Monday, June 23, 2008

What is wrong with porn these days?

I've never been able to get into porn myself. It's something about the masochistic crap involved in every money shot that turns me off.

Once upon a time, the pron industry had the guile to align itself with the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s, but now it remains a shadow of its former self as models are trotted out on camera and dissected through a consumerist eye.

Let me elaborate and let you in on what the hell I'm talking about.

You search the web for porn these days, and besides the gazillion hits you're going to get, you're also going to have a wide selection available. Porn for those whom feet are their fetish of choice, porn for those for whom redheads are their poison (moi) along with every conceivable combination of body part fetish, sexual fetish and other oddities to take your fancy.

It's a virtual meat market where anything goes, and it's harder not to find porn than it is.

You want a midget riding a black dude? Google it. You want an orgy involving 16 men and one woman? Google it. You want two giraffes giving a reach around to an old man who is licking the feet of a mute nun? Google it.

Any of you who have been on the internet for more than five minutes will recognize the vast fetishistic pool you have to choose from these days. Remember when it was gay/straight/soft/hard?

Now, I'm not against choice, I'm for it. If you have a particular fetish you want to explore, go nuts. What I'm against however, is the affect of this on society today.

Back to my woman in front of the camera example.

A woman is trotted out in front of the camera, usually naive or just acting that way. They're told to pose for the men behind the camera who make comments like 'whoah those are great tits...great nipples....nice arse'.

It's sickening to see these women subjected to this sort of appraisal. It can't be good for women if this is what is informing them of the female ideal according to the heterosexual male. Much like male porn stars create unrealistic expectations of penis size, these women who are engineered to be fetishistic objects can't be doing good.

What I'm driving at, is the standards of physical beauty in a woman is now informed by how perfect their nipples are, how sumptuous their feet are and how firm their bum is. In many ways, we have gone backwards in society when this happens.

Then, you actually get into the porn and its always the woman being subjected to the male presence. There's no passion there, she's being told what to do in every frame. "Bend over, take it on the face!"

Now, I don't know about you, but I've never known a woman who actually likes to have their man shoot his love juice onto her face. Not one.

But of course, men see these films and see the behavior of the ideal woman. So he gets to thinking this is what women should be doing, and they get disappointed when their woman says no (and disappointed when they look down at their manhood).

The only sort of porn I'll ever get into these days is amateur porn where the couple actually R-E-S-P-E-C-T each other and love each other.

Sorry for the rambling people, but I overheard some guys talking about a porno and the things the woman was doing. They laughed and joked about getting their women to do that, and I could only hang my head in mourning and walk on by.

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