Today, I watched strangers have sex (not for pervy reasons but because we were filming the script I've just written). It was a learning curve - not on sex but on the strangeness that is life. I can't believe that anyone can do this for a living. But they seemed to enjoy it...
We had two couples in today. There are several more over the next couple of days. And, as it's all about sexual positions and how to make sex better, they had to have sex in lots of positions.
Even after doing a photoshoot last week with naked people, I still wasn't quite prepared for today. Watching people fuck is odd. Watching people fuck in absolute silence (as the second couple did) is even stranger.
Highlights of the shoot:
- Bloke number one looking very disappointed when we said the first couple of shots didn't involve penetration because he'd 'spent ages getting ready.'
- Same bloke being asked if he can hide his cock from view and so using his partner's vagina as a suitable 'hiding place'
- Watching that couple do 'the turn' - a rather tricky position involving rotating by 90 degrees whilst having sex. It's less easy than it looks. Actually, that's a lie. It's exactly as tricky as it looks. (oh, for the out-takes)
- The couple continuing to have sex, snog and generally fondle each other between takes, ignoring the vast amount of crew around them
- Said couple then having sex in the dressing room afterwards and getting caught by one of the crew.
- A loud stage whisper from one of the women in the couples telling her partner 'don't take me up the arse' when he was in an ambiguous position.
Lowlights (?) of the shoot were:
- Wood problems with one of the blokes because he'd spent the night before shagging his partner senseless.
- His partner having sex in total silence - not even a mild groan. It took us ages to get her to make a noise - possibly 'cos she'd been shagged senseless the night before.
- A massive row errupting with said couple, resulting in them storming off in opposite directions and refusing to talk to each other on the break (I left at this point so can only hope they made up)
- The sleazy bloke who came up to me and asked if it made me horny writing the script and wouldn't go away. He kept following me and asking me if I was getting off on watching the couples having sex. I explained it was work and he carried on letching. I hid from him in the end.
Ignoring the lowlights, it was a fun day. But definitely strange.