Life Updates; Child Tax Credit Woes; Liz Porn Piece
Added 2021-07-22 01:55:45 +0000 UTCThe gang is back!
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Thinking about it about more, I think the term I'm looking for here is "isolated demand for rigor". Like, yes, even with licensing and age verification we can never TRULY know if someone wasn't coerced into doing something. You can never "truly" know anything! "Maybe this licensed, age-verified, state-regulated, financially secure porn performer is ACTUALLY only doing it because they are being blackmailed by the mob. You never know, right? RIGHT?" Okay yes, you never know. But do you apply this standard to any other aspect of life? And "but Girl's Do Porn proves that it actually happens" isn't a good counter argument. People actually ARE occasionally blackmailed by the mob too! At a local restaurant in my city, an owner was busted as using undocumented immigrants as basically slave labor and threatening them if they quit. Would you accept this as an argument for why you shouldn't go out to eat? I doubt it.
Mason Brock
2021-07-28 18:30:16 +0000 UTCThere's no need to be so perplexed: Taboo is an central element to eroticism. If you find yourself asking "how could someone like this? It's so disgusting! It's horrible!" you've already answered you own question. People find things that are socially bad to be highly sexual. The solution is to find ways to channel this "socially bad=sexually arousing" contradiction into ways that only simulate social badness and not actually replicate it. A lot of porn fails in this regard (e.g. Lana Rhodes), but it's not impossible (e.g. fake incest stuff). Maybe some people just aren't born with the taboo sexual orientation, and so they are flabbergasted when they encounter it. But in any case, remember we have nothing new under the sun- just look at sex in the ancient world. Incest ain't some 21st century invention.
Mason Brock
2021-07-27 02:36:13 +0000 UTCThe problem of distinguishing acting vs. reality in film is not restricted to the question of consensual sex. For example, in one of the early Mad Max movies one of the stunt actors was actually seriously injured while filming part of the scene where his car crashes, but it was left it in the final cut because it "looked cool" and the character was supposed to be seriously injured anyway. So everyone watching it is actually watching someone almost die IRL. Not sure what to do about this, other than make peace that all movies have elements of reality and fantasy blended together. Have you even seen Aguirre, the Wrath of God? Or Gummo? It's almost certain that the actors were facing real-life difficulties when filming, and maybe even filmed things they now regret. They are still good movies, although I do feel some moral complication watching. No one gets raped in them, so I guess it's a bit of a different ballpark. Just something to chew on.
Mason Brock
2021-07-27 01:55:28 +0000 UTC
