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Our Modern Eyes are Jaded:
Pornography and the Line of Obscenity

The visual cortex is the largest and busiest part of the brain. There’s no doubt Homo Sapiens is an animal that relies heavily on sight. We take it for granted, living as we do surrounded by the rich visuals of the reality we have constructed, that to see is EVERYTHING. But, while the "food of the eye" has arguably never been saltier or contained so many empty calories, its ravenous appetite is as old as the species. Needless to say, the importance of our Sense of Sight could not have evolved overnight.

Long before there was even a dream of photography, from the time we lived in caves, to the building of the pyramids, to the castles of Versailles, there’s been a lot for humans to see in the world — more than enough to justify the evolution of our magnificent Human Eye. I only make this point so heavy-handedly because I know many people tend to think nothing was ever better in all of history than 5 minutes ago. I also don’t wish to be contradicted later in this essay, when I am making my larger point, when I say: The Eye is an old dog. He knows many wonderful tricks. He can tell a friend from a foe at a glance. He can climb a tree in duress. The eye IS everything and ALL that is true — but it knows nothing new. (more…)

Gosh, seems like a lifetime ago…

WE HAVE NO MORE TIME TO COAST

The Adult Internet is strangling in its own greed and short-sightedness…
The enemies of free Sexual Expression on the Web have new allies…
Media Monopolists from the Mainstream are encroaching on our borders…
The power of the First Amendment to shelter us from Censorship grows weaker every day…

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Early in the happening of it, and understandably I concede, a few people asked me simply “Why?” and “What’s in it for you?”

Cynicism, when it is motivated by a desire for truth is a healthy, essential thing. But before I scan my 1040 from 2004 and paste it here, I want remind every one that the scale of this “project” has far eclipsed anything I could have had in mind this morning.

The truth is, this IS a place where opportunism and meanness too often rear their heads. The noobs who seldom post and who, for the most part, don’t dare to enter into threads filled with “people” they don’t know, whose aims are (even to me, still) indecipherable — I THINK robs this — amazing, one of a kind in the history of everything EVER — place of a value it contains. When I first appeared on GFY, I did what many of you still do, I watched and paid attention, and when I had worked up the courage — I BECAME 2HousePlague here.

For a long time, I have lamented what seemed a wasteful use of such an incredible resource, but have accepted that GFY, like any “society”, is made rich by the diversity of its voices — it turns out now that I have received (that GFY has received) the opportunity to do something that has not been done before. Again, I did not premeditate this, I swear — but here it is, and we MUST (all of us) see where it can go.