Porn.
We all know it's out there. I'm not offended by (most of) it, and I'll even admit to enjoying a little of it ocassionally. I just happen to be of the mind that it should be enjoyed singularly, or with your partner. Am I wrong? Does an adult man who feels the overwhelming need to send out mass emails full of porn still get like cool points or something? Or is it as immature as it strikes me?
So Scott has this friend he races with in rFactor. They're a good bunch of guys and Scott loves his racing. But this one guy... I'm beginning to wonder if this guy isn't a teenager. You expect on some level for a teenage boy to be like,"Dude, check out this picture!" but as you get older, you kind of figure out that the other guys have already seen all those parts and pieces and positions, right? Don't you reach a point in life where you get over the urge to show off the pictures of the naked people doing things you only wish you could?
So anyway, this guy is forever sending forwards with porn. I always know when Scott gets one of these emails, because I hear this exasperated sigh from the other side of the room. It might be different if Scott actually liked getting the stuff, if he enjoyed the pictures or whatever, you know what I mean? Scott just isn't all that thrilled. He generally deletes them without opening them. He's asked the guy to stop sending it (Yes, really. I saw the email he sent.) but the guy just keeps sending it. I think it's kind of disrespectful to keep sending it if you've been asked to stop.
Maybe some day soon this guy will grow up enough to figure out that not every man who gets online is there to check out the porn.
I found it intriguing 11 or 12 years ago, but most grow out of it...as with sports and cars.
ReplyDeleteGuys are slow to grow up these days...just as gals are quick.
How ya been?
Dave
I'd block him.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of the content, if you're asked to stop sending something, it's good manners to stop. I've asked my kids to stop fwding junk to me, but they still fwd those silly chain letter-type emails that drive me nuts, simply because it's easier than unclicking my address, I guess. Maybe the porn junky just forgets to unclick Scott's address? Or maybe he's being a pain in the ass intentionally?
ReplyDeleteI can be pretty outspokenly anti-porn, not because I'm a prude, but because the first time I saw it (Deep Throat, in college), Linda Lovelace's bruises and glassed over eyes indicated to me that the industry is dangerous and corrupt and subjugates "actors." Further thought led me to conclude that the entire industry is based on mutual predation and exploitation, and just because it's mutual it doesn't make it right. In the end, the question came down to, "Are porn star or porn producer or porn distributor or porn reviewer careers I'd feel good about my children aspiring to?"
Um, no more than I'd feel good about them aspiring to be drug dealers or loan sharks.
Nobody I know agrees with me, by the way, and that's fine too.
OK i feel like I should say that this post sounds much more perturbed than I actually am.
ReplyDeleteI don't give a crap about the porn itself. I'd be all about it if Scott actually enjoyed the porn, because frankly, I figure he deserves some enjoyment, all he can get, I mean shit, the man just lost his son... know what I mean? If happiness came in porn forwards, I'd be happy for him to get them.
I just sort of think it's silly that a grown man is sending porn forwards is all. Like, sort Middle School.
I saw it all before I looked at the very first porn picture on the internet.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Middle School it is.