Number of interesting conversations I have: 456508.
Number of people who gives a flying f**k what I think anyway: 0.
Number of people who both give said f**k and would even dream of letting it influence what they thought before: -54659076597635690.
Like my bottom after a curry, this has been running for days so I should put a sock in it.
I'm actually in favour of porn. Yes, in favour - not against or indifferent - as long as it remains limited and honest. What the f**k does that mean?
What I object to is not porn but the constant bombardment with sexual images. When I was a teen, well I'm not saying things were better - they were probably worse as there was more hypocrisy - but at least we had an idea(l) that women should be respected and not degraded into objects. Sure, there were women who used sex for money - Madonna, Sabrina, Sam Fox etc - but a) they were hardly the aspiration, and b) men who enjoyed were not cool, deserving 'lads' mags': they were sad cases who couldn't get any proper sex. Years ago I read an interview with punk band Anti-Nowhere League and they said a nowhere is a type of person and the journo / band pinpointed 'having to look at Page 3 for erotic stimulation' as classic nowhere behaviour.
Now it's the opposite. It seems every female celeb has to have this three-month-in transformation: WOW, she's had a RADICAL CHANGE OF IMAGE!!! This is English for 'looks like a wank study at last, phew'. For me, the Page 3ers, Miley Cyruses, Playboy 'models' etc are far more damaging to society because:
1. Men are fed this stuff every day so they lose their sensitivity. I love a bit of porn occasionally, but it's not healthy to have a pornographic image shoved in your face over breakfast. Sure, most guys don't take it so seriously, but it's a dangerous path to open just cos papers wanna make money.
2. Young girls get the idea that this is the way forward. Porn models do a job, end of story; many Page 3 girls go on to have careers (Jordan the celeb, Sam Fox the singer etc) so women are told that degrading their body is not only OK but respectable. The vibe today is, 'WOW, look at Rihanna etc. Shit songs, but THOSE TITTIES'... I teach girls and it genuinely worries me to see them bombarded with images they can't possibly reach (and even if they could, why? Since when have money and jizz been the greatest goal?). Girls genuinely start thinking this is what Katy Perry loks like first thing in the morning, so why can't they?
Of course I like to see beautiful, sexy women. But there's a limit. If that makes me a prude, fine.
