Pornography: the Only Honest Media
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I have a friend that believes in pornography as art, and we were talking about this the other day. I disagree that pornography can actually qualify as art because I don't think it is meant to say anything. It doesn't make a statement, and I don't think it's meant do be looked at as anything other than what it is. I think what is interesting about pornography versus other media is that it does not lie to you. It is completely honest about what it is.
I don't like it when marketting advertises something that has nothing to do with sex in a sexual way. Axe commercials disgust me. It's fucking deodarant. Why would I even think for a second about a correlation between deodarant and sex? I mean, obviously I'd want to smell good while having sex, and animal magnetism and all that, but it's deodarant. Don't show me sex when you're trying to sell me something that is not sex. I am a grown adult. My penis does not make deodarant purchases. I've got to tell you, I've never walked down the health and beauty aids department at a store and said, "Which deodarant do I want? Hmm. Well, let's see, now. How horny am I? Yeah, I'm pretty horny. Let's go for Axe." My penis helps in the purchase of pornography and maybe the occasional purchase of the truly awful FHM magazine, but essentially nothing else.
Pornography on the other hand, even the most artful and elaborate pornography, if it is in fact pornography, serves one purpose: to arouse sexual thought and, hopefully, sexual activity. I don't think that there is a grand statement here, but you have to dig pornography for the fact that it does not lie to you. It says, do you like sex? Do you like watching people have sex? Good, because that's what we got-- and we got lots of it. You don't buy a box that says "CUM SUCKING VIRGINS VOL XIII" and get a home improvement instructional video. It doesn't mislead you.
...Pornography, in that aspect, is the *only* 100% completely honest media. Pornography knows what it wants to sell and who it wants to sell it to and makes no pretentions about anything else. It is what it is, and if you disagree with it or don't want its wares-- well, go elsewhere. It won't trick you.
But art? I think if you combine art and sexuality what you're getting isn't pornography. And there is definitely sexual art. But I'll be completely honest-- I don't like the term "erotica". I think it is a bullshit term. I think it gussies up porn, makes it seem like it's something it's not. Again, it's dishonest. Erotica has no statement. I won't argue that there are varying levels of pornography, and I think that something can be more pornographic than something else. Certainly, Erotica would be in a different category of pornography than the more hardcore kind. But it still wants to do the same thing pornography does, except with more subtlety. Is the purpose to get me hard? Yes. Then it's porno. It just doesn't have CUM SUCKING VIRGINS in it. And if there are virgins in it that do in fact suck cum, they are usually described in a more eloquent fashion.
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with love from CRS @ 9:18 PM
Sunday, January 22, 2006
I have a friend that believes in pornography as art, and we were talking about this the other day. I disagree that pornography can actually qualify as art because I don't think it is meant to say anything. It doesn't make a statement, and I don't think it's meant do be looked at as anything other than what it is. I think what is interesting about pornography versus other media is that it does not lie to you. It is completely honest about what it is.
I don't like it when marketting advertises something that has nothing to do with sex in a sexual way. Axe commercials disgust me. It's fucking deodarant. Why would I even think for a second about a correlation between deodarant and sex? I mean, obviously I'd want to smell good while having sex, and animal magnetism and all that, but it's deodarant. Don't show me sex when you're trying to sell me something that is not sex. I am a grown adult. My penis does not make deodarant purchases. I've got to tell you, I've never walked down the health and beauty aids department at a store and said, "Which deodarant do I want? Hmm. Well, let's see, now. How horny am I? Yeah, I'm pretty horny. Let's go for Axe." My penis helps in the purchase of pornography and maybe the occasional purchase of the truly awful FHM magazine, but essentially nothing else.
Pornography on the other hand, even the most artful and elaborate pornography, if it is in fact pornography, serves one purpose: to arouse sexual thought and, hopefully, sexual activity. I don't think that there is a grand statement here, but you have to dig pornography for the fact that it does not lie to you. It says, do you like sex? Do you like watching people have sex? Good, because that's what we got-- and we got lots of it. You don't buy a box that says "CUM SUCKING VIRGINS VOL XIII" and get a home improvement instructional video. It doesn't mislead you.
...Pornography, in that aspect, is the *only* 100% completely honest media. Pornography knows what it wants to sell and who it wants to sell it to and makes no pretentions about anything else. It is what it is, and if you disagree with it or don't want its wares-- well, go elsewhere. It won't trick you.
But art? I think if you combine art and sexuality what you're getting isn't pornography. And there is definitely sexual art. But I'll be completely honest-- I don't like the term "erotica". I think it is a bullshit term. I think it gussies up porn, makes it seem like it's something it's not. Again, it's dishonest. Erotica has no statement. I won't argue that there are varying levels of pornography, and I think that something can be more pornographic than something else. Certainly, Erotica would be in a different category of pornography than the more hardcore kind. But it still wants to do the same thing pornography does, except with more subtlety. Is the purpose to get me hard? Yes. Then it's porno. It just doesn't have CUM SUCKING VIRGINS in it. And if there are virgins in it that do in fact suck cum, they are usually described in a more eloquent fashion.
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