A very intelligent conversation about sex and the porn industry in the US between Professor Gad Saad and Mercedes Carrera
Discussion about it not cool indeed. Also porn "bloopers" can throw a damper on things too. Especially anal porn bloopers.
I saw one where the man got a little too acrobatic and, er, hit the wrong target. The lady was not happy about it.
Mercedes Carrera is cynically attempting to boost her career by unflinchingly supporting Gamergate. I don't consider her a credible source on.... Well, anything.
I just checked her out on a porn site. She doesn't bring anything new to the table. Of course she's competing with thousands of other women for X amount of dollars and the market is flooded. Before the internet/free porn the small number of people involved in the business could make a decent living. And despite no competition, they still produced a quality product. It's a conundrum really.
After listening to her talk....she seems pretty hot! Smart, pretty, emotionally mature.........the full package really. On a side note, that dude interviewing her looks a lot like my psychiatrist!
Mercedes Carrera is a good engineer. I might have to discuss some aerospace and sex topics with her, such as my theory on the evolutionary biology of female rape fantasies and submission, which may have fed back into both male and female religious devotion.
The subject of porn generally leaves me conflicted. On one hand (heh), I am a firm (heh) proponent of the porn industry, and porn in general. Sex is good, sex is great, let's all go and masturbate, and what-not. On the other hand (lulz), I think it has started to seep into our popular culture. Porn is a fantasy world, it's not real. What we see on the monitor, the TV and so on are fantasies. Going out and calling someone a bitch and slapping her on the ass is sexual harassment, not an awesome guarantee of sex. The general consensus of a woman being raped, or wearing provocative clothing should never be "she probably wanted it" or "she was asking for it." Porn is a great fantasy land, but bringing it into pop culture, letting it cross that line into reality is a mistake. The coming (hah!) generation is normalizing porn and removing the stigma associated with it, which is fine, as long as it's also understood the fantasy of porn needs to stay as such.
Porn is not fantasy. Most of it is based on things that have happened to Word Forgers, at least if they're like me. There are a lot of jobs we can't do, such as delivering pizza, because it takes 20 minutes to get the pizza to the door and 30 to 60 minutes to have sex with the girls that ordered it, depending on their production company's marketing strategy. I've tried pool cleaning, auto repair, copier repair, yard work, and just about everything else, and it always ends the same way. Some goober starts wacking on his guitar ("Bow chicka bow wow") and then some busty babe with starts taking her clothes off as a portly bald director starts giving instructions to camera and sound guys who just appeared out of the woodwork. It can't just be happening to me, so I'd posit that that's just the way life is.
She is pro-GamerGate because she sees the "moral" outrage over the supposed sexism and misogyny in gaming as the same as the "moral" outrage over the supposed sexism and misogyny in the porn industry.
Not to mention the ordeal of hiring a baby sitter who doesn't want to have sex with you the second your wife leaves the house. BTW true story: when I was in the Air Force some guy went AWOL from an AFB near Tuscon - Davis Montham if memory serves me. Anyway when he returned, his cover story was three Mexican chicks kidnapped him, took him to Mexico, and used him as their sex slave before dumping him back on the US side. Suffice it to say, it did not end well for that airman.
Did it not end well because they don't want an airman who can get kidnapped by three girls, or because he didn't get kidnapped by three girls?
Six of one, half dozen of the other. Either way it presents a dangerous precedent for future military behavior. All I know is if I got kidnapped by three horny Latinas I would put that info on a t-shirt and tell the world. But that's just me.
That would be my luck. Airline companies alway hand-pick the oldest, ugliest flight attendants whenever I fly too.
Small world sort of - when I was in Iraq some National Guard unit let their folks walk around in civilian clothes. They also had a swimming pool some of them engineered. Thus one time a smoking hot female soldier came by in a bikini where I was working. And I came up with a great song title for the incident.....Lumberyard In My Pants. Hell that song would pretty much write itself! BTW I almost wrote the key sentence as such: Thus one time a smoking hot female soldier came by where I was working in a bikini. Word order really, really matters.
The conversation in my opening post is an intelligent conversation about porn. This post from rabble.ca which styles itself as "... the personal pages of some of Canada's most insightful progressive activists and commentators. ..." is the polar opposite; it's dumb, moralising, pearl-clutching drivel. It paints those who consume porn as racists, sexists, misogynists and those women who participate in the making of porn as the willing, useful idiots who help to perpetuate all that racism, sexism and misogyny. Of course, like most idiots of that kind, the author completely blocks out the fact that gay porn exists where the exact same things are portrayed as in straight porn. I guess, if the consumption of straight porn turns one into a raving, violent misogynist then gay porn turns one into a raving, violent misandrist. Or so the logic would go, right?
It is probably a good idea to not be the type of person they are talking about when you say better people consume porn. It just ruins your point when we see you and you are everything they say is wrong with the porn consumer. You are rapey, sexist, misogynistic, low brow, and a big friggen douchebag. Oh, and just because there may be better people consuming porn, that does not mean you are one of them.
