Martin Amis on porn

[andrewducker]

2 year old Guardian article that Martin Amis wrote on the porn industry. I've gone steadily off of porn in recent times anyway, but even if I hadn't, this would certainly speed the process.

Comments

heh

[josephgrossberg.livejournal.com]

I think porn's motto should be "Don't think. You'll ruin it for yourself."

As an aside, that's pretty crazy you can read such stuff in the Guardian (I assume it wasn't online-only). The NY Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal would never grace their pages with a gem like: "What makes it in today's market place is reality. And assholes are reality. And pussies are bullshit."

Re: heh

[andrewducker]

The Guardian is the UK's left of centre broadsheet. It's the main read of the liberal intelligentsia. Good newspaper too.

And because we don't live in a repressed christian country (not for about 30 years now) we can get away with stuff like that.

Re: heh

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

It's kind of weird: the US has the First Amendment, so in theory they have complete freedom of the press. But in fact, they have a media strongly biased towards the right-wing, and deeply conservative standards about what can and can't be published.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I remember that article. Yes. Um. I would think that if you were the kind of person who was in to watching het porn films, it would have the kind of effect on you that reading an in-depth article on what goes on in a slaughterhouse might have on a carnivore...

[ex-digitalis869.livejournal.com]

God, that was stressful to read.

Can I have the porn you're not using?

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

The sex industry is an industry like any other. Even after reading the article, I'd still rather suck cock for a living than work for Microsoft.

Re: Can I have the porn you're not using?

[andrewducker]

Depends on the pay, really.

I hear that MS wages and benefitsd are substantially higher.

Sucking Cock vs. Microsoft

[ex-digitalis869.livejournal.com]

No, it really doesn't depend. I know you were speaking facetiously, but I don't know if the first person was.

I seriously doubt you get herpes just from working at Microsoft.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you didn't tell us why it would speed the process. I can make assumptions, based on the article, but EXPOSITION, man.

It's like show and tell, but without the 'tell'....

[andrewducker]

Was tired this morning, but you're right. I haven't been writing nearly enough recently.

But I think that in retrospect it wouldn't speed the process. I've been going off of porn due to increased empathy and higher recognition of the people involved as, well, people.

The article didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know, I'm just in a different place now to where I was last time IO read abouit these things.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

:+)

Yeah - for every 'Jenna', there's a hundred or more girls getting (insert lewd word - fucked, screwed, shafted) by the porn business. That they can legally (is it legal?) film what Amis was describing, in terms of women getting beat up during sex, disturbs me. Especially the one who asked for it to stop, and was ignored. Notsogood.

Thankfully, I've never seen porn of that ilk. Very disturbing.

[andrewducker]

It is disturbing.

And I've noticed a trend towards more disturbing porn as time goes on. With so much competition online it seems the way to make yourself stand out is to provide things that are more and more degrading.

I'm hoping that there'll be a backlash at some point.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Gods, I couldn't even finish that article. I still believe that censorship is wrong, but the slimelords running that business need to be put out of business and there need to be far better laws protecting people acting in porn. I'm guessing, if everything having to do with sex wasn't considered dirty and wrong in the US, the industry would not be as degrading as it is.

Ugh.