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  • Everyone Is a Writer. Everyone is a Pornstar.

    Friday, Jan 16, 2009 7:43PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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    From Facebook to Xtube, public exhibitionism (or personal expression if you'd prefer) is at your fingertips (or just a few clicks away). I'm constantly amazed at the content from seemingly harmless old pictures to quirky personal sex videos that we so easily offer the public.

    I wonder, before the explosion of the internet just about 10 years ago, how did we satisfy our current insatiable desire for public exhibitionism? What are the roots of such desire? What do we want out of incessantly putting ourselves out there?

    Perhaps before, we sent a message in a bottle or wrote on a postcard that we secretly wished others would read. For the more "sophisticated," we got our words or images published in newspapers or magazines. For the extra "daring," they graffiti the city walls and act in porn films.

    Now everyone is writer. Everyone is a pornstar.

    Even if we are so "connected" at the push of a button, do we feel less lonely?

    As a firm believer of postmodernism, I value the relationships between the content and audience rather than the content itself. Everyone gets a different interpretation of your content depending on his/her relationship with you.

    A stranger gets something quite different from what (let's say) the person who loves you does.

    It's precisely these diverse relationships between the content and audience that I take pleasure in.

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  • bluesonic82
    bluesonic82
    posted on Sunday, Feb 8, 2009 9:59PM [Report]
    Interesting. Something to ponder about...
  • JoanneSanderson
    JoanneSanderson
    posted on Sunday, Jan 18, 2009 6:40PM [Report]
    nicely put. It is very interesting , I don't think any amount of contact can make a person feel less lonely but it can take their mind of things, I too always like seeing how people come away from seeing thngs with a different perspective than another who has viewed the same thing.
  • rottendoubt
     rottendoubt
    posted on Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 2:10AM [Report]
    i still get lonely sometimes!
  • janechu
     janechu
    posted on Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 1:55AM [Report]
    good blog... we now see how much the internet has changed things...
  • mariejost
    Official artist Marie Jost
    posted on Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 12:14AM [Report]
    I wonder what percentage of these sex videos focus on the female more than the male "performer"?  Why does our society promote women shamelessly sexually exploiting themselves, and to what end?  Are women worth so little to modern society that they are only something to be consumed in an exploitative product freely offered in a global marketplace?  I always wonder what these women think they are doing and what they think they will gain (now and in the long run) by engaging in such crass self-exploitation.  Why have so many women lost any sense of self-respect that they would freely participating in their own crass objectification and exploitation.  Call me old school (and I am old at 50), but I just don't get it.
  • carmellarose
    carmellarose
    posted on Friday, Jan 16, 2009 9:35PM [Report]
    Such a good message/blog!

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