As those of you that are regular readers of this blog know, I like to read news on a regular basis from what used to be a trusted and respected 4th estate establishment: Fairfax media, notably The Age, as it’s got my local news as well. However, due to syndication and the need to save money on actually creating content, as well as creating content that’s simply going to get reader’s attention and hopefully backlinks (like I am providing here), they often go for really mundane and stupid articles from time to time.

Here’s something that’s a shocker: Suddenly porn is the new porn!

That is to say, suddenly it’s the really cool thing that we’re all secretly talking about when we think our prim and proper friends, who are probably into substantially freakier shit than we are or give them credit for (hi, Mel!), aren’t around to hear us talking about it.

70s porn stylings, to be precise!

A recent-ish article in the lifestyle section questions when did porn get to be so cool. Admittedly, the article attempts to be non-judgmental, but the way the language is framed shows that the author is somewhat scornful of the fact that the street-press magazines Acclaim and Oyster are using the same type of posing as well as some of the same models, particularly the cover with Faye Reagan giving a blowjob to an icy-pole, as pornographic magazines often use to attract attention without being restricted from shelves.

Simple answer: We like porn. We always have, and we always will, and it will continue to be used to sell things.

No, John Norman, not you too! You were a bastion of decen-- hey, wait! Your books are actually nothing but bondage porn and degrading to women!

There’s a reason that there’s the saying “sex sells”. It does.  Sex sells everything from Windsor Smith shoes, to electric cars, to amazingly geeky sci-fi/fantasy novels and video games (Lara Croft, anybody?), and, oddly enough, more sex! We do love us some sex! Even freaky messed up sex has humour value, particularly if it’s selling something!

We try to sex up whatever we can, to the point that things that are amazingly unsexy, we actually say something needs to be “sexed up“. After all, nothing quite gives people a raging boner like a good old fashioned war. I think Denis Leary says something about a cheeseburger in one hand…

As a species, we actually do get off on watching others of our species get it off themselves. We’re very visual, particularly males. And The Age goes on to point this out only a couple of weeks later in an article detailing a book about how pornography has basically driven every major advance in communication, from wood block prints, to advance streaming video compression. Microfiche was invented by people that wanted to keep filthy Victorian era photos in their pockets at all times, just in case they needed to bust out a quick one prior to having scones & tea with the Havershams.

We like to figure out inventive ways of carrying our kinks around with us. Which is why MicroSD cards are so awesome… and a great way to destroy evidence because you just eat the damn things… *cough*

Find yourself suddenly wanting to surf, or think that this is a nice arse? Congratulations, you're now a pedophile!

Speaking of it all getting rather suss though, I do need to point out that it’s starting to get out of hand. Our society has this huge moral crusade going against pedophilia (blissfully ignoring the part where kids used to be adult at age 13) on one hand, whilst anytime we need to look at a magazine cover from a main stream publication about lifestyle, the cover is usually graced by some 14 year old girl in clothing more revealing than some of my belts, and lips so pouty you can understand why collagen touch ups are considered necessary for promotions these days. This is what we’re being told we’re meant to find attractive on the one hand and are being told we’re a little funny if we don’t, yet on the other if someone does find it attractive then they become a heinous predator not fit to be a part of society. I can’t help but feel it’s a bit of a double standard.

ANYWAY! This brings me back to my long winded point – Why the fuck are people so god damned surprised that porn is getting to be out and about and people like looking at it?

Last time I checked, everyone appreciates looking at nice things.

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