Hello all!
I wonder how many hits this page will get with the tag porn, naked, pr0n, etc.) I bet 50 views by tomorrow.
Anywho as some (or none) of you may know I work for a paper. Notice I say ‘work’ and not ‘write’. This is because I don’t. In all honesty, I just found fun in writing after years of screaming “I don’t wanna do that research paper!” and “I’ll pay you if you write this paper for me…” (which, till this day, I don’t understand why any of you didn’t take me up on this offer…). But anywho, I got into a quick discussion about porn today that struck my fancy.
I found an advertisement today for a phone talk company. This ad featured two girls decked in matching spaghetti straped tops and jeans with words something along the lines of “Talking to People is Fun!”. However, underneath these two girls was a girl laying in her underwear on the phone. It wasn’t really that provacative but it did say something like “Have a sexy good talk” next to her. I wasn’t sure if this ad was considered an adult ad or something else until one person pointed out that it looked like porn and that it should go to the person for adult advertisements.
As I was bringing the ad over I thought “This doesn’t look like porn to me. Is this REALLY porn? Or do I just have a really screwed up perception on what is ‘appropriate’? Mind you she was not holding herself inappropriately in any way, she was not making sexy faces, and was more covered up than most bathing suit or jean ads.
A Diesel Ad that isn’t consider porn-ish? It is because underwear isn’t being displayed? Either way it’s worse than the ad in question.What is ‘appropriate’ nowadays depends a lot on your
religious, social, and financial backgrounds and is still affected immensly by age and gender. Not to mention the way you perceive yourself.
But I’m not trying to get philisopical on your asses. I’m curious as to what triggers people to think differently about everything and anything. But I guess
if I knew that I’d also know the meaning of life, why dinosaurs went extinct, and if there really is a guy with a goatee and a pitchfork running around down below for all of us to visit (since I highly doubt anyone ‘good’ is reading this right now).
Riot’s conclusion: Distinguishing normal ads from porn might be hard for the burlesque frequenting sexay party lady.
