I love mature models

Meaning no disrespect to the young and perfect, I just find mature models have some indefinable quality that comes with age. And a few blemishes are just a sign of a life lived. They enhance not detract from their beauty. But then, as I have  ranted on about before, I like to photograph real people - even if they are models.

I've worked with a lot of actors over the years and come to the conclusion that not many can actually act. If actors can't act I don't expect models to be able to and often when they try we get those horrible pouty expressions or oh I'm so surprised looks that litter many a portfolio.

So, I never like to pre-arrange too much on a first shoot with a new model. I like to wait until we meet and then work out what works with them. And that's where older models score for me. There's just more "them" to draw on. And I don't mean size wise either.

This is the delightful Georgie. I will be working with her next week and helping her set up her own web site. Georgie is living proof - if you were dumb enough to need it - that older women are beautiful and sexy.

Less ranting more pictures

Today's contribution is more pictorial than of late. A few images from shoots that I have selected just for you.

Things I don't get

I suppose anyone who didn't know better would assume as I work in the adult industry there are no depths of human depravity I wouldn't plumb but, here's a funny thing, most of the people I've met and worked with are sensible, well-balanced and with quite a highly developed sense of morality. Yes, I did just say morality. And I'm happy to be classed among them.

Nobody I have met thinks that there shouldn't be controls on who can access pornographic material. Quite the reverse. Nobody I have met thinks that it's OK to abuse or exploit women (although more on that subject later). None of the female models I have worked with are, or have been exploited. For the most part they are pretty ordinary people earning a living from doing something they find fun. And when they stop finding it fun they stop doing it.

Most I have worked with have told stories of bad experiences on shoots but they have always stayed in control, stopped the shoot, walked out and, most importantly, reported the experience on the main modelling forums. It's a small world and a bad reputation travels fast. Woe betide the photographer with wandering hands - or other body parts.

Now that's not to argue that exploitation doesn't exist but people who are against pornography on principal are happy to lump together adult modelling with prostitution where the likelyhood of exploitation is considerably higher (but not inevitable). It's not helpful and it alienates a lot of men and women who are basically on the same side.

But here's the weird thing - well it's weird to me. If you take as a starting point that female models deserve to be treated with respect and just because they are willing to take their clothes off and have sex on camera doesn't mean they shed their basic human rights and dignity along with their knickers, why are so many women attracted by bondage and BDSM?

I've never done that sort of shoot because I just don't get it. I can see that certain men might get pleasure from seeing images of women trussed up and beaten but I'm pretty sure that's not something to be encouraged.

But what on earth do women get out of it? In the case of the models I guess you can very easily argue money but no amount of money would compensate if they were not getting pleasure out of it on some level. I have quizzed female friends on this subject and a suprising number (not involved in the industry in any way) get a bit shifty and develop a little glint in ther eyes. Nobody, so far at least, has been able to explain why feminism and sisterhood seems to fly out of the window at the sight of a nipple clamp and the prospect of a good spanking!

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Tina Spice Rambles on for England

 So what's all this about then? This is the official blog (yeah like there are so many unofficial ones)  of the Tina Spice adult empire. We run a half a dozen or so adult web sites that feature what we consider the best in home-grown adult models.

We're kind of old-school and tend to think that a hundred well-taken images are worth more than one fuzzy and badly edited video - although we do shoot video too. We try our best not to make it fuzzy or badly edited though.

So why the blog? Partly it's a shameless attempt to get more people to visit our web sites but we also wanted a forum to discuss what people like, what they dislike how they see things developing in the future, issues of censorship and freedom balanced against issues of child protection and exploitation of women. Important shit.

Here's a few things to kick things off:

1. America ruined pornography

OK you can chuck buckets of money at it and persuade thousands of blemish-free, perfect little lovelies to get naked and do the nasty with some Conan the Barbarian look-alike with bulging muscles and a dick the size of a marrow. You can hire Hollywood wannabes who own a DV camera to point it at the assembled fuck-fest. You can buy your way to the top of the search engines and fill the internet so full of your insidious pop-up adverising that we might be convinced nothing else exists. But isn't it all so fucking DULL!

Doesn't it all end up looking the same? Some shiny happy people shagging some other shiny happy people in their dream appartment or by their dream swimming pool. Except whilst they may be shiny they hardly ever look happy. They look constipated. Like they're trying to pass a turd the size of a small car. What is that about? Is it just to hide the fact that they're dead behind those eyes?

These aren't real people. You'll never meet them. There is fantasy and then there is thinking that Friends was a documentary series and Sex in the City was reality TV. If you are that deluded you need serious psychiatric help not something to have a quick wank over.

The adult industry in the UK has always been a much more ramshackle affair. Much more Council Estate than Hollywood Hills. And all the better for it in my view. At least when you look at home-produced porn the participants look like they might actually be enjoying themselves. Sheila and Betty and Dan and Brian (Yes they are made up - not real. Do I have to explain eveything?) can get pretty dirty in front of the camera but you might also bump into them down the pub or at the bus stop.

So fight cultural imperialism. Buy British. It may be cheap and a bit shitty but it's all ours!

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