Socially Responsible Porn
I’m very impressed with Hippie Goddess. They feature totally natural naked women of many shapes and sizes who seem to be genuinely happy. The site is run by a couple who seem really interested in photographing whole people that they really respect. I’m not thrilled with the obvious association with pot culture (and dreads are just fugly), but it’s a rare porn site indeed in which I never see a single image that makes me wince. The only real criticism I could think of is that all the models are young and and most of them are white and slim (and, of course, all female unless they happen to have a guy tagging along), but that could be as much of a factor of their target culture as bias on the part of the owners. But overall I think the world would be a better place if this was more of what people meant when they said "pornography" than the vast majority of everything else that’s made.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Oooh, thank you for pointing to that site. The write up in it is INCREDIBLY annoying, but it does appear to be socially responsible and the women are all lovely
If only I were of a slightly different bent, I’d start a socially responsible porn site in a minute. It’d be for geeks, though — naked girls with dyed hair and Ataris
There’d be short films too, which would be funny and consentual and HOT.
Dammit, I need to stop fantasizing about being a porn mistress and get to class!
November 6th, 2007 at 10:23 am
er….um….
i guess i’ll have to stay socially irresponsible in the porn realm.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Trav, meet Katie, my Burlington friend. Katie, meet Trav, my Tennessee friend.
It’s good to know that porn can bring people together.
November 6th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Hi Trav!
This is sort of related, since it’s about the sex industry — I just read a really interesting interview with a sex worker about prostitution and the way it’s portrayed in the media. It’s so easy to forget that most of what the average American “knows” about having sex for money is based on fiction and cultural stigma.
November 7th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Hello Katie!
Yes, Chris. Porn brings the world together…
…or more likely, it’s the only subject you’ve posted on recently that I feel even remotely qualified to discuss.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:13 am
“wipes sleep from eyes”….Did somebody say something about porn?
Theres a good chance that porn is one of the few media outlets that isn’t really worried about the writer’s strike that’s currently going on. Then again
they’re showing shows like Cavemen, where I can only imagine that writers are probably uninvolved. I believe I read somewhere that the Cavemen scripts simply congeal somewhere out of mulch.
On a really tangentially related sidenote: I just came back from Atlanta and a trip to the High Museum to see a collection of art on loan from the Louvre. As I was wandering through the impressionist’s exhibition I noticed a chamber off to the side that held paintings but seemed to be off of the regular thouroughfare….turns out that they had taken the nudes and placed them in a sort of cul-de-sac away from the still lifes and landscapes. I find it kind of repugnant that we have degenerated to the point that nudes by Renoir and Titian are treated like frigging girlie mags in a major museum.
November 9th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Porn brings out all my friends!
Rob; Katie, Burlington. Katie; Rob, Tennessee.
And yeah, you’re right. I’m not at all surprised, but it is absurd. But as far as controlling people goes, you have to admit that programming them to simultaneously fear beauty, pleasure, and reproduction is a pretty good start.