Hooker look is in as porn goes from deviant to de rigueur
(NZHerald November 3, 2003)
At a party at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, I suddenly realsied I was surrounded
by hookers. From the skin-
Late, on TV, I caught comedian Bill Maher on the issue. “Over here, over here, it’s me, I’m the real whore,” Maher screeched, portraying the difficulty the genuine hooker is having these days, distinguishing herself from ordinary girls.
And then it dawned on me. It’s about pornography.
Over the cheese board at a dinner party, all the men around the table admitted to
accessing porn on the Internet. I-
While there is still nothing startling about men viewing pornography, its the change
of status from deviant to de rigueur that is remarkable. Gone is the overcoated
trip to the back-
Today, accessing porn could not be easier. So I’ve been doing an informal survey
over the past few weeks, asking all the young men I know if they had viewed I-
Admittedly my sample group -
“It’s a soft-
He might be right. He directed me to a handful of the most viewed I-
But here’s where it gets interesting. When IPorn first showed signs of expanding
the industry, the industry -
An article in the New Yorker on the explosion of porn interviewed numerous young men who all bemoaned their inability to sustain real relationships and their preference for the easy out of their porn lives. Women said the effects of rampant Iporn use by almost all the men they knew was affecting their intimate lives and causing them to feel they could never measure up.
And that's where the girls dressed as hookers come in. Porn and porn characterisations (Britney, Beyonce, Christina, et al) are setting the standard.
If the multi-
So while for real hookers the outfits and attitudes are conscious tools, things to be discarded a t the end of the night, for the average young women caught up in the modern dating scene there is little alternative to appropriating the accoutrements of prostitution (and more frightening, little consciousness abut it).
No wonder the young women at the Toronto event were acting and looking like prostitutes.
How else could they engage in the age-
It’s the spread of of kind of sickness that is most worrying: the emotional anaesthesia
of an active porn-