Internet porn
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 9:42 pm
I was thinking about this due to the other thread, and it occurs to me, I wonder if other people who share some of my interests/likes/aesthetics have the same problem with "internet porn" or, maybe not. Or maybe it's not all like that and I just don't dig around enough for quality.
But consider: nerdy people, people who like RPGs and are totally comfortable in this imaginative mental universe, people who certain modes of cultural aesthetic expression that tend, shall we say, toward the unique and fantastical, how do they encounter porn that could appeal to their sensibilities? Maybe they tolerate and enjoy other things, who knows, but "mainstream" porn is in so many ways the opposite of all the things that make nerd culture great (I don't really have a term for it so I'll just go with that). It reproduces the same hierarchies and value systems that such people might spend a good portion of their imaginative life trying to refashion or ignore. Even things as simple as the sets, the clothing, and the context are all wrong and dull and uninspiring. Yeah, I get this is not why people are watching, but if you did have the option of watching something better, why wouldn't you want that instead?
Apparently there at least people fond enough of nature to support categories of "outdoor" settings. But that's as far as it goes. Same dumb shit, same sexist tripe... on a park bench under trees. Great. I don't underestimate the internet's power to bring everything to life, but are there repositories for things like "people who want to make motions imitating a swimming stingray" or "two barbarians in leather armor meet in a thunderstorm" or "what if we were in a giant space egg pod and had four arms?" I don't know, maybe I just don't visit the right websites, but I feel like we need greater imagination in porn.
But consider: nerdy people, people who like RPGs and are totally comfortable in this imaginative mental universe, people who certain modes of cultural aesthetic expression that tend, shall we say, toward the unique and fantastical, how do they encounter porn that could appeal to their sensibilities? Maybe they tolerate and enjoy other things, who knows, but "mainstream" porn is in so many ways the opposite of all the things that make nerd culture great (I don't really have a term for it so I'll just go with that). It reproduces the same hierarchies and value systems that such people might spend a good portion of their imaginative life trying to refashion or ignore. Even things as simple as the sets, the clothing, and the context are all wrong and dull and uninspiring. Yeah, I get this is not why people are watching, but if you did have the option of watching something better, why wouldn't you want that instead?
Apparently there at least people fond enough of nature to support categories of "outdoor" settings. But that's as far as it goes. Same dumb shit, same sexist tripe... on a park bench under trees. Great. I don't underestimate the internet's power to bring everything to life, but are there repositories for things like "people who want to make motions imitating a swimming stingray" or "two barbarians in leather armor meet in a thunderstorm" or "what if we were in a giant space egg pod and had four arms?" I don't know, maybe I just don't visit the right websites, but I feel like we need greater imagination in porn.