OK, now you've gone and done it:
Posted on 04/11/2006 7:39:19 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
Why is that highly unlikely? I've seen cars, usually filled with teenage looking boys, with porn playing over their DVD screens.
cruise Hotlanta or any other scum-filled city: it happens.
In other words, exceedingly queer. No wonder you're so anti-Playboy.
Be that as it may, very little art, nude or not, was created for the sole purpose of inspiring male mastubatory fantasies.
I am sure the creators of those pieces viewed them as fine art and the execution of artistic expression.
These films must be extremely short if one can avail oneself of "hundreds of millions" of them each year.
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Good point! According to my calculator there are only thirty one and one half million seconds in a year! Some people have an unbounded capacity for overstatement.
"...apparently the pornographic film industry now makes more money than Hollywood."
This was a result of the privacy offered by home video. Once people could view it in their homes rather than a seedy sticky theater they yielded to their curiosity. The operative word there is privacy. The bombardment of porn from the internet is intrusive.
I liked this one, but I won't tolerate him when he's woefully misinformed on illegal immigration. I unsubscribed after his column today.
It's not so much the porn the Hef himself has peddled, as Playboy has always been and remains soft-core, but the culture he, almost single-handedly created -- the girl-next-door pornoslut.
It's ironic that today people probably really do subscribe to Playboy for the articles. The pictorials barely register on the porn scale anymore.
Sexual repression: Bad.
Sexual promiscuity: Bad.
Hefner, for his own selfishness and greed, built a spiritual concentration camp for our souls, and too many of us were more than happy to become inmates.
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MY,my, perhaps you would feel more at home in Iran or Saudi Arabia?
What I mean to say is, it is a GOOD thing that we're no longer shocked by people like those women who strip down in public to protest the war or other public policy. It's GOOD that we can't be intimidated by homosexuals in leather on parade throats. It's GOOD to have a healthy understanding of what goes on in the world. It teaches us that sex is fire, and if not properly used it burns and destroys.
Why? You never seen porn before?
Happy to help:
http://www.tldm.org/news6/bundy.htm
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I have seen this before, do you really believe that Bundy was driven to kill women by pornography? How do you explain the fact that not all women have been killed?
My grandfather had a subscription to Playboy. I think he got it from the very first issue. They were stacked on a stand-up desk sort of thing behind the bottle green easy chair in the corner of the living room next to the fireplace. We were allowed to look at them. I'm not sure why. I think they didn't want us to think that women's bodies were dirty. It's even more interesting because my Uncle was/is a fag, and lived at home all his life, except when he bought a house across the street, but at some point he apparently sold it and moved back home. Probably when Grandpa died.
Weird family on my dad's side. They didn't tell us anything.
Plenty of porn on the walls of the bordellos in Herculaneum. Ever see the cock tree?
OK, now you've gone and done it:
Oneupmanship is killing the culture. That's why the kids all have to outdo the ones that came before and they seem to keep getting more and more self-destructive.
"If you don't think this is a major problem, I would encouage you to look into the articles about that perv at the Department of Homeland Security who was recently arrested for attempting to solicit a minor. Don't for a second think that he's the only one."
"But, with rare exception, the point of the nude art was the glorification of the human form. It was created by gifted artists to uplift the spirit and inspire.
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For sure. I remember being a young teenager, and those Playboy playmates sure seemed glorious to me. They certainly uplifted something and inspired something. Must be art, I guess.
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