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| skronker Notable Legendary Icon  Scopophiliac 9780 Posts 9/02 |  Posted - Dec 6 2008 : 12:39PMThe genius Brit designer talks about porn and makes some keen observations: Pornography is a kind of a surrogate for performance anxieties that men have. But unfortunately, it also compounds them. And there is an avoidance-of-other-people aspect to it. It’s a very undemanding way to indulge sexual stimulation and entertainment. It can cause problems. It can become an end in itself. Some people get completely obsessive about it. You can completely lose track of reality by conditioning your sexuality to the sex product. These hazards aren’t exclusive to imagery that is pornographic, but pornography is the purest version of this. The best example of [a "convincing reality" vs. "narrative" porno] this in contemporary photography would be the films of Rocco Siffredi. There is a sense of a real-time scenario in Rocco’s films. They’re not set in an entirely abstract neutral zone of a room set or studio somewhere. When there is documentary quality to it; something that actually transcends the set, it’s much more powerful. There are elements of context but not unnecessarily. There is some pornography, which to me is a quite valid art form. I’m not saying whether it’s high or low as art, but an art form. [Link] |
| tricia_devereaux Evil Angel DVD Patience is a virtue, but who wants to be virtuous? 4283 Posts 4/00 | Posted - Dec 7 2008 : 2:34AM [Link] |
BlackSix  All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Dec 7 2008 : 4:22AM And now for no good reason I'm going to repost Rocco rapping about Stagliano! Edited by - BlackSix on 12/7/2008 6:34:26 AM [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Dec 7 2008 : 7:13AM [Link] |
| Dan Senior Member 2056 Posts 6/07 | Posted - Dec 7 2008 : 11:38AM And it's true that entertainment sometimes becomes so entertaining that some people prefer entertainment over real life. But this is not restricted to porn only. Some people get to like video games this much. And many housewives get to like soap operas this much. Perhaps the type of escape from reality people prefer depends on their hormones. But realistic entertainment can enhance reality rather than serve as an escape from it. Some couples watch porn to keep up their sexual interest in each other. And some people plunge into the swingers and the sex-work scene in order to try out and experience some of the things they've seen in porn movies. It's up to each person to decide how to use the realistic entertainment. Just because the entertainment is realistic doesn't mean that somehow people are not free to decide what to do with it. Edited by - Dan on 12/7/2008 11:38:35 AM [Link] |
| skronker Notable Legendary Icon Scopophiliac 9780 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Dec 7 2008 : 2:04PM [Link] |
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