Thursday, April 21, 2011

PORN!!!!!

I really don't understand how some people can think that romantic novels are porn. Sure, I guess it depends on the person because lately who knows what weird shit turns people on. I think the main intentions of romance novels are just to provide a kind of escape for people. Their lives might not be exciting and the experiences laid out in these novels give these people chances to experience them through reading. You can really consider anything porn now days. Music videos and movies, pictures and magazines are all good examples of possible porn. There's a limitless amount of things that can arouse a person. The main aspects I think to classify something as porn are genitals exposed,lustful purposes which can end up degrading or exploiting that person(s). It's usually more of a visual thing then that of romance novels, which I feel tend to be more emotionally connected. The romance novel focuses more on the journey of the persons and the emotional growth between them rather then focusing only on sex in the way which porn does. I'm not saying people don't enjoy the sex scenes in romance novels it's just that I don't think they enjoy them THAT much. The truth is sex sells that's why it's everywhere in society. The popularity of romance novels and porn are similar because they both have ways of fulfilling needs for people. Sure one maybe more physical then the other but they still have a way of meeting those emotional and physical pleasures a person often needs in life. Sex and sexual innuendos are everywhere.
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2 comments:

  1. first of all, LOVE the title.. straight to the point haha but i totaly agree with what ur saying. Books cant really be porn because its written, and when its written its sorta left up to the viewer to decide what it actually looks like.

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  2. I agree with you about the intentions of a romance novel and what it brings to the readers. I think that porn in general can be found around us because of how society views it. The media, celebrities, music, it just clashes with our lives whether we ignore it or not. These romance novels are not porn because the characters fall in love, meet some obstacles, overcome the obstacles ... these novels meet most of the eight essential elements of a love story.

    Does it mean that porn involves these elements because I believe it does not.

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