Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2003-11-01 09:01 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-11-01 09:01 pm
What Bush Probably Should Have Said
Bush probably should have made this "Freedom from Unwanted Porn" week, instead of straight-out Protection From Pornography Week.
Where I do want porn: in the privacy of my own home, freely available to me in stores upon proof of age, on designated television channels, and well-marked on the internet, sorted by subject and quality. And plot.
Where I do not want porn: in my inbox, when accidently mistyping a net address, in easy-for-kids-to-access TV, and mixed in with other, innoccuous media. This includes softcore and hardcore romance novels in the supermarket, mind you. It's still porn. (I don't count it as erotica unless it's done well.)
I do not want accidental adult ad banners on a juvenile site. I do not want ads for raunchy lesbian porn featuring barely legal teens e-mailed to me unless I asked for it, explicitly, with a valid option to opt out at any time. I do not want to grab a book in the grocery store and find that it is a little saltier reading than I'd been looking for. If I want something like that, I'll by George be looking for it, and doing so by name.
Give us our high-quality porn, where and when we want it, and no other places. If I want something like that, I want real feeling in it. I do not want to watch a poor-quality video with an unenthusiastic cast doing unnatural acts unto each other, and getting nothing out of it. Please to have tasteful or no plastic surgery, please to have PLOT, damn it, please to have good cienematography. And please to have it well-labeled so that people who don't want it know what it is and how to avoid it.
Where I do want porn: in the privacy of my own home, freely available to me in stores upon proof of age, on designated television channels, and well-marked on the internet, sorted by subject and quality. And plot.
Where I do not want porn: in my inbox, when accidently mistyping a net address, in easy-for-kids-to-access TV, and mixed in with other, innoccuous media. This includes softcore and hardcore romance novels in the supermarket, mind you. It's still porn. (I don't count it as erotica unless it's done well.)
I do not want accidental adult ad banners on a juvenile site. I do not want ads for raunchy lesbian porn featuring barely legal teens e-mailed to me unless I asked for it, explicitly, with a valid option to opt out at any time. I do not want to grab a book in the grocery store and find that it is a little saltier reading than I'd been looking for. If I want something like that, I'll by George be looking for it, and doing so by name.
Give us our high-quality porn, where and when we want it, and no other places. If I want something like that, I want real feeling in it. I do not want to watch a poor-quality video with an unenthusiastic cast doing unnatural acts unto each other, and getting nothing out of it. Please to have tasteful or no plastic surgery, please to have PLOT, damn it, please to have good cienematography. And please to have it well-labeled so that people who don't want it know what it is and how to avoid it.
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I mean, I'm with you as far as porn should be labeled, and not left lying around unlabeled, and not hidden in places where people who really don't want or need it are liable to stumble on it by accident, and NOT emailed to people who haven't asked for it.
I don't know that I want to say it all has to be what I think of as 'high-quality' because what I think of as 'high-quality' may not appeal to someone else at all.
And you already know what I think of age-based censorship, so I'll not repeat it. Really little kids shouldn't be reading porn, but they aren't interested in it, either.
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I suddenly got a mental image of an Amazon.com or Launchcast-like porn grading system. Based on your previous preferences and preferences of those who shop like you, suggesting themes and new directors/actors/formats from material you haven't already given them feedback on...
I'd far prefer a system that had the followers of Naamah well-trained, healthy, and held in high esteem rather than what seems to be the current system. Sex is too precious that it should be the profession of last resort.
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