You go to war with the porn you have...

I noticed a pattern in the porn discussion. The first experience most men have with porn is pictures of naked women. And the first experience most women have with porn is - pictures of naked women.

I wonder if, now that there seems to be more porn for women available, that might change. Maybe the next group of 10-12 year old girls will seek out NC-17 bandom slash fic and art.

Yeah, when I was 10, Playboy magazine was in most of the same stores where I bought comic books, and most of them didn't have them behind those "adults only" things.

Ah, msbelle, good luck with this new and exciting phase of being a parent.

From ita's steampunk link, WANT. [link] And it's in my size. Curse the lack of disposable income.

Pretty, smonster!

I rather like the embroidered bustle (not that my bum needs embellishment). Luckily it's way small for me. [link]

Ah, msbelle, good luck with this new and exciting phase of being a parent.

Seriously. Back in my day, my father didn't know when I found the Vanessa Williams Penthouse magazine, because I just put it back!

ION, when I found the "other" messages on Facebook yesterday (check it out, if you haven't already - click on Messages), there was a message from a month ago from some doctoral student doing a study on crossword v. scrabble brains, who apparently got my name off the crossword puzzle tournament list. So I just did the study, which had visual and word/vocab questions. I totally tanked on the visual ones, but did well on others. As I learned at the end, that totally fit their hypothesis of crosswords v. scrabble! Huh.

Timelies all!

Gary's party was fun. Had a surprise visitor from well out of state.(Someone we know from fandom/filk who was visiting other friends of ours.)

msbelle, chiming in with the, "I totally looked at porn when I was 8" brigade.

Curiosity, titillation, taboo, the whole thing. I would have searched for it, too, if internet existed. I snuck peeks at dad's playboys. I don't know if it helps to know that a lot of us did and look how we're all law-abiding citizens with jobs and such.

I wonder if, now that there seems to be more porn for women available, that might change. Maybe the next group of 10-12 year old girls will seek out NC-17 bandom slash fic and art.

I was reading (Jezebel? Slate?) about a male porn star whose name I can't recall who has a legion of dedicated female fans and tumblrs and such.

I remember finding a Playgirl and a Hustler stashed in the children's section of Waldenbooks when I was around that age. Not sure if it was stashed there by a creeper or furtive kids who almost got caught. I remember my interest was ETA NOT (important distinction there) more prurient than anything, but my parents never really made any effort to censor stuff and I really don't remember not being aware of sex and sexuality.

Back from my first visit ever to the market under the Fallsway. Somehow, I'd never been, and since my neighbors were going, I joined them. I still like my market the best, but they do have more non-food stuff. Didn't get anything except a lot of business cards.

Onward into the day...

My tree is decorated! Yay.