Weather Porn

Posted by tomo at 05:04 PM in sex . | 1 Comments

Traditional porn (naked people, having sex) and weather porn (tornadoes and other storms doing their thing) have much in common:

• Dialogue and plot are largely irrelevant; just give me better focus on that close-up shot, please.
  
• If there's a boring bit, you fast-forward past it; if there's a particularly good bit, you rewind to watch it again.
  
• The predominant use of amateur footage, with its unstaged, verite feel, reinforces the voyeuristic effect.
  
• The most intense sequences tend to leave you staring slack-jawed at the screen, mumbling, "OhmyGod, ohmyGod, ohmyGod" and "Holy shit, holy fucking shit."