This Could Be The Final Word On Porn
Sunday, November 11th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
My commentary would be superfluous:
All of your debates about the value or harm of pornography are as nonsensical as debating the value of music.
Which pornography? What does it look like? Which images/words/sounds are you referring to & what do you think they're actually communicating?
Porn is not a monolith.
— Lorelei Lee (@MissLoreleiLee) November 10, 2018
Putting aside the fact that these debates rarely address the value of pornography to the workers* who make it – even as they make broad claims about porn's impact on women**
*artists
**which women???— Lorelei Lee (@MissLoreleiLee) November 10, 2018
And yet lo I am a man, so here I am flapping my fingertips with the commentary anyway. In fact I have spent a lot of time and bashed up a lot of keyboards over the last sixteen years on this blog addressing particulars: posting a particular porn image, analyzing it as art, speculating about what it means. As a matter of editorial policy, ErosBlog (the blog is me!) is pro-porn and 100% coming from the notion that you can’t wedge a playing card between the baskets that “porn” and “art” live in.
Mostly I have only contempt for the conversations about porn that are seeking to disestablish porn from the realm of culture. In the early days of the blog, I would read them and sometimes post derisive responses to them. Nowadays I rarely even read them. I have pushed fifty. I don’t have time. The music analogy is a good one. You don’t like folk music? Don’t listen! But I am not going to engage with your 4,000-word thinkpiece on how folk music should be banned because of its pernicious effects on banjo players and folk festival attendees. Folk music is here to stay and I can only read so many more words before I die. Your attempt to destroy a cultural force that offends you will not be among them.
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