October 21, 2009

• Glorification of Pornography (SFW)

  
      So I was browsing through the comments I received on my response post to the featured posts about racism, in my usual thorough manner, when I came across one particular comment that struck me as important:
  
      

  

     I’m not sure why they bothered typing all those “blahs”, maybe they just know how I like to read my comments and they just censored out the unimportant stuff for me.  What is important though is that they said “pornography” and they even put a question mark behind it.  This leads me to believe that they must have been asking me something like “Eadie, how come you never talk about the importance of pornography?” or something like that.  I decided I should honor the good Quell’s wishes and here it is:  my post on pornography.     
  
  
      But Eadie, aren’t a lot of people going to be offended by you talking about pornography in a manner which glorifies it?  After all, it is a degrading form of media.  Women are treated like objects instead of actual human beings.  They do vile and disgusting things, often at risk to their own health.  Not to mention the religious aspect that condones sexual activity outside of marriage.  Just imagine how many different partners porn stars have IN A DAY!
  
  
  
  
  
     Yes, that very likely could happen.  There are many people out there who just don’t truly understand porn that think that its sole purpose is to make a sport of women and use their bodies for cruel sexual acts.  But the truth is, THAT’S ONLY HALF OF IT!!  In order to gain a complete, unbiased perspective, you must look at all sides of the issue, not just take the topic at face value.  The fact is, people that have those opinions of porn don’t actually watch porn.  Instead they hear about porn, hear other people’s reactions to porn, maybe even see a pornographic image or two, but never actually attempt to find out what it is all about.  They look at porn as dirty water while other people look at it as tea.  Sit back grasshopper, let daddy show you how it’s done.

  
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      What most people have the tendency of forgetting is that pornography is an artistic media that is comprised mostly of men and women who are there on their own accord.  That’s right, only a very small percentage of these “actors” are actually kidnapped at birth, brainwashed, and spoon fead herbal supplements from a young age in sole preparation of fulfilling a future career as a celebrated adult film actor.  Many of these men and women who sign up for this job don’t actually get into it just so they can have sex all the time.  No, no, no, their reasons for entering the field of pornography are far more sincere, mature, and responsible.
     
      Basically, the real reason actors in pornography choose that route is because they are too completely stupid to do anything else.  That’s right, they aren’t even capable of stacking fries at your local McDonald’s.   Take this guy on the left here.  Check out the expression on his face.  That clearly looks like an expression of a man who is a good critical thinker and can apply himself to many situations.  I don’t think so.  I think we’ve all seen that face somewhere before, and let’s just say it’s not that of a televangilist.  The sad truth is, that many of these people just need an easy way to become successful with their lives.  Many people wouldn’t measure this as a means of success, but to these sad incompetent individuals, the only way for them to afford their PB&J sandwiches and top raman is to surrender themselves body and soul to the heathen gods of porn.
     
      I take that back, there is another very common reason some of these people end up in porn.  They get drunk.  In which case pornography descends from the  level of an art form, to a manner in which young men can sit by their television sets wanking themselves off in the middle of the night to censored commercials of college girls getting personal in front of a camera after having consumed large amounts of liquid courage.  But courage it indeed is, and can we really bash them for being courageous?  Isn’t courage not looked at as an admirable trait.  Then obviously something admirable can even be found in the form of these selfless females.
  
  
  
  
      But Eadie, you keep saying that pornography is an art form but you have yet to really give proof of this.  Everybody argues that pornography is art, but I have yet to actually hear a decent explanation for why this is so.
  
  
  
  
  
      Ah yes, this is a common occurrence amongst doubters, but I will let you in on a little secret that I once learned in high school from my AP World History teacher.  He said, then when doing the essay questions on the test, it isn’t so much important that you have the right answer, as it is that you have the right proof for your answer.  He said that you could say that your answer to any question could be “because Magellan sailed off the edge of the world” as long as you could provide decent proof for it.  So my answer to you is this:  The reason pornography is considered a form of art is because they are in the form of photographs and motion pictures which are already accepted as art forms.
  
  
     
  
     
  
       Isn’t that a bit contrived?
  
  
  
  
  
  
      Of course it is, but what proof really isn’t? 
      And don’t even pretend that I don’t know what question is coming next.  I know, I sound a bit like a hypocrite after having read my post about what I don’t like about the military.  I called out the military’s recruitment techniques as sleazy and unacceptable because they attempted to lure in soldiers by making it sound like their only way to be successful in life.  Offering them money, jobs, and benefits instead of ushering them in willingly because they wanted to be patriotic for their country.  To this accusation of hypocrisy, I say this:  Which would you rather look at?  A soldier’s head blown off, or a girl shaking her stuff in front of a camera?  Then tell me which way is REALLY the easy way out.

   

      Hold up Eadie, you are forgetting something pretty important here.  There are reasons beyond the actual medium that indicates that pornography is an art.  You are over looking the actors themselves.  It takes skill to look like you are always enjoying sex, it’s basically sexy acting.
  
      Um, thank you spidey…

      Anytime I can help out a member of the Evil Xanga Klique.

  
     

      One last thing (there’s always one last thing isn’t there?)  What about animated pornography, you ask? Okay true, animated pornography doesn’t involve actors and there are no women volunteering to make a show  of themselves, so the argument that it is exploitation of women stands a little stronger here, however, you can still claim it as art.  Not only are they quite literally drawings, but it would take a skilled artist to actually turn somebody on with just pen and ink.
  

   

      That pretty much wraps up today’s lesson in… whatever this was a lesson in.

      Until next time, good luck with life.

      p.s.  CallMeQuell, please don’t kill me!

   

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