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Date Posted: 16:43:54 11/03/02 Sun
Author: Lindsay
Subject: Re: Porn and technology
In reply to: Todd 's message, "Re: Porn and technology" on 10:02:51 11/02/02 Sat

>First off why are you obsessing about porn?

There's a difference between obsessing and merely posing a question...

>Secondly,
>what exactly do you mean by splooge? I hope it's not
>what I think it means.

It is.

> Thirdly, How can you equate
>viewing porn through a technological medium and
>'splooging', to the equivalent of every act hence
>forth being sexual in nature related to that
>technological medium through which you have acted out
>your sexual desire?

I think he's making the argument from a Ballard perspective, in the sense that Ballard would argue that the car is a sexual object and each act committed in the car in a repetition of the sexual act. I personally don't buy this argument but I think that is where James is getting the idea that every act committed with a computer can be construed as a sexual act.

On a personal level, I think the whole question is very Freudian and very bogus...Human beings think about sex (sometimes quite often) and there's nothing at all wrong with that. I'm not denying that we are sexual beings. But that does not mean that every action and every thing we are involved with has some sexual connotation or meaning. Turning every act into a sexual one proves nothing about the perversity or sex-focused nature of society...it only proves that you are a sick little monkey and it is time to stop snorting coke and move on with your life. (I'm not fond of Freud, had we noticed?)

My wrist grows weary...later.

Lindsay

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Replies:

Re: Porn and technology -- Todd, 22:06:28 11/04/02 Mon
- Re: Porn and technology -- Lindsay, 14:18:06 11/06/02 Wed