First off, this is going to be discussing a graphic topic of prurient interest, but there's no fricking pictures so you can back out now if the NSFW tag is what brought you here. ;)
Honestly, I'm getting a little sick and tired of certain things that go on in entertainment.
Like torture porn. I mean, I don't get it. I honestly just don't understand why you'd want to watch somebody slowly ripped to pieces on film. Who sits down and says, hey, you know what I watch? I wanna watch a simulation of a murder! But not just a murder, I want to watch a slow agonizing death trap where the victim is dismembered onscreen, with nothing left to the imagination!
In other words, really, really gross porn. I mean, fine, sure, whatever if you enjoy fake blood and viscera randomly launched across your screen, that's great.
But I'm tired of it being shoved in my face.
(Rant on the flip)
Say what you will about the film's "artistic merits", but I'm getting royally sick of seeing it everywhere. Obviously there's a market for it. There's a market for regular porn too, but we don't see huge billboards for that, now do we? Honestly, I wouldn't MIND huge billboards for regular porn. It would be a hell of a lot easier to explain to my kids than trying to explain exactly what the "Human Centipede" is with anything more than, "It's disgusting and inappropriate."
Speaking of which, what the hell happened to porn? I really enjoyed the stuff I grew up with, dammit! It was fun, the women and men both looked like men and women, and the plots were existent. Not just goofy or funny, or parody for that matter, they were EXISTENT! As in there WAS a plot. Don't know when the paradigm shifted but honestly, most porn nowadays bores the ever living shit out of me. Whatever happened to setup, build up, and general enjoyment? Oh yeah, that bores people, ON TO THE SEX!
And it isn't fun anymore. Say what you will about the "exploitation" because honestly, the exploitation isn't even hidden anymore. Half of the time the incredibly low-ball fees for sexual encounters are made on camera. It's just prostitution, and really cheap prostitution at that. Which is fine and dandy, but as the number one rule of good pornographic writing goes... pros just aren't as sexy... and to me, reducing it to a pure business transaction eliminates the entire eroticism from the scenes.... thus making it less fun.
So, yeah the porn industry has never been perfect, but for a single dad like me, it's pretty much all the action I get recently. When the kids are at school, once in a while, I just want to sit back and vicariously enjoy a sexual fantasy. I don't think that because of that I should be labeled a horrible person exploiting others. I don't really want to have to have that shoved in my face, either, by the fantasy I'm enjoying.
I am tired of the power dynamic present in porn. However it is, to me it's a total turn off. And it's not fun anymore. Because dammit, pornography should be fun to me. It's not something that I want as aggressive or angry or financial. I want it to be fun, enjoyable and above all, something that doesn't make me feel worse for enjoying it.
And as far as the other violence porn that people seem to want to see... I really don't have a solution. I mean, I actually deleted a video game because of the violence. I know, right, A video game's violence was enough to make me get a refund. Was that what sparked this? I have no idea, but it got me thinking about certain things.
At a certain point, this obsession with dominance and power which is present in almost all porn, torture or otherwise, has to be shut down. I'm honestly tired of it. Perhaps that's why it's popular. People have so little control in their lives that they fantasize about what they would like to do to people if they had THE POWER.
Nice revenge fantasy. But it really isn't that fun, now is it?