Monday, January 3, 2011

A big writing day

I am doing a lot of real work today and won't have that much time for blogging.

I have been meaning to link to a post on another blog for a while, however, and do so here for your entertainment. I have long been a supporter of the theory that the 1960s are relatively unimportant. I think the social changes that really mattered last century happened in the 1930s, 1950s and 1970s.

Anyway, there is this other blog where this guy has set forth what I think is  fairly perceptive account of what happened to male sexuality as a result of the 1970s. However, before the link two caveats. The site in question is not pornographic but the blogger in question is blunter and cruder than I tend to be. Second Caveat, the blogger at the end of the link is very political and, as regular readers will know, I am not.

That said, here is Stacy McCain explaining the rise of what porn fans call girl-on-girl action. (Did you ever notice, by the way, that hard core porn fans love to use the word "action" to describe well, "non-action": I mean it's just a guy operating his computer with one hand watching two girls faking it. After a while you begin to wonder whether porn fans like their sex the same way armchair athletes like sports.)

My one criticism is that McCain, as everyone doing this sort of stuff does, assumes that all the explaining needs to be done on the guy side of the equation. He is remarkably uncurious about how girls have changed and what drove them to change. To read this stuff, you would think that girls and women inevitably deliver whatever the guy culture wants. You'd never think girls are just as capable of driving the culture as guys.

There will be some Benedict Blogging tomorrow.

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