Bad keywords.

[elfs]

I think one of the reasons I'm burning out on smut is that I've become sensitized to the popularity of some kinds of porn among my fellow human beings and, like situation comedies, I feel embarassed to be sharing the same air as people who enjoy those things. One the clues to this came in the emergency of a new keyword among porn purveyors.

There are the usual ones, "pink," "honey," "BBW," and most people who enjoy their smut unabashedly know what most of them mean. They're keywords along the same lines as the icons on romance novels are for women: a carriage, a badge, a clock, a stork. Same idea, different gender target.

But I've started to see one recently that really annoys me. "Stupid." And it's meaning is more grotesque than you'd think: it means mentally disabled. Porn stills (it's usually stills, so far) in which the actress portrays someone too mentally retarded to even know how to say "no." Usually, I can handle the idiocies of the wretched porn purveyors at the bottom of the heirarchy, but that one just ills me.

Yeah, I know. "Don't look at it." I'm not. I just think it's an ugly trend. And it turns me off that it discourages me from looking at all. I'm starting to understand Fry's comment more and more.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If the politicians ever notice this, I expect them to view with alarm and declare something must be done.

I don't trust them to do the right thing, but in this case I rather hope something can be done.

Maybe lean on the producer over whether or not the performer is mentally competent to sign a contract?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I don't think performers are mentally retarded; I think that's just a role they're playing to get the attention of a target audience.