entertainment

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if i remember it right Barthes says that the pornographic is by nature un-erotic because it cuts off the image from any deeper levels of engagement. it says "this is what sex is, exactly this and nothing more." my idea is that modern culture machine is doing the same kind of thing by enforcing this bureaurocracy of libido, the same kind of flattened representation that says "this is how sex works, this is it" except without the explicit images.

it's no suprise really that young people are having less and less sex.
 

linebaugh

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if i remember it right Barthes says that the pornographic is by nature un-erotic because it cuts off the image from any deeper levels of engagement. it says "this is what sex is, exactly this and nothing more." my idea is that modern culture machine is doing the same kind of thing by enforcing this bureaurocracy of libido, the same kind of flattened representation that says "this is how sex works, this is it" except without the explicit images.

it's no suprise really that young people are having less and less sex.
this is a bit what I was getting at with the former era of photoshop and plastic surgery and glamour etc- despite being in that lane of unerotic pornography there was something naughty about it being so brazenly fake. Thats gone now for the internet girl milieu I'm getting at
 

entertainment

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this is a bit what I was getting at with the former era of photoshop and plastic surgery and glamour etc- despite being in that lane of unerotic pornography there was something naughty about it being so brazenly fake. Thats gone now for the internet girl milieu I'm getting at
there is a general principle i've found that when you push through the layers of fakeness at some point you get to a new sense of real

yet ive always only gotten severely bummed out by girls who moan like they do in porn. it throws me out the zone
 

linebaugh

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I think entertainment has put it right for me. When I saw the anime cosplay girl on my instagram feed and wanted to light myself on fire, the moment of inspiration for this thread, what was happening was a moment of completely unerotic arousal.
 

catalog

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The gamer girl thing is pretty cool. I wonder if there is room for a reader girl and you just watch her reading in a short plaid skirt, occasionally sighing. Or she could be reading in the bath with a scented candle. Craner remembers Kodwo Eshun and K-Punk having a very excitable conversation about the 'hottest theory girls' on a nightbus about twenty years ago.
Someone did do an amsr reading of capitalist realism I think, we talked about it somewhere
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
@Mr. Tea he's saying you look like the sort of man who'd put a gamer girls bath water in your bong, how do respond to these accusations?
Accusations of furry Nazi fetish practices I can live with, but I'd like to point out that I'm much slimmer than the guy in that video, clean-shaven, have good eyesight and wouldn't be seen dead in a hat that vulgar.
 

toko

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Have you read Stan's big thread on porn and wanking? That seems very apposite. It was way better than this thread. He was going into detail about why wanking to porn is better than a person and it was quite convincing.
the board's search function is shit can you link me? also while were at it there was a thread discussing seeing like a state do you remember which one? how do you guys remember all the old threads/search them?
 

catalog

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We have a member called the archivist who usually does it.

The search in dissensus cannot do three letter words or less. That's all you need to do.

But you can help yourself if you can remember something from the title, that's the thing I use a lot.

Stan already linked the thread, it's a few posts back.
 
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