We here at AJAX Books are very sure our readers are discerning individuals who understand that porn isn’t real life.
However, the internet is a confusing, consuming space, and the distinctions between what we read, think, see, intuit, and believe are all blurred these days. Our crazy brains jump from tree of knowing to tree of knowing and sometimes our “feelings” betray us and beg to be trusted as a form of authenticity.
This is a little post to remind all of us, that when you see a man strum all the life out of a clitoris at warp speed, it is not an instruction on how to make love to a woman. When you see a pizza boy get paid by three horny co-eds, it is not a commentary on how frigid women studying at colleges have become. When you see a man ready for action as soon as any woman removes her clothing, we are not seeing the complex and unnerving relationship he has with his penis.
Porn is titillation, nothing more. It is not life, even when real live people make it happen. It is intentionally not life. It has ‘that’ effect on us because the difficulties have been removed. Porn is anthropologically interesting, but it, not an instruction manual, either fantastic or real.
If it was, you wouldn’t find it titillating. It’s that simple.
