Since I have corresponded individually with a number of fellow Hamster members regarding my frustration over being unable to upload my collection of both amateur and professional porn on VHS tape, I thought I might summarize the discussion here to avoid further repetition and invite further comment and, hopefully, technical advice. My collection numbers in the hundreds of tapes and many hundreds of hours of running time. I also own pornography on DVD. I have commercial titles going back to the advent of the VHS format (and even some in Betamax!) and complete libraries of amateur tapes that I b… Lire la suite

Pre-Nazi hacker blitzkrieg, this topic formed part of my "about me" statement, but that entire document eventually grew so long it seemed best to focus on it separately here. Does everybody else like to masturbate as much as I do? The practice is so integral to Hamster that it seems not out of place to discuss it openly. I've been masturbating since I was thirteen years old, in the American seventh grade. I commenced in what is probably a natural progession after awakening during the night following a wet dream. What a veritable miracle to discover I could enjoy the same self-induced sensation… Lire la suite

Of course it must be lack of variety. This is especially pronounced in too many amateur efforts, but their makers are usually just imitating what they have seen in commercial products and mistakenly believe connotes erotic appeal. How many times have you been subjected to camera angles that relentlessly focus on grinding genitalia to the exclusion of everything else? I understand that amateur situations, in particular, may not always lend themselves to mobile cinematography because of equipment limitations and the absence of anyone other than participants who might be able to act as independen… Lire la suite