Abel Semen (0)
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Registered: Dec 29, '09
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Chalk me up as another who would be happier without the spitting, which to me, is part of a larger trend toward BDSM elements, and particularly degradation and humiliation, in porn NOT specifically labeled as fetish material. Slapping and name-calling fall into the same category. It's like one day, someone looked at the worst fearmongering bullshit that people like Andrea Dworkin ever wrote, noticed that very little porn was actually like that at the time, and set out to make stuff that actually was.
"Sex" and "BDSM" are not equivalent. I would think that would be so obvious as not to require stating, but some people can't seem to get it through their heads. I have met some of them, and it seems like others are running rampant in the porn industry. I'm reminded of the debate (it may not have been a formal debate, just one of them writing about the other) between Catharine MacKinnon and Camille Paglia that convinced me they were both bonkers - they're writing about porn and it just plain doesn't seem to occur to either of them to think of it in anything but crudely sadomasochistic terms, it's just that MacKinnon thought that was bad and Paglia was all for it. Questioning the premise didn't seem to be a concept for either of them. Edited on Apr 18, 2012, 06:15am |
