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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s good to know that porn can bring people together.

i guess i’ll have to stay socially irresponsible in the porn realm.

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!