I tried gin for the first time yesterday (and still trying it... as a scientist I don't wish to rush my experiment, many controlled tests must yet be enacted). I noticed it's made by James E. Seagram and Sons. Made me think of John Jameson and his family's Irish whiskey. The name emblazoning the bottle was a mark of pride in one's profession. Yet, that pride cannot always have been. At times throughout history (okay, maybe not in Ireland) alcohol was considered a disgrace, an outlawed contraband preachers declared made a man go to hell. It is an honest business now, respected. Iconic, sometimes (think of the St. James Gate brewery for Guinness). I began to ponder what other "questionable" business ventures could become accepted in this repressed, supposed moral, world.
Of course I thought of pornography.
Is it really a stretch? Consider again that abroad the idea of nudity and burlesque is commonplace. It is in places like the Middle East and America, so pent up, frustratingly religious societies where it is deemed dirty, unnecessarily evil. America has a an adult film industry that's thriving but it's because of the ground work that Hugh Hefner (and others) began fifty years ago. Nudity was pushed into hardcore pornography by the likes of Larry Flynt, depictions of things people thought about but weren't allowed to speak of. And how old is the Kama Sutra? There is Kinsey and Dr. Ruth and even today's Dr. Drew Pinsky, yet this sub culture of smut has yet to leave back alleys and blacked out window shops... just like buying a pint during Prohibition.
The aforementioned names began the trails and modern names are continuing, like Jenna Jameson's (honey, what have you done to yourself? I sadly digress) pseudo-stardom that surpasses Tracy Lord's attempt in the 1990s. People have sex, people fuck, people fantasize about doing so with animal in two while performing other bodily functions. Is it any different than sitting in a bar with the seven dwarves (read: drunks); Angry, Dopey, Depressy, Dancy, Talky, Sicky and Slutty? Drinking happens to bring out the different facets of a person. If a person cared to share their faceted sexual fantasies in an academic or social setting it would be imprudent. Which is sad, for it is probably a better way to understand a person, by them exposing their yearnings and creativeness, than listening to a drunk wanting to fuck the ugly chick in the corner.
I've been perusing softcore internet porn recently and considering these girls making a living out of masturbating on film, making out with like-employed girls. It's not even hardcore yet these girls, if ever being considered for any job from office secretary to political appointee, would be severely judged for these, some would call, poor choices in judgement. From some of the videos I've seen they're just young people trying to get by in the world. Leave it to my dumb ass to actually consider dating such a girl instead of just nailing her.
Note: I do not consider our Suicide Girls as the girls mentioned above. Here there are women who do nude modeling for a website but not what I consider porn, per se. Much like Hef and his Playmates, SG is forwarding the sexual revolution AND a cultural revolution. I consider some of those who have "gone pink" to be "professional" girls (if you're a stripper you're a professional get-naked-person) but most have seemed to be women who are expressing themselves. While the powers that be could be considered porn peddlers the models are in a mode of self exploration.
You have to excuse that Note... I recently watched Their First Tour video again and listened to the interviews with some OG SGs. The point is at what point does self expression (SG) and paying the bills (softcore actresses) blur into pornography so as a woman has no choice but to be labelled a pornographic actress?
Of course I thought of pornography.
Is it really a stretch? Consider again that abroad the idea of nudity and burlesque is commonplace. It is in places like the Middle East and America, so pent up, frustratingly religious societies where it is deemed dirty, unnecessarily evil. America has a an adult film industry that's thriving but it's because of the ground work that Hugh Hefner (and others) began fifty years ago. Nudity was pushed into hardcore pornography by the likes of Larry Flynt, depictions of things people thought about but weren't allowed to speak of. And how old is the Kama Sutra? There is Kinsey and Dr. Ruth and even today's Dr. Drew Pinsky, yet this sub culture of smut has yet to leave back alleys and blacked out window shops... just like buying a pint during Prohibition.
The aforementioned names began the trails and modern names are continuing, like Jenna Jameson's (honey, what have you done to yourself? I sadly digress) pseudo-stardom that surpasses Tracy Lord's attempt in the 1990s. People have sex, people fuck, people fantasize about doing so with animal in two while performing other bodily functions. Is it any different than sitting in a bar with the seven dwarves (read: drunks); Angry, Dopey, Depressy, Dancy, Talky, Sicky and Slutty? Drinking happens to bring out the different facets of a person. If a person cared to share their faceted sexual fantasies in an academic or social setting it would be imprudent. Which is sad, for it is probably a better way to understand a person, by them exposing their yearnings and creativeness, than listening to a drunk wanting to fuck the ugly chick in the corner.
I've been perusing softcore internet porn recently and considering these girls making a living out of masturbating on film, making out with like-employed girls. It's not even hardcore yet these girls, if ever being considered for any job from office secretary to political appointee, would be severely judged for these, some would call, poor choices in judgement. From some of the videos I've seen they're just young people trying to get by in the world. Leave it to my dumb ass to actually consider dating such a girl instead of just nailing her.
Note: I do not consider our Suicide Girls as the girls mentioned above. Here there are women who do nude modeling for a website but not what I consider porn, per se. Much like Hef and his Playmates, SG is forwarding the sexual revolution AND a cultural revolution. I consider some of those who have "gone pink" to be "professional" girls (if you're a stripper you're a professional get-naked-person) but most have seemed to be women who are expressing themselves. While the powers that be could be considered porn peddlers the models are in a mode of self exploration.
You have to excuse that Note... I recently watched Their First Tour video again and listened to the interviews with some OG SGs. The point is at what point does self expression (SG) and paying the bills (softcore actresses) blur into pornography so as a woman has no choice but to be labelled a pornographic actress?