Shane said:
And these don't affect our perceptions? I'd like to see the social
scientists on the Lyst come in on this one.
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.
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.
Neil, to accuse me of homophobia is like accusing the pope of being
anti-Catholic. Let's just say when I speak of the gay community, I speak from personal experience ;)... While I'm not saying that it is personally applicable to Shane, in fact there are anti- Semitic Jews, anti-American Americans, etc.etc.etc.
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