On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 03:08 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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>> on the contrary, there's been no claim that all men get off on lezzie
>> sex, and i certainly don't want to get into the business of visual
>> fantasies, yadda yadda. but we *can* talk about cultural expressions
>> of
>> these fantasies and inquire into their operation moreover, the size
>> and
>> reach of the pr0n industry and the prominence of girl-on-girl sex
>> within it suggests that the phenomenon is significant.
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>> that this is not a science does not disturb me. does it disturb you?
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> Yeah, it does. If we're going to make claims about the "prominence of
> girl on girl sex in pr0n", we need careful content analysis of
> representative samples of pr0n films in a given time period.
> You may take it for granted that the data would support you,
> but empirical research is often inconsistent with anecdotal
> evidence and common sense (e.g., Freud's catharsis theory of
> aggression is popular--"if you punch a pillow, you're less likely
> to be aggressive"--even though experiments clearly contradict
> the theory).
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you know what, you're right. i have a pet theory; i find it coherent and compelling, but i have no idea if or to what extent it reflects reality.
j