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Parallel Porn Titles

"Hmm. You know, curiously enough, the X-rated version had the same name."

"The porno spoof is a fantastic art of film-making. Truly. When you break it down, the porno spoof is really nothing but a Saturday Night Live sketch, but with fucking. And any more humor. And what's also fascinating about the porno spoof is that most people just quit after they hear the title, as if the title is the climax of the porno spoof experience. It's not. The title is just the foreplay. The climax is when you watch the movie, and find out just who is eating Gilbert Grape!"

Virtually every popular mainstream movie or TV show will have its title and the rudiments of its plot morphed into a porn video. This fact of adult entertainment is even more certain than death and taxes. It's mandated pursuant to the provisions of Rule 34.

The porn industry really only has one product to sell. That's graphic depictions of people having sex. Naturally this makes things very competitive with each production company looking for an edge in the marketplace. The gay porn industry has its members always trying to stick out, while the straight porn industry is always trying to find a niche to squeeze into. So much like Hollywood itself, it exploits that which is already successful.

There are (of course) entire web sites dedicated to listing actual porn ripoffs of popular media. It's also a common game to take normal media titles and see how many porn titles they can be twisted into. Most of the times the only parody is the title. Curiously, the current hot trend in the porn industry is for high-budget, well-made parodies (well, higher-budget and better-made, anyway) that re-create what they're spoofing with careful attention to detail... but which reject parody titles in favor of just taking the original title and sticking "Not" in front of it or "A XXX Parody" afterwards.

Examples: Star Whores (Episode IV: A New Hole), Muffy the Vampire Layer, Lord of the Strings, An Officer and a Gentleman and Golden Retriever, Dr. Buttlove, or; How I Learned To Stop Clenching and Love the Plug, Top Gun.

One popular misconception is that this is standard practice in the porn industry. While it seems common, it's worth noting that it is a vast minority in the porn out there (as noted above). Most of it goes by the format of [race/gender/defining characteristic of participants] [optional fetish twist] [primary action performed] [number of series], the only fixed order generally being the number. For example, Interracial Anal Dildos 14. However, those titles are rarely much fun to talk about, so the ones that pop out to the general public are these titles listed below.

Of course, there's also an Inverted Trope: don't confuse Jennifer Lopez' chambermaid character having an affair with her hotel's client in Maid In Manhattan (2002) with Vanessa Del Rio's maid character having an affair with her client (and later his son) in Maid in Manhattan (1984)...

See also Rule 34. Just for Pun in action (hur hur hur). Rule of Funny is also involved; why have a potentially squicky actual porn title when you could have one of these and get a small laugh?. Compare The Mockbuster.

See Porn Names for the pornification of the actors' names.

Examples (sorted by the media being pornified):

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    Anime & Manga 
  • Total Media Agency (known as TMA) loves to do this by producing live-action Parallel Porn Titles of anime series, such as Suzumiya Hahiru no Yuuutsu, Faith/stay night, and so forth. These are most often sought after in the community only for the sake of mocking the ugly stars that conflicts terribly with the surprisingly well done (most of the time) cosplay outfits. Oddly enough, none of them are real puns, just twists on the names for the sake of it.
    • Perhaps the most unsubtle name from them: Clonnad. Sounds similar to "clone", doesn't it?
    • Not to forget their infamous version of the first arc of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, which was mistaken for the real live action movie by many and panned...Yes, they took a depressing delusion filled arc and made it crappy live action porn while leaving all the scenes intact.
    • They also make titles based of other popular Japanese things like Touhou which for that was named Seihou... which happens to also be the name for a sister game series for Touhou back in the PC-98 era before ZUN moved off to form Shanghai Alice and continue Touhou on Windows. This marks the first time that TMA, intentionally or otherwise, used a Parallel Porn Title whose result was an already existing work.
  • There's a hentai anime titled Elfen Laid, but it has nothing to do with Elfen Lied.
  • Possible subversion: The Hills Have Size is real, but it's not what you think - it's just the American dub of a totally unrelated hentai.
  • Foxy Nudes (Hana no Joshi Ana: Newscaster Etsuko).
  • A comprehensive list of punny hentai titles can be found here.
  • Unwired is a U.S. company that specializes in this involving famous anime. Their work includes Sailor and the 7 Ballz (a pornographic crossover of Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z among other famous '90s animes), Star Ballz (like Sailor and the 7 Ballz only set in the Star Wars universe) and Ninja Love (which according to the cover stars Naruto, the Futari wa Pretty Cure girls and Nadia). Unfortunately, most people consider Sailor and the 7 Ballz to be one of the worst pornos they had ever seen.
  • Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt has these every other title, unless they decide to go with a plain old Parody Name.
  • Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose is an almost-porn spoof of Sailor Moon.
  • The Choose Your Own Adventure-style Sailor Poon: A XXX Interactive Parody. No points for guessing the source being parodied.

    Comic Books 

    Film 

    Literature 
  • Hairy Twatter, advertised as the first non-gay Harry Potter porn parody.
  • The Humping Games and Younger Games, though both appear to be Shallow Parodies.
  • Presumably due to legal issues, Fifty Shades of Grey: A XXX Adaptation was recalled and re-released as This Isn't Fifty Shades of Grey XXX: This is a Parody. They were still sued. Oh, and there's also 50 Shades of Dylan Ryan, originally titled 50 Shades of Grey: The Lesbian Edition.

    Live-Action TV 

    Music 

    Professional Wrestling 
  • Val Venis, WWE's resident wrestling porn star, seems to have a resume composed entirely of these titles. One angle in particular had him cutting a promo on Ken Shamrock from the set of a movie he was making entitled Shaving Ryan's Privates, which co-starred Ken's sister Ryan (Shaving Ryan's Privates is a real softcore gay porn movie). Another saw him rattle off a Long List of them when he met Shelton Benjamin's mother backstage, and she couldn't shake the feeling that she knew him from somewhere.
    • Talking of wrestling, as WrestleCrap's The Death Of WCW book notes, you could tell wrestling was truly mainstream again when the NWO got a porn parody (Nude World Order).
  • Given Chyna became a porn actress, they had to put her in a WWE-styled movie, Chyna is Queen of the Ring. And Hilarity Ensues (along with euphemisms and puns) when a wrestling website decides to review it, describing each scene as it was a match...

    Video Games 

    Western Animation 
  • American Dad XXX: An Exquisite Films Parody, featuring things like rough sex between Roger and Francine, and a messy gangbang involving Haley, Snot, Barry, and Toshi.
    • Now they've done Family Guy. One can only imagine the Quagmire-related horrors...
  • The Simpsons: The XXX Parody. Everyone is yellow, and there's the Crack Pairing of Moe and Cookie Kwan.
    • Years before, there was the even more nightmarish Los Porno Sinson: La Iniciacion de Bart from Argentina.
  • Scooby-Doo: The XXX Parody is praised for being faithful to the original show - despite lacking the title character.
  • This Ain't The Smurfs XXX. Yes, really.
  • Beaver & Buttface, and the lesser-known Beaver and Butt Cheeks.
  • The Flintbones and its successor, The Flintstones: A XXX Parody.
  • SpongeKnob SquareNuts, which was first released on a TubePorn site by the director, possibly because he could not find a distributor willing to be held accountable for unleashing it upon the world. FIRMY GRASP IT!.

    Real Life 
  • Obama porn is relatively new: Cream From Your Mother and The Audacity Of Ho are just two of the titles on offer...
  • Zodiac Rapist, probably the only porno based (really loosely, admittedly) on a real life Serial Killer.
  • There is a porn called "Tranny Claus" which is shemale Christmas-themed porn including midgets cast as the Elves. Wow.

    Other 
  • Hello Titty is completely real and even has a sequel.
  • There was a line of porn films named after Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors.

Parodies:

    Card Games 

    Comic Books 
  • In Transmetropolitan, Spider Jerusalem's enemies try to make people stop taking him seriously by putting out a porn flick called I Hump It Here (the title of his column being "I Hate It Here").
    • Technically that wasn't his enemies, just all kinds of opportunists flocking to the money-making machine - after Spider's assistant Yelena sold them license to use his name and likeness. Spider wasn't amused.
  • Garth Ennis loves these. In both Chronicles of Wormwood and Kev there is a scene with a lot of porn videos on display with such titles as The Hunt for Red Cocktober, Starsky and Crotch, Baredevil, and so on.
  • In a comic by Michael Kupperman, an old man grants a boy special powers when he says SKREWPA, which is an acronym...
    Old Man: The S is for Sperms of Endearment! The K is for King Dong! The R is for Romancing the Bone! The E is for E.T.3: The Extra Testicle! The...
    Billy: ?! Those are all porn movie titles!
    Old Man: I've been in this cave alone too long... I've forgotten the real list...

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    Literature 

    Live-Action TV 

    Radio 

    Video Games 

    Web Original 

    Web Comics 

    Western Animation 

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