Hahaha, weird, because I was having a moment last night where I was also thinking about porn (I stumbled across good porn when I wasn't even looking for it, as it happens. Your friend katmilla was to blame.)
I really liked the part of this rant where you talked about misrepresentation of power because it sort of all stems down from an emotional context which seems to get lost in a lot of porn. It occured to me that a lot of what we're probably looking for when we post to kink memes and such (or, at least in my case) is the porn with plot; that manages to be everything all at once, like you said. I remember reading (and agreeing) with a rant once about how fanfiction girls are shooting themselves in the foot when they go on about porn this and porn that; no wonder anyone outside the community (or even outside certain spheres the community) thinks we're all crazy. Art can be pornographic but trying to convince most people that porn is art is more than a little bit of an uphill battle.
Personally, I draw a line in the sand between, well, porn that's done right and just, bad porn. For me it's all about that context. I almost wonder if we should stop using the word entirely and find a better one... only what? Erotica - but that's not exactly it. I don't know; they're just stories - stories which happen to have a running theme about sex. I suppose that's the difference. A bad porn story is sex without context (which has its purpose one way or another but normally isn't terribly memorable). If you can make it all work together, then you've sort of written something brilliant... which is why it's so much fucking harder than everyone thinks. XD
But, I suppose that was a bit of preaching to the choir. ;)
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Date: 2008-07-07 10:09 pm (UTC)I really liked the part of this rant where you talked about misrepresentation of power because it sort of all stems down from an emotional context which seems to get lost in a lot of porn. It occured to me that a lot of what we're probably looking for when we post to kink memes and such (or, at least in my case) is the porn with plot; that manages to be everything all at once, like you said. I remember reading (and agreeing) with a rant once about how fanfiction girls are shooting themselves in the foot when they go on about porn this and porn that; no wonder anyone outside the community (or even outside certain spheres the community) thinks we're all crazy. Art can be pornographic but trying to convince most people that porn is art is more than a little bit of an uphill battle.
Personally, I draw a line in the sand between, well, porn that's done right and just, bad porn. For me it's all about that context. I almost wonder if we should stop using the word entirely and find a better one... only what? Erotica - but that's not exactly it. I don't know; they're just stories - stories which happen to have a running theme about sex. I suppose that's the difference. A bad porn story is sex without context (which has its purpose one way or another but normally isn't terribly memorable). If you can make it all work together, then you've sort of written something brilliant... which is why it's so much fucking harder than everyone thinks. XD
But, I suppose that was a bit of preaching to the choir. ;)
ps, yes, moar pr0n plz, mwahahaha.:p-T. pirate