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Can we stop the trend of calling everything "porn"?

• antidoh 14y ago
  Eventually. Fun has fashion, just like everything else.
• ramblerman 14y ago
  I agree. mental masturbation seems more appropriate here.
• jgrahamc 14y ago
  The porn analogy: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/04/porn-analogy.html http://blog.jgc.org/2009/04/porn-analogy.html
  • schiffern 14y ago
    Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding. >Pornography is fake. True, but that's not why the analogy is used. Pornography is a visual media that conveys some of the pleasure of an act without the viewer actually going through the effort of doing it. >Pornography's aim is to sexually excite the viewer. Are geeks sexually excited by the eBay data?… >pleasure comes from many things that are non-sexual such as eating… >So let's swap 'geek porn' for a 'geek feast'. But why isn't "feast" defined symmetrically? A feast's aim is to gastronomically excite the user. Are geeks gastronomically excited by the eBay data? The whole rant is semantic nonsense, defining words in a way that begs the question. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good rant. I just like my rants to make sense. The real reason not to use the Porn Analogy is stuffed in the last paragraph: "Many people are uncomfortable with pornography and don't want pornography analogies in professional work."
    • JonnieCache 14y ago
      >Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding. Be aware that the person youre replying to is the person who wrote the article. I do think you're right though, and I'd be interested to hear jgc's response.
      • jgrahamc 14y ago
        It wasn't my intention when writing it to be disingenuous, but I do think there's validity in his/her criticism of the article. Not my finest blog post.
        • JonnieCache 14y ago
          I don't mean to accuse you of being disingenuous, rather I agreed with his general point.