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Defending explicit pornography as art

Ben Westwood is a pornographer who believes that if we didn't make such a big deal out of porn, and allowed it to exist... more

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Porn film opening scenes

A photographic study of cast members preparing for their opening shots in popular porn films with improbable plots.

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YouTube 'should have time delay to stop offensive material'

Freedom of Speech is in Question again? Yet, isn't that why computers have security levels that can be adjusted by... more

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Palin offered $2M to appear in porn movie

Sarah Palin has received her first job offer since failing in her bid to become vice-president of the United States -- to appear... more

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Pornography and art: can the two be combined?

"It is commonly believed that pornography can never be art because the purpose of pornography is solely to be sexually... more

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Porn, sex, Arab girls... (Please visit our website!)

The use of the internet now threatens the moral stability in the Middle East as internet access now brings porn to new customers.... more

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Bali Governor Rejects Indonesia's Anti Porn Law

This is a follow-up story to yesterdays pod: http://current.com/items/89470494_indonesia_bans_porn_images_gestures_conversations ... more

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Man dies while watching porn

A man with heart problems suffered a fatal heart attack while watching porn!

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The great porn misunderstanding: pornography is mostly about fantasy, not reality

A response to Robert Jensen's recent AlterNet article, "Porn's Dirty, Dangerous Secret."
When I was 13, a new friend, Andy, came over my house to watch television. We were watching the show, Time Tunnel. As the show neared its climax, I noticed that Andy was quite nervous. When I asked why, he said that it looked like the hero was about to be killed. I said, "Are you an idiot?! Of course he won't be killed ... this is a TV series and it's on again next week!" It turned out that Andy's family didn't allow him to watch television and, therefore, he didn't know that the hero of a television series never dies. He didn't know the code.

Robert Jensen writes about pornography like someone who doesn't know the code. He seems incapable of differentiating fantasy from reality. He keeps mistaking the reality of the sexual enactments depicted in gonzo porn with their meaning in fantasy to the men masturbating. If the woman on the screen is having 4 penises shoved into her, something that would demean and degrade any real woman reading Jensen's article (and probably the actress performing such scenes), he automatically infers that the degradation must be the source of the male viewer's arousal. It isn't.

Jensen and other feminist critics of porn seem unable or unwilling to admit to the presence of an unconscious mind. This is the mind that animates our imaginations, that confers personal meanings on perceptions and events, and that ultimately is responsible for sexual arousal. I'm not talking about some Freudian mumbo-jumbo, but the fact that we interpret the world; we don't just objectively read it like we would a thermometer. When a woman sits at a café and gets turned-on by a big hairy biker standing at the cash register, she is inferring something about him, perhaps that he's tough, sexual, aggressive, and/or selfish. She's unconsciously interpreting the image. For reasons that have to do with her personal psychology, reasons about which she may well be unaware, these traits trigger her libido. In reality, this man might be gay, easily frightened, passive and solicitous. It doesn't matter. At that moment, her mind transforms a three-dimensional being into an object that stimulates her desire. She objectifies him.

This is what happens to each of us when we get aroused by an image, a body-type, a situation, or a story. Arousal happens in our minds, not out there in so-called reality. I might get aroused by the thought of being the President of the United States getting fellated under my desk while talking to a congressman on the phone, while you get turned on by the thought (or enactment) of a couple inviting discovery by having a hot "quickie" in a doorway. A woman I treated used to masturbate to the fantasy of being held down and sexually ravished against her will by the janitor in her office building, another by group sex with Mick Jagger. If these fantasies became realities, however, the fantasizers would likely feel something on a spectrum from uncomfortable to traumatic. Reality, however, doesn't matter. Our unconscious minds creatively interpret scenarios and perceptions that help us get aroused.
more@linkA response to Robert Jensen's recent AlterNet article, "Porn's Dirty, Dangerous Secret." When I was 13, a... more

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'Deep Throat' director, Gerard Damiano dead at 80

MIAMI – Gerard Damiano, director of the pioneering pornographic film that lent its name to the Watergate whistleblower known... more

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21 days ago

Jeeves is a porn star!

Tech Digest has uncovered that the venerable Mr Jeeves, star butler of the Ask.com search engine that failed/retired back in 2006,... more

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22 days ago

Church Burns Porn Found At Drive-In

Members of a Jacksonville church gathered to burn at least 100 reels of X-rated movies from the '70s and '80s that were... more

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27 days ago

Porn surfing Father cripples church network!

A Swedish clergyman has quit in disgrace after picking up a virus from a hardcore porn website - and crippling the entire church... more

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28 days ago

Who is Nailin Sara Palin? PRODUCTION PHOTOS!

This are the actual production Stills. Discretion is advise!

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29 days ago

First minute of a real Sarah Palin (inspired) porn (Safe for Work)

Boom chicka wow wow!

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29 days ago

Who's Nailin' Paylin? The MOVIE SCRIPT

The script from the new Sara Palin alike porn movie

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29 days ago

Dear Star Wars ex-boyfriend, (this is XXX talks about sex and, the girl was pissed.)

To start of, I didn't write this, but found it extremely funny. But it is crude. If crude star wars sex jokes offend, then please get out of this page. Thank you.

Dear Star Wars obsessed ex-boyfriend,

A few things as of late have come to light. The fact that you had an entire room dedicated to Star Wars should have been enough to make any sane girl run in the opposite direction, I somehow found it endearing. The fact that you couldn’t string two thoughts together in order to form a cohesive sentence should have made me giggle in your face, instead I patiently waited as you tried to sound like your IQ was above 87. Your crazy mom that decided to “pop in” and vacuum at one in the morning should have definitely made leave, but I stuck by your side. Your sexual inadequacies should have made me run to seek orgasm from another penis, instead I quietly masturbated in the bathroom after your pathetic attempts at coitus.

When you told me that you slept with someone else, I must admit that I was mildly relieved as at last this was my way out. But Star Wars obsessed ex- boyfriend, you just had to go and one-up yourself in stupidity. Just when I thought that your stupidity had reached its crescendo a perfect symphony of ignorance, you surprised me. You said something that will forever go down as the worst phrase to ever utter to a girlfriend.

You said: “Yeah I slept with someone else, but I had to think about you to get off.” Seriously? Really? Am I supposed to be honored by this? Is this supposed to make me coo with girlish glee and then all can be forgiven? Let’s pretend for a moment that this statement is true. If you had to think about me when you had your heinous-uncircumcised-lion-seal looking penis in what I can only assume is a skanky disease ridden vagina, why did you simply not fuck me instead? God knows I was willing being that I was constantly unsatisfied and willing to give you another go.

Well, Star Wars obsessed ex-boyfriend, let me tell you this. I won. First off, I am not going to let you ruin Star Wars for me. I will still giggle with delight at Chewbacca’s noises. I will still find humor in Jabba’s fat face.

More importantly, I won because I used my inner rage to go out and fuck the ever living shit out of someone else. Seriously, it was amazing. What's more, you ask? The guy is hung like a gorilla, or to put it in terms that you’d understand, he’s packing a light saber. I was walking funny for 4 days, no joke. And you know what Star Wars obsessed ex-boyfriend? I fucked this guy on real sheets. Sheets that didn’t have R2D2 and C3P0 and Tie fighters. Big boy sheets. When I arched my back and looked up I didn’t see any Sith infiltrators on the ceiling. No Death Star. For the first time in a long time I got off without feeling like I should be on “To Catch a Predator” because you, Star Wars obsessed ex-boyfriend, made me feel dirty for fucking in what looked like a little kid’s room.

Moral of the story? You might want to put down the Obi Wan doll and pick up a book. That way, you might actually learn a few new words that exist outside of that epic film. Or better yet, next time you feel the urge to say something as dumb as what you said to me, pick up a .22 or if it makes you feel better we’ll call it an IG.22 and shoot yourself in the nut sack, that way we won’t have to worry about you breeding.

(edit by arctic: this guy won't be breeding anytime soon, no need for a 22. Just keep the sheets. And the action figures. Live with MOM. Great birth control.)

Oh yeah, and plans are in the works for dressing up as Slave Leia next time.
To start of, I didn't write this, but found it extremely funny. But it is crude. If crude star wars sex jokes offend, then... more