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February 12, 2005
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Ladies First - The utopian fantasy of Deep Throat. By Laura Kipnis
But a better comparison is science fiction, another genre that takes a "what if" approach to bodies and societies. Like sci-fi, porn replaces existing realities with wild alternative universes (against which to measure the lackluster, repressive world we've inherited). At its most inventive, pornography too has an allegorical distance from the real, as with the deeply absurdist Deep Throat—an utterly invented erotic world in which male and female bodies and desires correspond with one another far better than they do back here on terra firma.
Posted by Andrew at February 12, 2005 11:45 AM
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Spring break is actually a lot like porn. A lot of people with no inhibitions.
Posted by: Alexa at February 14, 2005 09:11 PM
I love porn. It's very useful in some relationships (including my own). I'm a particularly huge fan of BAD porn. I love the terrible acting, the punny titles and hilarious one-liners, and positions not seen anywhere outside of a Cirque du Soleil audition gone horribly wrong (or right, depending on your tastes). They make me laugh, relax, and realize that nothing, NOTHING I could possibly do with my lover in bed will look siller than that. What better aphrodesiac is there than laughter? Don't answer that.
Posted by: sarahm at February 14, 2005 10:06 PM