birlinterrupted:

I think that a relatively under-discussed aspect of talking abt the shifts in p*rnography consumption or like, the social situation surrounding it is that the boundaries that previously existed to produce and (for lack of a better term) disseminate it have so massively lowered that I think it is much quicker at tracking social change (and surrounding social conversations) as well as more attenuated to fringe contradictions than it used to. Like, it is all much less beholden to a smaller group of people w the means to produce images/videos and distribute them, and I think that yr always gonna see much more illuminating (and sociologically interesting) strangeness or eccentricity from amateur communities than you are from corporations who have an overhead.

pornography is the cutting-edge master form of culture rn, like the music video was in the 80s, and we’re gonna have to deal with that