Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: "Leigh Meyers" <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> To: "leigh_m" <leigh_m at sbcglobal.net>; "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: alt-porn & explicit content
> Doug Henwood:
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>> Leigh Meyers wrote:
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>>> OK, so what about the thousands of other people
>>> that are being "screwed"(sic) by the sex industry?
>>
>> Do you feel the same way about the purveyors of 420? Some really
>> nasty folks in that biz.
>>
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> Yes... Absolutely, the marketing distorts the intent(?), and in
> the case of weed, and other natural tonics,(like sex) taints
> them in some spiritual way. Andy N. just commented on that
> while I was typing, so I'll move on.
>
> The rastafarians have a derogatory term for money involved in
> it... dunza(not sure of the origin), and the system that promotes
> it is the shitstem, but if your understanding of what a rastafarian
> is only means you've heard of Bob Marley, and his music is cool,
> then you don't get it. U ain't rasta, mon.
>
> Similarly, I believe the sex trade does that with eros, and the
> sex workers that Doug may have interviewed only represent a
> group of sex worker that are literate, can keep from nodding out
> and talk in an intelligible manner, are clean enough to walk into
> a studio, or have a public conversation without geting pick up
> by the police as a known "prostie"...
>
> You couldn't get a representative cross section on your show Doug,
> because for some, their time is too valuable($$$) and they need that
> fix NOW, so... out on the street.
>
> It all becomes an "image" that get bought and sold like a 420 ballcap,
> or a rasta tam with the dreads sewn into it, or silicone boobs...
> whatever.
> Theodore Rosak addressed this in Making of a Counterculture, something
> about the hippie image getting reflected back by the "funhouse mirror" of
> the media, and how the reaction from the reflectee(?) distorted everything
> even more, until the, in this case, hippie phenomenon was unrecognizable,
> less viable, and eventually was "overrun" by people who thought they knew
> what it was because they read an article about it in Time or Life.
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> It doesn't just happen to people that "look funny",
> it happens to concepts, like eros, as well...
>
> One of the reggae bands did a song called "Chris Blackwell is a Vampire"
> years
> ago, about the fouder of Island Records... I propose that the producers of
> porn
> are exactly the same kind of vampire that Chris Blackwell was purported to
> be.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> Leigh
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