Hence the popularity of my blog “Cutting Down On Homework Time In Order To Get Wasted More Often,” which is a critical commentary on post-modern literature and its affect on the development of modern-day statistical techniques.

Heavy BDSM play often looks REALLY violent—and those into the more roleplay aspects of it (and porn does tend to be heavier on ‘roleplay’) make it look more so.

So BDSM porn producers have walked a narrow line between showcasing violent or violent-looking fetishes and showcasing actual sex. There has been a real reluctance to do both together, as what’s easier in the bedroom (understanding and acquiring the consent of everyone involved) is very hard to showcase visually.

At least one company has taken to simply bookending it’s porn—a candid disucssion between partipants as to what they’re looking for out of a scene, a great deal of rather vigorous and often terribly painful-looking bdsm and sex, and then another bookend in which the participants discuss things and what they felt about it.

I found it amusing, as I understand that’s how most real-life S&M partners work in any case.

I’m not sure it solves the problem of telling fake violence from real violence, but it’s worth noting that some of the peddlers of the most extreme stuff consider it a problem.

100 years ago we were still pretty involved in the (hard to believe today) belief that women could actually have sex with very few physical or medical consequences (social being obviously another story altogether), men who ejaculated “as often as” once a month were likely to die very young. (Sounds insane to our ears, yes, but back then mainstream doctors held that one ejaculation was equivalent to losing one pint of blood!)

Anyway, even knowing that the foolish-looking men and laughing women are slightly less socially integrated in to their time than they seem from our perspective, from our perspective I think Nina’s on to something. If there is to a humanist pornography, as she proposes, then it’s probably going to have a whole mix of emotion and experience instead of just the two permitted by contemporary anxieties about sex and sexuality.

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I watch porn all the time. You will not find violence, rape, etc. in a mainstream film anymore. You have to actually look to find that crap. You CAN find extreme porn, but it in no way makes up the majority if material produced.

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Perhaps it goes like this: Victorian porn is to modern porn as Guinness is to crack cocaine. That and our sheer numbers. I’m sure it was hard for coprophiliacs to find each other back then.