I Hate Porn

It's the ultimate low of the free market. If you have nothing else, you are for sale. Your labor isn't worth much. Your mind knows a world we don't care to know, and that which is sacred to you is not sacred -or profitable- to us. It's your willingness to do what it takes to eat that we love to see, and we will exploit it unendingly. An almost universal commonality in run-down countries around the world is poor treatment of women. Your dependence fuels our hunger as we lust for dominance. We will hire your women and the willing among your men, and we will tear off their little strip of dignity until nothing remains. We will remove them from their world and sit them in factories, doing repetitive work until they can barely afford to do it for lack of strength to stand. But there is a universal low, another way that a woman can support herself...she can sell her body.

In 49 of the 50 US states, prostitution is illegal. It is only legal in (most parts of) Nevada. In case you haven't been there, Nevada is one part nuclear wasteland and one part human cesspool (and all desert). There is a unique blend of smoke and smut that seems to permeate every square foot of the air in Vegas. From one angle, it's ass. From another, it's ash. Bright racy ads flash everywhere, invading your personal space and whispering... "Your sex life is bland. Try ours..." or "You are a loser. Come to our casino, get lucky, and be a winner today." Which is all bullshit really, 100 percent unadulterated nonsense. In the long run, nobody wins in casinos (without cheating), and nobody improves their sex life by making it meaningless. Smoke seems to fill every indoor space in Nevada (Vegas, at least), and exhaust seems to cover the few outdoor spots where someone isn't smoking. And since it's approximately hotter than fucking hell, the smoke has an especially thick and unpleasant quality.

Though Nevada is the only US state where prostitution is legal, pornography is legal (or it's restrictions are effectively unenforceable) in every part of the United States. And I'm not saying it should be otherwise. Just look at how well they're doing with the "war on drugs." Ha! Telling people they can't do something often just doesn't work. Besides, freedom of expression is precious and blah blah blah blah...anyway, I don't necessarily think outlawing porn would do anything good. What we need is a good, solid, logical and educational foundation, and we will each make the correct individual decision.

So, since I'm too lazy to gather these myself, I took the following from the Antiporn Resource Center. Let's read the facts:

 
Re-read that last one, please. It gets me every time. Greek roots: porni = whores, graphos = writing, etching, or drawing. So it is a practice of writing about and displaying those for whom sex is nothing (and everything). People like this have very possibly always existed. What seems unusual to me is that it has become such a casual part of our culture. It does not bother me that some people do this. It is inevitable. It bothers me that the average person I know is not put off by it, but rather thinks it's just fine. It isn't.

When you really stop and think about it, porn is not just sex. In order for porn to be made, someone has to go out and find people to pay to have sex. Now, you might ask, "Buying sex...isn't that prostitution?" And I would have to say, "Yep, that's exactly what it is...Good question." Go ahead and ask me. That's what I'll say. I would then add this formula:

Prostitution + Camera = Porn

And, to check our work,
Porn - Camera = Prostitution

Porn sucks. The very process of capturing something sacred on camera makes it less so (especially when packaging it to sell to people). That's why everyone involved in porn, from the producers, directors, and "writers," to the actors and viewers are disconnected...from one another and/or from themselves.

Fundamentally, porn is empty. There is no connection between people. There is no love, only self-reducing adulation or sadistic domination to fill the void where compassion ought to be. It is escapism. It is disconnection. Most of all, it is distraction. I am not suggesting you destroy your fantasy life. I am stating that for a fantasy life to be healthy, it needs to come from inside of you and not from the images you are given by a marketing company (whether they be marketing for Disney or Playboy). You gotta weed out the bullshit, cut out the fat, and get down to what makes us human.

 

Porn is prostitution, the sale of someone's sister, someone's daughter, someone's true love, someone who may not have had much choice in the matter. 

   

 

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