The gist was that porn reduces people to ethnic stereotypes more directly and ruthlessly than perhaps anything else and that combined with mostly private consumption in an aroused state makes it particularly potent.
the internet-porn assemblage is a big day to day cultural influence in the world now i think. for obvious reasons the conversation gets a bit stuck, no-one really feels comfortable in polite company talking about it in detail so its hard to parse, because mostly people are having these experineces solo and behind closed doors. it's a new media form that is really widespread and the twists and turns in the genre largely don't get much critical analysis.
i feel a bit out on a limb with this opinion but i more and more think our framing of art and media is stuck in the past, hasn't adapted to a new reality yet, though surely it's coming. there's still a sense that music, films, books and TV are the forms most worthy of attention. but none of these feel like where the action is. the libidinal dynanism, the places where new things are happening. that probably was the case from the 70s to the 00s or thereabouts. but there's a proliferation of new forms that are driving human beings that we don't seem to have the apparatus or media infrastructure to talk about very well. the old forms are starting to feel like they are petering out. things like podcasts, reddit forums, youtube microclimates, porn, short-form videos (tiktok and insta), playlists, apps, arguably body modification (gyms tattoos and surgery etc) feel more important and influential at the moment, and also where innovation within the form is most rapid.
