[weegee]

Porn and smut have been with us for a very long time.

Someone estimated that it was only a few days after the movie camera was invented that someone was convinced to perform a sex act for it.

There were "French postcards", "Tijuana Bibles"/"8-pagers", white-label "party records" sold under the counter, "Adults Only" exploitation films, smokers, stag reels, "limited edition book clubs" that mailed their novels in a plain brown wrapper, etc. Prostitution is called "the world's oldest profession". What is different is that it is all out in the open now and young children are confronted with it every day.

[parsifal]

I think that porn is also getting a lot raunchier. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, now goodness knows. Anything goes.

I contemplate possibility of doing a comparison of modern porn (particluarly S&M type) to primitive rituals. For example equating old castration ceremonies with forced feminization porn. It seems to me that many newer motifs in porn have amazingly similar counterparts in those old rituals. parsy the amateur anthropologist.