Gargulec's attempts to find a definition of porn connected in my mind with the recent attempts to rebrand child porn as "Illegal Child Sex Abuse Material" or CSM. Revenge porn, or the practice of releasing explicit images of someone without their consent as a way to hurt them, has also undergone a similar rebranding. "Pornography", the argument goes, is a legitimate form of media created by consenting performers for the enjoyment of the audience. If the 'stars' did not consent, then it's not pornography, but abuse.
"Illegal Child Sex Abuse Material" I haven't heard that specific phrase before but I don't like it. It implies that
legal child sex abuse material exists, which is nonsense under any non-batshit government. I have seen just "Child Sex Abuse Material" on itsown, shortened to CSAM, used pretty often. The idea, I hear, is to make the first thing one thinks of on reading it to be
the suffering of the victims rather than
the sexual pleasure of its consumers. Shift the mental focus away from the purpose and onto the harm necessarily done during production. IDK how effective that is but I can laud the spirit.
What sort of 'rebranding' has revenge porn gotten? I usually just see that term in use.
Either way, I'm confident that these 'rebrandings' are mostly made for
external consumption rather than soothing internal anxiety. So that a relatively uninformed person that hears about the topic in passing knows that the Important Thing is that people are getting hurt by it and not that it's supposed to help people masturbate.
Speaking of Part 5 and unjust dichotomies, I feel too often people look for a hard dichotomy between "sexual" and "non-sexual"; as descriptions of an action, of a person, if the reason for taking interest in one of the prior two. Anything that dares get close to the line , like Latex Coach, gets relentlessly scrutinized for whether or not it's 'legitimate' and should be treated as unremarkable, or if it and all its enjoys are Degenerates who should stop flouting their Degeneracy in public. As if there's a 'horny' switch in the human psyche than is either on or off. Sexual interest is just one of many types of interest a human may nor may not take in a subject. What to do when it is seemingly present, but not dominant? ...I don't know, but at least we could stop pretending that is never the case.
