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Monday, August 13. 2007

The Porn Myth

The Porn Myth, by Naomi Wolf, via Dr. Bob who, speaking of porn, needs to learn more about beavers.

Porn is popular, but is it any good?

Our view is that the human mind is the most pornographic thing that exists, and probably should be banned.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:46 | Comments (18) | Trackbacks (0)

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A 5 year old had just discovered his
testicles.

" Mommy" he asked, "Are these my brains"

"Not yet son, not yet"
#1 Anonymous on 2007-08-13 19:15 (Reply)
Well yeah! With a mom like that the boy is going to lose faith in reason. Then what's left? The balls.
#1.1 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-13 20:35 (Reply)
The porn industry is huge and it took no pill nor applied any gel. Just demand driven..

I understand women prefer their vibrators 10:1 over a man, and men prefer fishing and hunting 10:1 over their women.

I guess it works out.
#2 Anonymous on 2007-08-13 19:22 (Reply)
also, many smokers who once preferred Camels have now gone back to women.
#2.1 buddy larsen on 2007-08-13 19:50 (Reply)
I remember when I first moved to San Fransisco I started getting obscene phone calls from a woman with a Swedish accent. Sometimes it would take me an hour to get her to hang up.
#3 Habu on 2007-08-13 20:30 (Reply)
I think the demise of the drive in movie theater was the worst thing ever to hit this country.

Now young men are force to surf the internet or watch their camera cell phones as young women send them the answers to geometry test question and the like.

I remember asking my Dad why sex was so popular.
He said, "Son, because it's centrally located" Then I understood the meaning of location, location,location.
#4 Habu on 2007-08-13 20:35 (Reply)
Yeah, I have women trying to beat my doors down all the time. Sometimes it gets so bad I have to let them out.
#5 buddy larsen on 2007-08-13 20:38 (Reply)
I remember this essay of Wolf's several years ago.

I am 54. I can count on my fingers the number of times I saw even a glimpse of underwear before 14 years old. And I can remember them vividly. Ms. Wolf's information about college kids amazes me, though I don't doubt her. Perhaps college males' brains don't have the pornographic power that yours does BD, due to lack of training.
#6 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2007-08-13 22:16 (Reply)
speaking of Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe the Latter, current novel of, takes on just that subject, free love among the very young in our society. Tho I haven't myself read the book, the indictment is said to be powerful.
#7 buddy larsen on 2007-08-13 23:12 (Reply)
It's called "Hooking Up", Mr. Larsen. Powerful.

Kind of like being a man of God like the Dog here and putting catchy words like 'beaver' 'porn' 'bosoms' 'boobs' and 'tits' up on titles to glean Google hits for the blog.

Is that Christian goodness or what? Talk about a pornographic brain - the Dog has it! Check sitemeter to see which post garners the second-most hits for this fine blog. It ain't Jesus.
#8 Anonymous on 2007-08-14 01:51 (Reply)
Hey - that is cruel. Never claimed to be a man of God - only a would-be man of God. However, I see nothing wrong with admiration for the female body, which God made to provide comfort, pleasure and companionship for man.

Google search hits for porn? We don't want them. Those folks would not like this site.
#8.1 BD on 2007-08-14 07:37 (Reply)
Cruel? You are the one who titles posts using descriptors of the sexual parts of females. What did you expect to get? People in search of God's blessing? Of course 'those folks' don't like this site. But you sure like the hits.

So God made females to provide comfort, pleasure and companionship for man? Did you teach your pups that? Good on ya, Pops. Do they have their own leashes?
#9 Anonymous on 2007-08-14 10:02 (Reply)
Are breasts sexual parts? I thought they were mammalian feeding organs just like rats and anteaters and pangolins have.

Cute tho, sometimes, one must admit...and I am sure that God would agree. Don't women enjoy having their lovely breasts? Of course they do.

Free and unsolicited advice: Let go of your anger, and work on your sense of humor.
#9.1 BD on 2007-08-14 10:51 (Reply)
"In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing."

This was as far as I got in the story. Porn is not there to whet anyone's appetite, nor is it a replacement for the real thing. Porn is so losers who never see nekkid wimmin in person can relate to what non-losers are up to behind closed doors.

Well not really, but what the hell does a woman know about porn? It's icky?
#10 phil on 2007-08-14 11:22 (Reply)
So this is where the action is…

Anonymous, just writing the word G*d or quoting Scripture makes someone a Christian? Here, let me try: “Get thee behind me Satan.”

Waiting…

Waiting…

Damn it. I got nothing. I was waiting for an epiphany or an angelic messenger to announce my salvation. Well, I have faith anyway; I just can’t wrap my head around it. That is to say it’s not too specific. The reason, much to my chagrin, is I’m just not as smart as all of the people out there who have the Good Lord on speed dial. So much for quoting the Scriptures making you part of that monolithic Christian straw man people bark about.

As for Bird Dog’s whoring for hits on his blog… Well, I’m sorry but who the hell are you again? I mean really…

Allow me to close with one of my favorite passages from the book of Ezekiel, chapter 23 verses 18-19:

18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

(The New International Version of the Bible renders verse 20 as:
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys, and whose emissions was like that of horses).

Oh yeah, and titties.
#11 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-14 12:08 (Reply)
sweeeeet
you folks are going to make a believer out of me yet!! I had no idea the bible had chicks who liked, well, big units... er, uh, is there pictures?
#11.1 phil on 2007-08-14 13:05 (Reply)
Yeah, but only in the Living Bible.
#11.1.1 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-14 13:11 (Reply)
Oh yeah, and titties.
#11 Jephnol

Nope. Nope. Wrong.


Are breasts sexual parts? I thought they were mammalian feeding organs just like rats and anteaters and pangolins have.
The Dog. Pops.

Jephnol,

The Dog says they're not so from now on you may only think of them as milk-leaking orbs.

(The Dog doesn't know what 'oral sex' is, either.)

Lovely breasts are no more...

alas..
#12 Anonymous on 2007-08-15 12:35 (Reply)

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