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veronica moser Member NYC 208 Posts 9/06	Posted - Mar 10 2015 : 5:46PM http://grantland.com/features/porntopia/ this article covers the waterfront, as it were, as to the state of fukk flicks right now. checked other forums to see if this has been posted, didn't see anything, so I think this is appropriately placed here. I'm going to message Random Precision or whomever gets the message mod notes to that end now. [Link]
Mister Fahrenheit All-Star Member Meh 4655 Posts 10/13	Posted - Mar 10 2015 : 6:29PM Gore Gore Girl posted this in Carter Cruise's thread because Carter is such a big focus of the article, but I think it deserves a thread of its own. As I said in that thread, I think Carter comes across wonderfully. She's one of the most articulate and self-assured advocates for porn today. Putting stars like her and Casey Calvert out there front and center can only help improve the image of the industry. They dispel a lot of the hoary stereotypes that exist about pornstars. I really liked what she said here: We are proving that a woman’s sexuality does not define or restrict her, and that it is only a part of what being a woman, and human for that matter, really means. Click to expand Amen. As a fan of gonzo porn and a feminist it took me a long time to accept that fact. I used to think I was a hypocrite. How could I believe in equality and yet take pleasure watching women perform such rough, nasty sex scenes? But I've come to realize that my sexuality is just one aspect of myself and not the defining one. This article makes the point more eloquently: As much as we like to consider ourselves rational creatures, humans at their core are a bundle of contradictions. Who we are is frequently at odds with who we see ourselves as. And as much as we value consistency and constancy, we are too intricate, too prone to internal conflict and mismatch to be uniform in thought and word and deed. But contradicting ourselves doesn't mean that we’re liars and hypocrites; it simply means that, in the words of Whitman, we are complex; we contain multitudes. It's in the rush to ascribe moral and meaning to everything that we end up making things harder and more confusing for ourselves. By attempting to ascribe morality to emotion and correctness to desire, we force ourselves into hypocrisy; we're attempting to create a universal standard to things that, at their core, defy easy categorization. Nothing happens in a vacuum after all; the same forces that decry kink or fetish as perversion and an indicator of mental disease or emotional defect open themselves up to accusations that their own desires are the product of a society that arbitrarily denies sexual agency and forces them into limited sexual roles. At its core, sexual desire is simply that: desire. It's not merely the urge to spread one's seed, no matter what evo-psych proponents like to claim. It doesn't convey secret truths about a person's deepest core and identity. A powerful woman who gets her rocks off through being dominated isn't secretly revealing that she desires to give up her power, she's embracing it by choosing what she wants – and what she wants is to be so desirable that her partner needs to control her. A man who harbors aggressive fantasies isn't secretly longing to be violent or to degrade others; the power of violation of the taboo is the erotic appeal. To be sure: there are people whose dark sexual desires stem from a real desire to cause non-consensual pain or harm to others. But desire itself is morally neutral. Morality is defined by the act, not by the feeling. Of course, simply acknowledging that the desires exist – even trying to understand why they exist – is only part of the struggle. It's in making peace with your shadow self, being able to embrace and acknowledge the dark and unpleasant sides of yourself that you find freedom and comfort. Accepting that you have these desires doesn't make you sinful or wrong; it empowers you. And by empowering yourself, you’re better able to address those desires, even the dark, disturbing ones, in ways that are safe, sane, and consensual. Click to expand Enough of that tangent... It was also refreshing to read an article about porn from a mainstream publication that wasn't rife with the usual knee-jerk caveats about industry abuses or moralistic hand-wringing over whether watching porn makes you a bad human being. Even writers who are ostensibly pro-porn usually couch their support in very equivocal language for fear of being labeled as misogynistic pervs. I guess that's not too much of an issue for the author since she's a woman. [Link]
morbidthoughts All-Star Member Big cats scare me but... 3628 Posts 1/03	Posted - Mar 10 2015 : 8:20PM Mister Fahrenheit wrote: Gore Gore Girl posted this in Carter Cruise's thread because Carter is such a big focus of the article, Click to expand I was asked to take photos for a Disney/ABC feature on Carter, and I was puzzled out of my mind until I saw the article today since Disney owns ESPN/Grantland. [Link]
whatsatelephonebill Senior Member 2935 Posts 10/11	Posted - Mar 10 2015 : 10:44PM It's a really good article, with my only wish being that she hadn't gotten so starstruck and maybe asked a few more questions (or possibly harder ones) of James and Carter. [Link]
Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09	Posted - Mar 11 2015 : 6:57AM I am a little perplexed that the author thinks porn began in San Fernando valley in the early 1970s. Her citation is an article about PT Anderson. Boogie Nights, aside from being a fictional film, was set in the late-1970s. Regardless, the article was refreshing in its openness, honesty, and willingness to let the show and people speaks for themselves to a large degree. Lambert also takes her time - I have been enjoying super lengthy, meditative journalism lately. This falls into that category nicely. [Link]

Mass Facialties Deactivated User "Facialized Vol. 7" 2021 AVN Awards Winner: Best Oral Movie 9308 Posts 9/13	Posted - Mar 13 2015 : 1:48AM I got a kick out of her take on Fifty Shades of Grey: In St. James’s view, women-centric porn is usually a failure because it’s “this idea of what men think women want from porn.” The stuff that men were directing “was just completely missing the mark. I think women with more sophisticated palates found it completely insulting.” (I find myself insulted a few weeks later when I see Fifty Shades of Grey, a movie about female sexuality marketed to women with a female director and screenwriter that nonetheless keeps Jamie Dornan mostly confined within jeans while his costar, Dakota Johnson, goes buck naked. Porn shows one key thing that mainstream Hollywood lacks: an erection.) Click to expand [Link]
Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03	Posted - Mar 13 2015 : 6:03PM morbidthoughts wrote: I was asked to take photos for a Disney/ABC feature on Carter, and I was puzzled out of my mind until I saw the article today since Disney owns ESPN/Grantland. Click to expand Walt has some surprises in store for him when they unfreeze him. [Link]

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