{"id":108,"date":"2002-06-13T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-13T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=108"},"modified":"2002-06-13T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-13T20:46:00","slug":"bad-porn-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Bad porn reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people wrote me with comments on my essay<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?m=200206#109\">Why Does Porn Got To Hurt So Bad?<\/a>.  For all of those who<br \/>\nsent praise, thank you.  It&#8217;s actually nice to know there are so many<br \/>\npeople who would like to reject the bad-porn aesthetic. For all<br \/>\nof those who refrained from calling down fire and brimstone on me for messing with smut, also thank you. I&#8217;d have ignored you,<br \/>\nbut thank you anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I got two responses I thought were particularly interesting.<br \/>\nOne was from a gentleman who works as a pornographer.  He<br \/>\nopined that I overestimated the porn industry by supposing that<br \/>\nbad porn reflected market demand.  The real problem (he claims)<br \/>\nis that it&#8217;s hard to find women who simultaneously don&#8217;t look<br \/>\nhard and jaded yet are willing to bare all for the camera.  Most<br \/>\noutfits, he said, don&#8217;t even try. They settle for the fake-pearl-and-synthoboob look out of laziness, knowing it&#8217;s crap<br \/>\nbut will sell well enough.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t explain to me why, if Veronika Zemanova can look like a girl one might willingly take to bed in one picture and an unnatural womanoid-thing in another, they don&#8217;t try to photograph<br \/>\nwomen like her in the more natural mode more often.  But perhaps<br \/>\nthis one was just a trick of the light.<\/p>\n<p>Another respondent proposes the interesting theory that the<br \/>\ngirls are dressed (or rather undressed) to look inaccessible<br \/>\nbecause if they weren&#8217;t, there might be an epidemic of stalking<br \/>\nas various creeps and wackos tried to get next to them.<\/p>\n<p>It would be touching to believe the porn industry cares that<br \/>\nmuch about its performers, but I&#8217;m skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I got mail from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.germanlucy.com\/lucysgirls\/images\/lucykiesgrube04.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;German Lucy&#8221;<\/a>, who said she was honored to appear in my<br \/>\nessay and quite enjoyed it. Rather to my astonishment, her email style<br \/>\nsuggests that she really is &#8220;as sweet-natured and unjaded as she<br \/>\nlooks&#8221;.  She answered my questions plausibly and thoughtfully and didn&#8217;t even pitch me to sign up for her site.<\/p>\n<p>Holy Diogenes, Batman!  I think I might have found the<br \/>\none honest porn star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people wrote me with comments on my essay Why Does Porn Got To Hurt So Bad?. For all of those who sent praise, thank you. It&#8217;s actually nice to know there are so many people who would like to reject the bad-porn aesthetic. For all of those who refrained from calling down fire and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=108\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad porn reprise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}