Over at 2blowhards, people have been strenuously debating whether porn is an art form akin to rock and roll, and whether we now accept porn as part of the internet experience.<\/p>\n
Obviously, the first question is nonsensical. But the other question bothers me. Just now, I followed some fashion links to some new photos<\/a> of Lindsay Lohan, topless. My first thought upon looking at her face was: This girl is spent. Literally. She’s been used up and she has nothing left to offer but her nude body for the purpose of porn.<\/p>\n The poor girl has been through everything, at such a young age! She looks like she’s at the brink of starvation, but since she still has tits, she’ll flaunt them. I find it very depressing.<\/p>\n Is it pornography to watch a young celebrity flame out and burn? Is Girls Gone Wild pornography? Are kids really posting nude photos of themselves on their mySpace pages? Is porn ever healthy? Is there anything we haven’t seen yet, or shouldn’t see?<\/p>\n When I first learned to use a computer, the girl I worked with immediately set out to show me some notorious video of a woman having sex with a donkey. I hoped she wouldn’t find it. She did show me a photo of an old lady using a dead fish for something….it wasn’t good, although it was somewhat shocking.<\/p>\n Another office, more searches for porn. My (female) boss and I laughed hysterically at photos of women with two cocks in their mouths. We went to massive cocks dot com and laughed some more.<\/p>\n That is really the totality of my experience with online porn. Is there something wrong with me?<\/p>\n I don’t think I’m prudish. I just don’t want to get depressed. Now I hear there’s a very popular website where people upload pictures of their own faces during orgasm. I don’t get why it’s popular! Why would I want to see what some stranger looks like when they come?<\/p>\n I’m wondering if the world is made up of exhibitionists and voyeurs. And of course a third group, where I fit in. I’m wondering if my problem is that I can’t look at porn without thinking about the motives involved. After I laughed at the girl with two cocks in her mouth, I thought about her mother.<\/p>\n Someone once showed me a website where you could look at women covered in shit. I was very upset and wanted to cry for weeks afterward. I know this is not an example of whatever’s considered mainstream or arty porn, but the whole new world of porn at our fingertips is distressing to me. Even more than distressing, it’s sad.<\/p>\n People who enjoy porn should at least have the decency to shut up about it. Insisting that it’s interesting on any other level is just a denial of its primary purpose. Waxing all intellectual about porn is just absurd, like Camille Paglia pontificating about Madonna.<\/p>\n I hope that young people will still be allowed some innocence about sexuality, so they can discover it with a real live person. Mystery and taboos are there to preserve the holy aspect of sex, and by holy I don’t mean to exclude any practices between two human beings of any gender. Speaking \u00a0 as an atheist, I still think of sex as a religious experience.<\/p>\n Here’s what Leonard Cohen thinks.<\/p>\n Give me back my broken night Give me crack and anal sex Things are going to slide, slide in all directions You don’t know me from the wind Things are going to slide …<\/p>\n There’ll be the breaking of the ancient Give me back the Berlin wall Things are going to slide …<\/p>\n When they said REPENT REPENT …<\/em><\/p>\n Comments or arguments, anyone out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over at 2blowhards, people have been strenuously debating whether porn is an art form akin to rock and roll, and whether we now accept porn as part of the internet experience. Obviously, the first question is nonsensical. But the other … Continue reading
\nmy mirrored room, my secret life
\nit’s lonely here,
\nthere’s no one left to torture
\nGive me absolute control
\nover every living soul
\nAnd lie beside me, baby,
\nthat’s an order!<\/p>\n
\nTake the only tree that’s left
\nstuff it up the hole
\nin your culture
\nGive me back the Berlin wall
\ngive me Stalin and St Paul
\nI’ve seen the future, brother:
\nit is murder.<\/p>\n
\nWon’t be nothing
\nNothing you can measure anymore
\nThe blizzard, the blizzard of the world
\nhas crossed the threshold
\nand it has overturned
\nthe order of the soul
\nWhen they said REPENT REPENT
\nI wonder what they meant
\nWhen they said REPENT REPENT
\nI wonder what they meant
\nWhen they said REPENT REPENT
\nI wonder what they meant.<\/p>\n
\nyou never will, you never did
\nI was the little jew
\nwho wrote the Bible
\nI’ve seen the nations rise and fall
\nI’ve heard their stories, heard them all
\nbut love’s the only engine of survival
\nYour servant here, he has been told
\nto say it clear, to say it cold:
\nIt’s over, it ain’t going
\nany further
\nAnd now the wheels of heaven stop
\nyou feel the devil’s RIDING crop
\nGet ready for the future:
\nit is murder.<\/p>\n
\nwestern code
\nYour private life will suddenly explode
\nThere’ll be phantoms
\nThere’ll be fires on the road
\nand a white man dancing
\nYou’ll see a woman
\nhanging upside down
\nher features covered by her fallen gown
\nand all the lousy little poets
\ncoming round
\ntryin’ to sound like Charlie Manson
\nand the white man dancin’.<\/p>\n
\nGive me Stalin and St Paul
\nGive me Christ
\nor give me Hiroshima
\nDestroy another fetus now
\nWe don’t like children anyhow
\nI’ve seen the future, baby:
\nit is murder.<\/p>\n