Archive for the 'BEYOND REPROACH' Category

Trustworthy & Relevant

Monday, August 15th, 2005

As Google shifts Page Rank emphasis from Relevancy (formulaic and purely quantitative) to Trust (which will introduce qualitative factors and greater subjectivity into PR), what will this mean for the online pornography business?

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Our Modern Eyes are Jaded:
Pornography and the Line of Obscenity

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

A discussion of the relationship between EXTREME PORN and the pervasiveness of “false visual reality”.

In this thought-provoking essay, 2HP suggests that the human brain (the sense of sight, specifically) is lagging far behind representational technologies, having not yet even come to terms with the advent of photography.

If the brain, 2HP argues, is indeed transforming itself to catch-up to the fact that seeing is NOT NECESSARILY believing anymore, we are filtering-out “low intensity” visuals, losing our sensitivity to visual subtlety, becoming visually jaded, and in need of stronger and stronger imagery to stimulate the same emotional effect… more.

This is a War of Definitions & MEANING

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

I recently heard someone suggest that the commonality of “arousal�? situates [new term TBD] within the spectrum of “pornography�

It does NOT.

Some folks are fond of eating shit, that doesn’t make it food.

Well enough said to require no paraphrase here:

Quote:

Originally Posted by SexyScribe
It seems to me, the simplest, clearest, easiest way to erase EVERY point that pornography is associated with cp.. is simply to STOP CALLING IT PORNOGRAPHY. There’s your active correction! Why would you want to make it more complicated and convoluted than that?

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