Dick On A Stick
Y’all know that Kink.com is one of my favorite porn companies. But I gotta ask, what’s up with the dick on a long stick?
This latest example comes from The Upper Floor, but you can see it at any of their sites … and I don’t remember seeing it anywhere else in porn. Still, it’s obviously a porn thing:
I have some theories to explain the dick on a stick, but I don’t know if they are the right ones. For instance:
- the dick on a stick allows them to show a lot of penetration in scenes that are mostly girl/girl, no male model needed;
- the dick on a stick allows them to show penetration from angles where an attached man would obscure the camera shot;
- the dick on a stick allows them to show penetrations that are rougher and more vigorous than could be easily managed with a dick attached to a man; or
- the dick on a stick allows photographers and directors to participate directly in shoots without being visible on camera.
But weighing against all that is a more fundamental question: Who actually wants to see a dick on a stick?
If porn is about satisfying the fantasies of the viewer, who are the viewers who fantasize about a dick on a stick, either giving or receiving? If this were a fetish, wouldn’t there be written dick-on-a-stick fantasies? (I know, I know, Rule 34. Somebody will probably find some written dick-on-a-stick porn and link it in the comments, in an attempt to prove they have better porn-fu than me. Cool, knock yourself out, we all benefit.) Let’s hear it, readers: Do dicks on sticks do anything for you?
If I should be so fortunate as to have this blog post read by any of the Kink.com creative people who are responsible for stick-dicking porn, I’d be delighted to hear why you make it and what your impressions are of the target purchasing audience for it.
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Random, unexplained dick on a stick? No thanks.
In some cases, it can work, but it’s mostly context- Kink did it at least once with a mop for their evil janitor series with Rod Barry, and it was a lot more fitting (even though it still strikes me as pretty ineffectual and always looks rather awkward).
I believe Kink.com has a very nice setup in an old warehouse that they use for several of their niche porn websites. I suspect the various production crews all have access to the props made for any one of this now extensive family of sites.
The dick on a stick showed up several years ago when it had a specific function – to prop up and lodge the dick end firmly in an orfice of a bound and restrained BDSM model. The models where often suspended or semi-suspended and the stick was long enough for the butt end (er.. I mean the end without the dick) to rest on the floor and ensure the dick end remained in place. A little swaying in the ropes and a primative fucking machine was invented….
This was kind of hot if one is into beautiful bound models forced/submitting to riding a dick rather solidly jambed up there by the attached stick. Squirming in the ropes instantly had a whole new meaning.
Since then I believe the availability of this prop (pun accidental) plus several of the reasons you propose have extended its use to other Kink.coms sites.
Like everything on kink.com that’s obviously not for me I was just going to put it down to some outcropping of the domination/humiliation/submission part of their schtick, which alas turns me off as that’s not my thing; as opposed to the bondage/confinment/extreme physical sensation part which I do get, and indeed does turn me on.
My kinks therefore sadly being in incorrectly configured proportions to properly appreciate most of their sites despite their quality, I don’t have the foggiest as to what the dick on a stick thing is *really* supposed to be all about :)
My guess would be it’s some combination of:
1. The appeal of a “fucking machine”- just a bit more low-tech
2. A “dick on a stick” is even more remote and impersonal, and therefore, more objectifying, than a hand-held or strap-on dildo.
I suspect there’s some overlap between these, anyway.
Several more….
5. Many bondage scenes place the model at an angle, position, or location that would prevent a real man from gaining access.The dick on a stick still allows for penetration scenes.
6. A dick on a stick is much less likely to spread an STD.
7. You’re not engaged in sexual intercourse with another man.
Which leads into the real reason: we have some rather strict “sexual intercourse while tied up” pornography laws on the books here in the US. (Too much like rape for some people.)
Those laws are widely ignored at the moment, but back in the day a dick on a stick was considered to be a acceptable workaround.
What? No one is going to go for the obvious “ten foot pole” reference? :)
The kink.com schtick includes an awful lot of “penetration makes women cum”, either using the dick on a stick, or a dom’s fingers going wakka-wakka-wakka in and out of the poor model’s vag. They’ll bring in a hitachi and make her orgasm, yes, but there’s too much penetration for the sake of penetration, and models’ faked enthusiasm, for me.
The “dicks on sticks” that you have singled out as examples, are indeed (to me anyway) among the LEAST sexy images ever produced by the people at Kink. I have often wondered the same thing about such depictions, and I’m glad you brought the subject up, because I think they are over-using them. Perhaps this disembodied penis is appealing to some people in certain fantasies I’ll allow…
However, my guess is they were hanging around as props/attachments used in there famous Fucking Machine series. They are practically a necessity when associated with the machines.
Also, the folks at Kink have a lot of very confining fixtures built to hold a submissive in precise configurations of the body and to allow for very specific activities to be performed on them. Often it’s satisfying to see an otherwise unattended orifice fully plugged, and dicks on sticks are the most efficient way to accomplish this, as they can be attached to framework with various clamping devices.
Otherwise, as I have already stated, the hand-held use in my opinion is far overdone. I could excuse some use of hand-held “corn-dogs” if the model was totally immobilized and blindfolded, allowing for the use of disembodied penises of anonymous/unknown origin…
Why not look at it from a marketing perspective? Kink.com has lots of websites that have high quality kink that cannot be found elsewhere. Let’s say they used the Dick on the Stick (DOTS) sometime back on their fucking machines site. That site got a lot of attention due to its uniqueness and high quality. Then they alanyzed the results and found DOTS scenes to be selling well , so they assumed it turns people on. They used it on other websites since they are quite cheap to implement and have many of the benefits mentioned in the post and the comments, and they did not see a negative correlation between DOTS and sales after doing so. The reason for continued good sales may well be that customers just buy their shoots due to high quality and they turn a blind eye to the DOTS (or that in fact some people enjoy them). They will not stop using it from a marketing point of view unless they realize this negative correlation (very hard to detect in absence of good competitors) or if they find another cheap and popular trick (e.g. dick in a tray) that would fill its place.
Dicks on Sticks date back to the father of BDSM sites, InSex run by PD, and went by the name ‘Mr. Pogo’. PD didn’t do sex on InSex, just BDSM, so ‘Mr. Pogo’ was used for penetration when it was called for. Often it was used more as a restraint device (i.e. tied to a spreader bar to ensure the model is standing straight) than as a fucking device, though it was used for that as well.
When InSex went dark, and Kink.com was still just Hogtied.com many of PD’s behind the scenes riggers found work with Pete’s crew and brought along many of PD’s techniques. This is one of them. As others have mentioned, Kink’s crew have been around a long time now, they’ve built an extensive selection of props that get used with all their sites.
“xxxx on a stick,” the by-word of the local state fair. I will never look at their ads the same again.
I have to agree with Gvs: it is an even more impersonal tool than a strap-on, thus amplifying the objectification experience. I haven’t myself seen any of their shoots where the dick on a stick is used, but if I were to make one for myself that would be my intent. The object itself in particular is not a turn-on, but the end result is.
Sorry to come to this late, but as a person who has worked for KINK as a rigger/performer (hogtied with Lochai and Bella Rossi) I can, at least, tell you about my experience with the dick on a stick.
Yes, part of it is the mere fact of convenience: when we had her suspended at eye-level in a cage, it would have been problematic for just about anyone to actually do the penetration with bio-cocks. And certainly penetration IS what some people want to see (though apparently not the readers of your blog).
HOwever (and you and your readers can choose to believe this or not), when I got my briefing and direction for what to do for the shoot, not once did anyone talk about “what the viewer wants.” Instead, Lochai and I talked with Bella, about what her fantasies were, her likes/dislikes, and then we did our best to bring them to life.
That’s what the focus was. NOT the viewers fantasy; the idea was that viewers would get most turned on by watching Bella get turned on and cum multiple times.
I can’t say whether that’s still the case at Kink, or if other shoots had the same dictum (though I’ll ask Claire Adams about it). But in this case, she liked penetration; she liked sucking cock; neither Lochai nor I at the time were stunt cocks, so we used the DoaS (DoUSoaS?). So we did it…a lot of it…and she had a very good time.
Incidentally, I know that recently Kink put out a call for a new Production Assistant…and that’s the job of sterilizing those DoaS…
Hey Greydancer, I do appreciate you dropping by with first-hand knowledge.
Now if I could only get somebody to drop in and tell me what’s happened to the kink.com set lighting in the last year…I’m getting tired of squinting at my screen or having to adjust the gamma to see what’s going on! ;-)
Now that I can’t help you with, I’m afraid. However, I will tell you one interesting factoid: the lights we used on the set for the shoot I did were second-hand – and the plates riveted to the old metal frames read “Industrial Light & Magic.”
In my fantasy, I was fucking Bella Rossi* under the same light that lit The Empire Strikes Back…
*with a deek on a steek, of course.
LOL, given the Star Wars connection, would that make you a “geek with a deek on a steek”?
Because, seriously man. Bella Rossi on your set doing what she does so well, and you’re thinking “George Lucas used these lights”? ;-)
Give me some credit, man. The fantasy was only when I first saw the lights. When Bella entered the room, there was not room for much actual “thought” per se in my head.
“Geek with Deek on a Steek” – brilliant.