We Are Not Immune To Propaganda

Speaking, as we were, of foxes:

Propaganda has been on my mind for a few days now. As we get ever-deeper into what the Wall Street Journal called “the dumbest trade war in history”, I’ve seen a sudden flurry of Chinese-origin messaging on social media (especially TikTok). A lot of it is hilarious, engaging, politically insightful… and fairly obviously propagandistic.

The best propaganda is media-literate, entertaining, and has a solid core of truth. That’s why Russian propaganda has always been so unconvincing. Basically, the Russians never figured out how lie well enough to cover up how grey and terrible and bloody their shit was. 20th-century Chinese propaganda had the same problem. But this is a new century now, and although China still has plenty of authoritarian badness to lie about by omission, it also has plenty of shiny nice things to hold up for comparison when it decides to talk smack about the USA. It also has a social media culture at least as skilled as ours at sharing, spreading, and repackaging memes in engaging and organic ways. I’ve learned a lot about Chinese propaganda recently, and it’s been a surprisingly fun trip!

Art is by GlassShine.

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An Amusing War

According to Erotic Art Rainbow, this is:

Another in the series of WW-2 propaganda leaflets printed by the nazi’s to drop by air on British lines to foment antipathy among the allies. In this one an American fly-boy, stationed in England is depicted as “living it up” in comfort and enjoying the “hospitality” of some British soldier’s wife/girlfriend while that soldier is under fire fighting in Europe.

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Anti-Fascist Penis Propaganda: Foutre!

The few places this art appears on the web label it “Nazi propaganda” but the language is French and the style seems to suggest French anti-Nazi propaganda to me:

Even if you click for the slightly-bigger version, the resolution isn’t good enough to read the smaller text except that I can make out the word “petit” at the end of the first line. Google tells me that the repeated “Foutre!” in the upper caption is a vulgar French word that can be translated a number of ways but which, etymologically anyway, basically means “Fuck!”

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10 Years Of Sex Blogging: Best Of ErosBlog 2006

Next Wednesday (October 3) will mark the first day of the eleventh year of operations here at ErosBlog. So it looks like this will the last of the “10 Years of Sex Blogging” retrospectives. That’s OK — covering the first five years has a decent symmetry to it. Without further ado, here’s 2006:

• My micro-rant on why lap dances in strip clubs are “DO NOT WANT” territory for me, plus somebody else’s tips for getting a good one: How To Get A Killer Lapdance
• I found possibly the best happy-exhibitionist photo I’ve ever seen: Half-Naked And Happy To Be There
• Of all the things I’ve ever written on ErosBlog, this essay on joy and BDSM acceptance is perhaps the post I’m most proud of: Two Smiles
• Remember that shower gel commercial with the tagline “How dirty girls get clean?” Yeah, me neither; or I wouldn’t, if I hadn’t managed to associate it in my mind with this memorable photo: Girl Washing
• I can’t recall laughing harder or longer over a web thing (unless maybe it was the immortal Dogs in Elk waaay back in the last century) than I did over this cybersex transcript that didn’t quite go the way the dude expected it to: And Who Shall Be Master?
• I don’t often lose myself in consumerist fantasies, but I confess I did the first time I saw this product for sale. It’s still for sale, but sadly, I still don’t have any: Leather Sheets
• I’ve softened my stance on the virtues of color blindness over the years (having been exposed to possibly-better arguments) but I haven’t come close to abandoning it. Here’s one of the places it got me griped at, especially in the comments: Nude Women, Skin Color, Huh?
• This post and its comments was one of the places I’ve tried to expound on the foolishness and impossibility of imposing our personal interpretations of art (here, pulpy sex comics) onto other people. Of course it got me snarled at, as it generally does: Whipped With A Hat On
• What’s going on when women dress themselves to be looked at, and then appear to resent the looks they get? I had a theory: On Looking At Women
• I think every sex blogger has taken a go at mocking the contents of sex spam. Here’s one of mine: Sex Spam Subject Lines
• This I still believe: “If you can’t see a person without having a racial classification for them pop into your head, you’re part of the problem.” Not Ignorant, Adamant
• Even a cartoon ’70s metrosexual (before they called them that) understood that a fist in her hair can make the blowjob better: Hair Pulling Blowjob
• In which I stand up for the proposition that not all men are dicks: No Gentlemen, No Sex Pictures
• I had forgotten until just now this back-and-forth with Susie Bright about the reasons for the gender imbalance in the sex blogging world: Sex Bias In Blogging
• I still want to know what happened to this sex doll: Sex Doll Accident
• I still don’t think Violet is wrong about a word of this: Public Submission Ritual
• Another effort on my part to demonstrate that the sexy elements in art are (and ought to be) available to the viewer no matter how reprehensible the artist, his motives, or his historical context: Male Soldiers Fucking
• My irritation with a certain class of creepy comments, it overfloweth: Flashing From A Window
• My opinion on fake boobs, followed by an opinion that arguably matters quite a bit more: Big Fake Boobs
• I still laugh every time I see this: Bill Versus The Penguin
• The topic of what it does (did) to our society to have porn go from “hard to get” to “available on all screens” is fascinating to me, and has been for a long time: Internet Porn For The Greater Good
• Title speaks for itself: Dirty Owl-Fucker!
• “Who wants to find herself covered with Winnie-the-Pooh BandAids after sex?” There’s always somebody: But Gardens Do Differ

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