Privacy Is For Prudes
In the news:
UK ministers are considering plans to make downloading violent sexual images from the net a criminal offence. […] Plans for legislation were welcomed by the family of Jane Longhurst, who was murdered by a man addicted to watching violent porn. Longhurst was murdered two years ago by a friend's boyfriend, Graham Coutts, after he spent hours watching footage of women being strangled and raped.
Golly. I'm no psycho-sociologist, but maybe if you're the type of person who fancies watching hour after hour of women being strangled and raped, well… you were probably pretty damn fucked up before you started your movie marathon.
…in Malaysia police have been urged to "randomly check" mobile phones for pornographic images. According to reports, teenagers in the country are using their mobiles to film "mass sex parties" and circulating images of these Bacchanalian orgies to each other in defiance of the Muslim country's strict censorship laws.
Awesome. A staggering confluence of religious extremism, Big Brother, peeping toms and pedestrian technology.
1 Comments:
I believe that in both the quoted article, and in Kelly's comments, the punctuation should be changed to read "strangled" and "raped"--(unless, of course, the guy was watching creepy snuff porn. Which I doubt.) Perhaps the wording could be changed to "films of simulated strangulation and rape".
I'm not just splitting hairs, here. There is a difference. I, personally, have no stomach whatsoever for real violence. Contemplating actual rape fills me with rage. That being said, I have no doubt that regular readers of this blog have any doubt about my love of simulated violence, and sexually violent or violently sexual imagery.
Watching hour after hour of any kind of porn is generally a bad idea. But sometimes a little simulated rape and strangulation is just what the doctor ordered. I am reminded of one of my favorite smut tapes (sold, alas, at our big we're-leaving-Chicago yard sale); in among the various qoutidian numbers was a lovely sequence of a statuesque Asian woman bottoming quite charmingly for her gentleman friend. The sex was quite rough, and at one point, while taking her from behind, said gentleman friend wraps the young lady's long hair around her neck and pulls. Both performers appear to cum their brains out. I shut off the tv, my head filled with good/bad ideas. Was I pretty damn fucked up before and/or after watching this little scene? Perhaps. But not in any kind of a bad way...
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