Does anybody remember that scene in Tremors 2 where the protagonist admits to the female lead that he had her centrefold on his wall for 5 years - and then she playfully goes into the pose?
Alluring, feminine, welcoming: "I know you boys are working hard ploughing the fields/fighting the war/drilling that oil - when you come home I'm going to have a tall glass of iced tea for y'all!"
I remember one of the old, Italian suit-shops in my neighbourhood used to have a stack of playboys in the washroom; I wonder if that place is still around?
Also, this post didn't get enough attention:
The Disneyfication: for those who missed it, YouTube has started disabling ad revenue on any video covering a controversial topic. Any video - not just Right Wing Hate Speech. You can make the exact same analysis CNN did the night before, without showing any graphic images, but because you're talking about the Middle East it's not considered "Advertiser Friendly" - which means, some SJW sensible might complain to Ford that they found your description of events triggering, and Ford doesn't want to deal with the complaints.
Anonymous Bosch is nailing it with the infantilization - and remember: the prudery of the Victorian era, where showing an ankle was considered shocking and indecent, was also the era of wife swapping and child prostitutes. Does any of this sound familiar?
Alluring, feminine, welcoming: "I know you boys are working hard ploughing the fields/fighting the war/drilling that oil - when you come home I'm going to have a tall glass of iced tea for y'all!"
I remember one of the old, Italian suit-shops in my neighbourhood used to have a stack of playboys in the washroom; I wonder if that place is still around?
Also, this post didn't get enough attention:
Quote: (10-14-2015 10:15 AM)Deepdiver Wrote:
Interesting Tech Crunch take on why Playboy made this decision...
Basically on today's Internet "Content is King" and the two king makers Google and Apple (not to mention Amazon) are NOT so called "Porn" friendly - answering to diverse Corporate Boards - they mention the Disneyfication of major "New" media:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/12/a-new-m...the-nudes/
I can't find the link but one report indicated the online version of Playboy saw circulation increase to some 4 Million+ readers/followers when they dropped the NSFW nudes... tells you how much productive work is getting done in Corporate America... between Fan Duel, Draft Kings and now a Playboy transformed into a lingerie and yoga pants catalog...
Plus I never really identified with being a Playboy as such - i was much more into Bob Guccione's Penthouse - whatever happened to his empire?
Interesting NYT take on the current trends in "Pornography"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/busine....html?_r=0
These "Arthouse Porn" mags mentioned in NYT have circulations less than the average puppy or kitten video on YouTube... and YouTube being corporate ban hammers "Porn" as soon as it is reported.
Stepping out of the trees to look at the forest I find most Playboy and Penthouse pics about as Pornographic as Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" type paintings.
In my mind Porn is really that cheesy scripted video of even more cheesy beezies getting skewered and made water tight by various walking hardons all worried if they will pass their next HIV test - Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler even rarely ever went there but are still referred to as Porn - Imagine what a 50 Shades of Fan mag would show - would make the OC Cal Porn mills look tame by comparison.
In chaos therein lies opportunity...
The Disneyfication: for those who missed it, YouTube has started disabling ad revenue on any video covering a controversial topic. Any video - not just Right Wing Hate Speech. You can make the exact same analysis CNN did the night before, without showing any graphic images, but because you're talking about the Middle East it's not considered "Advertiser Friendly" - which means, some SJW sensible might complain to Ford that they found your description of events triggering, and Ford doesn't want to deal with the complaints.
Anonymous Bosch is nailing it with the infantilization - and remember: the prudery of the Victorian era, where showing an ankle was considered shocking and indecent, was also the era of wife swapping and child prostitutes. Does any of this sound familiar?