What’s the story of amateur porn?

You might not make it to the Olympics as an amateur porn maker, but you can still become a superstar. In sports and other fields, amateur means you don’t get paid while in porn, amateur creators still get bank for their talents.

If it’s not all about the money, what makes amateur porn different?

There’s a lot that makes it different from professional, or studio porn and we’re going to unpack it here. We’re going to give you the tea on:

• What amateur porn is
• The history of home made porn
• How to know you’re watching or making amateur porn
• Where to find and sell your sex tapes

To keep you in the loop with the porn industry.

What is amateur porn?

Amateur porn is sex tapes made by creators themselves without input from a porn studio or distributor. It generally has lower production values and is filmed on camera phones or webcams.

Anyone who’s got exhibitionist tendencies and wants people to watch them get fucked can make amateur sex videos. It’s possible to monetize amateur adult videos through platforms like SinParty.

Amateur porn has grown so popular that there’s even a professional porn category – reality porn­ – that is made to look homemade. You maybe have heard the word “realcore”, which is another word for amateur porn or pro content made to look amateur.

Where did amateur pornos come from?

People have been drawing naked people having sex for centuries. If they didn’t sell it, then you’d probably call that the first the start of amateur erotic images.

However, in the modern way we know amateur porn, it developed like this:

• The invention of the Polaroid camera made taking your own nudes and sex shots much easier.
• When home camcorders and VHS took off, people could film themselves and their friends in home productions.
• The internet and digital cameras made it possible for any hot horny person to put their sex tape online and let others watch.

There was one person in particular who was responsible for the boom in the supply of amateur couples having sex on camera.

Greg Swaim owned a small store in San Diego, California. On the side, he liked to go to host sex parties and film the people in full swing. Combine these two together and you have the advent of Homegrown Video.

From selling homemade porn under the counter of his store in 1982 – in the middle of the Golden Age of Porn – Homegrown Video developed into a huge business. He’d advertise at the end of his sex tapes that he paid $20 per minute and plenty of people took up the offer.

Ten years later, the Boston Sun Journal estimated that 20-60% of all porn sold in Boston was amateur. As access to content grew, Homegrown Video was sold to the porn star Tim Lake who took the brand to cable TV and later, online.

What does amateur porn look like?

Amateur pornography is videos made without a huge studio budget. You’ll see things like:

• Grainy or low-res video quality
• Lower quality audio and probably no music
• Simple editing with only a couple of transitions
• Real-life couples having sex
• Creators talking directly to the audience

These elements are the charm of amateur videos. It’s not all fancy lighting and huge dicks pounding perfect pussies – although we love that type of porn too! Homemade videos are more intimate and you know they’ve been made by horny fuckers who want to share their sex.

You can get high-quality porn made by amateurs, too. Some of the top porn creators on SinParty are amateurs, in that they:

• Control the content they make
• Upload their videos to their own profiles
• Sell porn without a studio being involved
• Take custom requests for the sex you want to see

Along with videos that we all know and love, there’s also written amateur porn available in abundance. People share their sex stories online, in communities on sites like Reddit, and here on SinParty.

Where can I watch homemade porn?

The internet is the home of porn, of course. You can find amateur porn across the net in a range of places and for a range of prices.

First, there are the classic tube sites. These are places like the infamous PornHub and others that let people upload their porn videos for free. You’ll find content that’s made on a cell phone and you can tell to stuff made with a decent camera and good production.

Next, there are niche sites like FetLife. Founded by John Baku in 2008, the site took BDSM and kinks mainstream. Here, people take photos and videos of their fetishes and upload them for the community to see.

It’s kinda frowned on to try and sell content on FetLife – it’s a place where you make amateur kink porn for the joy of it.

While you can’t post porn on Facebook or Insta, you can still find amateur horny women and men on social networks like Reddit and Twitter. Both these sites allow NSFW content and people upload stuff like full nudes, blowjobs, and sex scenes regularly.

The story of amateur porn

For as long as people have been able to take their own photos and record their own videos, there has been amateur porn.

From Polaroids to camcorders, the internet to selling porn on SinParty, this porn genre has come a long way and is still in as much demand as ever.

Want to start to create amateur adult videos or kink and fetish content? Check out our guide to how to monetize the sex tapes you make and become an amateur porn star.