We've Come A Long Way

I switched over from the BBC a few hours ago, and was half watching this movie on Alfred Kinsey. I kept working, letting the music cue me to good parts of the movie.

The next thing I know, there are naked women on television doing things that would have made Kinsey jot some notes down.

1956...2006. Skinemax/Cinemax inadvertently celebrates the jubilee of Kinsey's death with soft porn. I could just see him sitting there taking a history to see how far we came.

Like it or not, pornography has certainly stretched technology to great lengths. We get it emailed to us, tossed at us on cable television, and if we're lucky, we even get to enact scenes of poor dialogue and interesting action. At this time of night, be careful which buttons you press. You're almost certainly going to enter something Freudian. And what I don't get is the target audience.

Do people really stay up at night to watch television? Do they set little alarm clocks so that they can arise to see Skinemax at this hour? Is that the depth of the ties which penetrate households everywhere?

And yet, I hear in Europe, some of the advertising is more interesting than this.

And... if sex is so much fun, why is it that people don't practice it instead of watching it?

Ahh well. I think I'll go back to watching the BBC. The dialogue is at least creative.