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I guess I'm not "most people" because I almost never recoil in horror when I look at pornography and I look at quite a bit of it. Maybe she knows of some sites I haven't seen before. I'll have to email her and ask for some recommendations.
2
There's a headline to be grateful you don't see every day.
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Obviously, someone has been looking at enough porn to be able to tell the difference. Hmm.
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@3

You beat me to it, Fifty-Two-Eighty. I was wondering how many hours this Concerned Woman for America had spent comparing contemporary porn to vintage porn.

Or perhaps it wasn't a study occasioned by forthcoming xxx domains. Maybe she's been tracking new developments in porn for many years, just as certain SLOG trolls log in to see what Dad says every day just so they can talk about how disgusting he is. "I'm watching Porn," says CWA author, "But only so I can tell people how repellant it has become."
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I trust that there's gobs of material ready to go for TheStranger.xxx.
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I've been a fan of porn since the sixties and I can say with
absolute confidence that it's changed little except Ron Jeremy has gotten even more hirsute. But I can also say there is nothing more obscene than old maid, moralising right wingers and their stupid lies. That includes old lady Bachmann.
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She's talking about the decent, healthy porn in the Bible you gutterbrains.
8
I can well imagine a bunch of those brittle-voiced, helmet-haired harpies talking about Tom Selleck-y mustache rides in one of their little kaffee-CWAtsches.
9
I love hairy seventies porn! I think bush is hot! I really don’t like the waxed look at all, but I don’t go around making fun of it. Not sure why people think it’s fun to ridicule body hair.
10
We're talking the horse-cocks, incest, ephebophilia/pedophilia, polygamy, virginity-fetishizing, and rape-by-Yahweh (sadly, not using animal avatars like Zeus: now THERE was some kinky religious mythology), right? I'm pretty sure the Christian Bible is WAY smuttier than contemporary mainstream porn, though it's sort of scattered throughout.
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Someone should really explain the Streisand Effect to the CWFA author.

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@7: You won: Cool User Name.
@9: Female body hair terrifies folks. My best theory is that we must infantilize women to the point that we can't tolerate female sexual maturity. When I see a woman who doesn't shave my first response is to assume that she's smarter than most folks.
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7, Now that's a good idea. Someone needs to do hard core porn of the racier stories in the Bible. Lot offering his virgin daughters to a rape mob. Later, Lot getting it on with his daughters, Onan spilling his seed on the ground, the adventures of Oholah, and Oholibah. Oh the fun.
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What porn is she running across that is "degrading to children?" If her husband's porn stash contains child porn, that's not just "porn these days." That's a reason to call the fucking cops, lady.
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What's the story? Some lady approaches the editor of a dictionary and complains of the inclusion of profain words. The editor turns to her and says with arched eyebrow, "I see then that you have been looking for them, madam."

...Something like that.
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Let's grab cwfa.xxx first.
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I recall an allegedly true story I once read about a school librarian who was being called on the carpet for encouraging students to read obscene books. The librarian vehemently denied that she had ever done so. "In fact," she said, "I've gone through every book in the library and underlined the obscene passages so that the students know what parts they should skip!"
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PETA's launching a porn site:

http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/19…
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No, no, no. You all have it wrong. It's the music they miss.

chicka-wocka-chicka-wocka-bow-chicka-bow-wow

Me too!
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@13: I smell a winning Hump entry!
21
Phyllis Schlafly was recently bemoaning that shotgun weddins is a thing of the past. What's next to go by the wayside, slavery and man-only suffrage? Say it ain't so! The 20th century is a cruel place!!! (She hasn't entered the 21st century yet).
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/20…
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@21

Ah, yes...the shotgun wedding. Where an unwilling groom was forced to marry a woman in order to protect her reputation and that of her family. Those were the days!

Boy the way Glen Miller played.....

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@12 I shave because it makes it much easier for me to have an orgasm....I hardly think that indicates stupidity.
24
She sounds like "I go to Folsom Street Fair so you don't have to" Porno Pete LaBarbie.
Can't we pass a constitutional ammendment outlawing hypocrisy already?!
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@23 Dude, me too. I find that without the additional barrier of hair, I get off a bit easier. Plus, it's hot in Texas. I like to remove anything that makes me hotter and sweatier. I don't shave my pits too often though because it tends to give me a rash. Plus, I'm lazy. And legs? Almost never. I don't ever wear shorts anyway.
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And here I thought that the .xxx domain was going to make it MUCH easier for parents to block thousands of porn sites from their kids' computers by blocking *.xxx.

It's always struck me as a tremendously pro-parenting, conservative thing to do. And honestly, is .xxx any worse than whitehouse.com was (it used to be a porn site)?

This was big news in 1995, just like all the rest of their windmills.
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The Marquis de Sade lived and wrote in the late 18th century, and his works are considered extreme even today. The idea that extremely degrading smut is anything new is entirely a function of nostalgia filter and biased perceptions, not facts.

And I love their misuse of the phrase "most people". When porn use is essentially universal among males with functional reproductive organs and a large number of women look at it too, that pretty clearly indicates that most people do not, in fact, recoil in horror at the sight of it.
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If a member of Concerned Women For America starts typing in the URL and the computer takes them to www.cwfa.xxx, it's only because SOMEBODY ELSE USING THE COMPUTER WENT THERE ALREADY. Like Mrs. CWFA's husband, perhaps.
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@27

Maybe in the circles you run in. You might consider whether your friends are representative of every man on the planet. God help us all if they are.

@general

I haven't seen porn since college and the stag parties as my friends got married.

But it was then misogynistic crap with stupid plots and dialogue that would give a rational man a headache. I can't see how it could have gotten better, since the basic premise is lust for anonymous women about whom you could care less if you aren't actively enjoying the degradation of those same women.

Porn is to sex what the 3:00 Am stop at Taco Bell or the mini-mart is to cuisine. Anyone with actual taste avoids it. Anyone who doesn't is more to be pitied than censured for all the real world pleasure they're missing chasing a celluloid fantasy.

And I'd ask those who view it the same question I asked guys on construction sites who spoke disrespectfully of women on the street or worse, in their lives. How would you feel if your mom or wife or sister or daughter was the person spoken of or looked at in that way?
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Hey Seattleblues, if you're a man then truly you exist on another, higher, more rarefied plane of reality. Lucky you.

If you are a woman then, uh, yeah, those porn watching men are just bad, bad, bad.
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Really, it's the same thing as these bikini or lingerie coffee stands. I had a young employee who stopped in one of 3 of 4 on the way to jobsites every morning, depending on the route. I rode with him one week to a site well away from the office to save fuel so I got the dubious pleasure of seeeing them as well. The coffee was foul and overpriced. The young woman was wearing too much make-up and would look much better clothed anyway, as well as being either inappropriately frank or cold and unpleasant. Frankly, most of them looked like actresses made up as prostitutes from bad 80's tv like Miami Vice.

I don't think these stands, or porn, or even prostitution should be illegal, though I don't utilise any of them. Whatever floats their boats, so long as only consenting adults are involved. But like cheap beer or all weekend parties or bed-hopping, it seems like something a mature adult would grow out of.

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So the porn of today degrades children. But the porn of the past not so much? Hmmm. What porn with children where they watching?
33
Joe.My.God blogger Joe Jervis likes to refer to those people as "Concernstipated Women of America."
34
I don't like or approve of pornography, so I do this crazy thing called not watching it or supporting it with money.

As a fictional character on Law and Order once said, "Porn is a multi-million-dollar industry. Funny how nobody buys it."
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I don't know what's happening! I want to enter the url www.cwfa.org, but my fingers insist on typing www.cwfa.xxx instead. There ought to be a law!
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@29: It's a lot better now: a lot of it is just close-ups of pussies or of hot girls masturbating or enjoying sex, without any misogyny, plots, or dialogue.

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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