been rolling this question around in my head for awhile now. time to spit it out.

of course, substance matters first and foremost. if ya could, ya'd do it all for the nooky. in the meantime, ya do it all for who ya'd like to do the nooky with. it's all about the girl.

but how much does "style" matter? countless examples come to my mind where:

a) a girl is hot but the style of the shoot sucks and, after awhile, after seeing the same style over and over again, i lose interest; or

b) the girl is ok, but the style is very nice, quite good in fact, makes her look better than she would otherwise, so i take the time to make the extra effort to pay more attention to her, whatever that may mean.

in my surfing experience, this really matters. same girl shot in diff't styles on diff't sites or even diff't settings on the same site can make a huge difference. i could rattle off a dozen examples off the top of my head as cases in point, but that quickly becomes a matter of subjective taste.

in hopes of keeping this an objective, philosophical discussion (heh, philosophizing about porn, how awesome is that?), what do you think? how much does style matter?

Good question, but it comes down to individual preference really. 

Style is everything.  I personally like to see excellent lighting and picture quality- a blending of amateur and professional photography so that it still looks "real".  I hate seeing gorgeous models in 1980's blur/fuzz fantasy shit. 

I absolutely HATE teaser sets/sights... I'm here for the PUSSY!  I like to see it from any angle, the more imagination the better- spread, gaping, whatever. 

As long as the model is decent looking, and shaved (few exceptions), good photography of her pussy will get my rocks off.  I am married so I am not looking for that dream babe, I just want to see pussy, preferrably nice pussy in high quality with good lighting. 

   Substance to me means that the model is simply there. She exists and that is that. One could say sure I’ll look at her because she’s naked (or not), but the real question is am I going to want to see more of her? That’s where style comes into play. Is she unique? Anything special about her that perhaps other models don’t possess? If so, I would be more inclined to go looking for more regardless of her appearance.

   All too many models however exhibit an exclusive asset  for way too long. A certain look, a pose, it just seems to get a bit old and rusty after a while despite the fact that she’s not any less hot. Therefore I agree that a model needs diversity (substance & Style).  Such as Sexy Teen Sandy (Sandra Larosa), she begins non nude and as time passes she diversifies the substance of her career by changing things up several times.

   Anyhow, I’m not so sure it should be Style vs. Substance but possibly Style and Substance…

time to chime ...

since we're talking porn here, I have to go with substance ... we've all seen the cheap pornos with actors that appear too bad or awkward to be for real and because it's porn, we allow for the "deep as a puddle" storylines.
I'm especially pissed off by the 'repetition of the same scene' style  of shooting, which is the producer's cheap-ass way of making the sex-scene last longer.
I've seen some "soft-porn" movies with incredibly hot scenes simply because of the little details and not so much the style of the shoot.