Shane said:
Perhaps these were bad examples... what I
meant to say was that if you receive one single discourse, then your whole perception of the genre is going to be shaped around that discourse. But I don't think that consumers are entirely passive--particularly if they have to go to the trouble of finding where the porn is and then purchasing, borrowing, downloading (or creating!) it.
No, and that's the problem. I said in an earlier post that porn's addictive. And like anything addictive, fine in small doses, but when it's being actively pursued to an extreme extent, it can be dangerous. Or when it's being written/drawn about a TV show which originally didn't have anything to do with porn...
What were those five forms of Greek love that
Mistral was on about again? You might wish to rephrase that, at least on this list.
Oh, you noticed... am I surprised :)?
Shane
"Avon, you were my only friend..." --Blake