Porn Performers As Meat: The Infamous Analogy
Monday, March 27th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
It was trendy for a time in the 1970s for people who campaigned against porn to draw disgust-tinged analogies between porn performers and meat — so much so that Larry Flynt famously lampooned them with the infamous 1978 meat-grinder Hustler cover. Of course anti-porn campaigners blamed pornographers for associating women and meat, but we now understand enough about psychological projection to know that when a bizarre analogy like this suddenly appears in a discourse, we should look primarily to the brain behind the lips whence it came to see who has the twisted worldview where the bizarre analogy makes sense. It is, of course, mostly the opponents of porn who view women as meat, and especially it is they they who view carnally fleshy attributes as bad things for people to have or embody or display.
It is therefore telling and interesting that I should find, in the back pages of a 1973 British music magazine about which I otherwise know virtually nothing, a parodic porn magazine cover making strong use of the porn/meat association. Admittedly in less courageous fashion than Larry Flynt, they prefigured him in the meat grinder department by no less than five years:
Found in the inside back pages of the final (November 1973) issue of OZ magazine, published in London.
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