Re: What made you feel giddy today?
Yeah, some of the discussion that came up and was gleaned over was, like Ranger said, "Okay, hey. I'm a girl. I like porn. Where, in your happy little black and white world does that make me fit?" What really irked the friend was that they were reading an essay by Margaret Thatcher on the subject. One, it was written, I think, back in the 70's or 80's (I could be wrong but still...) Plus the subject that they're covering in class is *American* pornography. No offense meant, but Thatcher's not American. Not that she can't talk on the subject, but if you're talking to American students/audiences, you'd think they'd pick someone a little closer to home who wrote on the subject. Plus the stuff they're saying is so bad is stuff that many folks might consider squicks (comparable to gore or snuff.) I mean, they were discussing porn with nipple shearing in it. Not clamps, not biting. Shearing. As in "removal of."
So yes, I can see how something like that might be disturbing. However, near as I know, stuff like that makes up only a small percentage of porn out there. And again, brings up the whole BDSM aspect of things (which, to me, that's a little extreme and beyond BDSM, but still.) Bear in mind, too, that I'm repeating a lot of this second hand and may or may not be paraphrasing correctly on all of it but the overall gist is not all porn is bad and guys aren't the only ones that like it. I just wish some of the kids in my friend's class could understand that.
I mean, we're not even going to get into how squicked the ones in her creative writing class were when she wrote about her gay sin-eater character...