Yeah, while I understand that “banning porn” is impossible and undesirable, to think that an inexperienced teenage boy with little ability to actually communicate with his girlfriend (who is too shy/scared to advocate for herself) is going to recognize that this misogyny is not part of healthy sex, esp. after getting off to it dozens of times, is completely naive.
A good analogy can be found in Christianity’s treatment of “heathens” - if you are raised in a little village in [insert non-Christian country of choice], you absolutely can still get to Heaven. All you have to do (all on your own) is realize the religion you’re being taught is false, spontaneously detect the presence of Real God™, confess your sins to him, and ask his forgiveness! It’s so simple!
Nobody was able to eliminate it before the internet, even when still and movie cameras were sort of expensive, or at least required specialized knowledge to develop or duplicate. They certainly are not going to be able to do it now. Even putting some sort of nanny software on all new devices just makes it profitable to make and sell devices without the filters.
Since you are never going to eliminate easy manufacture and duplication of it, you will need to be able to monitor everyone closely enough to know if they take objectionable images or video. That sort of crushing surveillance would certainly cause more destruction to society than any amount of porn ever could.
Besides which, the surveillance jobs would draw all the pervs anyway.
Why would anyone even write such a poorly thought out article?
The common English name for it is: The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. A lot of people think it’s the first “tentacle porn.”
From what I understand, fairly recently penis in vagina sex depictions were banned in Japan, and tentacle porn took off because tentacles penetrating vaginas don’t count as penises.
I’d just settle for a higher availability of porn where the performers seem to actually like each other. So much of it is the sexual equivalent of watching the tachometer on an automatic transmission.
You’re not thinking as a community-minded citizen, there, friend. Most female friends I have forward their favorites (or any really funny ones) to a gay friend. Everyone wins!
To my mind, this is exactly right. Banning porn is hard. Providing satisfactory alternative porn for free should be cheaper, more successful, and without harming anyone’s rights.
Gaskell: Now, my good wife. Whilst I rest, read to me a while from Shakespeare’s ‘Gay Boys in Bondage’.
(The wife looks a trifle taken aback but reluctantly opens the book and starts to read with a resigned air.)
Wife: Yes my lord. ‘Gay Boys in Bondage’… Ken, 25, is a mounted policeman with a difference, and what a difference. Even Roger is surprised and he’s… (she looks slightly, sick with guilt) he’s used to real men…
Gaskell: 'Tis like ‘Hamlet’. What a genius!
Wife: ‘But who’s going to do the cooking tonight? Roddy’s got a mouthful…’
Yeah video porn is pretty paint by the numbers and not really fun. Especially if you’ve ever read about the stories from some performers (especially women) that often it’s pretty degrading to work in the business. Men get more respect and pay even though, as I’ve said earlier, they’re technically not the main selling point. It’s why it’s interesting to see many performers are moving more towards a direct sales approach and picking whom they perform with. I’m still not a fan of most of it since it doesn’t leave much to the imagination. I think good porn is a mix of visual and emotional cues. It’s hard to get that right without devolving into something trite.
A translation I found a few years ago goes like this:
OCTOPUS MAXIMUS: My wish comes true at last, this day of days; finally I have you in my grasp! Your bobo is ripe and full, how wonderful! Superior to all others! To suck and suck and suck some more. After we do to masterfully, I’ll guide you to the Dragon Palace of the Sea God and envelope you. Zuu sufu sufu chyu chyu chyu tsu zuu fufufuuu…
MAIDEN: You hateful octopus! Your sucking at the mouth of my womb makes me gasp for breath! Aah! yes… it’s… There.!!! With the sucker, the sucker!! Inside, squiggle, squiggle, Oooh! Oooh, good, Oooh good! There, there! Theeeeere! Goood! Whew! Aah! Good, good, Aaaaaaaaaah! Not yet! Until now it was I that men called an octopus! An octopus! Ooh! Whew! How are you able…!? Ooh! Yoyoyooh, Saa… Hicha hicha gucha gucha, yuchyuu chyu guzu guzu suu suuu….
OCTOPUS MAXIMUS: All eight arms to interwine with!! How do you like it this way? Ah, look! The inside has swollen, moistened by the warm waters of lust. Nura nura doku doku doku…
MAIDEN: Yes, it tingles now; soon there will be no sensation at all left my hips. Ooooooh! Boundaries and borders gone! I’ve Vanished….!!!
OCTOPUS MINIMUS: After daddy finishes, I too want to rub and rub my suckers at the ridge of your furry place until you dissapear and then I’ll suck some more, chyu chyu…
I can’t vouch for the accuracy — my Japanese isn’t that good to begin with, and I find reading cursive Hiragana and Kanji almost impossible — but MAIDEN seems to be into it.
General media literacy should become core educational course. I think that would be more than sufficient.
Any one having harboring the pretence that Media literacy / criticism isn’t important enough to teach as a core subject with the three R’s hasn’t been paying attention.
