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by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Heroine Legends
Topic: Scenarios
Replies: 85
Views: 25231

Re: Scenarios

Hey Logan, you recently released a 26 minute video of nothing but low blows, most clips from which came from your supposedly non-fetish videos. You are selling it for $40. Do you seriously contend that there is anyone who is spending $40 for a video of nothing but low blows--no story, no full fight ...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Definition of "Fetish Video"
Replies: 36
Views: 8452

Re: Definition of "Fetish Video"

EDIT 2 - BACK ON TOPIC Regarding the definition of pornography I gave above (and all fetish videos are pornography first and foremost, just porn that concentrates on a particular element), I think it's perfectly serviceable actually. Putting aside for a moment that it had to be vague enough to catc...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Re: Fetishism Discussion, and a question

On the subject of the evolution of fetishes, I have found that my own fetish fantasies have actually grown LESS violent over the years. I find I'm personally much more into light, damsel in distress types of scenarios than I used to be. With one interesting exception--the Cyber Blue character (see a...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Definition of "Fetish Video"
Replies: 36
Views: 8452

Re: Definition of "Fetish Video"

Thank you so much for that link, Henchman! I have followed with interest, if also from afar, the doings of UK legislators who have made it a crime even to possess certain S&M material. Draconian indeed. The definition of pornography you cited, of course, is extremely vague--and it's not clear to...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: 20% Off All Superheroine Art and Animation
Replies: 17
Views: 6081

Re: Leadpoison Superheroine Art

Wow! Thats all kinds of awesome! I'd love to hire you to take a stab at my Cyber Blue character! Shall I email you for rates?

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by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Re: Fetishism Discussion, and a question

Okay, a couple more Cyber Blue pages, and a fetish origins story of my own. This one is pretty funny and also shows just how RANDOM fetishes are. So as a boy soon to suffer the throes of puberty--or maybe I was already in the thick of it--I saw, at home on HBO, the movie Purple Rain. Now, in that qu...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Definition of "Fetish Video"
Replies: 36
Views: 8452

Re: Definition of "Fetish Video"

So Helstar has privately proposed to me the view, which I am very interested in, that no video can ever be porn, not even fetish porn, unless there is nudity or sex in it. I have invited him to explain his position here. I hope he will, not least because I find that view to be unsupportable (as even...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Re: Fetishism Discussion, and a question

First off, here are a couple more pages from that Cyber Blue comic I've been commissioning. I've already gone on in depth on the backstory of Cyber Blue--suffice it to say that she's a cyborg, pretty much all machine except for her human mind. Which is why she can be pummeled so badly but it never r...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

This business IS my business. And believe it or not, I do care very much about the talent. They're the stars of the show, and should be compensated as well as possible. And trust me, if you read over this very amusing thread, you'll see just who needs to relax, lol. Sincerely, Your Schoolyard Bully
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

What's shady, Logan, is that you're hiring "mainstream" actresses, making fetish videos with them, not being honest with them about how what they're really shooting is fetish porn (which explains why you are so desperate to deny the "fetish" label here, even as you're marketing y...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Definition of "Fetish Video"
Replies: 36
Views: 8452

Re: Definition of "Fetish Video"

Couldn't it be a matter of perception whether a specific video, or group of videos, are or are not fetish videos though? While I am generally in agreement with your viewpoint on this issue...I'm not sure if that isn't only because we are looking at this with at least a similar fetish savvy 'eye'. W...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Definition of "Fetish Video"
Replies: 36
Views: 8452

Re: Definition of "Fetish Video"

I am not a lawyer. I just read stuff. Child pornography law concerns sexually explicit conduct, not overtly sexual or fetish content. 2257 refers to the definition in 2256. Sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same o...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Definition of "Fetish Video"
Replies: 36
Views: 8452

Re: Definition of "Fetish Video"

You know, reading the exchange between you two just now, I had a bit of an epiphany. Unmasked05 said, " I just cannot articulate why I get so much sexual gratification from seeing the heroine unmasked." I think this basic sentiment is something everyone with a fetish completely understands...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Re: Fetishism Discussion, and a question

Then again, my own self-indulgent fetish character, Cyber Blue, I now realize, has a lot of Spider Woman in her, ha ha: http://www.superheroineworld.com/10small.jpg Dude, what is that? Saved to my hard drive, that's what. I love it :) Frickin crotch abuse pterodactyls? Where do I sign up? It's the ...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Re: Fetishism Discussion, and a question

Fetish should only be treated by a therapist if it is causing a problem in a persons life. True but remember rizoboy didn't say he went to therapy for specifically that issue - just that he would casually bring it up from time to time - seemed like more of a curiosity to what the therapist would sa...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Definition of "Fetish Video"
Replies: 36
Views: 8452

Definition of "Fetish Video"

So to continue from a very interesting discussion on another thread, I thought I'd open one more thread here, on the topic of what the definition might be of "fetish video." Since there seemed to be some remarkable differences of opinion expressed on that other thread. In fact, one of the ...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Re: Fetishism Discussion, and a question

Oh, I also wanted to reply to Rizoboy, since he writes of precisely the kind of thing I was talking about above. Rizoboy wrote: I've done some therapy and I do bring up the topic with my therapist from time to time. Sometimes he suggests that there is a certain hatred of women that I have in me, an ...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Re: Fetishism Discussion, and a question

Just to take Alex down Memory Lane... http://i.imgur.com/lcKffbA.jpg Wow, some really amazing responses here guys, thank you! And a HUGE thank you to HeroineAddict for posting that Spider Woman picture--yes, that is EXACTLY the image I was referring to. What's great is that I very specifically reme...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Re: Fetishism Discussion, and a question

I like that term, baby bird effect. I wish more people understood that concept. What I find rather disturbing is how people with agendas--psychiatrists, feminists, moral conservatives--are always so keen on making it seem like a fetish has some kind of "ulterior" meaning. So if you're inte...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Fetishism Discussion, and a question
Replies: 48
Views: 11609

Fetishism Discussion, and a question

So to follow up on some ideas in another thread: My view is that no particular fetish can be explained satisfactorily in a general way, since chances are that no two fetishists, even ones who seem to have the "same" fetish, are really alike. I used the spanking example. Take 4 or 5 guys wh...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Sure thing, Kristina--though for what it's worth, this wasn't a thread devoted to your products, but to the topic of fetishism more generally. "Various Fetishes Explained." If I start a thread on this site about some general topic like that, then you should absolutely feel free to chime in...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

HeroineLegends wrote: Lol whatever you say, Alex. ;)
Yeah!!

*I'm the best...around! Nothin's gonna ever keep me down!*
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

And I'm sorry, you do NOT get to decide whether your movies are fetish movies or not. If I insist that my most recent movie is NOT a fetish movie, NOT an adult movie, I'd be wrong. Plain and simple. I don't get to just "say" whether my movie is fetish or porn or not. It is what it is. If I...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Whoops, sorry got carried away there at the end...that evil professor Kevin Sorbo just got to me.
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Logan: The only reason this conversation has gone on so long is because you are fighting SO hard to deny something that seems very obvious to most of the fans here. Namely, that your videos--which are largely scripted by fetishists, which included fetish elements that fetishists specifically request...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

You know, Mr X, I'm actually really philosophically interested at this point. Danto was someone I met once and whose philosophy of art I always respected greatly--I think the "objective" existence of artworks is something super fun to discuss. Even here in the context of fetish videos! It'...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

And one more thing, Kristina. When you say, "I do not do certain elements etc to hit a fetish point as you are saying," isn't that just objectively false? I mean, most of the elements included in the movies you make were requested--and PAID FOR--by fetishists. That's why you included them,...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

I'm very sorry Kristina--but to go back to my foot fetish analogy: If you were to produce videos that were almost all shots of sexy women's feet, and you solicited ideas from foot fetishists, and you let foot fetishists script all or significant parts of your videos, and you aggressively marketed th...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

That's a poor analogy. "Slut" is a clearly derogatory term. Fetish is not, it's descriptive. Unless you are saying calling a movie a fetish movie is just as derogatory as calling someone a slut? Surely you don't mean that. Kristina--the intentions of the people making a movie do not determ...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Kristina, if I argue that you ARE in fact making fetish films--because you make them according to fetishist's custom specifications, market them to fetishists, sell them overwhelmingly to fetishists--why do you see that as an "attack"? I'm not attacking anything you do. I think what you do...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

And Alex, your repeated analogy ignores the fact that HL has multiple companies that make clearly-differentiable products. You can argue that both companies make fetish products, but not that the products are indistinguishable, or even that one doesn't make more blatantly fetish products than the o...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Nope, it's a fetish film. Made to custom specifications from fetishists, advertised to fetishists, sold to fetishists. Reread my foot fetish analogy again. It's pretty dead on. That's you--the guy making movies about feet, actively soliciting ideas from foot fetishists, letting foot fetishists scrip...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Or rather, to make the analogy even more precise--if the people at Maserati sold the car to car enthusiasts, advertised it in car magazines, tried to win car awards for it, and THEN turned around and insisted, IT'S NOT A CAR, then no one would take them seriously.
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Yes, but anyone who says it's NOT A CAR is delusional. You seem to be insisting it's not a car.
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Nope, not perception. The filmmaker in my analogy is making foot fetish videos whether he "perceives" it or not. And anyone who says he isn't is either lying or has such a solipsistic, narrow view of reality (i.e., what you "perceive" the film to be is what it is for you) that th...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Nope. Everything you said in that last post is obviously false. From the first proposition to the last. As human beings we ALWAYS speak loosely, use colloquialisms, and so forth. Hiding behind a dictionary definition is silly. Your interpretation of my analogy is false. This filmmaker INSISTS that h...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

The definition of "fetish" you cited is obviously not the way we're using the word here. That's a clinical definition and has only marginally to do with this industry. "Fetish" as it's loosely used here, simply means a sexual interest in something that isn't really sex. Whether i...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Here's an analogy that I think makes things very clear. Imagine a filmmaker who makes movies about women's feet. They consist of nothing but long lingering shots of beautiful women and their feet, putting on and taking off shoes, panty hose, socks, stepping on things, etc etc. Virtually no story, ju...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Have fun on your fetish porn set! OWN IT! :)
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

By the way, one of my best selling videos is Girl Power. She doesn't take a single hit. So it's not always about the girl being defeated. Just a random thought from a comment probably 60 posts ago lol :) Of course not. Girl Power is a completely different FETISH. Guys jerk off to that too. I make g...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

You're right--at this point the conversation has reached it's limit, since it seems clear to me that, if you're not just being deceitful (i.e., exaggerating just how many people buy your videos for non-sexual reasons), then you're probably just a little naïve. I'm sure there are customers, as Imagin...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

I've done a custom video where the only request was for a kung fu fight between Angela Sommers and Christie Stevens, with Angela wearing a specific leather jacket.

It was obviously, totally, completely a sexual fetish for the guy.
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Logan, where your audience comes from is irrelevant. That's a matter of pure logic. You read emails--which say what? "I watch your videos just for the storylines...they're so good and exciting! I don't even care if there's any peril in it!" You talk to your fans--where? Here? Show me where...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Yes, fight videos where people request lots of stomach punches, or lots of face slapping, or this or that wrestling hold, or with this specific KO...these are not sex, and they ARE sexual. What proof do you have that they are not sexual? Double Trouble Productions makes tons of combat-only videos. T...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

What I DO know for certain is when I receive emails asking for videos that do not contain sexual content and those videos are purchased. That is a cut and dry example right there. When Heroine Kombat films are ordered for customs who just want to see a fatality done that mimics the video game. Thos...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

But Logan, how do you know that a "bulk" of your viewers have non-sexual interests in your peril videos? What proof do you have? As I mentioned, we have plenty of proof of people buying these movies for fetishistic reasons. What proof do you have that there are customers who don't have any...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Yes. After all, we can of course imagine someone who watches PORN for non-sexual reasons. Maybe because it's funny, or maybe he's doing a study of representations of sex, or maybe he just finds the sounds of porn soothing and likes to fall asleep listening to it. And sure, there might be some custom...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

I would consider sleeperkid's site to be an obvious fetish site--I mean, it caters to very specific sorts of fetishes (knockouts especially), he does almost all custom videos if I'm not mistaken, etc. Actual professional wrestling is a more interesting example--but then, I also don't think that &quo...
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

Sure, you do because you're a producer. The question is, if you were NOT a producer, would you still spend hundreds of dollars on them? Like would you have a library of superheroine in peril videos, and watch them over and over?
by Alex Bettinger
9 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Various Fetishes Explained
Replies: 252
Views: 46086

Re: Various Fetishes Explained

I'll ask you again, Logan. Would YOU spend $40 for a 25 minute video that had little story, and was just about a superheroine fighting a villain and getting her ass kicked badly.

Would you spend hundreds of dollars on many of them?

If not, then you're not who we've been talking about.