When I was lad a day trip to the beach was usually captured on film by Dad's Super 8 movie camera, the films were then played back to a captive audience over the next several years until they eventually burnt out.

After all, how many more times could we see the wind blowing up Aunt Lily's skirts and her having to try and hide her embarrassment? Oh how things have moved on.

Today's home movies have a different theme all together and the advent of the video camera has spurred on a new band of budding Cecil B De Mille Directors to capture their home movie movements in graphic detail; then distribute them to an audience of literally millions via the internet at sites like Camcorder XXX.

The movies are as the title suggest X rated, and are raw, very raw indeed. This is no holds barred amateur sex, warts and all, and there are quite a few of those dotted around on various bums and bodies.

This is total exhibitionism, taken to its full limits. With a grateful couple only too pleased to fuck, suck, fist or swallow to please the camera.

The action involves all sorts of shapes and sizes and age groups, the older ones looking as if Viagra has been part of their stable diet for the past few months.

If anything the older cocks are just about the only thing that stand up judging by some of the men on here. The women are mainly housewives by the very nature of their stance. But trying to look alluring when you have just washed the dog or taken the trash out and your hubby fancies a quickie on camera is not an easy thing to do, but some of these women once you get past the domesticity of the scene become quite sexual and can arouse the viewer.

It's as if they are acting out their fantasies as performers playing the role of whores or tart and fucking for the camera. Whilst at the same time their partner is anxious to ensure that all the camera angles are correct.

Why? Who is going to watch it? Unless they have deliberately made it to show on line in the first place, but surely they have a bit more savvy than that. What if their neighbours saw their efforts, or their parents, the Internet is no protector of secrets, hackers can hack anything and they usually do. So is the appeal of camcorder and sites like this deeper rooted in the psyche of these performers than first thought?

That said and whatever the motive there is no doubting the enthusiasm for the shows that they put on for the camera, although some male camera directors seem more worried about the shot being right than them shooting their load.

Camcorder XXX is a mini- portal for three other home / amateur movie sites, Home made Cream Pies, which has nothing to do with cooking, and Stolen Home movies and Explicit Voyeur, although the whole premise of these sites is a sort of voyeurism anyway.

We are pseudo peeping toms in the private lives of these home performers. One disturbing aspect is with stolen movies, which purports to be from various contributors who have submitted stolen home movies of their ex wives, girlfriends, relatives or neighbours for a fee. Whether the basis for this is a form of revenge as in some of the stolen films, or it is purely greed, it is morally corrupt, the site has been warned that it will be banned but the films keep rolling in and no one has done anything about it so far.

Home made cream pies and explicit voyeur sites are derivatives of camcorder, although voyeur is more secret candid camera based, sneaky under the skirt shots and security cameras seem to be the way that these films are made, rather than directed.

The underlying fact about all these sites is that amateur porn and home movies does not have the sophistication that a professionally shot set has, what it does have is a rawness that can either be very sexy or a complete turn off.

The jury is still out on that I believe.

Whether Camcorder XXX or its other sister sites is a turn on is a personal opinion, there is no doubting that the sincerity of the participants is genuine, what is questionable is the motive. Is it done to show others or for personal pleasure, if it for personal use then why stick it on the web. The reasons are still unclear, perhaps only they can tell why?