First it was Deep Throat that brought the language of porn into mainstream awareness. Years after the movie, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's secret source in the Watergate scandal, the late FBI agent W. Mark Felt, was even given the code name "Deep Throat."
More recently, the acronym MILF has also entered mainstream awareness, in print, in films, and on TV, from the hosts of fake news shows to sitcoms where the laugh track responds to hearing "She's a real MILF" uttered by a character, while parents try to avoid satisfying the curiosity of their kids by explaining that it means "Mothers I'd Like to Fuck."
Actually, the sentiment behind MILF is "The Wives of Other Guys I'd Like to Fuck," but TWOGILF sounds too much like a Dutch denomination of money. As a longtime strong supporter of equal rights, it occurred to me that there must also be a porn category called FILF. Likewise, even though it stands for "Fathers I'd Like to Fuck," it really signifies "The Husbands of Other Chicks I'd Like to Fuck," but THOCILF sounds too much like a prescription medicine for vaginal dryness.
But please excuse my generalizations, about wives rather than mothers and husbands rather than fathers, because in my research of FILF on the Internet (there are 120,000 such listings), I came across a few where it symbolizes other sexual preferences. For example, FILF applies to "Fatties I'd Like to Fuck." A great deal of men are very turned on by women who are obese. Others insist that the first F in FILF "is definitely for Friend, not Father."
FILF also applies to gays who prefer older guys, as in "Faggots I'd Like to Fuck." And did they think that the film MILK is an acronym for "Men I'd Like to Fuck"? One gay site states: "FILF (Fathers I'd Like to Fuck) is one of our favorite sections here at WhatGaySite and we'll do anything to find you the best that's out there on the Net. You just gotta love a hard-bodied daddy-o with a throbbing cock hungry for fresh ass!"
And FILF applies to teenage girls, such as the one who said, "Maybe he's one of our friends' dads." A married male blogger wrote, "I won't say I'm thrilled with the dude who shouted ‘MILF!' in Baby Mama, but I can certainly understand his point. Of course, this leaves unresolved the question of whether anyone has shouted ‘FILF!' at me from a moving vehicle since [a baby] came into our lives. The answer is no. Not once have I been sexually harassed as a new father."
For women in their 20s and 30s, FILF represents handsome movie celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Chris Noth, Hugh Jackman, and Patrick Dempsey. One woman mentioned Ashton Kutcher, adding that "technically, he's only the step-daddy." However, another woman made the connection between show biz and politics when she admitted, "Obama is hot. I wouldn't say no to him."
In fact, sex therapist Dr. Susan M. Block has featured "The Erotic Obama Fantasies Show" on her program, Radio Suzy. "The dashing young president is making numerous appearances in the erotic dreams and fantasies of many men and women of all races and ethnicities around the world," she said. "Certainly my own clients are having erotic fantasies about Barack Obama. One of my male clients said, ‘I voted for Obama, I've got a black man in my White House, and now I want a black man in my white wife.' I've got clients who are fantasizing about him doing their wives."
A female listener calls in and describes her fantasy: "We're in the Oval Office. I'm wearing some sort of red presidential speech dress, which is very elegant, and he's wearing that dark suit and tie, and I'm sort of ripping it off, so that the buttons are flying all over the Oval Office. And then I sort of bend over that Oval Office desk, and it's very like brutal, you know, a racist stereotype. He's very well hung. And I'm just doing the Lord's work. Serving my country."
If you type in the Google box "Obama FILF," the question automatically pops up: "Did you mean Obama film?" There is indeed a porn film, though, titled Fathers I'd Like to Fuck, produced by Adam and Eve, although, as porn critic Roger Pipe points out, "The idea of older guys fucking young chicks in porn isn't new. It isn't even a genre, really. It's just porn." But now I'm patiently waiting for Hustler Video, the producer of Who's Nailin' Paylin?, to come out with the sequel, in which President Obama will become our FILF-in-Chief. Larry Flynt will call this flick Pornobama.
This article originally appeared in the March 2009 issue of AVN Online. To subscribe, visit AVNMediaNetwork.com/subscribe.
