11-05-2012, 09:44 AM | #21376 |
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I have not read 50 Shades of Grey, I have heard that it is awful, but I doubt that it is all that racy. The other option is that my Mother In Law is into stuff that is far more interesting then I give her credit for.
I have not read Harlequin Romances but the romance novels ones that I have read have not been all that racy, and I read the bondage ones. Some of the stuff posted at Literotica is pretty darn pornographic but that stuff is not published. I do think there is a difference between words and pictures. |
11-05-2012, 01:17 PM | #21377 | |
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11-05-2012, 01:46 PM | #21378 | |
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Or maybe Prof and I, as women, define pornography differently. Or maybe I'm just playing the devil's advocate. But I agree, I think the written word is different from pictures. |
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11-06-2012, 12:10 AM | #21379 | |
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But that's still nothing. Imagine the same situation and company you had in mind making your comment but change the topic from "porn" to "sex toys" It's not only a gap between standards - it's a friggin' canyon. |
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11-06-2012, 01:10 AM | #21380 | |
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11-06-2012, 11:28 AM | #21382 |
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I'm not a housewife, but I've enjoyed many a Harlequin. Not all them are that steamy - they have imprints that run the gamut from prim and proper all the way to "clothes off on page two". No, they are not great literature, but I find many of them enjoyable.
The difference between pictures and words is not just in the mind. The pictures require other live humans to be involved. No, I'm not leading into a rant against porn. I own a tidy little stack of porn DVDs of my own. But it is an industry that has had incidents of predatory practices, though it's not quite as widespread as some opponents would like to make one believe. I won't purchase unless I'm comfortable with the studio involved. I also won't purchase imports, accept unlabeled discs from friends, or download from internet sources. I don't have to consider any of those things with fictional characters that only exist in writing. Also, in writing, one can explore concepts that would be impossible in reality, especially since most adult films don't have big effects budgets. I think that the written and the visual can each accomplish different things. I have no problem with people consuming either form, provided they aren't knowingly contributing to the harm of a human being (or animal) in the process. |
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The concern that I have with the visual form is that it does strike me as exploitation and that many of the movies do not use condoms which is dangerous for the actors.
Personally, the movies do nothing for me. |
11-06-2012, 12:06 PM | #21384 | |
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EDIT: No, I see you meant Juliette. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 11-06-2012 at 12:09 PM. |
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11-06-2012, 06:03 PM | #21385 | |
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'Justine' and 'Juliette' were DeSade's two most famous novels. He wrote others, and a slew of short pieces that were not necessarily erotic nor sadistic, but made his fame with the really sick stuff. And you're right, he really was one sick sumbitch. He was a philosopher more than pornographer though, and if you can find one of the expurgated versions of 'Juliette,' one without any of the Eros, so you don't get put off by his perversions, his philosophical reasonings are brilliant though really, really off the wall! And unlike so many other authors, he LIVED his philosophy to the max, rather than playing it out though his writings. Of course, he spent a lot of time in jail because of them... Oddly enough, much of that jail time was for speaking out against God, rather than just sexual crimes. I wouldn't have wanted to meet the man in a dark alley. Stitchawl |
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Just making something commercially available isn't automatically exploitation. Apart from that, there are enough people out there either self-recording or allowing an outsider to do so. Even further apart from that. There's galore of photography of various quality styles and tastes Last edited by Freeshadow; 11-08-2012 at 03:08 PM. |
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11-10-2012, 12:35 AM | #21387 |
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