Can Alain de Botton even *read*?

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Can Alain de Botton even read?

I ask because this de Botton has out-parodied himself again by announcing that he was launching a porn website free of "stupidity, brutishness, earnestness and exploitation."

The real problem with current pornography is that it's so far removed from all the other concerns which a reasonably sensible, moral, kind and ambitious person might have. As currently constituted, pornography asks that we leave behind our ethics, our aesthetic sense and our intelligence when we contemplate it.

Which is what leads me to the question, can Alain de Botton read? Because literary pornography is deeply embedded in questions about the world, about why people have sex, about awkward sex, about contexual sex, about great sex, about sensible, moral, kind and ambitious sex.

What have been doing for the past twenty years if not writing sex that marries the characters to their ethics, allows them to embrace their virtues even while having sex? Fuck me, if The Journal Entries didn't ultimately evolve into a pornography in which characters expressed, even during sex, their highest principles, then all of that writing has been for naught.

And I'm sure I'm not alone in that assessment.

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everyone has a price...I think somebody found AdeB's

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Having watched my share of video porn, much of which did not appeal to me in the least, I have found here and there, some which does. Much of the video-mill porn is complete rubbish and not worth the bandwidth to download.

Then there is also written porn. Of which, I consider the Pendorverse to be one of the best and brightest examples.

I seriously doubt that AdeB is interested in reading your stories, or even watching the kind of "enlightened porn" he is espousing. I suspect, rather, that he is laying the groundwork for mainstream marketing of a new porn site, for which he is the front man, and he is being quite well paid to raise the profile with an audience that porn can't normally reach.