Yes, this makes me sad.
I'm sure I've covered this numerous times before, but for anyone who isn't clear about my stance on pornography, let me get you up to speed. I hate roughly 90-95% of the pornography I've seen in the last twenty years. I find most of it to be humourless, degrading, and robotic. But the truth is, I hate 90-95% of the movies, TV shows, YouTube videos, music, comic-books, etc, that I've seen in the last twenty years too. Of course, that doesn't mean I want all media banned, or kicked off the internet. And yes, there is still pornography out there that I consume and enjoy—especially in the form of erotic art and comics. In fact, one of the few regular comic strips being published today that I still enjoy, just happens to be pornographic comedy (Oglaf, by Trudy Cooper).
But Alex, you might say, there are tons of places on the internet where people can post pornographic material. Are there? Really? Certainly, there are image-boards that allow people to post pornographic pickies, and there are YouTube-type sites where people can post videos, or do live cam shows, but how many general purpose blog-type platforms are there where people can post a mix of pornographic and non-pornographic content? Apart from Blogger, I can't think of any off the top of my head. And who knows for how much longer that's going to be the case. Google already tried to purge Blogger once before, a couple of years ago, but backed down amid the howls of "censorship". Of course, that was in the days before people were used to seeing things like the coordinated deplatforming of Alex Jones and Gab. Now it just seems par for the course. If Tumblr goes through with its purge successfully, do you think Google won't take a second bite at the cherry?
I haven't posted a huge amount of pornographic material on this blog, but I like knowing I can if I want to. I like having a place where adults can post a mix of adult and non-adult content, without it having to be all one thing or the other. And if Blogger goes the way that Tumblr's going, I just don't know where I'd be able to turn for that sort of freedom.
Any thoughts?
As an aside, I listened to a review the other day for the Fifty Shades trilogy. The reviewer described them as being perfect fodder for the "so bad they're good" crowd. Has anybody seen them, and is this actually the case, or are they just boring and shit?
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I know that Crabb and Sales did a podcast about it called "50 shades of giggling" if that helps.
One of the unforeseen problems with NAFTA or SAFTA or whatever it's called is that it forces legitimate sex workers underground again. Anything with a female nipple in it (it's okay to be male, apparently) is banned.
I don't really care if people watch porn every day of their lives, but I have to say, I am glad if it makes it harder for young people to access it. I remember how uncomfortable vanilla sex scenes made me as a child, and if - when I started having sex - porn was the standard I judged my encounters on, I'm not sure how I would have survived. I don't ever want a man to cum in my face or have a man with a 12" penis give me anal so hard that the noises are squicky. I didn't when I first found out these things were possible either!!
I'm not making sense, I'll stop now.
No, you're making total sense. I don't want a man with a 12" penis - period. Also, facial cum-shots; who do they appeal to? Have you ever been with a man who wanted to pull out and finish himself off by hand at the last moment?
But it's amazing how much pornography has changed, and also, how it's changed things. When I was young, anal sex was just for homosexual men and sexual deviants (considered the same thing, at the time). By the time I got out of selling porn, "anal gaping" (getting fucked in the arse to the point where your arsehole hangs open) was just starting to become mainstream. Now, it's "rose budding" (full on prolapse). There's actually a genre called "0-pussy", which is whole movies shot without any vaginal penetration whatsoever.
But the thing is, these websites like PornHub, and PornTube, and Xhamster, and so forth, where this hardcore stuff is front and centre, I don't think they're going to go away. If need be, they'll move out of the United States, but they're too big to simply shut their doors. What I'm worried about is the sites that allow a mixture of pornographic and non-pornographic content, where people can mix their real sex-lives in with their non-sex-lives -- that those sites will force the sexual content off -- and what you'll actually get, is the more moderate, realistic, healthy sex stuff disappearing, and essentially a polarisation happening, with extreme hardcore stuff on one side, and puritanically family-friendly stuff on the other, and very little in between.
I have seen some pictures of a man with a rosebud, and it was not pretty. I can't help but wonder how a person holds in their shit when their arse is like that...?
There's a website called xhamster? Oh dear.
Perhaps it will go back to being what it was - you buy your porn from Sexyland or whatever your nearest sex shop is. (as an aside there's a fetish shop on Brunswick St called "Marquis de Sade" and its window displays leave you in no doubt as to what's inside. I like that there's a place allowed to be THAT high profile about it, though I do give blokes hanging around outside the said-eye as the tram whizzes by, haha)
I don't think it'll ever go back to brick-n-mortar shops. I see the future as being two things: A couple of huge Netflix-style all-you-can-eat-for-a-monthly-fee streaming 4K networks on one hand, and amateur couples doing live sex shows from their bedrooms on the other. And then you'll have the big aggregator sites like PornHub, which basically act as advertising for the both of them. Oh, and no doubt there'll always be peer-2-peer trading for people who are chasing something specific.
Well, that's for videos, anyway. Like I said before though, these days I'm really only interested in the comics and drawings and paintings and stuff. I dunno what the future going to look like for that stuff.
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