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Alert! There is porn on your computer!
July 29, 2004
Its hilarious, sad and frustrating when I get pop-ups that “alert” me to the fact that I have porn on my computer. Considering that I spend several hours a day looking at porn at my job - and not even furtively, I’m paid to look at porn - its no wonder that there is porn on my computer.
I know, I know - I’m not the target audience for these pop-ups. But the part that makes me sad is that there are efforts made to create pop-ups and other online advertisements that remind people (ok, specifically these ads are aimed at MEN) that they are supposed to be afraid of being discovered and that they need to erase their tracks and prevent the spouse from finding out.
The frustrating part is that I constantly get pop-ups that are irrelevant to my life. Plus I know that I’m part of a very small fraction of people (not to mention women) for whom porn is a glorious wonderful thing that isn’t attached to a lot of sexual shame.
Of course I recognize that sex is by and large something “people” don’t talk about in a healthy, constructive way and that, as much as I trump no-shame sexuality and pride in beating off to porn, the reality is that most people just don’t see it that way. And that’s what landed me where I am now, in this weird place of negotiating between Pervland and the Straight World - the sad realization that my professional verve for porn will not be smiled on outside of my own head and a small supportive group of perverts is, well, sad.
Posted by Dacia at July 29, 2004 12:00 AM
Comments
Here, here! (Raises her glass…) To sex positivity!!
Posted by: Nik at July 19, 2005 10:37 AM
