating in the 2000s. RealityKings led the charge, steadily releasing MILF content since its launch in 2000. This intensified the production of a MILF-centric brand, MILF Hunter, through 2002 and 2003. Others, likeporn actress Lisa Ann, announced the birth of the genre in 2005.
The genre’s emergence coincided with many high-profile porn stars turning 30 with devoted fans. Jenna Jameson turned 30 in 2004 and continued to perform for four years. Although she never had a major record entitled “MILF”, other well-known artists who approached similar milestones slipped into the category. The power attached to these performers’ celebrity, and their willingness to dive headfirst into MILF territory, helped fuel a surge in the genre’s popularity.
“Therewas a sense at that point that an older woman brought a lot to the equation,” said Chris Thorne, longtime porn columnist at xCritic.com, of these women’s assertive, confident sexual presence. “This is the real critical moment when we started to see people looking for the MILF as a true gender.”
A growing demand
Almost immediately, however, producers trying to satisfy the growing demand for MILF content ran into a problem. The pool of over 30 artists was simply too small. RealityKings’ MILF Hunter dramatically increased the scale of its distribution. The production began to face numerous imitations of its competitors’ brands. But according to Mark Spiegler, founder of adult agency Spiegler Girls in 2003, as they scouted for talent in their early days, they were in such a hurry to get content, they “filmed some of our 20-year-old girls and put them on the site at 36. ”
MILF-labeled content continued to grow rapidly. Today, 5% to 6% of all videos streamed on Pornhub carry this label, according to spokesperson Chris Jackson. Its popularity peaked among sites around 2011. But it remains one of the most popular search terms on the major porn tube sites. Between pure MILF porn and MILF-adjacent genres (faux-incest, for example), Thorne believes “we’re in the golden age of MILF porn”.
“Fans love watching MILF because it’s powerful, hot and beautiful,” said Tanya Tate, 11-time MILF of the Year winner on various adult shows. Tate began working in porn in 2009 when she was about to turn 30, and was quickly heralded as the “new MILF”.
A short-lived career in porn
MILF porn has enabled performers to stay in the industry longer or start later. The average career in porn starts and ends early. As a result, the incentives to turn young girls into MILFs remain. As a result, in the world of pornography, MILFs are used more than in the past. Particularly for aesthetics and personality: an assertive, confirmed figure.
There’s no consistent data on the average age of a typical MILF in today’s porn. But the most popular performers in the category are those in their 30s and 40s. Like Sara Jay, 38, like Brandi, 43. Others land on the age bracket both ways. “Where there [used to be] a big gap between 22-year-olds and 35-year-olds,” Tate explains of the industry’s evolution from the mid-2000s, “the gap started to close and more women became MILFs.” Now, it seems, if you’re not a teenager, you’re a MILF. ”
Tanya Tate photo by Josh Ryan
A role with a wide age range
Sometimes you’re a MILF even if you’re a teenager. Alli Rae was 19 when she was labeled a MILF in a faux-crime scene in the 2014 film Jerky Wives. On the other side of the coin is 57-year-old porn star Nina Hartley. She’s still labeled a MILF.
Conversely, those who are literally MILFs might not qualify as MILFs in porn castings or earn MILF content tags. Tate notes that she recently played the teenage Marica Hase, when she was 35 years old. Indeed, she retains the characteristics of this genre: small natural breasts, straighter waist and slimmer figure. Dixit.
In many ways, this reflects the mainstream entertainment industry. People are seen as all you need and all they can possibly play. However, the evolution of this flexible age group has evolved in strange ways in the adult industry, through the necessary deconstruction of a true age niche to meet consumer demand. And in many ways, the increasing fungibility of the MILF label has been more constraining than anything else. Its appeal has led to an overly broad and overzealous definition. It has swallowed up most of the middle term that theoretically exists between “barely legal” and “mature. ” in porn. These days, it seems everyone loves Mom.
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Source : Vice
