Diane Glass, put your mouth where my money is. If you'e going to go on about how trendy and acceptable porn is, give us the money shot. I mean, what good is an online article praising porn without a little bukkake.

don't get me started again.

Biff Boff -

Exactly. How can we trust what comes out of her mouth until we see what she puts in it.

That reminds me, Sparkle, I need to check your site to see if Dave said "booger."

Don't make a fooshie maniac out of me!

That was more of a goose and gander observation. If she thinks porn is so mainstream, make a living at it for a few years, then tell us all about. Better still, let us know after your daughter has been in it for a few years.

Dave in Texas,

Paul Anka?

Dave in Texas:

Fooshie?

Paul Anka would rip his own throat out before he said "fooshie" instead of "fuckin"!

I actually don't have anything against porn. I just don't want to set off RightWingSparkle. I'm holding on to that creamy golden goodness of my mental image of her. You're a bad girl aren't you (not Feist bad, but, you know, kind of naughty).

Seriously, I know how to drastically reduce the amount of adult content in the world. Want to know the answer? It's awesome. A truly conservative approach.

Michael,

Mr. Paul Anka is all about the respect to the ladies.

RWS,

You have got to catch up. Check out The Paul Anka Integrity Kick. It's like, I dunno, the Pentatuch around here.

Dave in Texas,

Ah, I shoulda known. A reference lost on me.

Biff Boff,

I would love to hear your idea.

I am never naughty, but I do have an evil twin that sometimes posts in my name.

the guy shows up with a secret plan and she's all over it.

amazing.

Biff, you rock.

Ok, how to drown porn. The problem is not in how to better restrict it. It's in how to less restrict it. If you climb over Jennifer Aniston's fence and take a couple of pics of her spectacular tits (and they are amazingly nice for her age), she would sue you and win. But take the same picture when she's walking down the street, she could not (and you need to tell me where that street is).

The difference is that the street is a public place. If you look at all depictions of the act of procreation as a biological function of all human beings, then you can view it as inherently public in its nature. Therefore, you should not be able to own it. Legislation that declared this would all but kill the industry of producing porn.

Go ahead and hire some hookers and some clown to make a flick. You cannot stop anyone from copying it, distributing it or displaying it. You simply can't own it at all. How long will you produce it when you can't own it, and, therefore, cannot make mony off of it?

It's not a perfect solution, especially at first. But ultimately, I think it could reduce its production.

I doubt the porn barons sit around after a particularly steamy scene, the scent of Astroglide heavy in the air and ponder the social and cultural significance of their line of work.

Astroglide has a scent? Who knew.

I always buy the cheap generic stuff. No smell.

I wanted to elaborate a bit on the point about Madonna showing her breasts and what it all meant.

WAY back in a high school English class the teacher kept going on and on about the meaning of some William Faulkner novel we had just read.

I raised my hand and asked a simple question, one I still want an answer to: Maybe the guy wrote it because he wanted to tell a story. How do you know that he did not write it for pure entertainment purposes? What if there IS no grand meaning? Maybe it is just a nice story. Why does everything HAVE to have meaning?

Needless to say, that did not go over very well.

I had a lit instructor give a lecture about one of Frosts poems being an allegory about nazis. The poem was written in 1918. He was NOT thrilled when this was pointed out. He'd written is thesis on that allegory.

PIMF Last sentence: is = his

rabidfox,

That is classic man!

Has reptiles like LARRY FLINT and HUGH HEFFNER earned their collage degrees by filming the crappy stuff. Its time to snuff heffners pet bunny

But she did it while wearing a tuxedo jacket. Hmm. The professor’s analysis? Madonna was deconstructing masculinity and femininity.

My analysis is that the thrift shop near the shoot had a cool looking tuxedo jacket that fit and cost $5.

The latter Madonna videos had more production values - for example, if Madonna were to reshoot "Borderline", she'd take a can of spray paint to a Bentley or a LearJet - but the early videos were more about exploring feminity than deconstructing the two.

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How do you know that he did not write it for pure entertainment purposes? What if there IS no grand meaning? Maybe it is just a nice story. Why does everything HAVE to have meaning?

Ya know I posted a similar comment here during a discussion of the hidden Christian allegorical references in Lord of the Rings. I said something to the affect that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. My analysis was not well received. This despite the fact that Tolkein said as much when the book was originally published.

Bunch of story nazis.

I have seen the nipple on your soul.

-Thomas Jefferson

The Paul Anka Integrity Kick is all audio, isn't it? Has it ever been transcribed?

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Has it ever been transcribed?

Don't know - here is a pretty funny interview Terry Gross did with Anka on it. She really expected him to be embarrassed about it - unsurprisingly to those of us who respect Mr. Paul Anka, he is not embarrassed.

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dude, that's also audio...or at least it appears to be; I don't see a link for text.

Madonna's wearing a tuxedo jacket in that video was no doubt her lame and doomed-to-fail attempt to mimic Marlene Dietrich, a woman who unlike Madonna actually was extremely sexy (in an age in which that, unlike today, could actually be somewhat dangerous), and to boot could also act.

Dietrich is an icon, Madonna apes icons.