Did any of you see the new Blade Runner trailer? Yay or nay?
In the mid-1990s, as average American households were increasingly getting online, a “Great Internet Sex Panic” threatened to severely restrict the most significant communications medium of our time.
The Communications Decency Act was introduced in Congress in 1995 to address the fabricated threat that pornography was taking over the web and imperiling our children. “The information superhighway should not become a red light district,” declared Sen. James Exon (D-Neb.), the bill’s sponsor. His solution was to criminalize the dissemination of “obscene or indecent” online content if it could be viewed by minors — essentially, applying the same standards to the internet as those imposed on broadcast television. The bill passed both chambers and was signed into law by Bill Clinton in February 1996.
Damn, imagine if that bill had stayed on the books! The internet would such a different place.
“The cause” being to cast sex toys in a less skeevy light. Or, as SFW‘s writer Leah Dworkin more eloquently puts it in their mission statement:
Sex-toy imagery is often suggestive, triggering, and discriminatory, not to mention, advertisements for sexual products can easily make certain viewers feel uncomfortable, unwelcome, judged or excluded. Even though this is how the sex-toy industry has marketed itself in the past, we thought it was time for a change. We not only felt a real responsibility but saw an exciting opportunity to create a new breed of visual imagery within the sex-toy marketplace that was progressive, inclusive, positive, socially conscious and approachable–to all sorts of human beings.
SFW isn’t necessarily an ad for Doc Johnson–Josepher and Untracht-Oakner just saw an opportunity rebrand sex toys in general by casting them in Memphis-style backgrounds (think the Saved by the Bell intro montage) with, most importantly, no bodies attached.
I personally like my sex toys when they’re, you know, sex toys. No rebranding needed. Well, okay, maybe a little rebranding needed depending on the company.
I click on a Reddit post and squint as the link loads. The silhouette of a woman appears, in grainy black and white. Just as the camera pans over her bare breasts, the gif glitches and replays from the beginning.
At first I think something’s wrong with my laptop, but then I realize I’ve just found an example of glitch porn, a type of erotica that combines internet art borrowed from genres like vaporwave with hardcore porn. It’s a subsection of glitch art, which is itself a distinct category.
The final compositions feel both nostalgic and from the future at the same time. You might be viewing an old, corrupted VHS porno from the 90s, or some sort of sexual alien transmission.
People never stop trying to find new ways to do porn. This kinda reminds me of scrambled cable porn.
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