the definition of porn

a recent blog post by mnwhr (do you have any idea how many of your posts have prompted me into writing my own posts?? lol) prompted me to ask "what is porn?"...it's such a simple but complex question, really...so i threw on my investigative hat and ran off in search of an answer...

then i got really lazy, yawned, fluttered my eyelids and just googled "porn"...

"creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire"...

now that sounds simple enough, right?...er, not really...at least not in my book...because the big glitch in this definition is "of no literary or artistic value"...so, um, who gets to decide the literary or artistic value of anything?...and why cant something be both artistic and appeal to one's sexual desire?...

so i went off searching again...

"the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement...
material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement...the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction"

hmm...again, this is so misleading...because what if little johnny has a thing for shoes so he goes online and finds ads for women's shoes....and he jerks off to them or just gets aroused...for him, that is "porn" in a sense...granted those ads may not intend to stimulate one's arousal, but c'mon...the people who put those together do so with an eye for what will most likely appeal...if they were just selling the shoe, it wouldnt matter what the foot wearing the shoe looked like, right?...so why not some dirty, cracked feet?...oh no, they must be slender, with toe nails just right (either painted or unpainted) and (in most cases) feature a slender ankle that implies a whole lot more leg above it...and even give way to an imagined hem line of a skirt...

hmm...so, perhaps not direct, blatant, in-your-face porn...but it could be to little johnny who is out there slinging his dick with his hand while his eyes glaze over in bliss..

i know, i know...the whole issue of pornography is that it is obvious and created with a deliberate intent to arouse...what then of unintentional porn?...

something that is so fucking arousing that you cant stand it...you have to have it...yet...was not originally intended to be so stimulating...something that you didn't notice at first glance perhaps...but something made you take a second look...and the longer your attention is focused on this strange, but exciting diversion the more heightened your senses become...your entire body slowly becomes consumed by it...until nothing else matters...just this one moment of unintentional arousal...that both is and isnt porn...

or something like that..

cg