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At the risk of appearing too knowledgeable about this subject... The cultural landscape of recorded sex is changing. The availability of sexual media is break

by r0s 16y ago

At the risk of appearing too knowledgeable about this subject... The cultural landscape of recorded sex is changing. The availability of sexual media is breaking old taboos about recording sex acts and amateur pornography is scaling up in every way. This is a new sexual revolution. I look forward to the day when sex media holds all the taboo of personal vacation photos. I think eventually everyone with access to a recording device will record themselves in every aspect of life. There have always been attempts to push in that direction: http://sexinthepink.baywords.com/2010/10/24/free-culture-porn-for-a-sex-positive-society/ http://sexinthepink.baywords.com/2010/10/24/free-culture-por...

Psyonic 16y ago
If everyone will record themselves in every aspect of their life, that will be a lot of recordings. I assume people will watch at least some of them, meaning that people will be spending a good chunk of time viewing these videos. This also is an aspect of their lives, so that means we'll end up with a lot of recordings of people watching recordings. I believe this becomes a recursive loop, as well, so the future's going to be pretty meta. Though I suppose they'd probably choose not to watch those videos, even if they recorded them, so maybe not.
- gwern 16y ago
  If we teach everyone how to read and write, they'll be able to read and write about every aspect of their life; that will be a lot of writing. I assume people will read at least some of them, meaning that people will be spending a good chunk of time writing those things. This also is an aspect of their lives, so we'll end up with many writings about people reading writings. I believe this becomes a recursive loop, so the future will be pretty meta! But maybe they'll choose not to read everything, even if they write about everything, so maybe not.
  - Psyonic 16y ago
    Doesn't work, because the original claim wasn't that they could record every aspect, but that they in fact would record every aspect of their lives. Which seems absurd to me, and that's what I was trying to point out.
narrator 16y ago
Judging by the public facebook photos I've seen lately by my friends in their 20s, I think women are getting less, shall we say, "modest".
gaius 16y ago
Perhaps in the US, but porn already had pretty close to zero taboo in most of Northern Europe.
- r0s 16y ago
  You're right, I should have specified the U.S. I think this effect will be felt worldwide to some degree.
plnewman 16y ago
I don't look forward to that. I think there's something to be said for privacy and intimacy.
- r0s 16y ago
  Of course, I just want to see the taboo dissolve. It's all about user control. Now that people have the ability to publish their sex lives, some will.

by r0s 16y ago

Psyonic 16y ago

If everyone will record themselves in every aspect of their life, that will be a lot of recordings. I assume people will watch at least some of them, meaning that people will be spending a good chunk of time viewing these videos. This also is an aspect of their lives, so that means we'll end up with a lot of recordings of people watching recordings. I believe this becomes a recursive loop, as well, so the future's going to be pretty meta. Though I suppose they'd probably choose not to watch those videos, even if they recorded them, so maybe not.

gwern 16y ago
If we teach everyone how to read and write, they'll be able to read and write about every aspect of their life; that will be a lot of writing. I assume people will read at least some of them, meaning that people will be spending a good chunk of time writing those things. This also is an aspect of their lives, so we'll end up with many writings about people reading writings. I believe this becomes a recursive loop, so the future will be pretty meta! But maybe they'll choose not to read everything, even if they write about everything, so maybe not.
- Psyonic 16y ago
  Doesn't work, because the original claim wasn't that they could record every aspect, but that they in fact would record every aspect of their lives. Which seems absurd to me, and that's what I was trying to point out.

narrator 16y ago

Judging by the public facebook photos I've seen lately by my friends in their 20s, I think women are getting less, shall we say, "modest".

gaius 16y ago

Perhaps in the US, but porn already had pretty close to zero taboo in most of Northern Europe.

r0s 16y ago
You're right, I should have specified the U.S. I think this effect will be felt worldwide to some degree.

plnewman 16y ago

I don't look forward to that. I think there's something to be said for privacy and intimacy.

r0s 16y ago
Of course, I just want to see the taboo dissolve. It's all about user control. Now that people have the ability to publish their sex lives, some will.