OPINION:
In the world of modern sex education, online pornography is teacher, textbook, mentor and Cyprian.
And what do most young people learn Women learn that sex is a bit like choking on your dinner, followed by a light physical assault and a soft wipes cleanup familiar to many new mothers.
Boys learn that their role is to emulate men with genitals like cattle and the language skills of grumpy children.
Porn has taken some years to narrow in on this incredibly mediocre routine, a kind of jerky, over-lit masturbation aid for men and boys whose archetypal experience of the feminine nude remains twisting the buttery, hairless legs on their sisters’ Barbie dolls.
But what would porn (and our sex lives) look like if it weren’t led shank and halter by the dressing-gown sheathed impresarios of the adult film industry
A new site set up to crowd fund porn – Offbeatr – gives us a glimpse.
Already, Furoticon, an online translation of the eponymous furry card game (‘furry’ fetishists dress as animals), has raised US$40,591.
Investors were no doubt turned on by the following sales pitch:
‘Sukouri, the sexy squirrel girl, will drop her robe as she enters bed! Arn, the dominant wolf, will thrust powerfully into Kanette, the lusty otter girl! And Boy Toy, the effeminate college student, will get on his hands and knees while Grizzwald, the large grizzly bear, takes him from behind!’
A little over US$5000 has gone to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!, a DVD project aimed at cosplay fiends:
‘Cosplay, also known as costume play, is defined by Wikipedia as: “a type of performance art in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character.”
So, have you ever wanted to watch Sailor Moon ge f***ed by Tuxedo Mask See Xena and Gabrielle scissor What about Harley Quinn and Ivy go at it’
You get the idea. Nerds rule this site, or rather knurds – the correct spelling from Rensselaer Polytechnic in the ’40s, meaning simply ‘drunk’ backwards.
But what is tremendous about this site, where it shows potential, is in the variety of porn on offer.
Porn doesn’t ruin young peoples sex lives – if anything, the bedroom habits of 50 years ago, when an enormous percentage of the population was literally groping in the dark, involved more dull, one sided, humourless sex.
The lights have been switched on, but all that’s currently on display, at least what’s mostly on display in the obvious places where nervy virgins look, is one very boring, commoditised, and frequently cruel vision of sex.
