[lbo-talk] Theory of Porn

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

And the question I had was this: is
> the advent of porlinked to modern notions of political economy
> (public and private sphere), nography secular surveillance (panopticon),
and
> masculine power (fraternity). I have no doubt that people all over the
world
> have been masturbating for some 5 million years.
>
> ken

Masturbating, and liking sex, too.  It's wired deeply into our brains, Ken.
Postmodern cultural theorists' game of sophomorically pinning ill-fitting
prolix little sticky-note concepts on reality is fine and wonderful for
them, but sex and porno and symbol making are as old as homo sapiens.
Fucking is fun.  Using symbols to remember that is fun, too, sometimes.

Meanwhile, what does "is the advent of porn linked to modern notions of
political economy (public and private sphere)" even mean?  Are you trying to
say the money economy stimulates production and distribution of porn?  Heck,
yeah, it does, but who doesn't know that?  Are you trying to suggest there
was no private life before capitalism?  Peasants had huts and hiding places,
didn't they?  The word "fornication" wasn't coined in 1848...