SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-10 10:06 AM
Original message
I watched porn yesterday.
Edited on Sat Dec-25-10 10:11 AM by SmileyRose
I'm not into porn. Last time I saw any porn was as an idiotic 19 yr old too shy to tell that boyfriend I thought it was stupid and pointless. The 1970's version really didn't offend me at all but at the time I thought it was more about "using" a female than anything else.
My sister in full meltdown mode because she found it on her daughters old computer - emailed me the link to the 2010 porn. It was truly shocking and quite frankly painful to watch. Is this really what relations between people have devolved to? While the images I saw in the 70's assumed every woman was hot for it - she was still portrayed as a human being with her own control and choices over the situation. In the 2010 version the women are basically just treated as body parts and everyone in the thing looks bored (if you even see a face at all). What happened to the human beings? The women in these things have absolutely no personal power in the exchange. It was really very frightening to see these girls treated this way.
When I called my sister back the conversation went to the video games and the texting, and the fact our society has begun to not even look at each other when we are sitting at the same table. It's VERY COMMON for someone to be talking to me at work and stop mid sentence to play with the phone - as if I no longer exist. And we've talked on the DU more than once about how rude the public arena is getting...... me me me.
I'm in my late 50's - hardly an old fuddy duddy. Certainly no prude. But honestly, as time wears on, I worry for the teenagers and the 20 somethings - the boys and girls both. I just hope they will be able to have human intimacy - emotionally and physically.
Edit to correct typos - should have used the number pad instead of the upper keys..........
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x68404Firstly, you ARE old if you use terms like "fuddy duddy." Secondly I would have figured porn would be a lefty's bread and butter. Isn't their lifestyle "Do what you want, and don't worry about consequences?" It seems very odd for all the things a DUmmy could bitch about, porn would be one of them.
I'm not against porn by any means, but her entire thread is useless without description. It sounds crass, but for all we know, the old broad may have simply seen a guy pulling on a girl's hair or something minor like that. There's some sick stuff out there, but this particular primitive is pretty poor at explanation.
BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-10 10:08 AM
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1. I was sure you meant that you had inadvertantly turned your TV to FAUX NOISE!!
And then, there's those really clever replies...
