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A master of ceremonies/comedian who would 'warm-up' the crowd with bawdy jokes and witty banter in preparation for the dancing girls.
IN REAL ESTATE:
One who prepares a house for sale, employing cosmetic skills, such as hedge pruning, or psychological tactics, such as baking bread while the house is being shown.
IN THE PORN INDUSTRY:
A fluffer is a hired member of the crew of a pornographic movie whose role on the set is to sexually arouse the male participants prior to the filming of scenes requiring erections. Presumably, the name arose, at least in part, as a mocking reference to the hair-fluffing make-up artists who kept the starlets in non-pornographic movies looking their very best in every scene.
On gay movies fluffers are typically male, while on heterosexual movies they are usually female. The occupation is frequently depicted as demeaning and contemptible, far more so than being a porn star, with an insinuation that the fluffer isn't attractive enough to perform on camera. In the movie Swordfish, for example, Brent Porceiau provokes Hugh Jackman by suggesting his pre-adolescent daughter might wind up as a fluffer under the influence of her step-father, a producer of adult movies.
There have been two movies titled The Fluffer. The first, a 2001 release, about a man with a crush on a gay porn star, has drawn bad reviews from several critics after being unmeritously compared to Boogie Nights by its producers. There is also a 2003 film that has received less attention.
Many porn stars today maintain that fluffers are a thing of the past, needed in the 70s and 80s when the crew, shooting on celluloid, needed much more time to prepare a shot. Erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra have also taken part in replacing fluffers. Brittany Andrews states on her website that fluffers are now utilized only in "gang bang" scenarios.
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