alt.sex.movies FAQ v5.65 Part 1 of 12 Welcome to alt.sex.movies =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sections marked with [updated] were updated since the last revision Sections marked with [new] were added since the last revision. This FAQ is Copyright 1994-6 by Jeff Knapp, and is made available as a service to the Internet community. It may not be sold in any medium, including electronic, CD-ROM, or database, packaged with any commercial product, or published in print, without the explicit, written permission of Jeff Knapp. Send comments to director@gti.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 Copyright and other necessary stuff 3 How to get this FAQ [new] 4 Welcome to alt.sex.movies! 5 I can't get alt.sex.movies and my news admin won't carry it! 6 Who we are... [updated] 7 How popular we are... 8 What we're all about... [updated] 9 What we're not... 9.1 What are the appropriate binaries groups? [updated] 10 What's a GIF? MPEG? JPG? DL? 11 Is there an alt.sex.movies IRC channel? [new] 12 Glossary [updated] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1 Introduction Adult movies (aka, porn flicks, stag films, etc.) were born shortly after movies themselves. According to its newsgroup header, alt.sex.movies exists to discuss "the ins and outs" of this genre of motion picture entertainment. The people who read alt.sex.movies are, on average, well adjusted people who think that the viewing of pornographic materials is, in the worst case harmless, and in the best case enlightening and enjoyable. X-rated movies are a fantasy, and as long as people keep that in mind, it will not warp or destroy anyone's moral character. Even if you forget it, it probably won't warp you. Usenet has been around for a long time, and in the course of that time, people come and people go and still others remain. This FAQ has been put together with the aid and assistance of a great many people, mostly to inform, entertain, educate and enlighten... but also to spare them the pain of hearing another "Did Marina Sirtis do porn?" question. ;-) The first part of the FAQ deals with netiquette -- how to behave when not only in alt.sex.movies, but poking around the 'net in general. The other eight parts deal with specific topics within the newsgroup. I hope you enjoy this FAQ. It has been a labor of love for me to keep it up, since I receive no compensation for the maintenance, other than the joys of knowing people like it. So, if you like it, please send me a paycheck of kind words. Should you have any questions you think should appear in here, comments about this FAQ or anything else, drop me a line at director@gti.net. Thanks for your indulgence. ================================================================= 2 Copyright and other necessary stuff *********** Notice to Spaghetti Publishers ******** A spaghetti publisher is one whose philosophy of publishing is to "throw it at the wall and see if it sticks." Over the last few months, they been very busy putting out badly written Internet books, and are looking for yet more material they can rush into print in their ever greedier search for easy $. Lately, spaghetti publishers have taken to exploiting FAQs and lists, often publishing them without obtaining written permission. This is an abuse of the copyright laws, and threatens the continued viability of the FAQ system which benefits us all. These are the same publishers who would sue at the drop of a hat if anyone so much as used a figure from their books without permission. This FAQ is Copyright 1994-5 by Jeff Knapp, and is made available as a service to the Internet community. It may not be sold in any medium, including electronic, CD-ROM, or database, packaged with any commercial product, or published in print, without the explicit, written permission of Jeff Knapp. I urge other FAQ authors to include this notice as part of their FAQs. This language comes from the comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc faq, maintained Bernard Aboba. ************** Legalese ************** This FAQ is presented with no warranties or guarantees of ANY KIND including correctness or fitness for any particular purpose. The author(s) of this document have attempted to verify correctness of the data contained herein; however, slip-ups can and do happen. If you use this data, you do so at your own risk. *********** Citation entry *********** This FAQ may be cited as: Knapp, Jeffrey (1995) "alt.sex.movies Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)" Usenet alt.sex.movies, available via anonymous FTP: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt-sex/movies/part1-12 126 pages (or so). ================================================================= 3 How to get this FAQ [new] To get the latest FAQ by anonymous FTP: a) ftp "rtfm.mit.edu" - all parts of the asm FAQ are in the directory /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/alt-sex/movies To get the latest FAQ by WWW: See the alt.sex.movies FAQ homepage at: http://w3.gti.net/director/faqindex.html If you don't have FTP or Web Access and need the latest FAQs, use the MIT mailbot by sending e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with a blank subject. In the body of the message cut and paste the following: send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part1 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part2 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part3 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part4 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part5 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part6 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part7 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part8 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part9 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part10 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part11 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part12 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/how-to-get-bios ================================================================= 4 Welcome to alt.sex.movies! This section of the FAQ is meant just to get you acquainted with the group, its terms and its history. There is quite a social stigma surrounding adult entertainment, and it is a shame that after so many years of enlightened civilization, people still think we're a bunch of old men running around in raincoats, jerking off in movie theatres. Nowadays, we dress in clothes from the Gap and make love with our viewing partners in the privacy of our own homes. Times have changed, though the perceptions have not. Porn is a billion-dollar industry. With numbers like that, it is hard to ignore. ================================================================= 5 I can't get alt.sex.movies and my news admin won't carry it! This is a tough spot to be in, and while I can get you access to the group, I can offer you this information, the "How to Receive Banned Newsgroups FAQ." From that FAQ: 6.3 How do I get the latest version of the faq? The faq is posted approximately once a month to alt.censorship, alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk, alt.internet.services, news.misc,* alt.answers, and news.answers. It is available through ftp from rtfm.mit.edu, in /pub/usenet/news.answers/usenet/banned-groups-faq. You can retrieve this by mail by using the ftp-by-mail service mentioned [in Part 2 of the alt.sex.movies FAQ], or by mailing me (banned-faq@uiuc.edu). The newest version is available by ftp from my machine (isr0906.urh.uiuc.edu) when it's up, in /pub/docs. ================================================================= 6 Who we are... [updated] We're pretty cool. We don't make trouble, we just like to watch porn. Sometimes, people don't read the FAQ, and we get pissed off. It's only fair. We read it, and now you're reading it. It's like a rite of passage. We offer many goods and services. Well, not so much goods, though there is a healthy amount of trading and some commerce going on too -- Just don't ask for Traci Lords' flicks... :) But we excel at services. If there's stuff you need to know, you do have places to turn... The people in alt.sex.movies are pretty helpful, and have a good sense of humor. However, some things to remember when posting... a) Don't ask for replies via e-mail (if the QUESTION is worth posting, the ANSWER will be valuable to everyone in the group). Also, it implies YOUR time is more valuable than THEIRS, since you're expecting _them_ to read all the posts to see yours, yet _you're_ not willing to scan the subjects to see their reply. b) when following up on a posting, please delete any non-relevant lines from the original post (including header and sig). Posting more than 10 lines from the original post is TOO MUCH. Posting no lines from the original is TOO LITTLE. ALSO, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EACH TIME YOU POST, YOU'RE ASKING A COMPLETE STRANGER TO SPEND TIME HELPING YOU: - if the answers you receive are not what you wanted, DON'T FLAME!, just post a follow-up note thanking the respondents for their suggestions so far, and provide a clarified problem statement. - if you receive no responses, DON'T PANIC!, give it a couple of days: it takes a while for postings to propagate around the world; sometimes your posting is similar to one posted in the previous couple of weeks and people are sick of the topic (check your news server's archive); sometimes your question is a 'toughie' which requires some thinking/research time; and sometimes everyone's just too busy. If you get no reply after a week, try again with additional clarification, and consider using the following format: i) FLATTERY SECTION: "I've learned a lot from the faqs and watching the postings for the last month, but now I have a really tough problem for you gurus" ii) BEGGING FOR HELP: "I've checked the FAQs, library, etc... any advice would be appreciated (please post responses to this newsgroup as I don't read my e-mail very often)" - if the answers are useful, a quick _e-mail_ thanking the respondent(s) is always appreciated This language is taken from the excellent comp.lang.basic.visual.* "Welcome message." Used with permission for which I am eternally grateful. ================================================================= 7 How popular we are... A big Abigail Clayton reverse cowgirl thanks to Imperator (imp@primus.paranoia.com) for finding this info: The new stats are out. I am not pretending that this is any sort of "service" to the group; the data are readily available in news.lists. I'm just continuing a sort of personal tradition that satisfies my megalomania :-) Note that the numbers for the size of the net (and therefore of USENET participation) are significantly lower for this latest set. I don't know whether this is because of "summer effects" (i.e. no undergraduates) or a better statistical analysis, I'm just the guy who forwards. Article: 3879 of news.lists From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.lists,news.admin.misc Subject: USENET READERSHIP SUMMARY REPORT FOR JUL 95 Date: 6 Aug 1995 17:16:33 -0700 Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory This is the first article in a monthly posting series from the Network Measurement Project at Digital's Network Systems Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. This survey is based on a sample of data taken from various USENET sites. At the end of this message there is a short explanation of the measurement techniques and the meaning of the various statistics. The messages that follow this one show survey data sorted by various criteria. The newsgroup volume and article counts that I post are often different from the ones posted elsewhere, because other lists sometimes include the size of a crossposted article in every group to which it is posted, whereas we charge that size only to the first-named group. The complete set of readership data (of which this is a summary) is posted in news.lists. The software that will let your site participate in the survey is in comp.sources.d and news.admin Brian Reid reid@pa.dec.com OVERALL SUMMARY: This Estimated Sample for entire net Sites: 357 330000 Fraction reporting: 0.11% 100% Users with accounts: 164053 30329000 Netreaders: 59683 11033000 Average readers per site: 167 Percent of users who are netreaders: 36.38% Average traffic per day (megabytes): 586.411 Average traffic per day (messages): 127446 Traffic measurement interval: last 28 days Readership measurement interval: last 75 days Sites used to measure propagation: 357 [...] Article: 3880 of news.lists From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUL 95) Date: 6 Aug 1995 17:16:49 -0700 Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab, Palo Alto, Calif., USA TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them. +-- Est. total # of people who read the group, worldwide. | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive newsgroup | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month) | | | | +-- Recent traffic (MB/Month) | | | | | +-- Crossposting % | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % who read V V V V V V V V this group [...] 27 89000 1063 50% 5543 10.0 12% 0.05 1.8% alt.sex.movies [...] Brian Reid reid@pa.dec.com That's right, 27! Third in the alt.sex.* hierarchy (behind the unbeatable alt.sex, alt.sex.stories, and alt.sex.bondage). I guess Dan Z. must be feeling very proud now :-). The crossposting percentage is pathetic and so is our propagation. However... ..we still rule :-) ================================================================= 8 What we're all about... [updated] alt.sex.movies is a USENET newsgroup dedicated to the intelligent and mature discussion of adult videos. Discussion includes, but is not limited to, reviews of current and not-so-current releases, gossip, behind the scenes stories, and discussion of actors and actresses (and directors and producers and...) ================================================================= 9 What we're not... We're not a place to find or post binaries of movies you can watch on your PC. PLEASE DO NOT POST BINARIES TO OUR GROUP! Our survival depends upon the generosity of other news administrators. if they notice our group swelling with binaries, they will drop us like a hot potato... and we don't want that to happen, so only post binaries to the appropriate groups. 9.1 What are the appropriate binaries groups? [updated] There's a whole slew of USENET groups dedicated to movies or pictures you can see on your PC. Search your news spool for the words "erotica" and "binaries" (If you don't know how to do this, ask your news admin.. it's their job to know...) For starters, you can check out the following groups: alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica alt.binaries.pictures.erotica alt.binaries.pictures.pornstar This list is obviously not canonical, and I don't intend it to be. Please don't mail me asking how to access USENET groups. That is a question best answered by your tech support people, and I will ignore it. Thanks! ================================================================= 10 What's a GIF? MPEG? JPG? DL? There are a bunch of different ways to store graphics on a computer. Most people who watch movies like to have pictures of their favorite stars on their computer. Same goes for porn lovers. We'd love to have Ginger Lynn on our screen every day, even if our lady boss is not so crazy about it... Common graphic file formats are GIF, PCX, BMP, JPG. There are also ways to store movies on your computer, too. While the image quality is hardly that of your TV let alone from a 70mm THX Theatre, the picture in fact, move. The motion picture extensions are: MPG, AVI, DL, FLC, FLI Also, please keep in mind that this is a *DISCUSSION* group. Pictures and other programs should not be disseminated here. There are plenty of "binaries" groups you can post your picture/program to. So, post your picture/program to alt.binaries.pictures.erotica and then write a note to everyone on asm that says "Hey! I found the coolest picture of Julia Louis-Dreyfus entertaining herself with a carrot! I posted it to a.b.p.e... check it out!" (Apologies to Ms. Dreyfus...) ================================================================= 11 Is there an alt.sex.movies IRC channel? [new] Yes. We confer on the Undernet on Wednesday nights at 8 PM Eastern (- 0500 GMT) in channel #a.s.m. (don't forget the periods). The conversation drifts from sex movies to all other things not sex movies related and back again on a regular basis, so kick back, hang out, and get to know your fellow asm'ers... ================================================================= 12 Glossary [updated] 69 (sixty-nine): How DOES one explain this to the uninitiated? Easiest way: each person performs oral sex on the other. The most comfortable way to achieve this is for one partner to lay down belly-to-belly on the other. (Kinda like the 6 and the 9 look... hence the name!) AFAIK As Far As I Know AFOAF A Friend of a Friend -- Often used when relating urban myths. alt.binaries.pictures.erotica alt.binaries.pictures.erotica is a newsgroup which has gigabytes and gigabytes of copyright violations posted to it every month. You will often find nude pics of your favorite stars there. Check out their FAQ for more details! alt.flame alt.flame is a newsgroup dedicated to flaming of all shapes and styles. If you feel a prolonged flame war coming on, it is best to carry on over there, because most people don't want to watch your arguments. asm alt.sex.movies Autofellatio A term used to refer to the extraordinary ability to suck one's own cock. Often, the male involved has to either have incredible flexibility or have a fairly large penis. Al Eingang, Grant Fagan, and Scott O'Hara are known for their amazing autofellatio talents. Ron Jeremy can also "keep himself amused." AVI Audio Video Interleave: This is Microsoft's standard for capturing video to play back to your computer. Like its single-frame counterpart .BMP, AVI files are huge and take forever to download. Most people prefer MPEGs, though there is some bickering over standards and a good Windows viewer. B-G Boy-girl; denotes a standard boy-girl sex scene. BJ Blowjob. BMP BitMaPped graphic. Microsoft popularized (hell, they invented) the .BMP file with the advent of Windows. It is most famous for hogging diskspace. It is much more preferable to use JPG compression rather than using BMPs to transfer graphic information. BTW A three letter acronym for "By The Way..." Cowgirl A sexual position where the girl is on top of the guy face to face, sitting up and riding. The opposite is the reverse cowgirl, where the girl faces away from the guy. DAP Double Anal Penetration -- Two cocks in the ass. And you thought constipation was bad! DL I have found out what .DL stands for. DL is taken from the two individuals which copyrighted the binary format and structure of the movie loops (most Dls loop forever). The names are: (D)avide Tome' and (L)uca De Gregori. The DOCs in the latest DL-view version I have claim a copyright all the way back to 1990. (just more trivia, I know). Not often seen. People in Italy seem to love it. DP Double Penetration - One penis in the vagina, the other in the anus. In gay porn, DP means two cocks in one ass, as seen in several Falcon and Robert Prion films from 1991 - 1994 (most notably the "Abduction" series from Falcon). In hetero films, that is known as a DAP. DPP Double Pussy Penetration -- Just as it says; two cocks in one pussy. Stretch baby stretch! Evil Empire The people who make up the Evil Angel/Elegant Angel production team are sometimes collectively referred to as the "Evil Empire." The empire consists of John "Buttman" Stagliano, Bruce Seven, Patrick Collins and John Leslie. FAQ Frequently Asked Questions. Sometimes people call it Frequently Answered Questions, but more often than not the questions are answered with "READ THE FAQ!" Fisting Finger-fucking gone awry. One finger, two finger, three finger, four! The Thumb! Holy cow, my whole hand is up there! Most communities feel that fisting is obscene, so mainstream pornographers tend to stay away from it. Tim says: I don't know about hetero porn, but in gay porn 1) It isn't "finger-fucking gone AWRY" (hey, it was a joke...); 2) it's done in the ass not the vagina; 3) even mainstream photographers such as Falcon and Catalina have recently done fisting movies, including Falcon's recent foray into double- fisting (i.e., one guy has each hand up another man's ass). flame A flame is an incendiary remark meant to provoke or insult. Some people have brought flaming to an art form. They can be found in the group alt.flame. FLC Flick files. These are Autodesk Animator's file types of choice. They are just as big as AVI files, but can be viewed in both Windows and DOS, unlike AVIs. FLI see FLC Fluffer A fluffer is a person hired to keep the male performers erect during breaks in filming. FTP File Transport Protocol - A method of copying files between machines connected to the Internet. Most sites provide "Anonymous FTP" which allows you to log in to a server anonymously (i.e. you don't need an account) and get or put files there. FWIW An acronym for "For What It's Worth..." Gangbang (or GB) When many participants (usually male) have their way with one (usually) female. G/G (or g-g) Girl-Girl. A lesbian sexual encounter. GIF Graphics Interchange Format - A file format for viewing files on a computer. The GIF format was developed by CompuServe and has become one of the graphic standards. It's now under dispute by a bunch of greedy ignorant weasels over at Unisys. GL An ugly disk-hogging ugly DOS based file format for viewing movies which does its job and not much else. Rarely posted to the a.b.pictures newsgroups. Golden Showers Urinating on someone who wants to be urinated on. IMHO In My Humble Opinion IRC Internet Relay Chat. A real-time conferencing system. Members of alt.sex.movies meet on the Undernet (irc.undernet.org) on Wednesday nights at 8 PM Eastern (-0500 GMT) in channel #a.s.m. to talk about sex movies and whatever else comes up. JPG Joint Pictures Experts Group: This file format is most preferred by denizens of the 'Net, due to the excellent compression JPG offers. A .BMP file could easily be 10 times the size of a comparable JPG file... and when downloading graphics, you want the smallest file with the best resolution, and JPG really takes the cake. You need a special viewer to view JPGs and someone over in a.b.p.e.d (or any of the graphics discussion groups) should be able to help you find one. A favorite is QPEG, a DOS based JPEG viewer. LOL Laugh Out Loud. Used to show that something someone said was funny. MFF Male/Female/Female. See a threesome. See N-Way. Mish Short for missionary -- a sexual position allegedly taught to the natives by missionaries... man on top between the woman's parted legs. The term is most often used in reviews: "Tom and Tori then mish for a little while..." MPAA Motion Picture Association of America, or in the familiar, the ratings board. This board of seven "parents" rates the films Hollywood makes based on what they feel is suitable for audience members. They allegedly base their choices on the merits, although smaller films (like Almodovar's) are often more strictly judged than the "blockbusters." Of course, everyone involved denies this. MPEG Motion Pictures Expert Group - This is a way of displaying movies on your screen. It is well liked because of its high compression ratio. However, the quality of the image may be lessened by the compression scheme. MPG See MPEG N-way A term used to refer to the multiple-pairings available in gay porn. If sex between two people is a duo, and three people is a three-way and four people is a four-way and five-people is a five-way...then most people just like to refer to ANY KIND of sex involving more than two people as an N-way. PCX This is another form of graphic display file. It was developed by Zsoft for its PC Paintbrush program, and has also become a de facto standard. PITA Not only a bread, but Pain In The Ass. "Boy, that Jerry... what a PITA..." Reverse Cowgirl or RC A sexual position where the girl on top of guy, facing his feet, sitting up and riding him. This seems to be a favorite of asm readers as it allows fairly unfettered and more "natural" camera work. Reverse Anal Cowgirl or RAC Same as RC, but with anal instead of vaginal penetration. Rimming The act of licking someone's anus. If you could lick your own anus, there is probably a lot of money to be made... ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing -- The next step above LOL RTFM Read the Fucking Manual - The cry of system administrators and other poor souls who must deal with people asking obvious questions over and over. "How do you save a document? Read the fucking manual, that's how!" Spamming The act of posting the same or similar message separately (so that only one newsgroup shows in the newsgroup header) to large numbers of newsgroups. An ad for a baseball card sale which shows up in every alt.sex.* newsgroup is spam unless it is VELVEETA. Spooning Usually performed after sex, when two individuals lie on their sides, facing the same direction, and perfectly fit together, like two spoons. TIF Tagged Image Format - A graphic format used in the real world for transferring HUGE graphics files between print shops. Also used to a much lesser extent on the net. You will mostly see TIF files converted to JPGs for compression reasons. TLA Three Letter Acronym TP Triple Penetration - One in pussy, one in ass, one in her mouth. Wow! Troll A deliberately confused and incorrect post posted to a Usenet group to generate a flurry of responses from people trying to set the record straight. Other trollers enter the fray adding more and more misinformation that the thread eventually dies of strangulation Twink A term used to describe certain gay performers. A twink is young, smooth, pretty. Not necessarily blond, although that's the archetype. Other attributes thought of as twinky are: Almost invariably NO musculature, and acts like a little boy, too. Usually a bottom. Most guys would consider a touch of baby fat to be essentially twinky, but Tim doesn't. Velveeta A message crossposted to many newsgroups, i.e. has many newsgroups listed in the newsgroup header. It is generally accepted that any message posted to more than 10 newsgroups is velveeta. Some purists maintain that no message can be relevant to more than five newsgroups. WWW World Wide Web - A hypertext linking system that connects machines on the 'Net by subject matter. Web servers are set up by (some say deranged) people who are interested in a certain topic. They mine the 'Net for related information, and place pointers to that information from their server. *** END PART 1 ***