Letters to the Editor
LeCastor
Published Letters: 1916 Editor's Choice: 86
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Sexual fantasy is healthy.
[Read the article: Three cheers for Internet porn]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Honestly. To take nuanced, mature reasoning about respect, decency, and even true feminism and then attempt to ball it all up wrapped in a few overt fallacies is just, well, typical of her usual narrow-minded, self-serving point of view.
How sad it must be to have to live in that little mind of hers, without reason or common sense to keep her company.
-- porn is for idiots
Um, what exactly is nuanced and mature about "porn is for idiots"?
Plus, i really don't see how my point of view is "self-serving."
What is nuanced about "a medium that reinforces and recycles antiquated gender stereotypes while contributing even more racist, violent and misogynistic images to a women-hating culture"?
What is mature about "a man and woman can't simply have a respectful and mutually satisfactory sexual experience"?
Whoever wrote that seems to have no understand of what porn is about -- fantasy. Watching regular people have regular sex is not the stuff that dreams are made of. That's why we love beautiful movie stars so much -- it's about fantasy, not reality. I would not want to see a movie about my life -- it's full of things like grocery shopping, laundry, riding public transport, dealing with stupid people, who are not even funny in their stupidity.
Porn, like any other fiction-based entertainment (novels, films, plays, opera, ballet, etc) is about FANTASY, not real people. Yes, it's unfortunate that some misguided 16-year-olds can't tell the difference, but we can thank our repressed culture that tells them that real sex is baaaaad for that, not porn. Sexual fantasy is part of most sexually healthy people's lives.
Plus, it seems that a lot of people who are opining about porn here haven't seen a great variety of it. I'm not a great purveyor, as i previously noted, but i've seen enough to know that there is porn for almost every taste, fantasy, fascination and fetish.
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Everything's about money, Man.
[Read the article: Three cheers for Internet porn]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]re: Whoever wrote that seems to have no understand of what porn is about -- fantasy.
No Le Castor, Porn is about money - and that's all it's about. I don't know how much you watch - or if you ever worked in the industry, but it's about money and only money: when i worked for some of the then large magazines - before the internet, we'd never consider a black woman on the cover - it's bad for business - and very very few inside the magazine (and we did a brisk business inside prisons). Fat women were for making fun of, Asians barely existed except for an "exotic treat", small tits? - women who got fake ones could gage earing power by cup size. The copy I wrote was meant to degrade.
And, ahem, you think being a derivatives attorney is about helping people? It's all about money, my friend. "Art" has been coopted into money. Sitcoms are also all about money -- if they don't make money, they're cancelled. And some things are very taboo on sitcoms -- all sorts of graphic sexual discussion, men kissing men, even serious interracial are still taboo ("Friends" and "seinfield" is all about white people). Deadwood was a great show, but it's been cancelled cuz it's not profitable. Same thing with porn.
People who think porn is about fantasy don't understand it: it's about finding that trigger, it's about body parts, it's about manipulating the caveman parts of our brain - one thing it's NEVER about, and that's women's desires - who cares about THOSE?
Let's compare this with the ... food industry. People who think the food industry is about good taste and food don't understand it: it's about finding that trigger, it's about body parts, it's about manipulating the caveman parts of our brain - one thing it's never about is the people's actual gastronomical desires or nuitritional needs -- who cares about those?
You think Kraft is looking out for you or its employees? It's looking out for the bottom line. So it's looking to sell you more singles -- maybe they can package them with a cartoon character, maybe they can pump even more preservatives into them to make them taste like chocolate until they expire in 2020. Yes, it's about manipulation, it's about marketing the new fudge-covered bacon to everyone to get them to buy, nitrites and all, and actually ingest it. You could make a case that at least most people involved with porn (other than the actors) don't actually put anything dangerous inside their bodies, whereas the food industry wants to feed you high-fructose corn syrup, trans fat, partially hydrogenated, calcium-enriched, monosodiate something or other, that hardly resembles food anymore, but it makes the caveman fat-loving parts of your brain go off.
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Well, maybe if we find out that Cheney and Rove are gay,
[Read the article: Pissed off about Iraq? Blame the women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then we can assume that they are in love with Bush as well, and that explains the mess we're all in.
Of course, this pretty much assumes that being attracted to a particular gender means that you're automatically in love with everyone of that gender. Which is just plain dumb.
PS Bush is starting to remind me of Dr. Gaius Baltar circa New Caprica occupation...is elected by a bunch of unrealistic morons, leads everyone into a seemingly good idea, then becomes a recluse in his house once the shit hits the fan. And the mess we're in right now in real life -- it's almost as bad as the mess Baltar led everyone into on TV.
Now, if we could just get the Cylons to kidnap Bush...;)