Because I’m spending this week, banging out a book synopsis (as opposed to just banging one, pervert). It’s a task I don’t particularly like and the struggle is akin to pulling teeth. Leaves me pretty spent at the end of the day. That said, I’ll blog today and Friday, returning to a more prolific state of blogging next week.
Remember last week’s pornography in which I said film porn had supplanted print pornography? Now Al Goldstein’s Screw follows in the footsteps of Penthouse. Goldstein blames the Internet as the more direct cause, but I think film and the Internet walk hand-in-hand. Film is the media and the Internet is the delivery channel. The latter allows mass proliferation and avalibility, eliminating the need to walk into a bricks-and-mortar store. Sure, there’s lots of dirty stills on the web, but who’s going to look at those with film so readily available?
With it comes the rise of porn celebrity — and I’m not just talking about adored female porn stars. Mary Carey‘s “stun” run for office (and I wish she’d given examples to illustrate her claim that porn is less exploitative than politics as she parlays that stunt into additional venues) gives way to the rise of porn reality t.v. shows which gives rise to porn papparazzi. Carly always makes good arguments about how porn remains removed from mainstream no matter what the press says, but I gotta tell you, it’s increasingly more difficult not to see porn everywhere.
Not that that’s a bad thing.
In anything, I wish journalists would get over the fundie-promulogated notion that porn consumption equals addiction. Thanks to Heather, at least this journalist starts looking beyond that doctrine to understand that not every sexual release is indicative of addiction and that women can enjoy and consume and even produce their own porn/smut/erotica/saywhatyouwill in a perfectly healthy manner.
Especially since, as Tracy Quan illustrates, marriage and sex is a complicated thing. Can’t wait to read part two of her observations.
With that, I return to my salt mine of brain dirt.
