I'm desensitized to pr0n thanks to the internet!


Somehow the internet apparently blasts everyone full force in the face with pr0n so much that we're totally incapable of feeling titillated by it anymore, or as this lovely writer put it 'Then came the Internet, whose biggest accomplishment may be that it has made pornographic content instantly available to anyone with a high-speed connection without making them feel like a pop-eyed flesh junkie.'

There are days I love feminists. I think everyone should have one in their kitchen cooking for them.

There is an interesting article over on SFGate.com that I found on one of my daily reads Pornblography (uhm, big ass work warning on that link, the next article is not something you'd probably want popping up on LCD monitor at work).

It's written by a feminist, so basically you have to toss everything she says out the window. I'm all for 'equal rights' if you can call them that. I'd love to see the day when two people with similar experience and backgrounds apply for a job and they are judged on merit only. But if one is a hot blonde and the other is a dumpy guy the hot blonde is always going to get the job if the manager is a guy, it's a way of life. Of course the hot blonde will get paid peanuts and the dumpy guy will find another job and get 20% more per year than she will most likely. But shit happens. It's the hot blondes fault as much as the way people think. Burning your bra on the street isn't going to do anything but turn guys on and stink up the place.

Anyway back to my thoughts on this. Somehow the internet apparently blasts everyone full force in the face with pr0n so much that we're totally incapable of feeling titillated by it anymore, or as this lovely writer put it 'Then came the Internet, whose biggest accomplishment may be that it has made pornographic content instantly available to anyone with a high-speed connection without making them feel like a pop-eyed flesh junkie.'

I'm wondering at what point that happened. Because last time I saw even pr0n collections weren't something to brag about. I mean I remember in the late 80s when I ran a bulletin board and we argued over who had the biggest GIF collection of pictures. There were arguments a plenty on it. Granted, we used the internet even then to download them from one mainframe to another at KU and then kermit them overnight at 2400 baud to our laptops. But even then there was an air of mysticism to them and it wasn't discussed in 'polite' circles.

Even now spam that comes in, as this writer suggests, is not laden with porn. Granted I can buy copies of Adobe Photoshop, enlarge my breasts & penis at the same time, and get all sorts of drugs that will make my dick hard for years for $20 but I don't get any graphic images with it. Maybe I'm on the wrong spam lists or something.

I guess my irritation is that this person singles out the porn industry and the internet as the two things responsible for the objectification of women.

Let's see, should I bother listing the other obvious things? How about Sports Illustrated, Coors Light (Bikini team of the 80s anyone?) Budweiser, or any beer commercial since spuds McKenzie and before that. Vogue, Oprah, Cosmopolitan for years if not decades have been extolling the virtues of being thin, anorexic, and ribcages are 'IN".

But what do I know, I'm a guy.

Posted: Tue - July 27, 2004 at 07:22 PM           |

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