Last night I listened to a Radio 1 documentary titled 'What's Wrong With Porn?', you can Listen Here. Now on a Monday night at 11.30, every week, BBC Radio 1 broadcasts a doc, usually unrelated to music, aimed at a teenage audience and I always listen in. They cover subjects that are relevant to events of that week and the subjects are as diverse as the Paris riots to American Presidential Election. I find them unbiased, real, interesting and some what informative and last nights was made from the same cloth and ties up with the Bare All Sex Survey.
It was presents by Goldie Lookin Chains Maggot and looked at the arguments for and against pornography. From the HIV scare in LA which shut down the $4.4 billion porn industry last year, to the streets of the UK where hardcore pornography is made in bedrooms and vans. It discussed the R18 certification, internet porn and the changing attitudes to porn. Amusingly and worryingly Maggot started by explaining that when he was young a rain soaked jizz mag was the closest to porn as anyone got, now it's everywhere! Funny because that's true but (and I am not talking about the new R18 certified DVD's) worrying because the young people of this country could be exposed to quite disturbing 'acted' scenes of abuse towards women, with what unknown affects that could have on some ones sexual development and attitudes towards women.
Personally I think that there is nothing wrong with porn, we have all seen it, 'used' it and made up our own minds about it. I think that any adult should be able to consume as much porn as they wish, though I do however think that some lines have to be drawn as to how far the 'acts' can be pushed and most importantly the children must be protected. We now live in a world where sex is everywhere, especially with the internet and TV stations openly promoting all types of sex, just look on Sky TV to find 10's of channels, a lot of them free, selling sex. With a generation of kids growing up on this stuff we have no idea how this will impact on society.
There is a market out there for everything, I have seen it all, some of it very disturbing (Grannies *shudders*) and some very pleasant [wink] and I do think that it has a positive roll to play in satisfying some ones messed up desires so they don't have to seek their depravity by other, more sordid means. The single most interesting thing is to me and I can't figure out how this can be, is, why pornographers pick up on the latest technology before anyone else? Porn drives technology and technology drives porn. 3G, interwebnet, interactive DVD's, I could go on and on. Some of the things are amazing, yet it takes traditional movies years and years to catch up, if they ever do. Why is this? Would you not want to watch King Kong from multiple angles, interactively decide his fate or even just play around with the beast himself. Already the porn movies are getting released in HD DVD, lets see where they take Blue-Ray and the next gen consoles!
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TODAY'S BIG BROTHER THOUGHT :: Shahbaz is mad and it will be great to see him have a nervous breakdown on live TV. All that invasion of personal space by him would so get on my goat.
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