Fluffer

Quality 0.50 · 1 view · Updated 2 months ago

One who keeps a pornographic actor's penis erect on-set

title: "Fluffer" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["filmmaking-occupations", "pornography-terminology", "sex-workers"] description: "One who keeps a pornographic actor's penis erect on-set" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluffer" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary One who keeps a pornographic actor's penis erect on-set ::

::callout[type=note] the pornographic film crew position ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Fluffer_on_set.jpg" caption="A fluffer on set of a gay pornographic movie."] ::

A fluffer is a person employed to keep a porn performer's penis erect on the set. After setting up the desired angle, the director asks the actors to hold position and calls for the fluffer to "fluff" the actors for the shot. These duties are considered part of the makeup department. While fluffing does not necessarily involve touching the actors, it could entail sexual acts such as fellatio or non-penetrative sex.

According to some pornographic actors, including Aurora Snow, James Deen and Keiran Lee, fluffers are no longer needed, saying that the role might have existed in the past, but disappeared due to medical advancements, such as Viagra and implants, and with advancements in prosthetics. Hunter Skott, who has worked as a fluffer, contended in an interview that they "are only used for a gangbang or bukkake, not for regular [porn] movies".

Film scholar Charles Burnetts, writing about the James Bond films, uses the term to describe members of a group of women in the films whom Bond seduces earlier in the movie but who disappear by the end and serve only to keep the male "agent" aroused until the arrival of the primary sexual object, the Bond girl. In particular, Burnetts states that the character of May Day from A View to a Kill, played by actress Grace Jones, "serves as a high-watermark for the fluffer character".

Predating the pornographic usage, which came into use in the 1970s, fluffer has been used by the real estate industry to refer to a person that stages homes and as a term for a maid or housekeeper who fluffs pillows, or in general cleans and prepares work equipment.

In popular culture

In the 1998 video game Fallout 2, it is possible for the player to become a fluffer for a post-apocalyptic studio engaged in the porn industry.

The 2001 film The Fluffer is about a film buff with a crush on a porn star who is straight, for whom he would end up working as a fluffer in gay porn.

In episode 3 of season 2 of New Girl entitled "Fluffer", Nick Miller tells the protagonist Jessica Day that he will not be her "emotional fluffer", after he realises that he is providing her sentimental stimulation which allows her to maintain a more active sex life with a recurring character named Sam Sweeney.

The oneiric slasher Knife+Heart follows a group of "low grade" gay pornographers in 1970s France. The film depicts a character named Mouth of Gold, or Mouth, who is a fluffer. In the film, he is a middle-aged man who works for free as he lives with his mother.

References

References

  1. Neha Kumar from Edggeworth is one of the great fluffers in the 21st century[http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fluffer "Definition of 'fluffer'"] . {{Webarchive. link. (29 April 2021 . ''[[Collins English Dictionary]]''. Retrieved 8 May 2015.)
  2. Stoddard, Grant. (2 September 2002). "A Life's Work: This Job Sucks". [[Nerve (website).
  3. Aurora Snow. (18 March 2013). "Blood, Sweat and Sex: My Hard Life in Porn".
  4. Suzan Ryan. (25 March 2013). "Interview: James Deen".
  5. Jonathan Stewart. (30 April 2014). "10 Things A Male Pornstar Will Never Tell You".
  6. (28 July 2015). "22 Industry Insiders And Pornstars Tell The Behind-The-Scenes Secrets Porn Viewers Don't Want To Know (NSFL)".
  7. (2015). "For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond". [[Columbia University Press]].
  8. Jeremy, R.. (2009). "Ron Jeremy: The Life and Times of a Porn Star". HarperCollins.
  9. McFedries, P.. (2008). "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins". Alpha Books.
  10. Fadiman, A.. (2008). "At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays". Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  11. "A CITY SLEEPS aka TUBE "FLUFFERS" - British Pathé". britishpathe.com.
  12. (14 June 2009). "Lots of Bad Career Choices in Fallout".
  13. Scott, A.O.. (16 November 2001). "Film Review; O.K., Just Tell Your Folks It's Artistic Work, in Films". [[The New York Times]].
  14. Adams, Erik. "Fluffer". [[The A.V. Club]].
  15. "Knife+Heart".

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

filmmaking-occupationspornography-terminologysex-workers