You guys, I pass hundreds of these things by each day – documenting the seepage of porn into mainstream culture is a little bit like documenting global warming: a fair portion of the world thinks it doesn’t exist no matter what evidence you bring to bear, and a fair portion of those who do admit it exists disagree about what it means. And I’m not getting any research grant money out of the whole thing, so. But this, this combines academia and the British press, so I’m pretty much obliged.
Today in Porn, Extinction Edition
July 20, 2012 by at 8:00 am
Good to see Professor Zimbardo recovering from his encounter with Colbert.
Note that he exempts ‘reading Korrektiv’ from the list of guyicidal electronic activities. Doesn’t prove anything, of course, but it’s still a relief.
Another four years of this president will have their attention.
Good stuff, thanks.
I was going to send this to you! Great stuff.
(By the way, your point about global warming, while well taken, understates the case. I think few people – especially after this summer – would deny that there are periodic cycles of warming around the globe – what us grumpies down the far end of the bar are mumbling about is how much of it is man-made. There’s an almost – or perhaps quite – paradoxical arrogance to make such a claim – and furthermore I think mumblebumblemumblebumble. Give me another beer! bumblemumblebumblemumble…)
JOB
You grumpies are the people I had in mind when I wrote “a fair portion of those who do admit it exists disagree about what it means.” As in, “it means that humanity is engineering its own roasting vs. it means that the planet is heating up because the planet heats up sometimes.”
Ah. Noted.
(mumblemumblebumblemumble. What do you mean I can’t smoke in here?! mumblebumblemumblemumble…)
JOB
(But I still think that other group “who don’t think it exists” at all are straw men riding paper tigers around a mess of red herring which can be heard singing like a mermaid choir in a kangaroo court: “Ad hominen we go, ad hominem we go, hi ho the liberal ho, ad hominem we will go!”)
JOB
Agreed.
While I suspect there’s some ugly truths rolling around in there, the article does a disservice to the premise.
‘It sounds like he (Zimbardo) is just throwing a whole lot of things together he just doesn’t like and trying to make an argument out of it,’
Exactly.
What’s interesting is the combination of porn and video games. What do they have in common? A disconnection from real life, of course. And I’m not sure that’s a necessarily male thing (50 Shades, anyone?), but whatever.
Where am I going with this?
The Korrektiv Guns n’ Hookers Resort. No more solitary vices enjoyed alone in your basement by the sinister glow of your laptop. Guns! Booze! Hookers! Comraderie!
Let’s make this happen.
I KNOW JUST THE PLACE: MEL GIBSON’S COSTA RICAN HIDEAWAY. “You will get drunk and shoot each other, but we will blow you first.”
You read my mind. WHO WANTS TO F****ING EAT!!! HURRRRAAAY!!!
Not sure what just happened to this discussion. I shouldn’t be here.
A thousand apologies, Duffer. What happened was we both quoted Mel Gibson.
This post is kind of eerie in light of the recent shooting. What with the adultfriendfinder profile, superhero movies, and obvious detachment from reality.
Yeah. The right finger on the wrong pulse.
Matthew, your “Today in Porn” postings have inspired in me an essay on Kristen Wiig’s comedy. Perhaps if someone publishes it soon you will see where the twain do meet (and that it links to all of your links but fails to give you credit for finding them…don’t hate me!) Anyway, always interesting to me and important, this stuff.
The Kollektiv does not hate. Good for you on the piece, humbled for whatever part TIP played in its creation, happy for you to spread the word.
I would like to read this.
Cool. I’ll throw up a link if someone publishes it. Would love to hear thoughts/reactions.