The Encyclopedia Of Smut: T Is For Teen

When it comes to age-based niches of the porn industry, there are really only two options: teen and cougar (or MILF). We've discussed the possibility of a middle stage between the two extremes, but that's not what we're here for right now. Today we're going to spend some time thinking about the youth, the tropes of blossoming libidos, and how a performer's age pretty much has nothing to do with being labelled a horny teen.

Born at Eighteen

As far as the porn industry is concerned, life starts at eighteen years of age. When the right number of summers have passed you by, you suddenly have the ability to become an eroticized being in someone else's eyes, and what's more, you are suddenly overwhelmed by your own sexual blossoming and the ability--nay, the duty--to fuck everyone in sight. Since people under eighteen are invisible to pornographers, it's as if humans don't develop any concept of sex until the day they hit 18, at which point they kick off their untouched white panties and hop into the hands of an experienced partner.

[Above: Maya Hills was 21 when she filmed this scene for "Just Over 18 11"]

Mature Enough for Immaturity

The weird thing about "eighteen year-olds" in porn is that while they stand with their backs against the locked gates of youth, they have to represent everything they just left behind. In real life, people that age are focused forward; they're worrying about college, registering to vote, and generally trying to act older. (When we were eighteen, all we wanted to do was turn twenty-one!) However, in porn films, teenagers wear schoolgirl uniforms, high socks, put their hair in pigtails, and have candy-colored bedspreads. While real teenagers are trying to seem worldly and experienced, porn teens are flaunting their innocence and trying to get older partners to teach them the arts of sex and seduction. The phrase "barely legal" doesn't just refer to the legendary series from Hustler anymore; it's now an adjective for any starlet or scene that celebrates freshness of mind, body, and attitude without crossing that uncrossable line.

Of course, this isn't true across the board. There are many porn movies in the teen category that feature eighteen and nineteen year-olds who take control of their older partners through a combination of wisdom, skill, and pure eagerness.

There are also movies in which women well into their twenties dress-up in frilly outfits and act timid around giant cocks (see: "The Innocence of Youth" and "The Innocence of Youth 2"). When you think about it, appearing to be inexperienced isn't the same as appearing young, but thanks two a few overlapping ideas in this pervy Venn diagram, the porn industry can use these and other visual cues to play with age.

[Above: Skin Diamond gets some much-needed guidance from Tommy Gunn in"Corrupt Schoolgirls"]

What Happens When Teens Grow Up?

Do teens ever grow up? Take Lexi Belle, for example: she entered the porn industry in 2006 when she was nineteen years-old, and she's still appearing in teen movies today. How is she able to do this? It's because she's cute, and cuteness is based on having the features (especially facial features) of the young. This is really a complicated way of saying if you look young and you're in porn, you're going to be in teen movies.

Some people exit the teen realm, and when they do, their age isn't a major factor until they are dubbed cougars or MILFs. The famous French-Vietnamese bombshell Katsuni started off as a teen around the age of twenty-three and earlier this year, she was in "MILFs Seeking Boys" in which she takes advantage of a young and impressionable Johnny Castle.

Then there are the performers who have the ability to a teen and a MILF at the same time. McKenzie Lee is thirty-three now, but with the face of an angel and the boobs of a goddess, she straddles the age divide as easily as she straddles a fat cock. We have to admit, we're pretty jealous of her.

[Above: a little disciplinary action is needed in "Bad Black Mothers On White Teens." All videos courtesy of AEBN Porn Pay Per View Network and Adult Video On Demand (theater.aebn.net)]

[At top: Molly Bennett in "Dirty Little Schoolgirl Stories 4"]