Pornography

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to explore America’s adult film industry, which has its heart in California’s San Fernando Valley. In this episode Farrier heads for a mansion in the hills of Calabasas to attend an adult film shoot, hoping to understand why Americans spend an average of 9 minutes and 44 seconds on porn sites at a time. David meets a porn director also called “David” to ask why they still have all that dialogue and plot in amongst all the sex, before chatting with porn stars Hadley and Lucas about the joys, trials, and tribulations of their unique job. At the end of the day, David sits down for 45 minutes as the actors all have sex with each other and tries to come to a conclusion about what this all means. David also meets one of the (now adult) stars of the popular 90s sitcom “Boy Meets World,” to find out why Mailand Ward decided to make a late entry to the adult film industry. They discuss her new book “Rated X” and the challenges and misconceptions of the porn world.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to grasp what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	What are its loves, its passions, its obsessions?
0:11.0	Well, one of them is pornography.
0:15.0	Last year, Porn Hub released figures which showed the United States was the country with the highest
0:19.6	daily traffic to Porn Hub, with the UK hot on its heels.
0:23.6	Americans spent an average of 9 minutes and 44 seconds on the site each time.
0:28.7	People in Wyoming spent the longest, over 11 minutes.
0:32.6	Colorado and California spent the least amount of time at around 8 and 9 minutes
0:37.1	respectively, in and out, very efficient.
0:40.4	The most popular category?
0:42.0	Big ass, up 314% on 2020.
0:46.6	The number one search term in America on the site, Hentai, replacing lesbian from the previous year.
0:53.0	Over 10,000 hardcore porn movies are shot each year in the valley here in California,
0:58.0	where porn as we know it was born.
1:01.0	My point is, Americans love porn. New Zealand doesn't even feature on any of the
1:05.6	porn hub statistics. I want to understand America's relationship to pornography and
1:11.0	how it's changed over the years.
1:13.0	So, lower those lights and get ready to concentrate for longer than nine minutes and 44 seconds,
1:19.0	because this is the porn episode. Flyed list,
1:24.0	the flight mess,
1:27.0	flight list bird touchdown in America
1:31.0	I'm a flyless bird down in America.
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