anna span defending porn on radio 4 this morning

[joe king]

What was that shit about? Absolute bollox.

Some woman who had 'investigated' online porn and was afraid she was going to be turned on by it but wasn't because it was all so painful (anal sex is painful and the woman are all fake, fake tits fake pleasure, fake moans) and Anna Span being some sort of politician and not answering the question. But Anna, did porn ever make you sick?


Women are only orifices, right? 2 orifices were certainly heard on that program.

[andy ide]

Usual Anna Span piss and wind, trying to blind with references to St Martins and Warhol, puffing it up with no talent behind it. And quite pathetic that she couldn't directly damn any of the bad porno out there.

Tania Kindersley had some entirely valid points.

[joe king]

She had valid points on her amazingly limited research. Plastic women are indeed plastic. Porn is gyneacological (how's that for a 'bad' word). Womens anatomy is disgusting!

And Tania, have you really been excited by it? What the fuck has she been excited by?

[jimslip]

A couple of points;

Why is anyone "Defending" porn? In the name of God.....can't the stupid wankers in the broadcast media move on from this?

However the woman who'd reviewed the films had a couple of good points, 1/ "It was like watching Benny Hill", and porn's total obsession with "orafices".

The trouble with porn is that it either consists of the above, or if its "Porn for women"....... in comes the tanned American arsehole-stud wearing bandana and tux, bearing a box of chocolates. Cue slo-mo and add some crap blue lighting, fade up eighties, Miami Vice reject music and we have have the setting. Enter dyed blonde, silicone heavy and dressed in evening frock. "Hey baby...........make lurrve to me.........make me screeam!" Stud proceeds to squidge hazlenut whirls all over her tits...........10 minutes in I'm snoring......... Girls, jerks around in ectasy, shouting and bellowing at the top of her voice, "Baby, baby, your making me currrrrrm!" I'm now in a deep sleep.............on it goes, a twenty minute scene, seems like an eternity........please let it finish.........please no MOrrrrrre! Arrrrgh!

I don't really know what point I'm making here.............except I HATE American porn.

I'll finish now.

By the way why has Anna become the spokeswoman for porn?

[one eyed jack]

Well it went just as I thought it would. Some interesting points. I have to agree with them on most points that porn on the large part is un-emotive and fake and money does a huge part to play in this but lets face it, you can get me the best female producer ever and it will boil down to the same thing because (lets be honest here) porn is made by men for men. Its lack of imaginination is probably a typical trait of men because men don't watch porn to divest themselves emotionally. Men don't get eroticism in porn because porn serves a glandular release:- Blokes watch porn to wank or spectate in the same way he watches sport, boxing, racing etc.

Porn is an outlet, pure and simple and its reliance on things like anal, gaping, pounding whatever serves his need to have sex with something that is taboo. That is the extent of his fantasy. In real life, doing anal may result in a shitty cock, the woman wincing every so often, bleeding (ouch) but in porn, the masturbatory world is....perfect. Pretty girl taking it up the sacred hole, which is pefect and divinely clean. Pretty indicates innocence, classy, pure things but the man fucking her in the arse is the violator who turns this madonna into a whore. She is doing this for him. These are the things that fuels a man to climax and the equation of a porn film illustrates that perfectly in 20 minutes. Man must see details and his interest is seeing a woman up close. Examining the points of entry. If this makes us sound like cave men then yes we are. Sex is also primal otherwise we would have no interest in it.

Men are visual creatures. Women are more cerebral. A good guy in everyday real life would know how to play a woman well to get the best out of her. Most blokes can't be bothered. If a woman looks good and his dick is hard, he will fuck her to climax and go about his business. If that sounds cold, then welcome to the real world. Its a fact of life happening 24/7. Frankly there is nothing to defend. Man is what he is. As I say: I iz what I iz ah'ight!

[joe king]

So this explains Vivthomas?

[joe king]

You hate all american porn?

[sandie]

lets face it. single guys or naughty boys watch porn and single women and naughty girls use sex toys.
guys are more visual and girls are more tactile.

[jimslip]

I think that I hate porn of all kinds, I hate the competition between the gonzo wobble-cam brigade VS the silicone all fake, greasy porno stud contingent.

I think theres room for everyone, but it would be nice if there was more experimental stuff. No and I don't mean Tanya Hyde, wheeling out the enema machine and shoving it up nuns' arses..............for the 50th time!

No I don't mean gilrs holding flourescent tubes , silhouetted against fucking venetian blinds.

What you want is a combination of a great contempory artist, who shares a bedsit with a complete sleazbag pervert for a few years................then maybe he or she would come up something good !

[Officer Dibble]

"I don't really know what point I'm making here.............except I HATE American porn."

I'll broaden that out and say that I hate contemporary porn - unappealing, sexually bland, blas? performers, in wave after wave of eroticism filtered, monotonous, production line humping. Please stop.


Officer Dibble