{"id":11193,"date":"2009-02-14T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2009-02-13T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:43:50","slug":"pornography-as-the-mirror-of-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/pornography-as-the-mirror-of-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Pornography as the Mirror of Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original pornographic images described prostitutes and what you could do with them. Their point was to get you interested, then you could do the real thing for a fee. In perfect market economy form, the advertisement has become the product. Pornography as we think of it is a media-based form of prostitution. You purchase the image of a person for your private sexual use, in lieu of the original.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11229\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11229\" title=\"fem2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/fem2.jpg?resize=250%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo by Eric Francis \/ Book of Blue from an original by Danielle Voirin.\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Eric Francis \/ Book of Blue from an original by Danielle Voirin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the purveyor, it&#8217;s extremely efficient. For a relatively small amount of money, an image can repeatedly be sold to hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>For the consumer, the only problem is that it&#8217;s a picture and not a warm, sensating person. When this picture is masturbated to, it&#8217;s an indulgence in the experience of entering that cosmic, metaprogramming bliss of orgasm and imprinting oneself with unfulfilled desire. Ejaculating at the behest of a sexy picture and your fist is not the same thing as letting go into a woman whose eyes see yours and affirm your existence as you surrender.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetwaves.net\/feminism\/pornography_mirror_denial.html\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original pornographic images described prostitutes and what you could do with them. Their point was to get you interested, then you could do the real thing for a fee. In perfect market economy form, the advertisement has become the product. Pornography as we think of it is a media-based form of prostitution. You purchase &#8230; <a title=\"Pornography as the Mirror of Denial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/pornography-as-the-mirror-of-denial\/\" aria-label=\"More on Pornography as the Mirror of Denial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,52,1042,117,1047,1776],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}