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alt title(s): Porn With Plot
"Are you looking at porn? I know a great site that's dirty without sacrificing story. It's 'by women, for women'."
Jenna Maroney, 30 Rock

Jesus: This movie is very low quality.
Ray Bob: Don't look that bad to me.
Jesus: There's no story.
Bucky: It's a fuck movie. I don't watch a fuck movie for the story. I watch a fuck movie to see fuckin'.
C.W.: I got to side with Jesus on this one. I personally appreciate an attempt at telling a story. When I care more about the characters, I care more about the fuckin'.

Any work rated adult where porn is not the only point to it. As in, it has a plot that isn't merely an excuse for having sex on screen. Bonus points if the sex is actually plausibly worked into said plot or used for characterization.

Many American works of this kind were made like this as a form of self preservation, since pornography is illegal in the US (technically, even now). Pornos were made with plotlines so that they could be considered "art" and thus protected from the moral brigade. The Clinton Administration's lack of interest in prosecuting cases combined with a more tolerant public meant that in the 90's it was no longer neccesary to disguise porn as art. This, combined with the explosion of the internet allowing for easy distribution and difficult tracking, led to the PWP porn world we have today. (That said, even today, there are porn films with intriguing if not all that well-developed plots, and at least some porn stars are serious albeit often not terribly talented actors.)

A lot of Eroge can be described as this. Even though a lot of them stick close to their tropes, especially female archetypes with the Unwanted Harem games, remember, tropes don't have to be bad. There are plenty of Unwanted Harem comedies, but also a fair share of drama and romance. Some are better than others, and a few are considerably better than most. However, some people have a habit of grouping PWP with hentai and calling both of them the same thing, even if the second "P" amounts to maybe one or two sex scenes hidden amidst hours of non-sexual gameplay (or worse, some non-intercourse ecchi scenes).

Contrast PWP. Compare Its Not Porn Its Art.


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