Some people are just now finding out that you can't believe everything you hear. Of course, they are, these days, often blaming the internet for their credulity. And some aren't learning a damn thing and believe any outrageous lie they hear, occasionally using the Internet to lend a mystique of authority (4,000 Jews not showing up for work at the WTC on 9/11? Please. What happened, was there an all-you-can-eat baby buffet in Brooklyn?) . Following the porn principle (pornography outlines the cutting edge of the internet), here's a few facts about the difference between porn ads and porn reality that might perhaps persuade someone not to believe any random claim just because it was on a computer screen. Just don't try to check my facts while you're at work.
If it's silicone-enhanced or shot in a photo studio, it's not "amateur". It's not a "nude celebrity" if the person pictured got famous from nude photos: if the celebrity is real, the picture is fake. If she has stretchmarks, it's unlikely she's a virgin, a teen virgin, or a teen. If she has track marks, it's probably not her "first time" for anything. It's not a real "voyeur pic" if she is looking at the camera and smiling, or if she is wearing high heels while standing nude in front of the bathroom mirror. Two women posing together and fondling a rubber penis are probably not really "lesbians". Just because a girl is in a cheerleader uniform doesn't mean she is now, or ever has been, a cheerleader. It doesn't take a genius to see that the same thing probably goes for nurses, schoolteachers, and females in Japanese schoolgirl uniforms. And what's the point of labelling someone a "housewife" or "ex-girlfriend" if the housewife has a part-time job as a porn actress and the ex-girlfriend is a stripper? I don't know about the ones that say "granny sex" or whatever: I don't wanna think about it because I afraid they might actually have pictures of really old people.
I probably should have made that a little shorter lest I sound like a big perv, but think of the search engine hits I'll get off that paragraph! Talk about promising and not delivering. Suckers. Anyway, I'll get to do it again in my piece on "event music": songs which get played at particular times of year, events, or places. e.g. Alice Cooper's "School's Out" in June. I'm going to have a whole section on songs for strip clubs: Motley Crue's "Girls, Girls, Girls", etc. Man, it's amazing how much you can learn about strip clubs from cop movies: entertaining AND educational!
I have no doubt that what I'm saying is probably common knowledge to many. Well, to those who bothered to think about it that hard. And to the rest: you don't need to be a porn freak to guess what I've written here. Half a brain and a few misplaced search engine results should give any moderately savvy adult all the necessary hints that borderline misrepresentation and pandering to people's secret wishes play a big part in the online porn industry - and many others. Granted, a lot of people may have nurse fantasies and aren't expecting to see pictures of a real nurse and patient getting it on before the sponge bath. The line between fantasy and self-deception and real deception gets intentionally blurred both by the "sellers" trying to rake in their marks, and by the "buyers" responding to what they want to hear even when they know better.
But the little white lies become real problems when the so-called "victims" are trying to evade responsibility for the consequences of their lust - and in other situations, their greed, their hatred, their bigotry, their superstitions. I'm completely unconcerned about the deception-self-deception game when it's played out in the realm of sex pics, but think what would happen if people applied common-sense skepticism to television stock analysts, personals ads, property listings, infomercials, news reports, or cult leaders - and think on the role they play when they don't. There would be a lot fewer tears and a lot fewer scoundrels who get away with poisoning the human universe if we all just used common sense: people may try to take advantage of you for their own ends, and you won't get something for nothing. When the victims take part willingly in their deception, they take on some of the blame for the crime: it becomes hard to make the real victimizers pay for their frauds.
And that's what really bothers me.
