Pink in the middle

I would consider myself up to date with the different categories of porn that are out there today, until I came across this post and found this website.  For some reason I find this site extremely intriguing.  I get absolutely no arousal out of this site, but for some reason I would consider this art.  It is tastefully done, (no pun intended) and the women in the pictures actually seem to be enjoying this.  I’m not one who usually considers porn as a form of art, i.e. the artist we saw in lecture 7 or 8 with the pictures of sexual acts, but this for some reason just seems very creative and artistic.  Does any else feel the same way?  

Even though I view this as a strange type of art, I think its sites like these that help fuel the porn industry.  After seeing just about every type of porn, I know personally that I have been desensitized to many sexual images.  With new categories or genres of porn, the audience is always going to be given something new to enjoy.  There is always going to be a niche for every category of porn.  This is just one more. Although I hope the majority of society isn’t turned on about the though of eating another human being.  

 

Sick of knock off’s? Try the real thing

I thought an interesting point was made in the lecture this week in regards to allowing porn actors/actresses to pretend to be underage in a film.  Initially I didn’t see the problem with it, but as I thought about it, it seems those movies could get someone interested or fuel their need for child pornography.  If somebody gets a taste of it, they’re probably going to want more. Eventually they start looking for real underage porn and maybe even take it as far as producing their own videos or just inappropriately touching minors.  Unfortunately, that’s the problem with porn.   As a society, we want to have it both ways.  Meaning we would like to be able to just watch any genre of porn without worrying about the effects that it has on society.  We want to think that some actors pretending to be underage is okay without realizing this is just going to help fuel the need for real underage porn.  Like anything in life, people are going to want the real thing not a knock off.  In my opinion any porn depicting underage people whether they are or aren’t really minors should be illegal.   Not because I find them offensive, but because for many people out there it’s just the first step to the abuse of a young child. 

The Business Standpoint

I’m sorry; I really have to disagree with this post.  Yes, everyone agrees that sex sells, but to insinuate that President’s and CEO’s of company’s are actually creating technological products thinking people are going to use them for sex is foolish.  Being a business major, I can’t actually believe that people actually think companies that are worth billions of dollars are just making glorified sex toys.  Let’s face it, people like to think about sex and try new things.  If you look online, you can see women sticking bottles in themselves for pleasure.  Does that mean beer companies produce their products in bottles just for sex toys?  NO!!!  Then why is an electronic company that produces webcams accused of making their product just for sex?  People think sex; if we see a new product that might “spice up” our sex lives then we are going to find a way to use it, but to say Big Business is making products just for sex is ridiculous.  

To answer your question, companies don’t market to these groups because these groups are going to find out about and use the product probably before the target market you are searching for does.  Why take the unnecessary negative publicity from religious groups, parent organizations and so on?  From a business standpoint it doesn’t make sense.