BLUE MONDAY #2: Back to the Dirty Stuff.
Why, hello there, web voyager. I see your voyages on the Web have led you (again?) to SEX WITH ME IS RAD. Well, this is just great! I hope you brought your adult pants today, because it is, once again- BLUE MONDAY, where we talk about the seamy seamy underbelly of the human psyche.
Today’s topic : Trends in Modern Pornography. Or, more accurately, perceived trends.
Perceived trends? Yes. These are perceived trends we are talking about, because if I were to talk about, like, things that are, like, empirically measurable; then I’d be, like, a journalist or a statistician or summat, and believe me…you wouldn’t like me when I’m “journalistic,” or “statistical…” much less would you cultivate that passing interest in making out with me that I so dearly wish for you to cultivate…
Oh…did I type that aloud…?
So, the question today is essentially: what’s with the sudden ubiquity of violence in today’s porno? Biting, spanking, pulling hair, BDSM &c seems to be all over the free sites these days…and…do people get off to that stuff?
OK. Well, the easy way to address this one is to get all Jungian- just look at the news today- more strife, revolution, tsunamis, labor unrest and crappier than usual politicians than you can shake a Kindle at. IT’S CHAOS! The collective unconscious is stressing and straining and doing hot yoga like it’s auditioning for some kinda spiritual P90X instructional video. Everyone is ill at ease… and with good reason. So, it follows that all of this tension filters into the bedroom, ball gag and restraints in hand.
Let’s hope it has a good safe word- Three of my favorites are “Pineapple,” “Lufthansa,” and “Paul LePage.”
Boy, did I I ever just make that joke. I made that joke, I did.
But although I think this answer holds some water, it seems a little bit simplistic and somehow too melodramatic to tell the whole story here. I’m more inclined to explain this perceived phenomenon in terms of law of averages.
I’ve heard the aforementioned statistically minded, non-interesting to think about making out with types of the world say that the amount of information available in this “information age” can be calculated to be somewhere between “an assload” and “a SUPER ASSLOAD.”
IT’S A FACT.
And since people are essentially a slobbering mass of damn dirty pervbots, it follows that about two thirds of this SUPER ASSLOAD will be sexual in nature.
And the greater the demand for sexual web content becomes, the more, ahem, diverse the market will become. Hence, more of the rough stuff than ever before.
BOO YEAH.
Oh, who has two thumbs and just combined armchair psychoanalysis with armchair economics? THIS GUY!
Because maybe it is all that simple. Heck, just give me a perm and call me “The Malcolm Gladwell of Sexual Advisement.”
So, cheers, dear reader of SEX WITH ME IS RAD: “The blog that is every bit as much into having sex as it is into making love…” and may I take this opportunity to say that all of that device bondage you’ve been up lately to has left you with a most flattering rosy tone to your already mystifyingly youthful complexion? Seriously, you’ll never need to use rouge again!
I would like to append this entry with an interesting thought my good friend brought up to me-
ReplyDeleteEssentially, she was saying that the influx of sexually violent pornography might be a result of an anti-feminist/female backlash taking place.
To whit- as women continue to gain power in the public sphere, there will be a growing reactionary movement in the private- hence- gang bangs, subordination, rape fantasies whathaveyou.
An interesting inversion of this theory is the growing prevalence of FemDom material, in which males sexualize the idea of being subordinated...
Is there truly an influx of sexually violent pornography or is it just that pornography is so prevalent and easily accessible via the internet? BDSM and fetish porn was always around for those who sought it - you need only look at Bettie Page photographs - but those images were previously difficult to obtain for the average middle-american porn fan who didn't want to risk driving three towns over to buy a magazine from under a drugstore counter.
ReplyDeleteEither that, or like every other good drug, the more porn you get the more you need for your next high. My dad's generation only needed to see a few natural, if droopy boobs in Playboy and it was sexy and scandalous. Now you can practically see that at 8pm on the Disney Channel.