what kind of pervert are you?
Published on February 16, 2004 By JEPEL In Blogging
If blog is porn

If blog is porn, then ...

 

It might sound weird but I got the idea from Karen Hobbs in a post  that I had actually misunderstood. (well, English is not my birth language..., my comment look a little bit dull...). It doesn't look close but thinking about it, I start to realise that both are similar to some extent. You can observe funny correlation about watching porn or reading a blog. A lot of blogs are personal diaries or random thought, so the author allows total strangers to look in his intimate thoughts, you could say that porn actors show the use of their intimate parts in a way that you shouldn't see usually. 

Are blogger assuaging an exhibitionist leaning when writing personal diaries?

Then what about the reader? Well, porn watchers are trying to satisfy some sexual excitements, by definition they also display an inclination toward voyeurism. Is the satisfaction provided by reading blogs be of the same nature? 

 

At the end of the day, the real question is what do YOU feel when writing and reading blogs?  Have you been writing a personal diaries before? 

I know that I always wanted to write a diary but couldn't go into the regular discipline of writing daily, weekly or whatsoever. In blogging, the fact that others may read, give me the small but decisive push to go on writing. Not because of what they might think or say, just because there might be someone reading. 

 


Comments
on Feb 16, 2004
Funny, I feel the same way. I think it is because it is easier to communicate to a person, now than to an editor in the future.
on Feb 16, 2004
i feel that the fact that someone is reading you, can make you try harder and lead to improve your writing. Even without any answer or comment.
on Feb 16, 2004
There is safety in being anonymous. I actually think it is the OPPOSITE of exhibition because you really don't know the person that exists in meatspace behind the words.

my 02
on Feb 16, 2004
If Blogging is porn, then is Brad Ron Jeremy?

BAM!!!
on Feb 16, 2004
. Muggaz you WIN!!!
on Feb 16, 2004
i'm here all week.



BAM!!!
on Feb 16, 2004
Dear Poet,
you are right, blog is not life, it is just something about life, and I let to you, to judge how much of your blog is actually you, how much is a story about you. If you find my answer unclear, think about the Magritte picture with a pipe drew, with the text under "it. this is not a pipe". It is just a representation of a pipe. Blog is not life, it is just a representation of you, and so it is just your personal way to tell your life. The fact that you are writing it, make an exhibitionist even if you think it's not about you. (sorry if it unclear, but I'm back from a pub crawling and I'm bloody drunk...) Take care.
Muggaz: right point Ron Jeremy is one of the few porn star who can actually suck his own dick. It sound very much like Brad (with all my respect Brad..
Thanks lad, I knew that only the cream would get this blog...

on Feb 16, 2004
I think some of my blog friends have stopped posting in my blog, because they are getting close to my points, and they want to overtake me without contributing to my crap... but everyone can always count on Muggaz to have some input - whether it valid or not!!!

tu est francais n'est pas Jepel?
on Feb 17, 2004
Bravo Muggaz, Je suis effectivement francais, (comme l'indique le nom de mon blog) J'ai l'impression que tu parles francais, n'est ce pas?
on Feb 17, 2004
Quelle coincedance! err, mmm. Je parle francais seulement un peu J'oublie ....the rest

heh okay.

Anyway, Jepel, that's a very interesting thought. In the ways you pointed out it does make sense, which initially surprised me because I've never thought of it that way. But when you consider the motive behind why somebody would go into the porn industry, it kind of changes the way you look at it I think.

Using a girl as an example, cause it is simpler; why would she want to go into the porn industry?
#1 attention and recognition,
#2 most of the time there is some rebellion (which of us would tell our daughter "Oh! of course I support you doing that, don't be silly!")
#3 the money and
#4 the sex-drive, an obvious one--but, if that person who had that crazy sex-drive didn't want the attention, recognition, or have the rebellion I can't think of why else they would do that?

I can see a blogger desiring attention, not as the main motive but if we quit lying to ourselves, as human beings we all crave attention in some form. But I'm not sure if th rebellion, money and sex-drive really motivate anybody to blog. If it does for someone, then I am really misunderstand what blogging is all about!

As for the audience... that's a tougher one. I agree that there is in large that voyuer side of it, for both porn and blogging. But I have heard that the big thing with porn is #2 desire for control (of a situation I suppose), and #3 fear of rejection. Im not sure what the other motivations would be. I leave out reason #1 sex-drive (for guys at least), assuming that if #2 and #3 weren't a problem, that guy would be out on a "night on the town."

anyway... my thoughts.
on Feb 17, 2004
Even greater coincidencence one man, I was posting a comment on your blog...
Back to this blog, I don't know the motives of pornstar, unfortunatly, I'm not one and I don't know any. I just happen to watch some.
I'm just a blogger and for me by writting your diary on line you allow people to have access to something they shouldn't have normally. I find that fascinating. I really like to read other story and there are good writers around.
on Feb 17, 2004
wow thats funny! Yeah I guess since I am a pornstar you know... Im kidding. Im not. Lets make that clear. Though Muggaz, what you said about Brad being Ron Jeremy was a good one

Man you guys are cracking me up tonight!

Anyway, thanks for this post Jepel. It is thought provoking.
on Feb 17, 2004
I am just glad its not only me that thinks about porn all day.

on Feb 17, 2004
Muggaz: Are you actually thinking of porn or of sex? I'm thinking a lot of having sex but rarely of watching porn .

Can you speak french or you choose the name of your email for another unclear reason?